skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Although they are non-profit, I see no issue with them offering paid services.

I believe that's the goal. They're introducing a lot of services in the relatively short time span: Firefox Notes, Lockwise (password manager), Send (file-sharing service), Screenshots (image sharing service), and now a VPN.

After all these projects mature a bit, they're probably gonna slap a subscription on top and offer Firefox for free, Firefox + services for a price.

I'm personally totally fine with that way of diversifying their income. I already donate to Mozilla somewhat regularly, so the only thing that might prevent me from taking that offer is a steep price.

EDIT: Technically speaking, Pocket is kind of a bookmarking service with a built-in premium option already, but they're really, really not giving it love. "login with Google" button still has the lowercase "g" icon. That's like a two-minute fix that hasn't happened since 2015.
Prior to my involvement in my current company, they were discussing setting up production in China. After my involvement in the company, I have no idea how they thought they could pull it off. For whatever reason, they did not do it.

Rumor is a Chinese owned company is already ripping our products off; I can only imagine if we had production occurring there.
Tech has made it easier for the Steve Bannons and Vladimir Putins of the world to weaken Democracy. I wouldnt just blame tech though.
And remember that Stripe just launched Stripe Capital (https://stripe.com/capital) last week to offer lending services, I cannot wait to see these new services to launch outside US.
gandi. really well-designed + clear interface.
You're operating under the incorrect assumption that the EU owes some individuals or companies in some far of country an existence, even at the cost of the privacy of EU citizens.

It doesn't.

Obey the law or stop serving the European market, it's that simple.
There's "tech" meaning mostly "data-mining/advertising" and "tech" as short for "technology".

As long as the EU remains strong in actual technology, the EU doesn't need to reinvent itself on the spot. As far as being "stuck behind for a long time" is concerned, if it remains behind in corporate surveillance and privacy trampling, that's alright by me.
Your message couldn't look more as a PR comment. Maybe it's true, but it feels like an ad.
InfluxData launches InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 – the first serverless time series PaaS
You neglected to mention (as did Lessig) that Joi also took a lot of money from Epstein for his own fund.
> By late 1914, some enterprising motorists had established the nation's first jitney companies, using oversized automobiles to ply the streets in search of customers

This is more like gypsy cabs. Uber/Lyft don't have to ply the streets b/c of their app and backend tech.
This is obviously horrible for merchants, but what's really gross is how regressive it is when it comes to poor people and small businesses. Unlike national chains, local outfits don't have the ability to negotiate favourable fee arrangements, so accepting CC payment puts them at another built-in disadvantage relative to well-heeled competitors. And of course, those fees end up baked into the price of everything, and are then carried by anyone who doesn't have a big-spender cashback/rewards card, but especially by people paying cash (whether by choice or because they are unbanked).

Hilarious to have this state of affairs going on while there's simultaneously a right wing panic about how carbon pricing will make everything a few percentage points more expensive. But I guess making everything a few percentage points more expensive so that executive credit card holders can get thousands per year in cashback and travel rewards is no biggie.
I'm with you - you prepare for this stuff. You stand ready, but there are two (OK probably more haha) approaches to mitigating the risks in the world:

One approach is to ensure that you have relationships / commonalities / connections tight enough that extensive conflict does not help either party and work on the relationship. This balance has a lot of proxy wars and holds OK...until something upsets the balance. But if you have dialog in place maybe you don't blow up the world.

Another is to invest everything in the thing that will upset the balance: countries racing to the next version of a nuclear weapon - in this piece that is AI / Cyber.

Shifting everything as a society involves a lot of sacrifice that has (historically) also destabilized the society to the point that it collapses as a result.

I think there's wiggle room here, and when I say "collaborative" I don't mean that we're all sharing technology but rather that we are on a single planet and we already are codependent and maybe let's see the obvious benefits instead of immediately jumping to weapons.

In terms of tone I'd also wonder which tone is better for recruitment? "Kill the hun!" or "Build the future"? If they want me to work there, it's the latter.
This is pretty damn stupid and not grounded in any fact.
The example in the article can be fixed very easily and doesn't require immutable data structures. If you're fetching something from a url and you don't want to fetch twice from the same url, make the dependency the url itself.
This is true for "zeros" which are bonds that pay no interest (eg. treasury notes) but instead pay a premium to the issuing price on maturity but not for bonds in general, which is what WeWork is issuing here.

When the US Treasury (or WeWork) sells a bond at $100 (and it almost always does), it is based on a face interest rate (say 3%). This interest is fixed (eg. the bond will always pay $3).

If prevailing interest rates rise to 4%, then the price of that bond will drop to a price such that the interest the bond pays ($3 per $100) ends up being a 4% yield.

It also works in the opposite direction and this is how you end up with bond prices above $100. The price has to swing higher for that $3 per $100 face value to have a yield less than 3%.

As an aside, this is also why longer term bonds are riskier than shorter term bonds, you can lose significant amounts of money if interest rates shift higher over 10-15 year timeframes because the market price of the bond will have to drop to make it competitive in secondary markets.
Uber and Lyft were never purported to be fulltime jobs to make a living off of. They were always meant to be supplemental income for people who had a car at low utilization and free time.
If I steal some old lady's purse, is it "self-justification" if I find some medication in it and return it to her while keeping the purse?

I don't see any overt attempt at "justification" in these emails. The attacker wanted a very specific thing and, after he got it, he didn't do anything further. He even gave the victim some helpful information. That doesn't justify his actions but his behavior is clearly less reprehensible than it might have been.

You seem to be saying, somewhat paradoxically, that the perpetrator wouldn't have committed the crime at all if he had been more malicious because then he would have had to truly reckon with the consequences of his actions. Maybe. Maybe theft would be less common if all thieves were compelled by some magical force to kill their victims. But that's not realistic and, besides, people commit far more malicious crimes than this without being deterred by the damage they're doing.
Eth.pictures – Draw Your Own NFTs
If you think you might like the job and have the time for applying and interviewing, then do so. The company should know best if you're a good fit, but they'll only find out if you apply. Make them say "No."
According to some research, it may be caused by FODMAPs, which are present in wheat. Evidence is still rather weak though.
mmmmm yeahhh, not gonna argue that, I think you're probably right on all points. haha

The reason I made it though is because of my love of the Cyberpunk genre specifically. Deus Ex, Tron Legacy, Cyberpunk 2077, and so many more shows, games, and movies are where I draw inspiration from.

They always feature this style as if it was easy to do, just wanted to give back and help bring that to reality.

Thank you!

edit: also, augmentations/augs by that name, I think, are specifically cyberpunk. Augs as an idea fits very well as an analogy for both how this works under the hood and how it's used on the surface. Soooo it's more specifically Cyberpunk than generic sci-fi in that regard, imo. :)
Sex lives of app users 'shared with Facebook'
>Meanwhile the rest of the world has moved on to digital, encrypted communication.

It's happening slowly in the US. Biggest reason it's slow is "defense/law enforcement" suppliers and their markups for the industry which add cost and causes departments to delay as long as they can until someone ponies up the money. Not to mention there is new IT overhead in managing the configuration on said radios and while bigger agencies have the internal team to do it, smaller agencies don't have that benefit.

Unlike say France where there is one singular police force that can share resources, in the US there's hundreds of them in just one state.
Don't get me started about ambulances. Because this is #amerika, there are thousands of private ambulance services. Getting them on board with encrypted comm isn't really going to work given they begrudgingly paying most EMTs minimum wage.
Designing a map style inspired by The Amazing Spider-Man
I remember Spar specifically in the €4-€5 range.
Uber and Lyft drivers fit the definition of independent contractor perfectly. I cannot imagine how they would qualify as employees. Increasing the money required to onboard people inherently reduces the people you can serve.

It would be hilarious if they stopped having Uber drivers in California and just paid Nevada Uber drivers to make the trips instead
Thanks a lot ! Keel looks exactly like something I would need!
Given Nero was Roman, his name will presumably be from the Latin. If the Greek version of the spelling differs, then 666 surely must be in error.

Unless they meant that the number of the beast is Nero's name when you attempt to write it in Greek, though that seems something of a stretch, even for numerology afficionados.
Multiple accounts means more work for the attacker. E.g. using unique emails for Paypal, Godaddy, and Facebook would have made this harder.
>>at least, I’ve never heard anybody say that Lisp is both easy to use and easy learn.

Richard Stallman would like to disagree with you.

It was Bernie Greenberg, who discovered that it was (2). He wrote a version of Emacs in Multics MacLisp, and he wrote his commands in MacLisp in a straightforward fashion. The editor itself was written entirely in Lisp. Multics Emacs proved to be a great success — programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program.

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.en.html

Its quite a statement when secretaries back then without the internet and with just manuals. Were able to learn and program Emacs in Elisp.

Speaks volumes about the current generation of programmers and ability to learn or commit to any deep expertise.
I've read The Martian in no time, I struggled with Artemis though
Who's they? WaPo, which I was referring to does not.

I just checked and they even differentiate between paying less with some tracking and paying more for no tracking.
Haven't read any of his books yet. Did he prophesize that all of this cyberpunk bickering will come to an abrupt halt as global warming destabilizes our civilization and kicks the survivors back to medieval age?

After recent stream of climate change articles I just can't read these NSA statements without thinking that they're worrying about the wrong thing.
So where is Mozilla's privacy policy that Cloudflare's policy says applies here?

https://www.cloudflare.com/mozilla/firefox-private-network-p...
Again, Camera Phones FTW
I heard about Regus years before I'd ever heard of WeWork, however, all of the other new players in the space (barely a week goes by without seeing an ad for a new building in London with flexible offices and coworking) have only really gained visibility since.

Have a feeling the newer, smaller players with more limited portfolios (and exposure) might survive better.
It was also just a year ago when Stripe released a static type checker for Ruby:
https://sorbet.org/

Only haters think that Ruby and Ruby on Rails is dead end
Except they don't say "no", they silently add you to their "do not hire" list that other local companies keep updated.
I am open to explanations. I'm especially interested in how a phone manufacturer that is 3rd place among others can be said to have a monopoly over the market. Or do you mean just for iPhone apps? Because at that point, how fine do you get to dice it to find a monopoly? I'm sure that once you slice it thin enough, almost any company can be said to have a monopoly. Where does it end? Joe's Pizza has a monopoly on the sale of pizza on the 300 block of Main Street, and has been trying to keep out competitors by buying the store next door.
Ughh, almost every card for individuals with good credit is better than that [1]. Unless you mean strictly among corporate cards?

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/best/credit-cards/cash-back
I’d say the same thing. I’m not a shill. Have processed millions with Stripe and there has never been a glitch.
My guess is that initially they focused on a market that was underserved by tech (short-term real estate). That by itself is probably enough to get some initial funding.

Then you show that you're actually executing, at least as far as being able to grow and manage a real business with real revenues, which can easily get you another round.

From there they did two things. The first was to start to securitize the business. You can see this with things like their ARK spinoff, which allowed them to start raising money from real estate investors. Sure, real estate is a slow growth business, but it's backed by real assets, and it allowed them to start pitching to a new kind of investor while they left the equity investors in the original WeWork.

The second thing was what you mentioned, their pivot to "cornering the market". If you view VC investing, and especially SoftBank, as an attempt to find businesses that are going to eat the world with software, then you can see where WeWork's seemingly random pivot to "We" came from. You pitch the business is a fully vertically-integrated lifestyle where people live, work and send their kids to school. The potential returns on something like that would be insane, so if you can sell even a 1% chance of success you can see how it would be alluring.

It's also possible that "eat the world" was the pitch all along. I could see a world where Adam Neumann was smart enough to see the wholly integrated We as the end game from the beginning and pitch the real estate stuff as a path to getting there. The revenue and growth would be more predictable than something like a software product. The losses would obviously be more predictable too but predictable losses with a clear path to growth might not be such a bad thing if your end goal has a necessary condition of "be as big as possible".
I feel like both sides of the “are they contractors or employees” arguments feel like they are trying to jam puzzle pieces that don’t fit together to make an argument.

Clearly drivers are not employees in that they pick their own hours, and they can drive for as long and for whomever they want - and these are all things that make
Uber/Lyft a great option for people between jobs, substitute teachers, actors, etc.

At the same time it is pretty clear that your inability set prices, control which requests/routes you accept/decline and lack of differentiated work makes you an employee, especially if you drive 40+ hours a week.

The law needs a way of handling this type of job, without forcing it into one camp or another because there are downsides for everyone by doing so. Let’s call them semi-contractors for the sake of differentiation. There should ways of getting health insurance pro-rated by multiple companies if you work X hours a week. There should be requirements around the workers insurance provided to these semi-contractors while on and off the clock. There should be guaranteed minimum wages after expenses. There should be strict rules about building out complex and accurate payout reporting for both regulators and semi-contractors including complex bonus payouts. It should be 100% illegal to steal tips from an app. Semi-contractors should have the right to tell Uber they don’t want to drive to east bay without penalty if they’re contractors that can have autonomy over their work.

But none of these issues get solved by calling driver employees
Had a good relationship with multiple clients that wanted to keep me, not my employer
It might be that burning down every living tree would not make a dent in the oxygen supply, but having the earth temperature go up 5 degrees would kill most phytoplankton, and that would end the oxygen supply (eventually).

This type of articles is the last thing we need right now, it all piles up on the narrative that the consequences of climate change are really not that bad and there is no real urgency in doing anything about it.

Especially if that implies a change of behaviors like eating less meat. Nobody wants to give away their cheeseburgers as Elizabeth Warren factitiously says, this how you make headlines and get elected for office, tell people what they want to hear, stay away from the truth.
By this time wasn't he in the bunker? So his own person really wasn't in mortal danger anyway.
yea this is effectively "it"

softbank just called the top
Great punt, but that just means you don’t want to answer the question.

Also, significantly less than 50% of the population has completely non publicly funded heathcare. It’s a really odd system when you start breaking down the numbers. We have surprisingly close to a 50/50 public private system, but people get wildly different amounts of public funding.
I remember at DefCon 20 Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the NSA at the time, gave the keynote speech (largely about how we all share the same internet space so we should work together to keep things good for everyone) and the NSA had a recruitment booth set up showing off an enigma engine. Between DefCon 20 and 21 Snowden happened and the NSA was disinvited from future events because of it (of course they come anyway, but people need to earn 'Spot the FED' tshirts somehow). Some thought it put back trust and relations between hacker communities and the NSA by more than 10 years.
Uber Visa gets you 4% on dining, 3% on hotels and airfare, 2% for online purchases, and 1% on everything else. It's not a corporate card, but it's hard to beat those rates.
>>If there's a proposal to make it compatible say with Racket

Racket itself wants to deprecate their entire language, toss every thing and start out with some thing totally new, all over again.
'We Will Win Because History Is on Our Side' (2018)
Canada, s’il vous plait.
I have a personal rule - never, ever criticize politicians when they do something right. The last thing I want is for them to think "We could solve this issue. But then the voters will ask why we didn't do so earlier... better do nothing and not draw attention to it."
Orthogonality thesis 101: intelligence is orthogonal to values. I don't think the NSA has any trouble getting the "best and brightest" in terms of skill.
Swedish higher education is generally free, or at least very cheap.

If you insist you can find places that are not free, but generally loans are taken to finance housing and living
Collaborate Smarter, Not Harder
I kind of have to agree.

Not saying it is false or denying the actual premise of the OP. Just saying it feels personally to ME, very PR like and included for those reasons alone as a top comment here on HN.
This is gonna get ugly. Loss of confidence pre iPod is a one way street
If I were to write an edgy/snarky comment bot for HN, I imagine its comment history would resemble yours to a tee.

That's not particularly a criticism nor a compliment, btw.
From what I've read most of the agricultural production in Brazil goes directly or indirectly towards beef and biofuel. So cutting down on beef consumption seems like a great step. I personally have cut down my meat consumption dramatically, but how can we move that further as not only a society, but a species? If I stop eating beef, but nobody else does, nothing is won. If the US cuts down on beef consumption, other countries will be happy to buy the now cheaper beef.

Collective action problems are a problem...
How to choose best e-liquid?
It's a cognitive psychology term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_(psychology)

And 'schemas' aren't just theoretical concepts, they have been validated with reaction time studies that strongly suggest they are a real organizing principle in the brain.

I.e.: It takes longer to react to a task that requires accommodation than to react when a task requires only assimilation.
"The Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation is a United States class-action lawsuit filed in 2005 by merchants and trade associations against Visa, MasterCard, and numerous financial institutions that issue payment cards. The suit was filed due to price fixing and other allegedly anti-competitive trade practices in the credit card industry."

Another area where giving freedom to these businesses ends up screwing the average person. This is why I like the EU, they are strong on consumer rights. The naive would assume these businesses would naturally want to compete on these fees.
If the NPR is not doing tracking, it's dead easy to respond to anyone's inquiries.

Free vs paid is relevant if it's free with tracking vs paid. It's basically trying to manipulate the user into being tracked by making not beibg tracked cost money.

WaPo is not forbidding access. If they had no access & paid, it would be fine. But they have free with tracking, cheap with tracking and a bit more expensive for no tracking.
On Cybersecurity Insurance
Second Hand Misogyny (2017)
To be fair, even though I don't at all agree that it is necessarily an issue, what he saids could be an issue for the other insecure brogrammers out there since it obviously is for him already
The way to do it is to first secure some continuous income from your soon to be business , live way under your means and have a few years of savings.

Going on your own means working very hard to get clients which means that you are always looking for clients and them doing the work and doing all the other stuff that's relate to the adminstration of the business. There's stuff that's just a drag.

Is it worth it? Only you can decide that.

The people that seem to survive are self starters, people that are obsessed with succeeding and people that can make hard decisions fast. Hard decisions are usually related to people to people interactions. If you notice alot of business titans are considered jerks. That's the result of those hard decision.

Get a dog. You will want some one that will always be happy to see you.
This is my biggest concern. Regardless of if WeWork can 'survive' a recession, my fear is that they could easily cause a recession. If WeWork starts to go under, it could cause a real estate market collapse in some of the world's largest cities.