skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deterministic in the sense of determining things to their "value" instead of leaving them as a continuous probability.
the same reason we obsess over cloudflare but ignore akamai and fastly. or obsess over tesla and ignore BYD. wework is familiar and accessible to people here.
I think WeWork is still a bit ahead of its time. Some see its value as culture, others see it as real estate. The ways we live and work are changing, but changing any culture takes time. I still feel that We Work is creating the future, but that value is still based on change that's inherently slower than we'd like.
> Desktop linux will be a reality.

This is the 'Fusion power is just around the corner' of the computing world. There's only one way Desktop Linux succeeds, and that's that all the other Desktop OSs are abandoned or drive themselves into the dirt the way Win10 seems intent on doing.
bit.ly tracking URL goes to https://remotemore.com/candidates
Applying an existing design language to unrelated products is not the same as building a replica of an existing product. I'm aware of how Apple was often inspired by Braun, but nothing I've seen comes close to the way the Matebook copies the MacBook.
We are looking especially for JavaScript developers now (React, Node, Angular, Vue... everything).
>I wonder what they were thinking when they filed the S-1.

This-is-a-rickety-ship-that-won't-last-another-year-so-let's-cash-out-asap.
> The only thing I might add is that Java requires using an IDE.

> With Python I somehow managed to survive with Vim as my IDE.

> This is not possible with Java, I do not recommend even trying.

Well of course it is possible. When I wrote java actively ten years ago, I managed a 30kLOC code base with a text editor and ant on the terminal. However, wasn't using Dependency injection, unit tests or any quality endurance which is mentioned in the article ;-)

(another) Story time: For a recent scientific code (physics, written in CPP and Fortran), a professor decided to use Java as the glue language for code generation. So people set up their Eclipse environment just to edit this small java based toolkit. If you otherwise edit your code in vim et al, it is still a horror as it has been 15 years ago. The IDE required a minute to load on my decent core i7, SSD and 16GB RAM. It is powerful, but awfully slow. Luckily, they decided to reimplement that code in Python. That was kind of a game changer for the overall project.
Many supermarkets have AC (here in the Netherlands), and I seriously considered camping out in one for a bit during the heat a few weeks ago...
yep, good point - it just has UTM tagging:

https://remotemore.com/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=For...
To some extent Uber is like watching a Unicorn car accident, you can't look away.

It also is a good example of these dirty Unicorns that are not unlike Uber where folks for quite a while wonder "How can you be profitable and operate like that?" and we're all amazed the market keeps rewarding them ... and it seems like we're to the point where the market might not reward them.
There's an exhibit in Langkawi that is all about this 3-D art. When I was walking through it I didn't notice anything special. But I was recording with my GoPro, and in going over the video I noticed that the images were strikingly 3-D. So I think these things are great for a single-pupil/lens observer, but having two eyes makes the effect less spectacular.

In other words, they photograph well but aren't that dramatic IRL.
They recently raised funding at $47 billion though. So it's more than "just a report".
Interesting. When I Google just the word "debate" I get an opinion piece from Fox as the second result.
> a top speed of 8km/h "lumbering" is putting it midly

8kph is a gentle jog, hardly lumbering.
While I agree with you that loot machines are worse because they're always available and hyper-immediate, we know that gambling addiction is a thing, and CCG cards fit the pattern. I mean to play a slot machine, people used to have to travel all the way to casinos, convert their money to coins, and then play the slots. The addicts still did it.

The problem exists in all of them, we're just talking about the speed of delivery and how it makes somethings worse-bad instead of just bad.
Neat, I learned something today. I guess I just assumed it was all satellites.
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You can use the "hasty pudding trick" to truncate the cipher output without risking duplicates. It is inefficient if the block space of the cipher is much larger than the sampling space, though.

However, you can also use a Feistel network to create a block cipher for an arbitrary bit length. So, you can always bound the block space to be no more than twice the sampling space, which is okay.
Agree. I wish I had seen your comment before I commented on a comment (currently) above.
sensationalist fear mongrel-ing?
Its a market, the IPO is always priced accurately in as far as buyers match sellers.

Obviously the bankers wanting to conduct the IPO, want to give the IPOee a high valuation figure, but the scale is normally lower than this. Existing stock holders will obviously want a high valuation, and want to be given a high valuation by the bankers. In other words, rowing back on the price isnt that unusual, the scale here is vastly different though.
It was actually officially released internationally a few months ago as Trials of Mana!
Reminds me of when I was shopping for a windbreaker.

A brand had two models: one that blocked 98% of the wind and another that blocked 99%. To a casual observer, it wouldn’t be immediately obvious why the second one was significantly more expensive. After all, it’s just a 1% difference!

(Of course, the answer is obvious: the second one was twice as effective at blocking the wind.)
Google Lens + Wescover: https://www.wescover.com/blog/2019/07/03/press-release-wesco...
Smart Watches and Cheating on Tests
To add to this, most middle age adults can not hear above 15khz and threshold is very high at 11khz, especially if they were exposed to high sound levels in youth. Virtually no one can hear above 22khz.. if you ever hear people saying they can it is most likely bs.

People often tell stories about playing a sound or being in a lab etc. they think they heard above 20khz, but mostly likely what happened is whatever inevitable non-linearity exists in their playback chain acts as a mixer creating frequencies well in the easily audible range.
When Amazon didn't include state sales tax in their transactions, did you report your purchases and pay the proper sales tax on them? Millions of Americans didn't and a good number of them knew that they were supposed to. Should they all be sent to jail for failing to abide by a very outdated law?
Note that I mentioned the ordinary memcpy (with a single c) there briefly. memccpy should under no circumstances be faster than strcpy for "string multiplying", as it holds no advantages over it in that use.
I mean Uber could have still executed the same playbook and fired executives who were guilty of sexual harassment, and WeWork could have executed the same playbook but without the personal appropriation of corporate opportunity.
I want to echo this comment from close04:

> In the video from the article it looks pretty realistic from a relatively high vantage point (drone several meter high) but from the regular driving position it's still pretty flat and at best confusing.

The first thing I thought when the video opened with a driveover was "it looks like they got the perspective wrong". What viewing angle is it meant for?
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I haven't read the book, but WeWork doesn't seem to fit the principles of Blitzscaling. They haven't been able to dominate their market (office space) in the same way that Google owns search or Airbnb owns home rentals. A quick search for "Reid Hoffman WeWork" returns no relevant results other than him investing in a possible competitor:

https://media.thinknum.com/articles/how-liquidspace-is-under...
> The amount homebuyers can afford to pay doesn't change with interest rates.

The amount people can afford to pay doesn't change, but the cost of the house does change.

Assume a 30 year mortgage. If the interest rate is 2%, and I spend 1.5k a month on my mortgage, I can afford a mortgage of 406,000 and own the home at the end. However, if interest rates are 10%, even if I'm still earning 1.5k a month, I can only afford a mortgage of 171000 in order to pay it off by the end. You can double check my figures using this calculator - https://www.bankrate.com/uk/mortgages/mortgage-repayment-cal...

Given that deposits are usually at a minimum 10% of the house price, it's very hard for first-time buyers to gather that amount of money - while people who have purchased before can sell their existing home.

The issue the paper describes is that interest rates have gone down, so house prices have gone up, _and at the same time_ it's harder to get your first mortgage (i.e. you need a larger deposit) - which most new buyers cannot afford.
The thing the Vitter algorithm does which this doesn't is that it produces the samples in order. This is why it's useful with tape drives, or sampling market data through the day: you can start at the beginning, and take the samples without ever having to seek backwards.
If they could paint the solar cells directly into the surface of the car, it would add little additional weight. Most of the weight of a solar panel is the backing and frame to provide stiffness, and you could use the car body for that.

That's a big "if", though. Photovoltaic paint is currently around half as efficient as commercial solar panels.
This is a very recursive family tree [1]. I'm pretty sure WikiTree would not enjoy this one.

1: https://gist.github.com/jeremyaboyd/a7be325127a507a4b241f980...

Legend:

D=dad, S=friend, W=widow, d=duaghter of W, s=son of S+W, g=son of d+D
Nitpicks: there are lots of grammatical errors, egregiously out-of-place usage of emojis and emoticons, and it could be argued that Gödel's incompleteness theorem is hardly "obscure."
Try to stay positive, looks like you have a good idea what the issues are which means you can plan to make it better. Ideally you should do your best to find someone who can help by simply talking these issues though, ideally face to face. It looks to me that it's food that's the problem rather than your weight, so why not look at that first. With a longer term view; try to reverse that trend of weight slowly going on, to weight slowly going off. Things that worked for me are intermittent fasting (mostly because it's easier to follow than diets), and some rules around processed food. Try to go with foods with under 5 ingredients, prioritising foods that are low in sugars or flours (wheat, cornflour, etc). If you slip, don't sweat it, just get back to it as soon as you can.
I'm more skeptical of WeWork's culture and valuation than most, but I will give them credit for creating the best quality product in the market. When I need conference or office space in various cities I don't compare WeWork to Regus, I just find the nearest WeWork space and book there. Our portfolio companies do the same. For people who travel often, there is a subtle network effect that provides value. Regus is irrelevant in this sense, and irrelevance can be particularly deadly for valuation. Perhaps Regus can re-invest into their brand to become competitive - and I hope they do, because more competition would be healthy.
Good points (and I'm glad I can make you laugh!) but i'll try to clarify:
> The masses can go somewhere and build their own utopia?! This actually made me laugh out loud.

On a macro scale this is what colonization is, specifically that trait of going off to find some land to make your fortune. Historically this has worked well, excluding the bit where indigenous populations were wiped out. Realistically here we're talking about getting the leftovers resource-wise.

I'd be willing to bet that despite automation, not all the ruling class could rest on their conscience ie. the Elon Musks, Bill Gates etc. of this world would be dissenting, and in a position to act as visionaries (in fact they would likely be polarized by others' actions) to help build out alternative infrastructure. This solves the directionless+resourceless issues you've raised.

Mesh networks can be DoS'd but that'd require active oppression to shut down the mesh, and if that happens, we get two possibilities, either you get help from aforementioned visionaries (wired network build-out) or you run a separate mesh, and keep doing so every time it's brought down.

Cost is affordable with say esp32s and lipo (the attrition aspect I mentioned), bandwidth is a different matter but then we're talking about jamming rather than DoS.
That's the thing. Unless the option costs ~$1k extra, you will never ROI until after at least 10 years.
In that time you'll be paying for replacing the glass on the solar panel when a rock inevitably cracks it.
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This summary on ScienceDaily is much more comprehensible and also is not paywalled:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190911142731.h...
How likely is it that those dogs are just being poisoned by someone?
Sure, but the universe has a lot of very strange natural phenomena and astrophysicist spend a lot of time studying these and therefore can recognise when something is likely natural (or at least have the background knowledge to check before assuming its aliens -- as they say, its never aliens, until it is) where a fighter pilot might be more attuned to seeing things in the sky than the average person, they still don't have the same exposure and experience seeing, studying and working with strange sky and space phenomena. I'd rather an astrophysicist's opinion on aliens than a fighter pilot's, but I'd rather a fighter pilot's opinion than my local plumber.
Try using verbatim search. It’s under “Search tools -> All Results”. Sadly I can’t figure out how to direct link it.
Seems to be in line with Aswath Damodaran's valuation estimate.

"From my perspective, this seems like an optimistic story, where WeWork generates pre-tax operating income of 10.07 billion on revenues of $80.5 billion in 2029, generating a 26.61% return on capital on intermediate capital investments. Allowing for a starting cost of capital of about 8%, the resulting value for the operating assets is about $29.5 billion, but before you decide to put all your money in WeWork, there are two barriers to overcome:

Possibility of failure: The debt load that WeWork carries makes its susceptible to economic downturns and shocks in the real estate market, and the cost of capital, a going concern measure of risk, is incapable of capturing the risk of failure embedded in the business model. I will assume a 20% chance of failure in my valuation, and if it does occur, that the firm will have to sell its holdings for 60% of fair value.

Debt load: As I noted in the last section, the company has accumulated a debt load, including lease commitments, of $23.8 billion.

Adjusting for these, the resulting value of equity is $13.75 billion, and with my preliminary assessment of shares outstanding, translates into a value per share of about $26/share."

Highly recommended read for those that haven't already: http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2019/09/runaway-story-or...
Only someone doing dangerous and rare types of welding, such as underwater welding, will make a ton of money. The trade-off is that it is extremely dangerous, and life expectancy is well below average.
I had a negative reaction to his free solo, but I wouldn't say I'm angry about it. I agree with the idea that he is his own person and can ultimately make his own decisions, but there are a couple things that bother me about the free solo that aren't covered here. While Alex may not have been known by the general public before this event he was pretty well known in the climbing community, and is obviously still well known. Therefore he wields an influence over others and particularly kids. Kids do stupid and risky things, because their brains aren't developed enough to judge the consequences of their actions. They want to emulate the pros, which in this case, climbing unroped, could be deadly. Another thing that bothers me about it is the sort of stigma it puts on the sport. Now, free soloing like what Alex did is what a lot of people think climbing is. I've been climbing for the past 12 years, 10 of those outside and on a good day it's nearly a spiritual experience. I love this sport and I find it incredibly rewarding. It is a dangerous sport, but there is a lot you can do to mitigate those dangers. I think when a lot people see the spectacle of 'free solo' they are awed by it, but may also think "I could never do something like that" and so never try to climb. This is why I think I have a negative reaction to the film.
The point is you don't need a server-side fallback if you don't use Kerberos, since the server can validate login on its own.

The fallback certificate is only client-side, and can be keep offline/air- gap from the main credentials.
Then why has poverty been going down drastically, even faster than anyone would've expected?

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

"In 1990, there were 1.9 billion people living in extreme poverty. With a reduction to 735 million in 2015, this means that on average, every day in the 25 years between 1990 and 2015, 128,00 fewer people were living in extreme poverty.17

On every day in the last 25 years there could have been a newspaper headline reading, “The number of people in extreme poverty fell by 128,000 since yesterday”. Unfortunately, the slow developments that entirely transform our world never make the news, and this is the very reason why we are working on this online publication.

Recently this decline got even faster and in the 7 years from 2008 to 2015 the headline could have been “Number of people in extreme poverty fell by 192,000 since yesterday”. In the recent past we saw the fastest reduction of the number of people in extreme poverty ever."
I may not understand the bill in full, but as a CW working for a fortune 100 company for 7+ years, I find it unfair that a company of this size can use a CW for so long without hiring them. Company gets cheaper labor, but for a project or position that requires a unique skillset. Companies use to convert people to full time, not anymore when they have a cheaper resource that does the same job.

imho there is clearly a misclassification issue going on with CWs in the tech industry, and others.
WeWork could have a substantially different portfolio of real estate assets. I think looking at Regus isn't a bad idea, but then consider it in the context of what WeWork has (though, I am not privy to knowing how many, if any, of WeWork's real estate assets are "paid off").
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IANADS and it took a reread to parse it. It's a bit weird but it draws attention to the point.

For others interested, basically at 95% confidence level, there's a 5% chance due to random events. At 99%, the randomness is limited to 1%, a 5X improvement, i.e. a huge 500% improvement not a tiny 4% improvement.
I've seen a few people I've grown up with try doing skilled trades.

First, they seem to ignore that there is still education needed. And most people who claimed they were going skilled trades ended up doing low skilled manual labor.

And second, they overvalue their education. I've had people claim their skills were good enough to call them an engineer. (But if you give them a real world engineering question, they don't make an attempt)

Third, I've seen fantastic technicians, able to solder a board-mount LED by hand saved us literally thousands of dollars. There is value here, but this person was physically talented from decades of experience.
> Some see its value as culture, others see it as real estate.

Can you point me to more information on the "culture" point of view? I have trouble seeing what kind of culture we work has, let alone how a culture can be monetized. But what's special about its "culture", any way? Real estate is at least valuable; for a while, I wondered if it would turn into the world's weirdest REIT. What future is it creating?
Yes. It's a valid technique to keep the temperature on a fleet controlled so you don't waste time cooling down a bus later in the day before picking up students. Solar panels let them make it basically free. And the solar panels on the fixed roofs of the power stations will recoup their cost over time far longer than potential lifespan of a vehicle.
> Rent control usually requires other interventions (that are usually not undertaken) to be net desirable, but those other interventions are not directly relevant to the problem posed.

Rent control is a malicious political hack for buying off the specific tenants most likely to mount a successful political campaign to actually address the root causes of high housing costs.

> Many housing markets are not “functioning”, and while many of the causes for that are policy related in many cases there are natural constraints as well.

The number of housing markets that naturally cause rents to absorb 100% of increases in local income is so close to zero that they may not even exist. Even if you're on a small island which is already full of maximally tall buildings, without regulatory restrictions prohibiting it, the rents still won't increase past the point that it becomes economical to build housing over top of the sea. That in addition to all of the ordinary possibilities when not restricted by zoning, like subdividing one large apartment into two or three smaller ones for the people who prioritize other things over size of living quarters, which then reduces competition for the remaining larger units and limits how much local income that rent increases can absorb.

> It's a housing problem that t frustrates the purpose of UBI wherever it exists, making it a UBI problem, as well.

Even if you don't have a UBI, you still have to address housing supply issues, because it also frustrates any other means of increasing the wealth of the local population. It's like arguing that a plague is a problem for the Affordable Care Act. Even if that's technically true, you have to address the plague regardless of whether you pass the ACA, and the general problem is not a specific problem when it is resolved through whatever independent means that are necessary regardless.
Dee-pin could be 2 Mandarin Chinese words or syllables, but my dictionary doesn't have a compound word including both.

The company behind it is named Wuhan Deepin Technology. On the Chinese website it's 武汉深之度科技有限公司.

Which doesn't contain the syllables dee-pin.

However the part that is called Deepin in English is 深之度 which literally translated could mean something like passing deep.
So it's probably actually English.

I'd leave this to someone with better Chinese skills though.
Choosing an initial random number, then keep modulo-incrementing it by a generator (a number larger than, and relatively prime to, the stack size) wouldn't work as well?
Issues in AWS us-east-1 launching instances
From a chat with a support agent:

"it seems at the moment there is an internal issue affecting instance launches in the us-east-1 region. I'm trying to get updates right now"
As WeWork has raised $12.8 billion [1], that would be quite a devastating repricing. I would think they would just remain private at that price, but maybe they need the cash and no private investors will give it to them.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wework/funding_round...