skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am so freaking sick of people recommending others to pickup either salsa or tango! Not of the people that recommend this themselves but are there really no other options? Tango/salsa classes seem to get recommended again, again and again, I get that it's a fun activity with a good gender balance, forced interaction and just enough tension to naturally provide a fun atmosphere but is there nothing else?

How about contra dance? https://trycontra.com

(I maintain that site, and play in https://freeraisins.com and https://kingfisherband.com)
Sure it's useful. And there's also no barrier to entry except enough capital to buy or lease a building. If WeWork goes under, the need will be met by others.
Somehow I feel like the Age of Enlightenment occurring at around the same time as when coffee drinking was becoming increasingly widespread in Europe can't have been a coincidence
I am parent to a young child and your take is, at least in my case, ridiculously accurate. I wish more people would do this!
If you’re already trying to reach customers it sounds like you’ve already built a product. Make up your mind.
There are cities within distances where it would make sense in several regions, but the speeds would be terrible because infrastructure is not up to the task (example: 300 miles in 7 hours 45 minutes). The rails don't support high speed service, there is no electrification, and the rails themselves are owned by freight companies. If the time was productive, you might get some small number of people to take it, but the excruciating slowness wouldn't appeal to many people.
No one is in charge of making decisions for the human race. The President and Congress make decisions for all of the federal government.

If you thought the Windows division of Microsoft was acting extremely unethically would you still do business with the XBox division? It’s one CEO and one board that runs both.
Is your argument that companies that use plural pronouns in their name should have certain types of ownership structures?
The company I now work for does something similar. We sell our product at what is essentially max capacity, capping memory/disk space/CPU per the contract. When the customer needs the extra capacity or wishes to upgrade, all that’s required is some settings changes and a restart.
Child-free couples, unless of course you're talking playdates which is a social tree climb all its own. But single, disagree from experience. There's even a line from Nora Ephron's Heartburn, the book not the movie:

Couples date couples.
Thank you! :) I've read some recent research and looks like this is actually measured: only 0.001% of all internet users start reading them (and even a smaller amount of people likely finish reading them). On top of it, if you had to read all the privacy policies you accepted only on the past 5 years alone, you would have to use 3.040 hours of non-stop reading. Crazy. Love your privacy-oriented username btw! ;)
It's not preferred shares that are letting these founders retain control, it's having multiple classes of common stock where either the public investors get no votes for their shares, or the founders have 10+ for each of their shares, so that their vote always wins. This article gives a good overview of some of the changes that have occurred that have allowed this issue to proliferate (although the main issue seems to be a glut of capital and FOMO for these deals):

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/05/26/snap-and-the-rise...
If the plugin you want to make is around language support in an editor (i.e. autocomplete, goto definition, or documentation), the Language Server Protocol might work.

https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/

https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/impleme...
Yeah, but all that would have been fine if he’d acted responsibly. Obviously giving him that much power is a dangerous game to play, but it doesn’t absolve him of responsibility for his behavior. Ultimately he — not the investors — is the one who built this sandcastle on partying, self-dealing and a cult of personality.

One of the things about blame is that it’s never zero sum, and in this case there’s more than enough to go around.
It was a known issue that setting explosives on fire makes them...quite unhappy (hence why nowadays the detonators mostly use insensitive explosives [1]).

In the context of a partial/asymmetrical detonation around a warhead - they tried it! [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_57

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insensitive_munition
Right, that's the theory, which is how they got this far. But that's not a new thing; companies have been in the same business for years. WeWork's valuation is wildly out of proportion to its competitors.

WeWork probably does have an advantage specifically for tech startups. But startups are definitionally not a large market, nor are they generally a good one. When we're small, we're cheapskates. And then we pretty quickly either go out of business or become like other companies, willing and able to deal with building owners directly. It's high churn, which is expensive.

Startup investment is also pretty cyclical; anybody who was around after Bubble 1.0 knows how quickly the party stops when investors get nervous. So WeWork has a lot of long-term commitments, with no obvious way to cover them in the next recession. And since we're already in the longest peacetime economic expansion, the possibility of recession is definitely on investor's minds.
The joy and challenge of developing for KaiOS
> While the tablet keeps up with writing just fine, it's a little slow when jumping around a long document.

I haven't found a good tablet analog for a sense of "place" within a document and fast indexing. With a book, I can flip through the pages by bending the pages and sliding my thumb over the edges (like a deck of cards). On a laptop, ctrl+F is approximately the same speed as thumbing through physical pages (sometimes better, sometimes worse, depending on how unique the search term is). My iPad is intentionally set up for handwriting, [1] but I still find searching through documents on a tablet pretty tedious.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20271316
"Abusive"? That's a bit over the top. No one is forcing these people to put money into these companies if they dont like the terms.
Basecamp even made a headline out of it a while ago: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/basecamp-valuation-tops-100-b...
Why sim lock when you could work out a deal with Apple to iCloud lock stolen phones?
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Moore's Law Graphed vs. Real CPUs and GPUs 1965-2019. (YouTube)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash
Maybe he was hoping to date an intelligent woman, who would not judge him for his looks and got rejected, for whatever reason we do not know. However, thanks to your comment, we now know, why you would reject another person and it has everything to do with outward appearance. Thanks for informing us.

It seems, that she acted in an acceptable and correct way. Nothing wrong with rejecting someone. The only bad thing is, that some Internet person will come around and interpret her actions with an exclusive view on superficial appearance issues.
Very cool idea! One question I couldn’t seem to find the answer to on your site was are the policies featured on your a/b training exercise distinct from the polices that the ai grades? For example will a user going through your a/b trainer ever see a snippet from the Instagram privacy policy?
Large gas reservoir in Okinawa trough revealed by seismic velocity analysis
One Thing Is
Has anyone here tried Dual N-Back for more than a couple of weeks? Does it really improve working memory and indirectly your IQ?
I think that with all the unicodes lying around these days we can do a little nicer:

┌───┐
┌─────┤ 1 ├─────┐
│ └───┘ │
┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐
┌─┤ 2 ├─┐ ┌─┤ 3 ├─┐
│ └───┘ │ │ └───┘ │
┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐
│ 4 │ │ 5 │ │ 6 │ │ 7 │
└───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘

(Better if the presentation doesn't lead beyond the font.)
Never heard about Lightning Network I guess?
Self-consistent systems is a great thing to search for!

It would reduce complexity AND allow for a self-proving belief system. Who wouldn't want that? Could you even use it as a logic device to prove other properties?

Can we think of any examples of this kind of system? That might help us search for one that encompases the universe: Is there anything either truly fully self-contained, self-creating, self-descriptive, or fully self-anything?

For instance the Earth is very self-contained, but depends on sun light

A black hole is very self contained but still communicates via Hawking radiation

Self-creating head butts against the second law of thermodynamics -- that randomness or entropy always increases in a closed system. This law sadly implies we will have to reach outside the universe if we want to be self-consistent....

Edit: Outside of that are there any thought processes that are fully self-X, would visual illusions count, such as Escher drawing the world folding in on itself?

Maybe we can say the second law of thermodynamics doesn't globally apply, and the universe is an aberration within that system. But that is beginning to push outside the box of self-consistency

Sorry, I'm becoming stuck. Outside of paradoxes and unbalanced equations I can only think of one answer

Edit2: Oooh, in your favor is the effectively infinite amount of possibilities, which gives a lot of hope for finding other self-consistent systems. Since I'm not sure I can disprove their existence any better than as previously when defining self-consistency as 'X = X' and then suggesting this definition is an unhelpful truism

But I realize that is possibly not fair 'x = y+3' is not a truism; but then it is also not self-consistent. Maybe I am setting too high a bar?

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I can't do better than repeat what Chris said:

> You’re ambitious, which is great. You’re respectful, even greater
This happens when someone asks a versus question on a Sunday.
That did sound snide but it wasn't meant that way. I'm not sure how I should have done it better.

> dismissing people for being passionate is not

Seems I didn't say that well either. Passion that comes from knowledge and experience is good. If it comes from inexperience then maybe not so good because it isn't "Healthy discussion around facts" but around existing biases.

Edit: genuinely no offence intended.
Show HN: Streaming Virtualized Surround Sound Music on Headphones
Loop takes surround sound mixes from artists like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Beyonce, Madonna, and many more and creates binaural two-channel surround audio that we stream to any internet-connected device. The process works for any set of headphones, removing hardware requirements for the end user.

You can listen to Loop on iOS, Android, Mac, and PC at www.stereo.sucks
If they had the ability to turn it around, they would have... years ago. Unless they get a new CEO/leadership and take radical shifts in strategy, I don't see anything happening.
it's not a way of putting things, it's fact
Topological Weyl fermion lines and drumhead surface states in room temp magnet
Having seen the rates for late rentals, I think your parent comment is "more" right. Unless blockbuster was running such a tight ship that a single rental's delay would upset the applecart ... but I remember waiting for DVDs and cassettes and unless you hit the sweet spot (a few weeks after the release, or maybe just on the first day of release), there was always a wait and/or the associated frustration.
This is also something I fear might happen. Let us hope for the best. Someone with a clear way of making logical arguments, with firm idea about free software, furthering the original goals.
Making the middle class poor by taking away their ability to own a home, etc is absolutely not a “poor people don’t matter” argument. It’s a “let’s not destroy a stable part of society in a ham-fisted attempt to help the poor”.

Refuting dumb ideas to help the poor doesn’t mean I don’t care about helping them.
Turning on a lamp at night is great when your SO goes to bed later, or doesn't mind light when going to sleep.
If they actually had to earn the money they'd treat it different. Free money just enables stupid shit like this at all our expenses. The comment you responded to is on point
Why shouldn’t they? All synthetic materials do this.

Edit: that’s the reason I go to the gym with worn-out cotton clothing with advertising instead of buying trendy training t-shirt from some big brand.
> Yeah, but all that would have been fine if he’d acted responsibly.

> if he’d acted responsibly

> if

The "if" is the point. SoftBank had the ability to eliminate the risk of this "if", and didn't.
The data comes from https://climateactiontracker.org/, specifically https://climateactiontracker.org/global/cat-emissions-gaps/ (where you can download a spreadsheet).
The author sums up the core of the issue very concisely towards the end of the article:

> Treating platforms like governments—encouraging their control, but constraining them with flimsy versions of democratic input or due process—is not part of democracies’ usual playbook when companies gain too much power, or when their businesses cause harm. Market forces and competition are supposed to keep private commercial power in check. When those fail to do so, the next line of defense is to enforce competition law, not to establish new quasi-governmental rules for companies. [..]

> But we aren’t following the usual playbook, in which government sets the rules and companies follow them. We can’t—not as long as we want platforms to block speech that the U.S. government, following the First Amendment, has no power to restrict. Bypassing the First Amendment requires putting power in private hands. And that in turn means giving up on real democratic input, due process, Supreme Court review, or any of the other tools we use to constrain actual governments.
Study examines how people with psychopathic traits control their 'dark impulses'
YMMV, but I was an early adopter and have never regretted it. It's one of my favorite devices. There are some valid criticisms -- it's slow to navigate documents, so if you're used to flipping through a book, it'll be mildly infuriating.

It's indispensable for me because it can carry so much of my written life around in one little package. In one day, I might have a couple of work meetings (free-form scrawl a few notes, maybe diagram something), try to work out some coding problem, then go to a SAR training in the evening and as long as I've got the tablet with me I've also got all my notes and procedures for that too.

To replace the ReMarkable with good old paper, I'd have to put another hundred-plus books back on my shelf, carry another half-dozen or so textbooks in my car, and at least three thick binders and assorted other notepads and nonsense.

I recently went to Glacier National Park for a few days, and before leaving I compiled a bunch of possible destinations, visitor info, maps and so on into a PDF and loaded that into my ReMarkable. Instant customized visitor guide.
Four common mistakes in audio development (2016)
The treaties mentioned on the article were signed in 1889 at the earliest. By that time, telegraph lines were already connection most nations on the world.

That's just 25 years before WW1.
DS9 has some of the best written character arcs of any show in memory. The long list of truly dimensional characters who wrestle with all sorts of things, and the story around their growth or descent is fantastic. Further added to the way that some of the main characters pull their respective peoples onto various sides and even their "nations" seem to breath more than in almost any other series.

While the Ferengi episodes were often semi-comedic, the show also fleshed them out and (dare I say) humanized many of the recurring characters as interesting, sympathetic, and complex -- challenging viewers to think deeper about superficial archetypes.
I did this with Crossfit. Met people very similar to me who like beer, football (soccer), video games and got my diet and fitness together at the same time (except the beer:)
I could argue it either way. But I think it's reasonable to suggest that there will always be people who are scammers (or so oblivious that it amounts to the same thing). We've only heard of Adam Neumann because investors gave him billions. SoftBank in particular gave $10+ billion [1], and I understand that's really just Masayoshi Son making those decisions. So I think it's reasonable to give him a lot of the blame for empowering somebody whose business plan appears to have been surprisingly close to that of the Underpants Gnomes [2].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-06/wework-ip...

[2] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/profit
While there are issues with Zuckerberg, I think it bears noting that the FB IPO wasn't done because he needed the money, but rather because they were forced too by law because too many people had ownership. So, he didn't give great terms in the IPO because he didn't really need any cash; FB was already cashflow-positive. This is a marked contrast to WeWork.
As one of the people he asked out mentioned, his response to the rejection was anything but appropriate (he threatened to kill himself) [0].

0. https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...
Yes, initially it will all draw from the same dataset, so a user in theory could definitely see all services' snippets. But, to increase statistical significance in the data it gathers, I've restricted the initial amount of items in the test so right now this will not be the case (otherwise, I'd be dealing with circa 3,500,000,000 different pairwise comparisons hehe)
DualDisc Format History: Not Quite a CD, Technically a DVD
Any earlyish startup (smaller than a certain size) that's facing cash flow problems during a larger economic downturn would likely just move to a remote-only model, maybe with very short-term rentals for high-stakes meetings. No, it's not ideal, but if the survival of the business is at stake, cutting out your coworking fees seems like the easiest way to reduce overhead.

I'm no economist, but to me, it seems that short term rentals can't be an inferior good if a large percentage of startups are already currently using them. You'd need a majority of them to be leasing a traditional office space in order for coworking to be seen as a viable lesser option. And I don't really see larger, more established startups that do have traditional office space (like Duolingo for instance) moving out into a WeWork.
Have they written all of those jokes and references out of the Python documentation for sins against inclusivity yet? I dearly hope not, but I would not be surprised.
Obviously Adam deserves the blame for what he did, but if you interpret "this mess" as referring more to the scale of the company in it's current state than specifically the actions of the CEO, then the investors deserve more of the blame. If WeWork didn't have access to all of softbank's capital, there's no chance that WeWork would be trying to do a multi-billion-dollar IPO, and if they weren't trying to do a multi-billion-dollar IPO it wouldn't be much of a problem.

A CEO trying to run a small little nothing company in a weird way isn't a big deal. It's only a problem because of the scale.
The Atomic Weapons Establishment was doing Minimum Viable Product before it was cool to build MVPs!

More seriously, most of the reason they cobbled this together was because the US suddenly cut off access to research after WW2 (because of the McMahon Act [2]) and the UK had to look as if they were an independent member of the Big (nuclear) Boy's Club. Between this and the Windscale fire [1], that could've led to absolute disaster.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Energy_Act_of_1946
I mean, it sounds like it is abusive, but it's an abusive relationship investors sought out.

At this point it's akin to someone who seeks out abusive partners due to mental health issues. It doesn't make the partners any less abusive, but lets not kid ourselves and think the seeker is a healthy individual.

Their greed is killing them.
It has to start with the music. If you like tango music, you might like tango. If you like swing music, you might like swing dancing. Same with salsa.

For example, I can't stand bachata music and so I pass on bachata dancing. But I like cuban music, so I'm a casino dancer.

Start with the music.
Show HN: A Simple Synthesizer in the Browser
Hi. A related project that takes a more human-powered approach is PrivacySpy (https://privacyspy.org). Would be neat to see how these tools intersect.

PrivacySpy is open source, community run, and more about grading policies on a standardized rubric (as opposed to entrusting that to ML), so these tools might complement one another.

(Full disclosure: I'm a contributor to PrivacySpy.)
Fans have been screaming for decades for a Starfleet Academy show. I think it could really breathe new life into the franchise and bring new blood in who could potentially carry parts of the franchise for a long time.

Instead we get a highly produced but virtually incomprehensible new series.
The shares with no voting power would still be converted in the case of a buyout of a company though, right?
Oh! I have a much bigger pet peeve for projects which have a fine and moderately-usable examples section, but then decide that's good enough and never document the API because one should just "look at the examples".
Not to mention TimescaleDB and PostGIS. If one ever needs analytics or GIS these are great additions. One doesn't have to support multiple DBs for that. Also Citus, but MySQL (well MariaDB and Percona) also has Galera cluster.

Also in MySQL alter table and drop table closes your transaction. One would argue it doesn't even have "real" transactions because of this.
But consider Hyman Minsky’s theory that in capitalist economies stability engenders instability. It could be true, that good times plant the seeds of bad times, similar to the way that forests that go many years without fires, build up tinder.
There are lots of good businesses that operate on thin margins. They're good businesses, which is why you can divest them to investors who want to run a good business. What they're not are businesses that should trade at anything close to software revenue multiples.
Not sure about master-master, but I've used repmgr[1] to manage a PostgreSQL master-slave setup and it works pretty well though it is by no-means plug and play. There are a variety of steps and manual processes to get it up and running.

[1] https://repmgr.org/