skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SoftBank’s Masa Son Is in Favor of Ousting WeWork CEO Adam Neumann
Do you think this action had any net impact on ICE operations?
> but given responses to various stimuli it could infer where one non explicit loyalties lie

I'm going to need a source for that.
> We also owns Meetup, and I could see WeWork or another chain finding ways to offer additional uses that we don't currently associate with coworking spaces. The advantage could be easy online booking for all kinds of meetings and events, maybe with added features like food and beverage catering.

> A chain could also effectively become a marketplace for coworking and other temporary business space needs. Maybe you could book a spot for your company holiday party, or reserve a shopping mall kiosk for a week to do user testing, or even book space at a non-corporate-owned coworking space through your account.

Much as WeWork could bring customers, I can't help but think Meetup would have been in a much better place to be that middleman for renting interesting and varied spaces without being lumbered with a branded workspace product...
For those interested see: How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
Ask HN: What are some startups you think more people should know about?
Sounds comfortable.
That's pretty cool. It's funny that Ireland has such an accurate system now, when it used to be used as the classic example of not assuming things about addresses because much of Ireland didn't have postcodes of any form.

I really like the idea of having a system that is that accurate. Although as someone else pointed out, in the UK your postcode and house number/name are almost always enough to uniquely identify your property.
I once came across a paper on talking about something similar (https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3001164). I can't access it right now and don't remember all of it, but it was about using analog hardware to run a convolutional network for computer vision before converting the camera's output to digital.
You would be a fool to rely open-source software with no local copies.
I'm not from the US so I don't have the ear for accents, but my first impression was that this YouTube channel is basically Tony Soprano's account of the afterlife. He finally got out and found himself doing botany in North California.

It made me enjoy the videos much more.

Seriously though, I actually find this much more engaging. You can see where the passion is and not being afraid of being yourself gives makes it so authentic. The guy just fuckin' loves his botany.
No, it does not work like that. I can say "I love your earrings" and have nice friendly idle conversation about bullshit. It takes waaay more to get a friend you can really talk with or open up.

The equivalent is a guy saying something about soccer and the two having nice idle chat about match or something. Not a friend, but conversation happened.
It's a PR statement so I wouldn't read much into it. It's designed solely to yield the least negative response possible in a polarizing situation.

But if we ignore the meaningfulness or truthfulness of the statement, let's take two hypothetical societies. In one society people agree to cooperate and trade with others when there's a mutual self interest, even if they happen to despise their partner otherwise. In the other society, people engage in a substantial degree of scrutiny and only trade and cooperate with others whom they are meaningfully aligned with. Which society do you think would have the better outcomes for whichever metrics you might imagine? I'd start with economic/technological progress, war vs peace, tribal vs unified (not to say homogeneous) society, etc.

I think there is a clear answer to my hypothetical, but perhaps people see things differently. I'd be quite curious to know how.
He's not under arrest, Miranda.
It's a political statement. This action receiving news coverage is net impact.
Tangent: all you tree-loving readers should pick up Richard Powers's latest, "The Overstory: A Novel". It's beautifully written (deservedly won the 2019 Pulitzer), and is all about trees.
Does each government agency have to individually enter into a contract with Microsoft et al.? That sounds wildly inefficient and silly. My guess is that this "user" pulled those numbers out of thin air.
I'm not from the US so I don't have the ear for accents, but my first impression was that this YouTube channel is basically Tony Soprano's account of the afterlife. He finally got out and found himself doing botany in North California.

It made me enjoy the videos much more.

Seriously though, I actually find this much more engaging. You can see where the passion is and not being afraid of being yourself gives makes it so authentic. The guy just fuckin' loves his botany and shit.
I mean... getting an answer of "October 20th, 2019" is nice, but also that's Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc. pulling data from some other website and not getting them the click. So I don't know if you're actually concerned so much about SEO.

Regarding the general concept of SEO, I wrote some of my thoughts about it here: https://austingwalters.com/is-search-solved/

But essentially, Google has perverse incentives as a search provider. They don't want to give you the best answer either. They want you to click ads. SEO has actually very little to do with it in my opinion.
I hung out with Adam a few times back in the early days of Green Desk. It depresses me to see what he has accomplished in 11 years vs. what I did (just the ordinary SE track...) oh well.
There is an episode of Jack Ryan the show by Amazon Video where they pay a turk sex trafficker to guide them to a vital asset. They essentially have cash stuffed into a backpack and just hand it over to the trafficker after they locate the assets.
It’s not, except for bragging about the theft of the material and sharing part.
Climate crisis is getting scarier and scarier by the day. Don't know about you guys but I am done with sitting behind my computer and whining about what "they" should or shouldn't do. I am joining Extinction Rebellion.
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Which is why not fearing terrorist attacks makes them worthless.

The collective unconscious makes it real.
Correct, but the implication in the tweet was that it was secretly embedded by the manufacturer for nefarious purposes. The Twitter OP jumped to paranoid conclusions in part because of their obvious lack of understanding of even simple embedded hardware concepts.

You can kill someone with a hammer, but that doesn't mean the hammer was designed for killing.
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oh and another idea, could you make it so you can also pan the height at which you look in the streetview? Because I was looking out of my window on the second floor, but streetview is at street level. I dont know if that's a possible feature, though.
It's successful in the sense that it could raise prices to make a profit and there's a possibility that it would still have enough customers left. Unlikely the oft-discussed "selling dollars bills for 90 cents" companies, WeWork is creating real value that its customers will pay for. The question is still open whether that value is more than the operating costs, but it's at least possible. I'd bet against it though.
The goal was not to disrupt ICE, Chef, or any organization thereof. The goal was to remove my code from an ecosystem that was using it for purposes I perceive as evil. I had no goals of disrupting ICE operations or Chef operations.

I suspected a small percentage of people with a hard, runtime dependency would be impacted, but I did not know Chef (the software) had a hard runtime dependency and was pulling that dependency from public RubyGems instead of a mirror they control.
Aren't there also tax strategies/techniques that offer benefits from these investments when they fail as well? That both making and losing money in the VC/FinEng context each have their tax advantages (in the US)?

My impression is that upon this foundation and US interest rate/monetary policies create a perverse incentive where the investor doesn't really have to care too much how the company turns out. Like sure, a success pays off much more, but bankruptcy isn't bad either. Did I dream all this? :)
It's a lot different. It's easy to memorize a few answers. It's hard to memorize the entire corpus of material, in ignorance of what might be on the test. Yes, educational opportunities were unequal at the time. No, that does not make this a good way to equalize them.
Unless it's the "royal We" and then it's even more potential delicious irony.
> I’d really really like a means to maintain a direct-sync-only folder, or some sort of robust encryption story, but to date, the team has said that corporate compliance use cases aren’t a priority for them. I see that some of the team is participating here; perhaps we can all convince them to prioritize some sort of solution?

That would be really awesome. The development team is pretty small, and I'm pretty sure it's low on their list of priorities, but if they had encryption at rest and LDAP/Okta authentication, I'd definitely get another one for work.
So take an Uber to WeWork, jump on Slack and order DoorDash. The same people who partially financed those companies also funded 9/11 but few seem to care.
So you always calculate the same frequency spectrum just in case of dropouts instead of getting the actual code right?

Sorry, but if you ever find yourself in sich a situation stop, pause, make yourself a tea and consider how wise the thing you are doing really is.
It's a political statement that will do nothing but echo in people's respective echo chambers. It'll get positive coverage like this in places like the Daily Dot and MSNBC, and Tucker Carlson will use it as "just another example of far left Silicon Valley attempting to circumvent our laws".

The net impact is zero.
I actually agree with you in general. However I still see a lot of people transfor to other positions at this age or older. In fact I myself transfered to this position at 35.

And there is also the danger od being layed off in future e
g. when I'm 40 or 45.
> but when asked what she wanted to do, she said she was going to be a dentist.

Just guessing here, but there's probably a message board and clique of web blogs about dentistry full of people discussing the underrepresentation of minorities in their field and how they can fix their "pipeline problem".
I'm actually working on a project for this haha - curious if anyone has suggestions on a data-structure to archive comment threads?
The Flynn effect seems to have peaked and has been reversing
It is also a lot more complicated than that.

With a single class of shares every shareholder interest is aligned. It is not possible to create a subclass of shareholders among the existing shareholders without existing shareholders agreeing to it. So in a buyout all shares are equal and will receive and equal percentage of distribution of all assets regardless of how those assets are structured.

The moment there are different classes of shareholders, there's a jockeying for a position. It is no different from the plays that can be made by a private company when it is getting a new round of investment/gets bought out -- those with A class shares have certain rights, with B some other rights with C some other rights etc. There's nothing ( apart from a rather complicated regulations that govern a right of minority shareholders not to get totally screwed ) that prevents those that control the voting block via special preferred shares from virtually screwing other shareholders:

Board can just vote to split the company into "icky carcass" with nominal assets, most of the liabilities give most of it to non-voting shares. Give the non-voting shares some tiny percentage of the ownership in the "awesome sauce" part of the company. Voting shares (held by insiders) get the opposite percentage. As the part of this deal the "awesome sauce" company gets sold.

It just has not been tried yet -- in fact I'm very surprised it has not been tried yet. It of course would be challenged in courts but I'm pretty sure it will be found legal -- after all "you have no rights compared to the rights of holders of class SP" has been spelled out in the offering paperwork and investors/employees/shareholders still lapped it.
I've noticed this weird pattern where articles that try to put you off recycling often don't actually support that thesis. I guess it's admirable that they usually stick close enough to the truth that it's obvious they're trying to spin things, but what leads someone with sufficient integrity to do that to write it in the first place?

Is it some kind of game to convince people to do silly stuff while literally telling them that it's a bad idea?

E.g

> But for some kinds of plastic in some places recycling is indeed the better option, even if the net gain isn’t that huge.

With a link to this:

https://ourworldindata.org/faq-on-plastics#recycling-landfil...

Which says:

> Recycling had the lowest global warming potential and energy use across nearly all of the studies. From an environmental perspective, recycling is usually the best option

It lists 37 comparisons and landfill beats recycling in 2 of them (they also tied in one), with recycling nearly always beating both landfill and incineration, and landfill often being the worst of the three. I've read other meta studies that agree with this, it's the real consensus view.

But, I don't understand why they would link to this source and still overall try to imply the the opposite argument is true, it makes no sense to me? Why not just not link to it if they don't want to accept the findings? Why not link direct to the two studies that claims recycling doesn't beat landfill? If you're going to argue something not supported by science then don't link to the science. This seems basic but it's a definite pattern.

And I guess that recursively applies to you, why would you link to an article that debunks the very point you're trying to make?
How did you create a data set large and accurate enough to be useful in training a model?
Post-accident attribution to a 'root cause' is fundamentally wrong. - Richard I. Cook, MD. 'How Complex Systems Fail'.

In the complex world, the notion of 'cause' itself is suspect; it is either nearly impossible to detect or not really defined - another reason to ignore newspapers, with their constant supply of causes for things. - Nassim Taleb

... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
I wish people differentiate various web based bookmark services from actual browser bookmark synchronizers.

After xmarks' demise it was really hard to find correct replacement due to the above. I want to use native bookmarks in my browser instantly including locator search etc.

I ended up using awesome xBrowserSync which has cross firefox/chrome extensions to sync bookmarks. I self host with excellent and compact https://github.com/ishani/xSyn server written in go. Though you could use public servers as it's client side encrypted and anonymous.
I don't need another over-explanation of such justifications. I referenced the phenomenon in CPUs elsewhere in this thread.

This part:

> Or even better, sell everyone a soft upgradable 1 core, so you buy the entry level product, and when/if you need it, you can buy into the upmarket model

... is still one that I would have trouble with, were I the manufacturer. I would be inclined to throw away profits on high end sales and price them all low for these scenarios, based on my desire to be fair to the customer and not run the thing like a casino with physically dubious upsells for what they already purchased. Yes you read that right. This is one reason why I am not in a position to be running Intel.
I don't agree. I just looked in my password manager, and I have roughly ~220 accounts across the web. If I want to go through that list and see which website rank well and which rank poorly, and I want to do that in under two hours, that gives about 30 seconds per service.

In other words, giving a single score plus a two-sentence highlight is probably about the right amount of information.
The SIGINT arm of the NSA has an incentive to take any exploitable vulnerabilities in existing software and keep them secret, so they can use them against their enemies, rather than disclosing them so they can be fixed.
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Audio software often works in the frequency domain too. CPUs have optimized instructions for this (video also uses them).

Also, the article speaks of multithreaded software, where deadlines can be missed because of complicated dependencies. The end stage where you correct for missing samples can work independently of them in its own thread.
The scalability issue may soon have some help, certainly not for all garments but for some. [0] Thought bath towels and t-shirts are progress, it will take quite some work to generalize to a wider range of items.

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/40454692/this-t-shirt-sewing-rob...
My experience has been that men and women have far more things in common than we have things in difference. There are of course differences between men and women, but I think that if I had a rigid belief that how men and women socialize was this large, unbreachable, genetically determined gulf, I would have lost out on a lot of really great friendships and relationships.

We don't think much about evolution or biological determinism on so many other subjects - for example, we were hunter-gatherers for most of our history, but we don't seem to discuss that very much in our post-agriculture society, or think that it limits us from building civilizations the way we do today. So why say on this subject that we are biologically limited in this specific way?
You really shouldn't learn your "history" from dramatic period films. Especially regarding something as recent and well documented as America in the late 1700s.
If I'm not doing devOps work (I explicitly avoid this garbage) and not a founder I expect to not be on call - ever.

So basically, I don't work at companies that make their employees carry a pager etc. Life is too short for that shit.

I worked briefly at a startup shortly after it's acquisition by a FAANG. The startup's code was trash - I acknowledged while on call that I didn't exactly know what was going on after digging a while - asked for help - was then reprimanded for "not knowing the code well enough" basically because I asked for help. I left about a month after that. Again, life is too short for that shit.
If ICE are literally Nazi's and immigration deletion centers are literally concentration camps, then why not? After all that would mean that they are effectively the embodiment of evil. You would be a hero.

If you actually genuinely believe that then I can't see why you wouldn't. Unless deep down you're self aware that you're using such rhetoric not because it is valid but because you think it supports your political cause while hurting politically those who you disagree with.
* An oil company pumps oil out of the ground, and sells it to a petroleum company.

* The petroleum company refines that oil into gasoline.

* An auto company builds a truck that runs on gasoline

* A shipping company buys said truck, as well gasoline to power it.

* A store contracts that company to ship their goods.

When a consumer buys something from that store, and has a gasoline burning truck move the goods from the warehouse to their residence who was responsible for emitting those greenhouse gases?
Not completely related, but the tone of the two tweets linked in the article doesn’t make sense to me. The first is a reasonable request for a comment about an issue that Shanley cares about, but it’s immediately followed by a comment a minute later screaming at Chef to take a certain action while hurling epithets at them in all-caps. How can you possibly assume good faith from the first comment after reading the second? Why didn’t she just go straight to attacking them if that was clearly her intention?
Beware the risk of looking for evidence-based parenting advice: it tends to focus on effects that are measurable and small. It's unethical to research parenting strategies with large effects. So you'll find lots of studies about what kind of music stimulates developing brains, but you won't find a recent, randomized controlled trial that says whether it's bad to constantly fight in front of the kids. (It is, I assert without evidence.)

So don't lose sight of the basics, like ensuring secure attachment.
The problem with that is there's a lot of software that's American made that is also used by potential targets of SIGINT.
This has all happened before. The proto-WeWork was called HQGlobal and the firm behind it was Frontline Capital. The whole thing unraveled in the 2000 bust as the tenants all went out of business and canceled their leases at the same time. WeWork is not going to be pretty when the economy turns. Bill Ackman backed Frontline Capital and it pretty much sunk his first hedge fund, Gotham Capital.
I am pretty sure that guy bas been doing well enough that he could retire fairly successfully at this point if he really wanted to.
Besides the political statement, do you have any technical opinion about an organization such as Chef shipping things that have runtime deps to third parties?
“App not available in your region” .. <insert “keep your secrets” meme>
Doesn't look like it, but you could use curl to upload files to it, if you wanted to to it from the command line: https://remarkablewiki.com/tech/webinterface#accessing_files...

It might also be possible to copy files with scp/ssh.
Gravity wells in our solar system
Is so obvious where this is all going: The wealthy -the factories owners and their close allies- the very same ones ignoring the pledges to stop contributing to climate change will be the only ones protected enough from most damages of climate change, only the wealthy will afford to live in the cities with livable temperature, to buy potable water, only the most resilient of the poor and middle-class will survive, and their youngsters will be used as soldiers to fight for natural resources, some of their families will enjoy those resources but only enough to breed more soldiers to keep the wars going.
Hence why I said start the program today, with the same level of canvassing as a census, and then enforce it some time in the future.
I am actually already using resolve for grading, I wouldn’t really recommend it for full time editors yet, but for ambitioned amateurs it might be the best deal om the market right now
I wonder how other people deal with difficult situations like this (laid off at 45)...must be pretty tough to them. I'm not particularly worried about the finance because we have ourselves covered and do not have needs of luxury. What I really fear is the lack of interesting work to do from now on.

This is part of the reason that I need to find something that I can relax on and maybe grow a hobby out of it.

I have been teaching myself programming these days but the job is very demanding so I don't have much brain power left except for weekends.

Maybe I should regularly work out to increase energy level and go from there instead.
You would be a fool to buy things from Chef after they show such a trivial vulnerability.
> Says who?

The prospectus of UPRO [1] : "returns over periods other than one day will likely differ in amount and possibly direction from the target return for the same period."

[1] https://www.proshares.com/funds/upro.html
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> The US just have much more expertise and engineers

That's a pretty extraordinary claim that requires some evidence. I don't think that's true at all.
I think the reality of the situation is that some of these investors actually like the "visionary leader who full control and isn't dragged down by investors" model.