skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since we're talking Hollywood, what's your success rate in being able to buy movies that don't have DRM? I can't think of any way to do that, really. Or are you saying that you basically can't, and therefore don't buy movies and instead stream or rent?
Had an interview with engineering at wework... the projects they pitch were things like creating a augmented reality system to visualize office build outs...

I picked up the vibe that none of their engineering endevors will drive any profits and basicly "sounds/look cool". I dont like being part of engineering teams that are cost centers and not value ads.
bad ones do. they'll be selected out of the industry over time.
You're setting a standard that seems unreachable.

If the research is biased, you'd have to start funding your own clinical trials to find the real answer, which is extremely expensive (and perhaps unethical for certain addiction questions, given that you might addict people).
This does read like a sequel to Office Space.
> A $40k Tesla is on equal footing with a $25k ICE car in terms of TCO so I’m not sure why you think they are still expensive. They have come down a lot.

In the American market. In Canada, a Model 3 now costs the same as a Model S did at launch. Other manufacturers have worked out ways to soften the price increase due to currency fluctuations.

Every so often I run numbers on electric cars for my use, but I'm never able to get a break-even point that isn't measured in decades.
I'd rather blame that on business models that are unsustainable and rely on VC and IPO money coming in to avoid bankruptcy. At this stage we are not very far from the structure of a ponzi scheme.

In fact if the company is that close to bankruptcy, I am shocked that the listing authority even green lighted the IPO.
HN is a chitchat site, not StackExchange. It doesn't need permanent archival of full-fidelity conversations.
> while STILL being far ahead in the polls.

This is because of the appalling state of Labour, which is currently controlled by actual communists.

People are not stupid. Labour's current policies would be far worse than Brexit.

With a 'normal', half-decent opposition the Tories would have been overthrown years ago.
>where investors can look at that company and think it's a good and growing investment to sustain their public pension or hedge fund returns

This hasn't happened, hence all the flailing.
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I wonder if at the end of this year we'll look back at these last 10 years and wonder if we've really even made as much technological progress as it seems when funding, # of unicorns, and throwing "tech company" around for every venture-backed company has been our main proxy for "innovation."
I see a hivemind as unthinking conformity. The way you avoid an unthinking hivemind is by harnessing the power of group dynamics to push against unthinking conformity such that refusal to be an unthinking conformist is the group norm.

I don't think unthinking conformity is the norm on HN. Thus, I don't think it has a hivemind.

Certainly, there are group norms of some sort here. There are always group norms.

But some group norms are healthier than others. In my opinion, those that push back against unthinking conformity are better than those that push towards it.
When you say O(1)/O(n), what are you measuring the scale in relation to? Number of documents? Number of keys in the document you're looking for?
Sorry for my ignorance on this, but recently I find that top hacker news articles need a paid subscription. Do you have a trick for accessing them or just everyone here has a paid subscription?
Cult of personality
While I personally wish Apple would be more supportive of 3rd party or at-home repairs, I think what they've been doing there actually helps with extending the life of their devices.

Let's say you're thinking of buying a used iPhone. If you had reason to believe that used iPhones were mostly repaired by 3rd parties that didn't necessarily know what they're doing, or were using cheap or even dangerous (in the case of batteries) parts. Would you buy used, or would go just buy some cheap new phone? And if people weren't interested in buying, would you bother trying to sell your old phone or would you just throw it away?

Making sure the quality of second-hand market is high is essential to encouraging re-use. I think a lot of those who are criticising Apple when it comes to repair should remember that. It's not that they're wrong in saying that Apple should support 3rd party repair, but their complaints are not gonna come to much unless what they propose is actually reasonable.. i.e. makes it easier for 3rd parties to repair iPhones while maintaining a healthy second-hand market for iPhones. And that's not easy.
Even FANG companies try to play this game (our stock will appreciate more, our company is more volatile the upside is way higher, etc...)
In many cases when they’ve asked me that the next step was a quick transfer to the local police precinct dispatch or the local fire/medical dispatch. Dunnno what they do when they need to dispatch all of the above though...
Yes, if you want a hackable system that you can root/jailbreak and run any combination of hardware & OS & browser and keep 7+ year old devices running, you're better off on Android. I don't think anybody would disagree with that.

> In any case, I don't think there can be any opposing arguments on the side of security for Apple not updating Safari via AppStore

I don't really follow. It's not about just updating it via the AppStore, it would also require making all future changes to Safari compatible with old hardware and old versions of iOS. They have a pretty impressive track record lately of supporting devices up to 5 or 6 years old, but they can't support everything forever. The security argument for it is that almost nobody is using these devices anymore, so their resources are better spent securing systems that have more users.
I had a unicorn's VP-operations try to convince me that my job-offer isn't below market - I should be valuing their stock at 10-100x the valuation used in their most recent round (a few months ago), because this company is sure to become the next big thing.
That's why Apple devices are much cheaper than Android devices. They're secure and usable for far longer, as long as you don't break them, so the amortized monthly cost is far less.
> QuickPath typing - Type by swiping from one letter to the next.

Are there plans for this to be added for phone keyboards too? As one that appreciates it on Android, I imagine it'd be welcomed by many.
You likely need to have sufficient karma to vouch for an article. I don't know what that level might be, as I don't see that option either. Though dekhn's karma is higher that yours.
Right. But climate change may not be a fast enough trigger to cause an instantaneous collapse of civilization.

And at what scale are we talking? A local community, or a nation, or the world? The instantaneous collapse of global civilization, with no instantaneous trigger, seems unlikely to me. The idea that no government will be able to stand and keep order, from the UN to the US on down to every town in the world? Nah.
I feel sorry that WeWork receives a lot of negativity for “not going to be profitable” and “not being a technology company”. It might be true, but as a potential customer, I am extremely happy with their existence.

I live in Warsaw and 3 years ago there were not a single decent coworking place. Every option seemed depressing and overpriced for their offering. Then WeWork and their competitor Mindspace opened up. I chose the latter since it was closer to my home and I couldn’t be happier. I assume WeWork would be the same. Brand new building, ergonomic desk, good looking interior, many meeting places, phone booths, free barista services, free delivery pickup service, 24h access, free bike rental, shower, community events, even massage and manicure is hosted few times per month. All this for $400.

The price feels as a bargain. Not sure if it’s partly covered by VC money or is it due to competition by WeWork but as a customer I just want to thank them and hope it continues.
The big things need to be system-wide changes through the political system. Individual action isn't going to be enough. Vote for people with serious green policies.
The 'Afterburner card' isn't present in the base configuration of Mac Pro we know the price for.

Dell can add an NVMe SSD, wifi, bluetooth, 2x10 gigabit ethernet, and a keyboard and mouse. Those increase the price by $400. Dell will do two thunderbolt ports for $70, so 8 would be $280.

So unfortunately the things you've listed only explain $680 of the price difference.
I'm not saying that tech should embrace "sexual harassment, hostility and toxicity" (though I do think we should be careful how we define such terms). I said I didn't think his behavior should get a pass, and elsewhere in this thread I acknowledge that asking for his resignation may even be the correct response to his past behavior.

My point is that it wasn't his past behavior that lead to his forced resignation. If it had been (as is my understanding of what happened with Kalanick at Uber) I would not be so concerned.
Only if you bring an umbrella to work
How do we know which work deserves to be paid for? Will you publish a master list for everyone?
The strategy was to play chicken with the EU, but luckily the other two branches of government realized that risking the UK economy on a hilariously obvious bet was tremendously stupid and shut it down.

The people you are defending are traitors.
WeWork's business model is convincing investors they are a tech company with a dozens-of-billions valuation. I am glad HN, amongst others, have torn down this real-estate company wearing a tech-unicorn-mask.
You can’t think of any limitations that macOS has, that others don’t?

Not even the really, really big obvious (and recursive) one?
You misread the chart: it plots GDP/capita vs $$ spent per student. You have to normalize it with your eyeball. And it doesn't matter; you can normalize it any way you want: the US spends more than almost any other industrialized country per student, whether raw or by % GDP.

If you think the US is a nation of dumbasses because of infotainment expenses and advertising, perhaps you have some evidence for this?
Wait you're blaming the parent for self-inflicted burnout not reflecting reality?
That's what further research would provide.
At what point do these deranged estimates start damaging the credibility of the estimators?
> complete absence of all forms of dissatisfaction

Peace?
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It still does not make it a tech company and does not justify the valuation. The business at the very core is not healthy and needs cash to even survive. Institutional investors will not take the bait with no upside.
> This is all speculation and without knowing concrete numbers, one can't make any definitive statements about why coffee costs $x and a podcast costs $y.

There are economic principles, though. In competitive markets, price is roughly what the market will bear. Physical goods have a price floor, because you can't sustainably sell such goods for below manufacturing costs. Digital goods scale for free, which removes any realistic price ceiling - that's why piracy exists, and that's why there's a market pressure to make the price close to $0.

> Perhaps the problem is that it can't compete in the same environment with media that uses advertising.

This is precisely the problem, in my opinion. Moreover, there's no actual market pressure - only creator's own ethics - to offer ad-free, paid version. With the current market landscape, if you're offering a paid product, you can only gain by adding advertising to it.
> Computers, in the end, are just a Turing machine.

Famous last words :)

Detail, in the end, really matter.
Existing violations of the freedom of contract are due to popular misconceptions and common tropes like the idea that two people of unequal power cannot arrived at a genuinely consensual agreement. First of all a court will throw out any contract which is not genuinely consensual. Second, balance of power is irrelevant for a mutually agreed contract. Powerful companies compete with each just as much as they compete with workers.

Powerful employers therefore neutralize each other's power because they are competing for the same pool of workers.

A powerful corporation has no power to compel someone to agree to an employment contract that is not the best one on the market just as a powerful corporation has no power to compel someone to buy a product that is not the best one on the market.

>>There aren't any that provide complete freedom to contract.

That's an appeal to popularism. 300 years ago a slavery supporter could say the same about slavery.

>>It's a highly fringe anarcho-liberetarian position vthat leads to exploration.

There is no evidence at all that it leads to exploitation and name-calling basic principles of justice doesn't make them go away. Two consenting adults have every right in the world to enter into any agreement they want as long as it is mutually voluntary as judged by a competent court. Cookie cutter rules that generalize entire classes of interaction as non-consensual don't cut it. They are crude interventions that are based on popular misconceptions.
Same investment can fetch more souls to church in India so it makes sense to invest there and not in Germany.
Skipped through it looking for an answer but didn't see it: where are unions in Prisma?! Was looking for some big reveal about an underlying choice that enables what everyone is begging for
That was from like 1984 or something?

Sometimes the worst things happening lead to positive outcomes later. That incident probably shook up the entire industry and an outcome is something like that won’t ever happen again.

Kind of like major engineering disasters teach us a ton of stuff and in the end, ironically, make the world a safer place from those lessons.
I always assumed that it was a marketing decision, RedHat don't want people (especially the corporate type who buy a ton of servers but might not know the small details) to know that "RedHat, but free" is an alternative. Instead we have "wait, but the vendor said that the software ran on RedHat, what's this CentOS thing? Better not take the risk."

RedHat is the household name that everybody knows, it probably makes sense to preserve it for the project that actually makes them money.

From the perspective of a 3rd party making software targeting RHEL it's simpler as well. I don't want to have to deal with clueless users installing an unsupported OS to run my software and then asking me for support for things like "our CD drive is not supported" or "how can we patch this security vulnerability". I've enough work supporting my software, I don't want to deal with the client's clueless sysadmin on top of it.
>Most of the dudes I know are on the same wavelength

Not so much here. Perhaps is because I'm in Pittsburgh. I should move to Seattle ;)
Maybe it will cause improvements in how ads are done.

I buy lots of games of certain genres. I'm always wanting to know about similar games in those genres that match my taste. But almost all game ads are for the major big games that I generally either don't buy or already know about and will buy ad or not.

Ads that inform me of new games that meet my taste will easily convert to sells far beyond the rate of standard ads. But such ads rarely exist at all, the closest thing being sponsored reviews but even those I generally have to know about to look up.

But at the same time, I want these relevant ads without giving up medical information, health information, relationship status, political views, or similar such information.
sounds like it would be replacing an existing employee. was it for the CEO role? =)
But journalists have not been making mistakes "every once in a while". They have been making mistakes constantly. Nor do they "promptly acknowledge and correct the mistakes when they are called out"; they almost never correct them, and often they double down instead. So by your own criteria, journalism no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Or you could serve a lot of people, it's probably easier.

Sell something for $10 that's worth $12 to the buyer and costs you $8 to make. Repeat a billion times. The people you did business with got an extra $2 billion, you got $2 billion, everybody's better off.
Let's just put it this way: I wouldn't be leaving any valuable property in your WeWork office overnight.
A lot of people convinced themselves that if they could just make it to the IPO at least they’d have a lucrative way off the shipwreck. Oops.
IME, it really depends on the website. If the user normally has Javascript disabled, then suddenly enables it on a graphical browser while visiting a news website, look out.

Dumpster fire indeed. The user's computer resources are quickly usurped and things slow to a crawl. Users have been trained to be patient I guess, waiting for websites to "load".

Interestingly, I find that many egregiously ad/tracker-laden websites actually "work" well enough without Javascript, meaning the content is readable, sometimes even the images are displayed. For these websites, it does not appear that they are purposely designed to be "unusable" without Javascript enabled. As a text-only browser user, I sometimes perceive some websites "do not work" with Javascript enabled. Trying to view them with the "recommended browser" with Javascript enabled makes the computer so unbearably slow and janky that I give up and go back to turning Javascript off.
Red Hat is selling RH to gain their revenue, but they know that they have a limited audience which is willing to pay for their services. The rest of the Linux world expects Linux to be free. So instead of pushing them towards other distributions they keep those in the Red Hat universe by supporting the "free" versions of RH Linux.

It also makes it easier for any open source author to test their software on Red Hat, as there is always a free version available.
Presenting ads and marketing as a line of defense from monopolies is disingenuous.
Yes! We need more diversity in the executives club!
Unfortunately there's always new recruiters that are willing to press this point either because they believe it or they just want the commission and will say what it takes to place a candidate. This is not something that will be fixed just by having the "bad" recruiters slowly removed over time. It's a constant task to educate job seekers that such an event is very unlikely.
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Try some teaching yourself! There's some bootcamps and online courses that hire mentors, course authors, and code reviewers.
My point was it comes from a entitled position. I'm not making the absolutist position, nor am I dismissing all advertising like OP, but these business models exist for a reason and that is why we have so many of our products online.

It's easy for us to use adblockers as the minority of technical users, but that's a privilege based on the other 90% still seeing them (which I personally see nothing wrong with and clearly most publishers dont want to poke the bear either).

Otherwise of course people would love to have everything free plus no ads. But ads built and paid for a lot of good things on the internet, which wouldn't have been possible had they all expected payment or other models.

I'm all for pushing Google et al to be less aggressive with ads and make the web more usable and not requiring adblockers in order to have basic performance. But I don't disparage advertising as a whole because I understand the tradeoffs.
Possibly like Zynga in 2011[1]. Though CEOs seem to get additional chances even if they have blow up investors multiple times, I wonder if a publicly taking the upside potential away from employees cuts future access to talent.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3220819
Chinese apologist.
That's because it is a bargain funded by VC money.
Yes, this is the sort of situation where it could rapidly spiral into a place where the building you work in is suddenly repossessed or otherwise unavailable. I would seriously consider not leaving anything that you need on a short term basis in there. You would get it back, because no amount of financial shenanigans between WeWork and any other involved part can result in someone else owning your stuff merely because it was physically located on the property, but there could be a period of time in which you are physically unable to reach it. In theory, it really shouldn't be more than a few hours or single-digit days at most (if you can't reach your property, that's theft from you), but the reality, who knows while everything is worked out.

Basically, in a nutshell, I'd suggest not leaving your computing gear in there. And you should probably form a plan B for where you and, if relevant, your team is going to work if it does close suddenly.

However, that should be all that is necessary. It's not really a panic situation for you, unless you absolutely can't work from anywhere else for some reason. What I laid out above is a worst case scenario for you, and probably quite unlikely. In reality I'd still expect you to receive some sort of notice, although it's possible it'll be fairly short.

(If you do decide to simply pursue other office space, you may want to get moving on that. This sort of news is going to chase a lot of WeWork tenants out, and you may want to strike a deal before they push the market up. That's one of the mechanisms I have in mind when I say this could collapse quickly; the news that they are in trouble can itself create more trouble for them.)
> Because it's not very good mouse support. It's basically a simulated finger.

All I want for them to do is allow third party applications to support real mice in the way that you'd expect a real mouse to behave. The killer app would be remote desktop. I understand that there's literally one model of mouse that works with one specific remote desktop app, but I don't want that, I want to use my own mouse.
I’ve used it to run some old Windows95 programs in a virtualised environment. I had easier ways of doing it but I decided to do it the hard way, and it isn’t a disappointing experience. Just an empty one.
i think it's just a fishing expedition to keep the pipeline full.

https://careers.wework.com/

wonder if anyone has any historical data on the number of job openings?
I sent you my pitch :)
According to Tesla themselves, the "potential savings" on the Model 3 are $8,675.

They advertise the cheapest Model 3 at being on equal footing with a $30,315 ICE car. In a quite misleading way I must say.
It very likely won't, but now that there's a market for it there will be other smaller fish who enter the market.
Working in a relational-ish database built on top of a poorly-abstracted B-tree object store is among the top ten worst development hells I've personally endured. It was awful.

Yes, you can sort of make any database behave like any other database. But you don't want to. You want a power tool that has query planners built in that can efficiently solve the sort of problems you're dealing with.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.01715.pdf

From the bottom of page 11: Most software at Google gets rewritten every few years... (continues with another paragraph).

In most of the companies Ive worked at for more than a few years some major piece of the architecture changes in ways unforeseen by the original designers. This usually incurs massive changes on the frontend, since it's often the glue that wires everything together. Migrating to react from a simpler framework is a minuscule amount of the effort. Large structural changes for growing software products are the norm, not the exception. If your project never gets past the initial stages its pointless to plan for the future when there might be none. Which is what this guy's project was, an initial project on a weekend retreat.