skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's the upside of having a giant corporation owning all coworking spaces, versus having many small and independent small businesses running and operating independent coworking spaces?

Advantage to customers? Likely minimal.

Advantage to the company itself: economies of scale and, likely more importantly, lack of competition allowing them to increase prices.

The very clear trend across all sectors is that companies trend towards giant monopolistic behemoths unless some very strong regulatory force prevents it. People act like healthy, competitive, transparent markets just appear out of thin air, but they are an artificial creation of government.
> I'm just trying to imagine the PTSD you must experience when faced with billboards on the highway or when you attend a sporting/musical event and see BoA plastered around the venue.

GP isn't getting PTSD, but ads here are like mosquitos. A few here and there you won't notice, but once there's lots of them buzzing around and biting, the quality of life goes down very quick.

As for unsolicited - they are. They are a malicious third party injecting itself where it isn't welcome. Also, be it TV or radio, ads weren't supposed to be there. This is where the infectious nature of advertising shows. They came and took over these media, and dragged their quality down.
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here. You could make this comment more substantive by explaining why.
Volvo is down there with American brands in the American reports...
Yeah, there was no such agreement
IoT, S stands for Security.
Show HN: Fast prime counting algorithms (Euler #543, 120x faster than sieve)
I wrote an article documenting my experience solving Project Euler problem 543. It's a surprisingly deep problem, and using a specialized algorithm sped up my solution by two orders of magnitude. (Wrote initial draft 12/2016, updated 8/2019).

https://acgan.sh/posts/2016-12-23-prime-counting.html

I'd love some feedback here - in general I'm quite surprised this isn't a well known technique in many libraries (even amongst my mathy friends).
They specifically use a battery chemistry with very high cycle life and high current tolerance just for that.
The marketing is done for you. All you have to work on is the tech.
For the same reason why when race is presented as a contributing factor, people say "give it a rest." 'Those who choose to ignore the past are doomed to repeat it.' Society must accept that race relations has played and does play a role in how we tackle issue.
There are many people who are 4+ year graduates in other disciplines who would like to learn coding to enhance their abilities. I really don't see why having self-taught pathways available to these folks (or simply those who can't afford college) is a bad thing.
One interesting thing is the number of apps that use stuff you did not think about. For example SlingTV ask to use bluetooth!?! Why?

One other thing, the icons have become smaller on my iPad Pro 10.5. Looking at it in landscape mode right now there is room for 5 rows of icons where I believe there used to be 4?
I mean, it likely doesn't hurt anything. I'm sure the underwriters (JPM etc.) have spoken to their institutional clients and no one has said "getting rid of Adam will make my valuation go down."

So you get rid of Adam (and his supermajority voting rights) have some quiet conversations about how people value the company now. Then you decide if you're willing to take whatever haircut the market is offering from the last private round.

If We is to be believed the other option is to halt all expansion. They claim that mature locations are cash flow positive. If that's true then you don't necessarily need to take a haircut, you just stop expanding, prove to the market that you actually do have a business, and then either start siphoning off the cash or try to IPO again.
Yes, I did Discrete Math long ago and enjoyed it.

Thanks for the link! Though it looks too basic for me, I was hoping for something on the more advanced topics I mentioned.
Crazy world were a beloved product sell for half a billion of dollars and isn't considered a great achievement.
GitHub. 90% of my non noob questions are now found on GitHub issues.

I work in web so basically anything NPM related (most of the web in my field) is all on GitHub. Much faster than StackOverflow for sure over the past few years. I now read SO mostly to shoot the crap. GitHub has a hold of the latest issues by far. JS being the wild west with guns blazing in the air, has done really well for GitHub.

I also think people raise good points about Microsoft acquiring SO. They are buying up all the developer circles.

Personally, I hope the license thing bites Mr. Spolsky. I think he deserves it after speaking out publicly about getting companies to squash our creative freedoms at home. I'm sorry Joel, not everybody wishes to work 14 hour days for somebody else's vision.

StackOverflow's surplus of dickhead programmers doesn't help either. We don't hide behind usernames on GitHub.
> But overall, I don't think I can offer any suggestions on how to make the system better. I ranted due to a perceived injustice, but that didn't mean I have ways ready to make the situation better. I think that change must come from the powers that be - and they're unlikely to suddenly start giving a shit, so there goes that.

> In any case, I thank you for considering my perspective and offering to help move the status quo. Rest assured, my friend, you are not part of the problem.

I disagree with basically all of this. A lot of people here are part of the problem. They are part of "the powers that be". Not that they want to keep anyone down or anything, it's just that they have businesses to run and will do reasonable accommodations but no more.

Since I'm sure everyone here wants the problem to be solved, if it can be done easily enough, there is a good hope of solving it with some smart technologies.

3d secure and looking at cookie reputation are both good ideas. If they are not used as much as you think they should be, we gotta ask why that is? Is it because it's too hard to implement? People haven't heard of it? Can library for doing it easily be made? Can it be pushed on people through add it as default, or including it in code samples?
>wrong kind of VC help

But it was the very best kind of VC you could hope for. Andy Rubin, former Apple/General Magic employee, founder of two companies with very successful exits (danger, android).
As a bedside YouTube machine, my iPad Air 1 is absolutely fantastic at it. Web browsing stutters like no other, but the YouTube app is still very smooth despite the device's hardware being ~6 years old now. I'm happy with my purchase despite Apple cutting off iOS/iPad OS updates for my device.

As a productivity device, the device is basically useless since app switching is annoyingly slow.
Most of those people were prosecuted for lying to investigators. Falling into a perjury trap is pretty easy. (see McCabe, Bill Clinton, etc)

Would you like to point to any of those people and link the crimes to Trump some how? What you did is just give a laundry list of cases that could be torn apart individually. Nothing is related back to the core issue of conspiracy/collusion or even obstruction.
Will you wait > 100ms for a checkbox to change state? The point is that actions that should be instantaneous need to appear as such within the limits of human perception. Complex operations can take longer.
In the Salary Race, Engineers Sprint but English Majors Endure
I selected a few parenting books which didn't sound complete shit and started reading. Now mind you, one of the books was so bad I could not finish. One of the books was too old to have any actionable information and later turned out the writer thought Asperger's are children with not enough love received(1960ish book...) And the one was simply so out of my personal feelings of what I consider a good parent I stopped reading.

BUT. All these books helped me formulate my own viewpoint of the subject and tackled problems I didn't know I will meet. It all helped me imagine how a good parent would behave. So I would recommend the same route (hopefully with better books:))
:) Thanks, sounds good!
If you’re a top CS employee I think if your startup fails you can just go back to being a SWE at FAANG, possibly with a promotion or two, or switch to product work. Yes you miss some money, but you’re also taking a risk for a lot more... for me, losing a few hundred thousand (pretax...) is worth taking a chance at a business
Because most displays today run at 60Hz. It's a nice metric, as it provides a useful coarseness for measuring response times.
Retro Avatar Generator API – Cross-Language Hash-Based Avatars for Humans
I never felt it was so black and white as people make it which is part of WeWork's problem.

WeWork's long game and eventual income is Real Estate, but their short game, their bread and butter, their brand, and their marketing is and always has been services and transactions. They compete much closer to a Starbucks than a Real Estate company but it's like neither side quite got it. (esp considering the CEO was a scam artist abusing the Real Estate side of the business while misdirecting everyone towards services)

WeWork is (to most) a company whose focus was on people and atmosphere, and on service. I would argue that they are MUCH closer to a hospitality chain like Marriott than a Real Estate firm or a tech co.
it's still the number one source for finding questions that have been marked as off-topic or duplicates...
I can understand silent retreat, could you please elaborate on Ayahuasca? I want to do it, but I am also worried a bit about the experience. Also, I am not a physically strong person, not sure if that should be a factor to consider.
Not to mention actually very inefficient and polluting.
Did they try new rules or something?

Like going bigger every year, etc.

This could have led to an evolutionary path to big bots with good mobility.
Congrats to the CEO. Welcome to the issues of SO. I have a major problem with the way SO is handling the license agreements and Joel's opinion on developer side projects as well. I plan to make a public statement on my YouTube channel about it. I'm so sick of tech companies thinking they can act however they want with impunity.
> Because Moglen expressed his lawyer opinion in a way that Garret did not like.

any article about what happened?
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I feel like I find more useful answers in GitHub issues (also through google) now than a year or two ago
Yeah, and it's a relevant point to disagree on :-)
I see some comments here along the lines of "Is this a good way to get educated in computer science?" or "Is this a good path into a career?" or "What are some good alternatives?"

Maybe the problem is that it's pretty hard to gauge how good education of any kind is. We have countries all over the globe doing things a bit differently, and we have public and private schools with different methodologies. But, while I personally don't have the answers, and obviously our governments probably aren't sure either, clearly there is work being done in figuring out what works and what doesn't.

What are some good resources for identifying the best forms of education?

Are there any resources for identifying the best way(s) to learn computer science, or entry-level computer programming, or foundational software engineering?
Last summer, for example, Greenpeace teamed up with iFixit to rate the repairability of Apple devices, accusing Apple of shortening device lifespan with difficult, proprietary repair processes and components, ultimately leading to more electronic waste. - 2018

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.macrumors.com/2018/04/19/gr...
Yes, before the cash rebate it was ~£350M/week (or £376M/week according to this). Which boris used without accounting for the rebate which would have brought it down to considerably less.

He lied and you seem ok with it.

> Yes. However having a second referendum is spectacularly dangerous and undemocratic as you've already read

So Yes, people can change their mind, you allow, but no they shouldn't have a 2nd vote, you say, despite the fact they may have changed their mind.

So what am I supposed to conclude from that?

IMO it's problematic either way, but if we had a 2nd referendum at least "the will of the people" would be clearer. Which may give us a way forwards, which I proposed as a compromise, but you are trying to shut down.

Your compromise/way forward is... what?
> The only reason Uber was successful was because of that attitude. Where it failed was growing up.

Which, by the way, is not a weird thing. Different stages of a company lifecycle require different types of leadership.
That's called community and we as a society should try to create that without religion.

Also such stories exists
So we shouldn't investigate probable crimes? Why investigate any president when they'll just be out of office after 8 years max (assuming no VP ascension)?
Good point. It's definitely something I'll consider. I guess in case I retain some equity, it would be sort of an agreement that I'll receive XY % in case the company is sold, so technically I wouldn't have a stake in the company & be responsible for the tax stuff
Content is CC-BY-SA, that should make seeding a new platform easy enough. But to get people to move either SO has to fuck up majorly or you have to offer a killer feature.
Yeah, I learnt this the hard way.
There are a lot of large and small ironies at play, but the one that irks me the most is the interrelation between `investment` in the financial sense and `investment` in the dress sense, for the word has its root in the word `vestment` which means `clothing` (https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=investment)

I keep asking myself how startup culture has gone so far off the rails in terms of professional business tropes, even while they court traditional financial backing to the point where the emperor's new clothes scenario is playing out in front of us and we barely even notice? One word: entitlement

Could this fellow have stood a chance if he wasn't so nonchalant with his appearance opting for the messianic playboy look rather than the modest preppy techie?

I'm sure this comment will get downvoted to oblivion but what are imaginary internet points for if not spending on counterculture opinions?

I say the reason this all fell apart is because the guy is simply unlikeable and his shitty entitled-looking Keith Raniere-esque stage presence did nothing to help
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At the point when I would be "run[ning] my own DoH resolver", I'm already at the point of setting up my own resolver. Why wouldn't I just turn on unbound and call it a day?
Battery with a Twist
As another semi-pointless counter-story, I was in SF once at a red light and I noticed a guy jumping out at cars on the road, but not actually moving towards them, just lifting his arms up and flailing.

So, my teenage self decided to teach this guy a lesson. When I started driving towards him, before he could jump at me I turned my car at him and drove right in his direction. It scared him half to death and he jumped backwards.
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 64
Half of America is in lynch mob form ever since 2016. They don't believe in their candidates enough to wait until November. They know this is the only way.
The reality is that is already happening, just that we are literally living on the good will of the companies running these services.
The article seems to suggest that it won’t be possible.

Large companies like JD will buy small automation tech and take it to the barn to shoot it. Guaranteed.

What then?
For me, neither Google nor 64.ms complete the SSL handshake by 64 ms, so I'm not sure which content I'm supposed to be interacting with, assuming my body is physically capable of doing so by that time.

And really, even offline interactive apps have no chance of reacting this fast.

Try opening TextEdit or Mail - they don't even draw the window frame in 64 ms.

Performance is important but normal users only care about it when it's getting in the way of functionality. If we chose our preferences by performance alone, Windows Phone and webOS phones would still be here and Android would be gone, Microsoft Office would be the least popular office suite, and Steam would be the least popular PC game store.
Microsoft was in a far different market position than Apple.
So basically the cloud competitor for Ubuntu, since they marketed Fedora wrong all the time.
16.666...ms (aka 16ms) is 1 complete cycle at 60Hz, the frequency most computer displays operate at. 32ms and 64ms are approximately 2 and 4 cycles respectively.
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I don't know about the video production side, but Pro Tools is fantastic software.
Honestly, this was inevitable. What it makes me wonder long term is who else will be impacted, how it will spread. I can't help but wonder if Musk is next...[0]

[0]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/solarcity-was-in...
POS Developer here. What you describe is a so-called fiscalized POS system (at least in Germany we call them this way, not sure if there's a different English term). These must report the transactions in a cryptographically secured way to a fiscal authority. To do this, there are multiple concepts (of which some include hardware security devices, smart cards or non-erasable storage or similar, and some do rely on software-only solutions) and any country mandating the use of such systems finds a slightly different way in which they want it done.

In addition to this mechanism that allows the fiscal authority to check the transactions on a specific POS for manipulation, fiscal requirements also often mandate much more, such as explicitly registering POS systems with the authority using serial numbers or hardware checksums, mandating the use of specific receipt layouts, or some kind of freeze of viable parts of the POS software which can then not be modified after approved once by the state (you can imagine how much love this kind of regulation gets from developers wanting to work under modern, agile principles...).

However, not all countries mandate such things - many still accept POS systems that basically do nothing to prevent anyone from modifying transactions after the fact (although there is definitely a trend to more strict fiscal requirements globally). These non-fiscalized systems can try to make it hard to modify transactions if they want, and many do, but they cannot make this actually impossible without having some kind of external authority in play, which is why any effort of doing so will amount to some more or less elaborate kind of "security by obscurity".
> This still doesn’t make sense. There are portable systems that do the same, and have fully managed options, such as kubernetes.

The whole value proposition behind AWS is that they can do it better than your business due (directly or indirectly) to economies of scale. I think Kubernetes is super cool, but rebuilding AWS on top of Kubernetes is not cost effective for most companies--they're better off using AWS-managed offerings. Of course, you can mix and match via EKS or similar, but there are lots of gotchas there as well (how do I integrate Kubernetes' permissions model with IAM? how do I get Kubernetes logs into CloudWatch? how do I use CloudWatch to monitor Kubernetes events? etc).
That's definitely a good point. I'll try to update the article to reflect that soon. Thanks for the feedback!
I think you've misperceived PBS and what this effort would be. The funding would be _public_ - as in crowdsourced. If the effort were non-profit like PBS it would be eligible for grants and funding from government(s) but it would not act as a government agency.

I think a good question to ask would be to ask how we insure that governmental intelligence agencies do not have their hooks in the effort.
If oil prices go up renewables become more profitable, BUT they also become more expensive, since energy is a huge component in their cost.

It's pretty much a wash.

Don't expect higher oil prices to spur renewables, it has never happened, and never will. Instead renewables become profitable (and thus popular) when we become more efficient at making and installing them.
Not the government but a non-profit.
"How to Use Apache and Postgres to Serve a High Traffic Website on a 1U Server and Use the Leftover Resources to Host an NFS Server with All Your Pirated Music On It"
> They sell things for less than cost at scale,

God, I love this phrase so much. It's such a brilliant stab at many of these recent unicorns. "Oh you think they can burn money fast, well watch how fast we burn it! We're number one!"
Ask HN: Why do applications log long human readable static strings?
If an application has a definition file for all possible error messages, why don't they include a dictionary file in an application manifest with a 4 digit hex code that maps to a long string?

e.g.

Dogs barking can not fly without umbrellas: 1.1.1.1

could be

db1c: 1.1.1.1

Or if there are multiple variables %s and such, it could be db1c: 1a 1.1.1.1, 1b 1.2.3.4

Does this make debugging too difficult because you have to read the logs through a script that translates the log messages? I recall IBM doing this in the 70's for messages that had to be relayed over modems and satellite, but I don't see applications doing this today.

Why I am asking: Tens of thousands of servers sending the same strings to Splunk translates to tens of millions of dollars in splunk licensing. Even using Elk/Logstash, it translates to a lot of disk storage and IO. Surely this must be a solved problem. It would be easy to put a dictionary file in Splunk to look up the codes.

Codifying the events would also make it easier to translate log events into multiple languages.
question - what do Saudis gain from inflating their production capacity and oil reserves? Do they want to come across as some sort of superpower / critical country based on their reserves -- to continue getting preferential treatment from rich countries?
The point of running your own DoH resolver is that you're doing it somewhere off-network, to tunnel DNS out of an ISP network you don't trust to somewhere else you trust more.

You can also just not run DoH if you trust your network. I'm saying DoH is a good thing, not that everyone has to use it.
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"It was an explicit withdrawal of the legal sanction under which Brussels had governed Europe’s most important country."

Europe's most important country? It seems to me that one could make a strong case for Germany.
Depending on how your environment is configured...

Curl will do one round trip to your resolv.conf configured resolver

Then you have one round trip for tcp.

Then another for TLS hello (presuming TLS 1.3 or false-start)

Then one last round trip for HTTP.

Assuming cached DNS, you need a ping to the server of about 21ms to get content via https in 64ms. And that's assuming you can get enough content for a screens worth in the initial congestion window (10ish packets, so let's say 15kb). Good luck!

Oh, and my DSL connection adds at least 20ms to the path, and that's not unusual.