skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't do it unless you have something deep pulling you in that direction. People fetishize the things. You will grow in industry in other ways. You will see what things look like when the rubber meets the road.
What is the virtual table table?
VCs? No. Definitely not.
There's also the Softbank buys of equity at consistently higher and higher valuations that they themselves were creating.

Matt Stoller wrote a great post about it:

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/wework-and-counterfeit-ca...

"Generally speaking, Softbank’s model is to manipulate private capital markets as a way of drowning out competitors with cash. For instance, there were several ‘rounds’ of WeWork investment where Softbank was buying more shares at higher valuations. WeWork ostensibly became more valuable because Son said it was more valuable, and bought shares for higher prices. And since there was no public market for these shares, the pricing of the shares was totally arbitrary. WeWork then used this cash to underprice competitors in the co-working space market, hoping to be able to profit later once it had a strong market position in real estate subletting or ancillary businesses.

Engaging in such a strategy used to be illegal, and was known as predatory pricing. There are laws, like Robinson-Patman and the Clayton Act, which, if read properly and enforced, prohibit such conduct. The reason is very basic to capitalism. Capitalism works because companies that thrive take a bunch of inputs and create a product that is more valuable than the sum of its parts. That creates additional value, and in such a model companies have to compete by making better goods and services.

What predatory pricing does is to enable competition purely based on access to capital. Someone like Neumann, and Son’s entire model with his Vision Fund, is to take inputs, combine them into products worth less than their cost, and plug up the deficit through the capital markets in hopes of acquiring market power later or of just self-dealing so the losses are placed onto someone else."
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Can you give examples of the peculiarities? I write cpp all day and zig is a nice change for me because of how simple it is to me
I was surprised that wasn't on there. Seems to me more closely allied with the genre than Diamond Age.
Interesting idea!

I haven't thought this through completely, but I think I'd expect the opposite. Gerrymandering works by designing districts in which your opponent wins by huge margins (among other things). Close races can happen for lots of reasons, but they don't generally happen in an situations we recognize as gerrymandered.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/24/softbank-has-a-multi-million...
Not sure why you're downvoted. I don't know that your statement is 100% accurate, but it's not far off the mark, either.

The law in the US is such that a high-profile site that does business in the USA, like SO, is entirely reasonable if it wants to to err on the side of caution on these things. Not all the questions around the DMCA have been settled by the courts, so, no, we can't necessarily say for sure what is legal and illegal. But we can say that volunteering to help everyone to figure this out could be a very expensive proposition.

For example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...
Fatty Liver Disease Caused by High-Alcohol-Producing Klebsiella Pneumoniae
I can't quantify it - but WeWork's scale does give them a bit of an advantage.

I run a small digital agency, as a WeWork member when I'm on the road being able to know I can find and book space for meetings or work is invaluable. We've also spun up offices in new cities (Mexico City for us) easily and quickly with a confidence in the level of service and support that we're getting.

There is a premium for this and we've moved on from those offices sometimes as we settle in. But its not a non-existent advantage.
>On a personal level I think I would have hate him, he was mildly racist and misogynist, kinda of a coward and made apologies for brutal dictatorships

That's the type of trite literary gossip that seldom has anything to do with a man (even if it's true) and their real character.

Given access to thousands of pages of your writings and hundreds of interviews, plus several biographies with contributions from people you've known, people could say most of the same things for you.

Especially if you were born in 1899, and weren't tell in advance the correct 2019-aligned ideologies to support.

>This only shows the apparently forgotten fact that you can separate the work from the person.

I'd separate some inconsequential opinions and diversions from the current mainstream from the person as well. Half of the "high society" in the US in 1930 were in favor of Hitler for example.

And almost all of the "high society" in the South were in favor of slavery or quite racist well after the Civil War...

Yet they could otherwise be very fine people, loyal to their friends, helpful when needed, charitable, and all that...

People can't be judged summarily, nor outside of their times...
This is a really terrible comment. It adds nothing of value and completely misses the point of the parent post apparently just for the sake of weakly transplanting an overused unfunny meme from outside the community.

They're saying that people seem to fail to acknowledge how much our genes determine who we are because it can feel like a scary disconnect from free will.
It takes psychological flexibility to thrive with chronic illness
They have not. They've just graduated to a place where you can't lie: Reddit. On Reddit, everyone is sceptical of the guy who doesn't have a long history of comments. People who've only just joined a subreddit will be viewed sceptically.

You'll get pretty good reviews if you do "XYZ reddit".

The problem for the guy trying to game the reviews is that a real user reviews things too sparsely. There'll be one review in maybe a hundred comments and five submissions.
correction to above: close vote is 3000 points not 250.
Using gravity to fly up as a human with no engine
Official and unofficial documentation, IRC, mailing lists, forums, and source code.
It’s happening even more than you think.

Your fridge is probably running “variable frequency drive”, so instead of being off and on at full blast, it just runs the compressor at 20hz or 30hz or whatever it needs continuously, and dialing that up or down depending on demand.

Your air conditioner too.

For bigger customers, this saves them a fortune in demand charges.

For others, it prolongs life by vastly reducing stop/starts.
Workers Sites: Extending the Workers platform with serverless building blocks
I totally believe it. Debt sucks. Being smart (passed a certain point) sucks. Plus, think of the lock-in, losing friends, etc.

Basically, he sold his soul, and I don't blame him for thinking he's not going to get it back.
Photovoltaic-powered sensors for the “internet of things”
Midwest Startups Beat Silicon Valley at Their Own Game – They Play Moneyball
Theranos didn't go public, for good reason. WeWork OTOH doesn't appear to have committed fraud. On the contrary, they've been extremely forthcoming in their S-1 about how rickety their business model is.
Not to be too pedantic, but WeWork HQ is in New York and is not a tech company (according to general sentiment and investor analysis,) so any attempt to correlate to Silicon Valley trends aren't quite fair nor appropriate.
>(see an aim-9 which is only effective less than 20 nm (really less than that practically speaking)

I would really love to see the actual Probability of Kill numbers for the US missile fleet. I know that's never going to happen/they're going to remain classified for a _long_ time, but the kid in me really wants to know "does it actually work?"
It's actually become simpler and slimmer, with fewer peculiarities!
I do an exercise each day where I try to (for at least 10 minutes) look at very distant objects like the horizon or a tree in the distance. I do this because it relaxes the eye especially if you work with screens all day (which I do).
Picture Perfect Beauty Courtesy AI Makeup Artist
Exactly. For all intents and purposes, you can now target Apple platforms with Vulkan using MoltenVK with a shared codebase. For most people, the fact that custom allocators are ignored would not constitute incomplete coverage of the Vulkan API.
Completely agree. In a just world, we would also name names. I want everyone to know exactly who is pulling the scams.
"if you're looking at something painted vantablack in broad daylight, you only see a silhouette"

If you scroll down the linked page, there is a photo of a vantablack BMW taken with a flashlight and a cell phone, and it simply looks like a dull gray when some light is pointed at it:

https://jalopnik.com/bmw-flexed-on-us-with-its-amazing-paint...

It seems like common sense to me that if you're looking at a picture on the internet that is staged just so, it is trivial to get all the "black" pixels to be exactly zero, but that doesn't tell you much about the quality of the material or how it would look to a person.
> He is "correct" in a way.

Perhaps if the age difference is very small, but see hereunder.

However, there is a good reason why a minor isn't able to sign a (legal) contract. Because they're not an adult. The brains stop growing at around age 25. The body at around age 20 / mid 20 (depends on gender and differs per person). So at age 18, teenagers are still growing up. A teenager is unable to consent to an older adult because the relation isn't equal. The adult (presumably) is grown up. It has the huge potential to create a power vacuum.

Which is why we need to be very careful to protect our minors. Which is why if the age difference is minor, its often tolerated even if it isn't exactly legal. Alas, the law is not perfect, but the lawmakers did did try their best to make the law as far as possible for all parties involved.
Love it— the geological aspect of it is simulated beyond my armchair level of expertise, so I'm generally quite happy with the results.

The political side of the world is pretty well done with simulation in detail, but I'd love to see more nuanced politics, stuff like meaningful civil wars where factions split and inter-fight.

I would love to see more climate modeling in DF as well. Biomes are a great start for climate, but I would really like to see things like the amount of rainfall you get affecting what crops you can grow.
DataOps on Apache Kafka – AWS MSK with Lenses.io
I made something similar but very niche (only for audiobooks).

I think the format works great for a lot of topics.
The Isolator: A helmet that eliminates distractions (1925)
Serenity OS update (September 2019) [video]
Pushing for engineers to code faster may not equate to faster deliverables
Machine learning helps open up new possibilities for quantum devices
Yes we are using Lambda under the hood.

Every customer's custom source or destination is its own Lambda function. This gives us a ton of fine-grained isolation, scalability and visibility out of the box.

We ask customers to implement a single function that converts an incoming webhook to Segment data points:

async function onRequest(request, settings) {
Segment.track(...)
}

Inside the function we save the users code to `handler.js` and inject index.js that loads and calls the users `onRequest` function.
I'll summarize this for anyone who hasn't listened to it.

Don't fuck with the mongols.
Whatever convinced the climatologists that the simulations were right should convince everyone else.
In search of strategy on how to program computers
Researchers uncover privacy flaw in e-passports
Steam isn't subscription revenue AFAIK, mostly just direct sales of games. So they want their own cut of the retail sales commission in effect.
I ignore Amazon reviews, but I do use Amazon. They aren't my first stop, though. I have a hierarchy.

If I can't find what I need at a local store, then I search the web.

If I can't find a website that has what I need and is at least in my country, I hit up Amazon.

If I can't find what I need on Amazon, then I stop by eBay.
Could you follow up with some examples? Seems to contradict the parent but neither comment provides examples.
>Please note that two Democrats in favor of nuclear energy (Corey Booker and Andrew Yang) are among the youngest and smartest in the game. To be fair, the oldest Democrat running for president, Joe Biden, also supports nuclear energy because he is well-informed.

Telling us names of politicians who have policy proposals the author likes tells me that perhaps the real target of this message are adults.
Am I blind or is this lacking a scale?

What do five points constitute? Five out of five, ten, 50?
> Could you define: "Position yourself defensively and react nimbly" means to an IC?

Depends on specifics. Broadly speaking, having been an IC, the lessons I learned the hard way were:

(1) Pay your taxes early and often. Keep your credit and channels open fixed-cost obligations low. (Nimble and defensive.)

(2) Save aggressively. Rule-of-thumb liquidity advice doesn't apply to you; I learned to keep 2 years of cash in Treasuries et cetera. (Defensive.)

(3) If you can't do (2), favor full-time offers, even those with lower face-value economics. (Defensive.)

(4) Don't over-negotiate. (Nimble.)

(5) Don't feel overly committed to your current gig(s). You can keep grabbing drinks with old colleagues from your new job. When the ship goes down, the captain gets commended for going down with it; everyone else just drowns. (Nimble.)
Its incredible that the author would think that they are in a position to discipline the engineer, and not rethink their organizational incentive structure.

The whole point of a company is to maximize the value that it creates and to that end set up an incentive structure to develop and maintain people that are able to create that value which means rewarding them to keep everyones interests aligned.

Using the "company doesn't promote people unless they've worked in a role for a least 3 years" is the biggest pile of shit excuse I see all the time. If zuckerberg can prove that he can provide enough value to be a billionaire by 30, certainly there should be a path to director or CEO regardless of age, within any organization worth its salt, for someone that can provide that same value, without checkboxes for attendance.

Just because you attended the lecture doesn't mean you should be able to prevent someone from getting an A who ditched every lecture but can easily ace the exams.
When it comes to robots, reliability may matter more than reasoning
Better than investing in Chinese communism.
The valuation is from Softbank consistently buying rounds of equity at higher and higher valuations that they themselves were creating.

Softbank bought in, so this is more valuable, so Softbank will buy in again at a higher valuation, so this is more valuable, so Softbank will buy in again at a higher valuation; and round and round it went until we hit ~$40B
The molecular science behind a Larkspur shop’s blueberry ice cream
Ransomware: New file-encrypting attack has links to GandCrab malware
Guilty until proven innocent?

It is on the accuser to make the case.
In California, you can never discriminate against gender or age. Targeting demographic or certain homes for sale of goods is different than targeting individuals for being who they are, i.e. man or woman of a certain age and denying employment based on those factors alone.
Why do you think it is a terrible passage?
I have an SUV, eat meat every day, and fly once a month. I am carbon negative through TerraPass. The solution doesn't need lifestyle change for those who can pay to offset. It needs lifestyle change from the rest.
http://visidata.org
The benefit is of "Pictures Under Glass" is the flexibility - it is extremely easy to change the picture to align to almost any use case. It is extremely difficult to have the same flexible interface with something that is tactile and can manipulate its own shape to be appropriate for the task.
UI design will live for a long, loooong time, because every single customer is basically like "I'm somewhat of an expert myself".

Preventing them from following through on the really bad ideas is the salient part here :)

This holds, AFAICT, for translation too. Yes, you can get the gist via machine translation, for some language pairs. You cannot preserve imagery, intention, subtlety without a human int the loop.

AI is good at looking things up and beats us there. It is entirely insufficient at context & wisdom (and I don't see that changing anytime soon). Sure, the industry might choose to collectively ignore that and jump off a cliff. It's not going to end well, so I hope saner heads prevail.
Can we just start adding a piece to laws that says something like: "if you do something shifty to avoid this law, and we find out, it will be up to the court to decide if you were still breaking it"

I really hate the notion that laws are far more about the word than the intent.
Tepper's "True Game" series is an old favorite of mine. It's a while since I last read it but I don't recall anything remotely resembling computer programming concepts in it.
I think the Otherland series by Tad Williams about VR should be definetely be on the list. And ready player one as well.
Needing multiple parts for a document is one of the older needs on the net (MIME's first RFC was 1992, for instance; though MIME would presumably be a terrible format for static site generators). Frontmatter seems related to HTTP headers, its just interesting to have needs for similar metadata for a file "at rest" as opposed to in transit.

Though HTTP does have an "at rest" relative, the META tag in HTML. Similarly, reStructuredText has always had "Field Lists" and even a history of using the first field list in a file as "frontmatter" and the docutils API even returns it as a separate metadata stream if asked. (Sphinx, for instance, checks for some fields there.) It's maybe just Markdown here that's deficient in having a first-class metadata syntax of its own. (reStructuredText and docutils also have a first-class concept of a document title made available by API to tools but maybe not intended for direct output in rendered contents, which is the number 1 reason for YAML front-matter in most Markdown documents I've seen.)
You didn't offer a solution.

Yes, that's why I called it a rant, not an essay — it describes a problem, not an idea. (And FWIW, that's not the sort of thing I typically publish, or want to.)

The solution isn't known, and I didn't think making stuff up would help.

The point of the rant was that the solution will be discovered through long research, and that research won't happen without an awareness of the problem. My intent was to hopefully coax a few potential researchers and funders into tangible interfaces, dynamic materials, haptics, and related fields that haven't been named yet. If that happens, then mission accomplished.

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
Nation Y is still defending human beings and human territory, so the incentives remain the same.

What's not going to happen is X and Y agreeing to send their drones out into the desert or somewhere away from people to fight things out. War is the external application of a nation's monopoly on force - it just doesn't work unless that force is applied, directly or indirectly, against human beings.
> Speaking of performance, Zig is faster than C.

These kinds of claims make me so dubious for a language. Also who is trying to switch from C to get an ever-so-slightly performance improvement? That use-case goes to specialized hardware such as FPGAs.
Yeah, that's all great. But I don't want to be a part of a relationship where I'm disposed of as soon as I stop being useful.
I've heard the rule that it should be like at least 20 seconds every 20 minutes or so. Of course, it's all just heuristics, though.
So not really any "cheating", right?
> That, and people still buy me Amazon gift cards.

When people give me gift cards of any sort, I just sell them to someone else outright.
"Genres are often defined by what they are not, so here are some honourable mentions:

[...]

Gibson’s Neuromancer sets the tone for a vast quantity of cyberpunk in its dealings with AI and simulation, though I don’t feel this alone qualifies it."
But a business can just as easily pay for fake negative reviews of competitors.
Most identical twins have very similar upbringings and share a lot of genetic code.
Historically most nurses were related to war, men fight war and thus become nurses. Even in the modern military you learn how to apply bandages, identify different kinds of wounds and how to treat them etc to keep your mates alive even in the modern military, so you could call everyone in the army a "nurse". But of course they are not modern nurses, the profession changed over time from mostly patching up people after fights to mostly treating diseases as our understanding of diseases improved.

The same thing with programming, women were dominant when it was mostly low level computations, but more and more men joined the field as computers grew more powerful and people saw the breadth of programs you could create. So the job changed, early it was more about maths and algorithms, and then we added more and more engineering tasks on top and people started to create huge programs which doesn't resemble math at all. So the gender balance of programmers shifted from the relatively equal applied math field to the extremely male dominated field of engineering. You can look it up, STEM without E has a very balanced gender ratio, while E tend to have above 80% men.
I came here to recommend Adolescence of P1.

It was many years ago I read it and I wasn't sure how it would stand up on a reread, but the fact that it has left a strong impression speaks well for it.

1970s depiction of an AI arising from whatever passed for the Internet back then.

As someone points out in the reviews here, this predates more famous depictions on similar subjects, like Wargames.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1414021.The_Adolescence_...
sorry dang, and thanks.
This might have issues. It wasn't well received in infosec Twitter where famed researcher @notdan gave out about the VPN potentially leaking your real IP through a http header

https://twitter.com/notdan/status/1178339685795598336

https://twitter.com/notdan/status/1178388380918439944

https://twitter.com/notdan/status/1178405386585608193
He's been working on https://dynamicland.org/ since that time.

So there you go.
I see. Do you think there would be value in having someone just manually writing some interim docs (perhaps as a wiki) until the time when it can be properly generated?

This may seem like a weird place to draw experience from, but in my early days of programming, I've found the PHP docs extremely helpful largely thanks to community comments sections giving examples of how to do various things. Just some food for thought.
> he could make everybody (not just women) "feel uncomfortable around him" in some ways

I had a colleague tell he won't invite X (a local celebrity with a lot of similarity in character with RMS) to our team because he "always feels like a fool when X is around".