skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a company is public there are short positions to be played and this is definitely 'value creating' - in the exact same manner that all financial activity is 'value creating' on some level.

It was not a 'bubble that burst' on WW, so much as it was a misunderstanding of the public's appetite for risk. There is a company there. WW is not being wiped out. Softbank may very well recover their 'losses' and then some.

It's a misunderstanding of the nature of risk and the need for some companies to take in 'fuel' that makes grasping what happened with WW a little more difficult. Also - because we love to hate on people that make 'koolaid that's just a bit to strong' - while at the same time adore those who make 'just strong enough' koolaid ... there's an element of populism going on here. Amazon's retail business has never made a dime - though there are obviously some powerful fundamentals there, it can't really be ignored, and yet, we keep Bezos very, very rich in terms of valuation.

My prediction is that in the long run, WW will be a succesfull company, it will make Softbank money, and that Newman's $1B take, in retrospect (if that's all he got) will seem on par with most startups that made it big. And I say this as someone who really doesn't like the guy, at least from what information there is publicly.
This isn't strange or abnormal in normal business, it is just newer for tech staff. I have seen this a lot in marketing and executive employment agreements. It is basically so companies don't get sued for showing pictures of you on their website or in their marketing info etc. Generally it is for two things, 1 to be able to use your image, and 2 to say you have already been compensated for any use of your likeness.

Honestly, I think you should be glad this company is being up front about it and not doing what most startups do which is use all that without ever asking your permission or telling you what they might use.

If later something changes for you personally, you can send a cease and desist letter to prevent them from using your likeness in the future. IANAL but you do have rights to control the usage of your likeness and bio for future use, you couldn't stop prior usages or force them to recall marketing brochures, but you could prevent them from using your likeness on future material (digital or print) if you sent the C&D.
Unless that company is well-noted for their malice.
Yes very nice place. You could say it’s lost some of its charm or that its greatly improved.

Originally from there and would love to go back but it’s prohibitively expensive, even for software developers!
I guess this is what Intel has to do at this point.
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The MAC randomization only applies to probes it sends for known networks when not connected. Once you are connected, it uses the real MAC.

iPhone also still sends the device name to the DHCP server when requesting an IP, so if you haven't changed it, it is broadcasting "<Your first name>'s iPhone" to the network.
FotoForensics
This was already posted here some months ago.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker+news+crdt
> This is also interesting. He didn't start at Bucca:

That's also a way to not mention the fact that he also served time in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison around the same time the reports on the on-going torture there were finalized.

As such there's a very good chance he not only witnessed but also experienced that [0] kind of torture, just like neither Abu Ghraib, nor Bucca were exceptions during that time [1].

In that context, it wasn't just a random coincidence how ISIS paraded their prisoners around in "horrible orange suits", as Trump put it, completely missing the reference [2], like many US Americans.

[0] http://100photos.time.com/photos/sergeant-ivan-frederick-hoo... (NSFW)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_prison_abuse_scandals

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detainee_unifor...
Story on Canterbury Tales, puzzles, squared squares, circuits, and Lorenz cipher
Will airlines go multi-supplier again or will they specialize in particular manufacturers? The cost to an airline to keep certified personnel on staff capable of supporting planes from different manufacturers is probably greater than the unit savings they could realize in a situation where price competition exists ...
Some tech-y channels I like:

TechLead (always respect the tech lead): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xKdmAXFh4ACyhpiQ_3qBw

Joma Tech: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV0qA-eDDICsRR9rPcnG7tw

Chris Jereza: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPrRsdgsxOmzr9ykAf7tlDw
Because VSCode is an electron app, meaning that it probably relies on Chromium-only features that they have to find workarounds for in Firefox before things like keyboard shortcuts work. Keyboard shortcuts are probably important to people that want to transition to this, so instead of saying "Firefox works, but not nearly as well as Chrome", they said "Firefox doesn't work, but we're working on it to make sure it works as well as Chrome".

Also, the next major version of Windows will ship with a Chromium-based browser by default, so they probably didn't care about prioritizing it as much as making sure Chrome worked.
Its probably true, just cherry picked.

Currently healthcare will be 52trill over ten years

Warrens plan from two estimates is 52-59 trill over ten years.

Billionaire thing seems wrong. Forbes 400 richest americans has 2.96 trillion total between them. Lowest person on the list has networth of 2.8 bill
did they lay off people? I dont give a toss about investors who don't even know what they 're investing in.
I still have one of the original Apollo/Domain (DN300?) motherboards. It has two Motorola MC68000L8 chips on it. It was explained to me that Apollo found they needed both of them to make virtual memory work. 32 bit data width, 16 bit data bus.
x86-64 actually requires that every memory access occur with a "canonical" address, specifically to ensure that everything will be "64-bit clean". That is, even though virtual address space in some cases may be limited to 48 or 56 bits the actual address has to be sign-extended to 64 bits, so everything is "clean".

"Abusing" unused address bits is then just a matter of ensuring that any virtual addresses you use are restricted to the appropriate range. "x32" binaries do this in order to ensure that any pointers will fit within 32 bits even on x86-64, for example.
i suspect the choice of GPLv3 was not well informed, given the nature of the code in question.
I've found AntD's table to be able to do all these things.

There are some gotchas with column widths when using horizontal scrolling with fixed header and fixed column(s), but it works.
This comment stood out:

"It also manages a staff that receives more than $1 billion in salary, $230 million of which is for its roughly 1,350 instructional staff and faculty, according to federal data for 2017-18. Producing and employing Nobel laureates does not come cheap."

In other words, only 25% of expense is for instructional staff and faculty, while 75% is not. I'd love to know how much of the $750M salary goes to administrative execs who don't actual do anything.
I was at Groupon at IPO. IPO’d at $20. Dropped to $3.50 by the time lockup ended. I sold because I needed the cash. 7 years later, it’s trading at $2.90. The market isn’t perfect, but shenanigans with private company valuations are usually worse.

Take granto’s advice.
Popular Local News Sites in the US and Canada Are Fake
Yes. I am actually looking into this idea. I thought instead of recurrent yolo, Correlation Filter is much simpler.

I was referring the following papers:

1. https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/baug/igp/p...

2. https://zpascal.net/cvpr2018/He_A_Twofold_Siamese_CVPR_2018_...

3. http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ECCV_2018/papers/Yunhua...
A New Strain of HIV Is Recorded Under Group That Caused Pandemic
Uber is not buying cars and transporting people, Uber is a technologic middle man, a tech tool.

AirBnB is not buying houses to rent, it's a web middleman.

Amazon does sell stuff directly, so it's retail not tech.

All these 3 companies are well categorized, WeWork is not, WeWork buys properties to rent, it's just that, nothing that Regus isn't.
I very much doubt it's 20'000 EUR for GPs. It's likely much lower, because what you are citing includes data for surgeons, dermatologists, ophtalmologists, etc. who all are much higher priority targets for pharma marketing.
There is an air of paranoia unique to the UK with these things. Not sure I have ever seen an anti-ramming device outside a few poles out fron of pawn and liquor shops in especially bad areas. Is the situation that bad to warrant what seem like military barriers? I am at a loss.
Yes, like these libraries. Think, for example, sharding, where you run lots of database instances per disk, this requires strictly bounded memory usage and no background operations. Or running on a disk full of bad blocks with constant retries.
This is very impressive! Is the world just flat or is it a full 3D sphere?
OP here. Humaans is a smart employee database, aka an "HR app". We're building it with the goal of making it a joy to use for both the People Ops teams and all of the employees within a company. HR tools from our experience are generally lacking the polish we expect from many modern tools we use day to day.

We're focusing on making it beautiful, as straightforward and as efficient as possible, really fast, remote and distributed team friendly and useful in all sorts of small ways. For example, you can see the local time of your remote colleagues in the directory or their profile. Hovering over your time off balance shows you the breakdown of how it's calculated - days accrued, booked upcoming days, booked past days, carry over - so you know exactly what's going on. The "filter by anything" search lets you find an individual or people from some team or city quickly, and so on.

It's built using Node.js/Postgres and React.js as the key tech. The API and UI are fully realtime since the backend is powered by Feathers.js (https://feathersjs.com/).

Feel free to try it out – it takes only 2 minutes to sign up. Feedback is welcome. Also interested in what you'd like to see in a tool like this. The HR space is quite broad with a lot of interesting tools popping up and we're still exploring the ways we could have the most impact to help businesses be more efficient.
>No effort to make other chips perform eiher better or worse is expended.

This is not true. Intel compilers cripple non-intel CPUs on purpose, they generate code that literally checks whether CPUID is equal to "GenuineIntel" and if it isn't, it executes the less optimized code path[1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_C%2B%2B_Compiler#Recepti...
It‘s worth noting that ASCE has an incentive to parrot out bad infrastructure reports, since the employment of their members can be boosted by big pushes to repair „bad“ infrastructure.

A few years ago Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns pointed out that the ASCE was asking to invest more in roads than the economic benefits that would be realized from them, even according to ASCE‘s numbers. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/3/12/revisiting-the...
sups? :)
These are a great idea, I not sure how the plastic will look after a few years of service. Maybe they are designed to have the plastic replaced after they get scuffed, burned and cracked by people walking by them?

Just a thought but I wonder if liquid filled , haywire wrapped bollards might be a better idea, the liquid can be drained to allow easy relocation and the haywire would tangle the wheels similar to how chainsaw saftey chaps work.
Show HN: I created a more fun way to screen developers at our company
Same here - for a newcomer to C/C++ looking to play with a 3D engine, I found Irrlicht way easier to get started with. And I seem to remember Ogre had some kind of weird pre-compile step that made working with it far harder, and put me off completely.
I believe the new ordinance restricts short-term rentals to owner-occupied units. So you would have to own the apartment.
DNS could be DesoxyriboNukleinSäure which would be the german word for DNA.
The title and content of the post implies that we should regard private censorship with the same concern as we do government censorship, regardless of the current legal framework. Which I don't necessarily disagree with. In fact, I think most people here are on the same page of: it sucks big time when a company like Facebook can unilaterally decide that the famous Napalm Girl photo should not be displayed.

So where's the argument? Where's the discussion? Forgive me, but I don't find the above assertion interesting to discuss when virtually everyone agrees with it. The actual topic of interest is: how can we prevent Facebook from making such decisions over its own platform?

That's a pretty big question with a lot of angles. So I chose, for the sake of argument, to focus on what the parent commenter highlighted, because its specious premise raises issues with the author's overall premise:

> For instance, if you’re a journalist and you want to promote your work, there is simply no viable alternative to Twitter at the moment. No other microblogging platform comes even close to having the number of users Twitter does, and most of the alternatives are hotbeds of extremism, so that anyone who joins them is thereby disqualified in polite company.

In the history of our society there has never been free or equal channels of promotion, i.e. advertising or being featured in mainstream media. It has always been the case that if you didn't pay, or otherwise get noticed by mainstream media, you were unheard and/or considered to be part of a "hotbed of extremism".

So I ask of the author (and those who agree with him), if you want to argue that Facebook/Twitter should be compelled to not censor, then what sense does it make to assert people (journalists are not) have a right (legal or moral) to have their self-promotion be noticed, when that precedent does not exist? Moreover, it's just a flawed premise because I can think of journalists big (e.g. at the NYT) and small (e.g. former students of mine) who have paid careers in journalism without being active on Twitter. I contend that this is not just quibbling over minor facts, but an example of how the author's argument only makes sense by ignoring details of how the world actually works.

What does this one point have to do with the article's overall premise? He wants our society to change in a significant way, but he neither accepts the legal consequences that would follow, nor proposes an alternative framework that would be feasible. I don't disagree with that Big Tech Censorship is of huge concern. But I believe that if we want to change this status quo, we'd have to agree to give the government greater powers to regulate private industry and wealth individuals. The author doesn't want to grant this, rendering this entire discussion to be an inane impotent exercise.
That's not to deny the possibility of both. :)
I think what simonh is saying is that the employees knew what WeWork was. (They were the ones who created the spreadsheets and charts that outlined what was going on and presented it all to the investors in several separate acts of galling transparency.) The investors knew what WeWork was. All of that data was, again, transparent to the point of insult. Contractors may not have known, but certainly had access to the same information everyone else had and could have known had they actually reviewed the information.

I think the guy is a piece of excrement, probably simonh thinks he's a piece of excrement as well. However, he did what he did out in the open. He just did it with jaw dropping temerity. No one participating in this whole affair can claim to have been victimized. He asked for all of them to consent to the insane, and they gave him what he wanted, hearty consent.

It's a cautionary tale to me, of how greed can blind what are normally relatively intelligent people. Don't let greed blind you when evaluating startups.
Is this legal? Illegal? This is wild.
Tips and Tricks from My Linux Experience
> If people lose confidence in the system because of that it’s because they can’t multiply. Elizabeth Warren’s new health plan will cost $50 trillion over ten years. Middle class Americans make $8 trillion a year, compared to about $130 billion for America’s billionaires.

To anyone who might take this as an indication Warren's plan will increase HC spending, if we do nothing average yearly HC spending for the 2020s in the US is going to be over 5T anyway. It was at ~3.65T last year, and growing fast.
I agree. Could we imagine Memento being made today?
Correct. ~$2 billion dollar fraud - collective shrug. Stealing a $7 toothbrush (while being the wrong color) - prison.
That made my day..
It's an interesting point. If drivers are employees, I'd call them a transportation company. If they aren't, I'd call them a tech company. Analogous logic for Airbnb. But it seems like too subtle a distinction to be reasonable. More likely, "tech company" just isn't a super useful label anymore, with the grey area growing and growing.
After trying the Mark Text demo (very nice), I got very curious about the editor control and how I could integrate it into something I am thinking about working on.

It looks like the editor is called Muya: https://github.com/marktext/muya

And according to this issue: https://github.com/marktext/muya/issues/6

The best way to get access to the latest version of the control is to use the source here: https://github.com/marktext/marktext/tree/develop/src/muya
The chips should be considered defective and "not as advertised" without spectre and meltdown in place.

They fucked up, and are trying to pawn the slowdowns as some sort of Faustian choice.
You're an American agent in Moscow. They can easily get a real sample of your DNA and run a match. Now they know your real relatives. How do you fake this?

Even if the CIA create a complete web of fake identities in the DNA database, how do you stop a real relative uploading their DNA?
> "scent jars"

Have a look at this scene from the fantastic film "The Lives of Others": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkRxvEjprBM
If you're interested in a tech-focused zine which is also online, check out https://lainzine.org. It's good – really well made, lots of cool Hacker™ content.

If you want to see a digital analogue to "I just started photocopying these in my basement and the binding is all off but here you go anyway" you can check out my zine, https://freezine.xyz.
Ask HN: DNS naming conventions for cloud environments
- What sort of naming conventions do you use for your cloud environments?

- How do names correlate to environment (dev, staging, prod, etc), region (us-west-2, etc) and so on?

- How do you scope non-prod environment sub domains to reduce collision with business/product subdomains (e.g. marketing might want to use stage.example.com)?

For example:

- staging.example.com points to a load balancer for staging workloads

- the request is routed to us-west-2.staging.example.com via a geolocation routing policy (closest region to the user)

- us-west-2.staging.example.com load balancer proxies the request to the backend workload(s)
They wouldn't have an answer to AMD untill 2021: https://newsroom.intel.com/news/2019-intel-investor-meeting/...

Ps. Long AMD, perfect execution the last two years. It's crazy, even their late firmware fixes improve performance as it had bad press for a moment for false benchmarks advertisement ( it was not false so it seems, the firmware was just not ok yet. Not everything is fully ok now, it's the only minor nitpick as far as I can tell )

And they are only just now starting in the server space and soon the laptop + graphics space. They are going mainstream ( OEM offering is still lacking, Microsoft Surface changed this) AND they still customize their superior offering for big customers.

In the contrary, Intel has a lot of failures the last 2 years. Spectre, meltdown, ... This isn't bad luck anymore, it's more like bad karma if you are religious.

If you think I'm opinionated. Just check /r/AMD vs. /r/Intel . AMD is even suggested in the Intel threat, lol
There's also the PATH which is a subway that goes straight into Manhattan from Jersey City.
as a joke i got a shirt with left-pad's source printed on it.

#neverforget
I've long wondered how autonomous vehicles could ever work in the UK, and mostly because there are lots of driving situations I encounter where you have to force your way out or twist the rules to make any sort of progress.

Now we can add pedestrians to that which in the UK is a tricky topic since pedestrians have right of way if they're already crossing a side street you're turning into. Even an astute driver can run into trouble here and has to be extremely aware of pedestrian movement.
> weak currency is advantageous for an economy

Some nuance please... Your fallacious point of view is pushed by certain lobbying groups because a weak currency is

- horribly harmful to inhabitants' living standards (how many days of disposable income does it take a developer to buy an iPhone in the UK vs in the US? About three times as many.)

- very helpful to the shareholders of exporting companies (cheap labor and high profit margins)
No no no, they mean things that confirm their biases.
For anyone more deeply interested in this topic I recommend to read this blog post from Archagon. It describes the different alternatives (OT, CmRDT, CvRDT, diff sync) for writing a collaborative editor. And unlike academic papers it is written in a format how a programmer does research and thinks about a problem in real life, so it's very natural to follow, even if it's long and complex.

http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/

(I am not affiliated in any way, just enjoyed it very much)
I would consider it far from ‘polite company’.
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That's how it works for something like a network card, but on smartphones, MAC addresses from the device vendor (Apple, Huawei, Xiamo, Motorola, ..) are used, even if the WiFi chip on all those devices is from the same manufacturer.
Can we focus on the actual product. I feel like this discussion comes up every time and it's not interesting.

And yes, Electron isn't simple. No one cares. The product itself is simple to use (presumably). When they said simple, they were not referring to implementation details.
An interesting problem is how much interface mismatch you get when you try to solve real-life problems using CRDTs.

Awhile back I implemented the "become a connection" logic for a project that has purely CRDTs datatypes, and I kind of went back and forth between composing well known CRDTs to model all the possible state, or just implementing the solution as a finite state machine whose CRDT-ability had to be reasoned for this particular purpose. Ending doing the second.

Got the intuition that this is a very nice way to think about distributed software but the right abstractions may not be in place just yet.
Multiple people have mentioned it, and you're not responding to it: There is WordPad, separate from Notepad, that seems to be what you're looking for.
YouTuber account stolen by fake software vendor sponsor and being sold publicly
> did they lay people off?

They will as soon as they have enough cash to pay severance: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/03/wework-layoffs/
You get a Linux (with windows "soon") box in your environment, and all of your code comes in to it and is executed there. You have root. What tools can you not run from within the container? (especially considering that if you really needed to, you could set your local workstation as another environment and move files in between, although at that point why do you need a online IDE (except for conf. management).