skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the problems we encounter when comparing companies and their product/service offerings is when we compare a self-sufficient business to a venture that is subsidizing its offering with investment capital.

Uber was amazing in the early days, the cars were better than taxis, I remember getting driven around in a Mercedes and not having to pay a premium for the nicer car. And there were cars always available, because the drivers were getting good money for every ride.

It turns out that these nicer features weren’t a consequence of software and maps and efficiently matching rides with cars, it was as simple as raising billions of dollars, and running the business at a loss.

I suggest it’s the same with WeWork. Their nicer offices weren’t a question of vision or aesthetic taste or efficiencies from technology. They were nothing more than spending Softbank’s billions of dollars and running at a loss.

I accept that you feel they were offering a higher-quality experience, but we have to come to grips with the fact that it was an illusion. They were never going to magically reach enough scale that they could break even or make money offering that service at that price to that “demographic” of customer.

I feel like WeWork is in some way in a worse situation than Uber, DoorDash, and other “gig economy” businesses. Those businesses can squeeze their employees (that they classify as independent contractors in order to maximize the misery they can inflict).

Who can WeWork squeeze? Nobody. The gig economy is nothing more than rolling back any and all protections for workers, but dressing it up as technological progress.

What is WeWork’s story? There’s nobody to squeeze, no regulations to flout in order to cut costs. There’s no inefficiency that iPads and WiFi and digital services get rid of.

So naturally, now that the money hose has been turned off, the squeeze is on WeWork and its customers.
Stephen Wolfram’s Quest for Productivity
Sudo isn't new code in any sense. "Rewrite the world in memory safe languages" is appealing if you completely discount the time and cost required to do so.
> because they have once [0] lied is a little extreme

But it is not that they have once lied that it is a problem. It is instead, that just right now, a couple weeks ago, china was arresting journalists for this stuff.

If you want to say that we should ignore bad behavior from 20 years ago, because it is no longer relevant, thats fine. But we are not talking about stuff from 20 years ago. We are instead talking about behavior that china does all the time, right now.
I agree that non native speakers shouldn't use those words, just because understanding the peculiarities of when it is appropriate is quite difficult.

But those words are, broadly speaking, perfectly acceptable in many situations. Two 20-something or 30-something friends will use "ouais" (and "yeah"), "putain" (and "fuck" or "damn") and even potentially "cette meuf" (and "that dude") without any issue. You wouldn't use those in professional settings in French or in English.
Everyone thought the USSR economy was awesome and everyone thought the ussr was competent. Authoritarians are always shit, china is shit today and its collapse is inevitable.
Keep in mind, this is a self-selected group of people. There could be 10x more asymptomatic, or low impact cases who thought they had the flu, but didn't feel bad enough to go to the hospital. Imagine if I tried to capture the survival rate of the flu, but chose my population of patients from the ICU. Would the numbers be right?

I think this is born out by the really small number of children showing up in the mortality numbers. Proportionally, kids usually over-represent transmission, I think, from kid-level hygiene and being crowded into small classrooms. They seem under-represented in the study population, which makes me think there could be a lot of selection bias being captured.

Additionally, the standard for recovery is really high and is built in a way that it will severely lag deaths (which have no waiting period). I think it was something like total clearance of the virus, not "feels good, now surfs reddit all day."
I wouldn't have come up with a brand if I was only planning on making a single product!
This sort of comment section you are commenting about is par for the course. Check out n-gate.com for some back-to-earth commentary on it all.
But on the other hand, you're already wearing body armour, so what's a little explosion? Little explosions come out the back of your rifle every minute. (LiPo batteries really don't deflagrate violently, even when shot. They just burn.)
The Graying of the American Economy Is on Display in Iowa
not in medicine / physics, but wouldn't they still reduce airflow and so, while not entirely blocking things, still reduce dispersal / inhalation range?

agree people should not deceive themselves, however.
The headline is the exact opposite:

> Huawei says it would return to using Google services if US lifted ban
To be clear, I was only involved in 2006-12 time period. I got a lot of use out of TP 6 and Delphi 2 when I was learning, which is a significant part of the reason I ended up at Borland.
Zuckerberg says Facebook's new approach 'is going to piss off a lot of people'
Only real bug that annoys me in Catalina is the OS switching around the external screens when I dock my MacBook. I have 2 monitors connected, and almost every morning, after docking, I have to go into System Preferences and drag them around. Very annoying, but it's a bug that's been there for years.
Good considerations. Thanks.
Providing up to date news about an epidemic is one of the most valuable services of the media. Calling this type of news 'clickbait' is quite bizarre in my opinion. The sources I've been reading haven't been sensationalistic.
The T420 was the last "IBM-feeling" ThinkPad in terms of design, while the T430 was the last competent machine of that generation, only having a few drawbacks while adding many benefits over its predecessor.

The similar thing happened again with the T470 and T480; the T470 is a fantastic machine when it comes to overall build, and the T480 has a few downsides but adds a much-needed spec increase (WQHD panels, 4-core CPUs) without too much drawback.

The T490 was a complete revamp and seriously sacrifices everything that made the T series respectable.
> I mean it’s not like a viral epidemic can’t originate from other countries.

In authoritative countries the messenger of bad news tends to be 'disciplined', and so bad news is not delivered. It still exists, but no one wants to be the individual that creates the (negative) feedback loop that may be contrary to the diktat that came down from on high.

Of course hiding bad news happens in less authoritative countries as well (being the "tall poppy", Law of Jante, 「出る杭は打たれる」), but the consequences may be less severe.

There was all sorts of secrecy with SARS many years ago, and it seems that China has still not completely broken that 'habit':

* https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/early-missteps-and-stat...
There's something to be said for getting news from a source that isn't just trying to maximize eyeballs by optimizing/tweaking headlines and clicks (click optimization), but I'm not sure you're going to get anything much less biased.
Huw Collingbourne shifted the needle on a lot of young UK & Ireland programmers, IMO.
Solutions to Solve the Mess of Time Zones
The GoLocateMe QR wristband can provide all necessary data; name, age, medical restrictions, and guardian’s contact details.
Scanning the GoLocateMe QR will also track the location of the scanner (and the lost subject) and automatically notify the guardians by SMS and email.
Simply fill out the details, print and cut out the QR, and you're ready to go with much more peace of mind, knowing that in case of need, you and your loved one will soon be reunited, with the help of others.

What do you think, is it something you will use?
"Je m'en zef" is a more popular way of saying so (even if 'zef' is mostly used for slang on other contexts)
MacOS app, clickable link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lists-for-trello/id940239558?l...
It's interesting to see the American side of the story: "offensive comparison of the US to the USSR"

I grew up during the fall of the Iron Curtain in an Eastern European country, building Russian Spectrum (Z80) clones for the bloc, the USSR had positive and negative impacts in our lives. I still live in the apartment that I received during the communist era through my work.

However the intervention of the Americans through CIA operations, after the fall of the Iron Courtain, were mostly negative, and we're still suffering because of them.

Not everything is black or white in life and the story is much more complicated than the "Russia bad" the media portrays in America. But I guess each one of us is a victim of a propaganda machine.
>I always found at least a medium-severity bug
>Guess how many of those codebases were written in C? Zero.

So, based on those two comments, you have zero data (anecdotal or other) comparing the rate of bugs in C programs versus other languages since you didn't test any C programs.

Code security is not about eliminating bugs but about lowering the rate they show up at since things always get through and money/time is finite. Pen testing doesn't catch everything and many projects that have been tested still yield bugs. There's also a limit to how much money can be spent on testing so using it find (and document, review, etc.) low hanging bugs due to using C means you're more likely to miss a deeper bug.

Or in other words, spending the same effort to pen test a safe language will leave fewer bugs left over than spending it to pen test an unsafe language. So using an unsafe language is still worse.
>* There's no way to optimize for minimizing left turns, especially onto busy streets.

Waze has precisely this option.
Edward Snowden Sets the Record Straight
You've probably been added now, as of some time in the past couple of days or so.
The Super Bowl Is Problematic. Why Can’t We Look Away?
I don't know if it meets all your criteria, but you might look at imgui, specifically cimgui which is just the autogenerated c-api wrapper for imgui.

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
https://github.com/cimgui/cimgui
But I think WeWork can grow the market.

Before I'd never consider going to a co-working space. Might as well go and sit in a grotty cupboard. Now I'm inspired to give it a go.
Just ask. It's harder for some than you might think. Don't over think it. Ask for what you want, be direct, be sincere, and line up alternatives if you need to walk away.
The problem is that, as far as the currently available information shows, at first the Party tried to keep things quiet, until they just couldn't.

I have a hard time imagninig something like this happening in many Western countries. It might happen, but in my view it's far more unlikely.
Chrome as a Service, in a Docker Container
Why is it a bad habit? I thought "ouais" was just like "yeah". Is it an urban/rural dialect difference?
Just thinking numbers, there might be 100 free software projects that you'd consider "security related", and each might take a couple person-years of development time to port on average. If you put a ballpark salary of $50k to that time, that's around $100,000*100 = $10M. And that's a conservative estimate because each of those factors are probably too low.
At least Obama reported the number of casualties of drone strikes, a rule which the current president got rid of via an executive order.
I feel the reason Regus is only growing at 5% per year being because of their insistence on charging occupants more than they rent the space for probably matters here...
Shouldn't it have (2017) in title?
Leave a job that doesn't make you happy
Amateur radio skills prove useful during bushfire emergencies
Yep, one of the first things I did after OpenBSD switched was:

alias sudo='doas'

It's tough to remember to type 'doas' instead of 'sudo', especially when you use both Linux and OpenBSD all the time (which is why I also have a "doas" alias on my Linux hosts!).
> With IE 6’s dominance, it was as if the entire Web was frozen in time.

Hello Chrome. This is why I use Firefox.

> The W3C’s solution was XML, because their solution to fucking everything in the early 2000s was XML.

Ha! Man, got that right for sure. XML/JSX is one reason I just chose to avoid React Native in favor of Flutter, I’ve this avoided XML and would like to keep that streak going.
Annex K has never been non-optional. No one has ever implemented a full compliant Annex K, and it's a terrible abstraction. It predates basic static analysis and suffers from more or less the same problems as non-Annex K variants. E.g., if you pass in the wrong buffer length to the K variant, you still get buffer overflows. How do you tell if the wrong length is passed? Static analysis. The same analyzers work with existing libc functions. I do think C or at least POSIX should have adopted strlcpy and strlcat, though; strncpy doesn't do what most people think it does.

Source, and more info: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1967.htm
> I have been unpleasantly surprised by how much people struggle to understand this simple concept. Recovered / (recovered+death) is how you do it.

The mistake that you are making in your "simple math equation" is as follows. It is easier to count the number of deaths than it is to count the number of recovered. This messes up your math.

If you miscount a large amount on your recovered numbers, then this will make the death rate look worse than it actually is.
By "our government" do you just mean the Federal government? Or do you mean all levels of government? The mayor of New Orleans had parking lots full of empty school buses and claimed he had no way to evacuate citizens. The governor of Louisiana whined and wrung her hands instead of doing anything. The Federal response was far from perfect but it was much more effective than the state or local response.
History catching up to today's security environment.

This is also how permissions and APIs evolve over time. Apple (and hopefully other OSes) is likely working on a global hotkey hook system, that has a less intrusive permission requirement. Unfortunately it will take YEARs before applications in general start using that.

And this is Absolutely the correct thing for the OS to do.
Users flagged it. That is probably some combination of (1) the title being baity and/or misleading, (2) the topic having had many thorough discussions in the past, and (3) some people's feelings about the publication.
If you're truncating/dropping tables all the the time, it can actually be beneficial to set shared_buffers to a pretty small value. When dropping/truncating, postgres needs to scan the buffer cache to get rid of all entries belonging to that relation (happens at the end of the transaction). The mapping is a hashtable, so there's no ordered scan to do so in a nice way.

Also, do the truncations all in a single transaction. Since the actual dropping/truncations only happens after commit (for obvious reasons), we've at least optimized multiple truncations to happen in one pass.

It's unfortunate that a larger shared buffers can hurt this way :(

I've long hoped to find the cycles to finish a prototype that converted the buffer mapping to a hash table (for relations) over radix trees (or blocks in the relation).
Actually, there is a whole class of face masks that "work". N95, N99 and N100 are statistically effective against 95%, 99% and 100% of dust particles, respectively. Assuming proper fit.

Then you have P95, P99 and P100 that look exactly the same but also work against oil-based aerosols (e.g. if you're spraying paint). These are frequently what you get from a hardware store.

Now all these are actually filtration efficiency classes. So you can get a P100 mask that looks like this [1] or one that looks like this [2]. Obviously [2] gives better protection, even though they are the same class.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/3M-P100-Disposable-Particulate-Respir...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/3M-Respirator-Reusable-Particulate-Re...

For the big full face or half face respirators, you can also get rectangular multi-gas filters (e.g. for organic vapors, acid gases etc) that you can also get pink rectangular aerosol filters for.

Edit: forgot to mention that all these are US NIOSH class numbers. In Europe you'll find mostly-equivalent ratings to P95/P99/P100 specified as P1/P2/P3 (or FFP1 etc.).
I feel like there's room for a couple of hobbyists to design and manufacture niche mods, as you've suggested. We've already seen it take off with Nitrocaster, and I think there's still room for a few more.

My hope with ThinkMods is that I can offset the overall cost of the brand by having a number of different mods; creating a store where you might pay slightly more than Aliexpress knockoffs, but you get a reliable mod shipped quickly to your door without worrying about returns, or if it'll even work.

I also want to be the first to design new mods. There will only be Aliexpress knock-offs of existing mods. ThinkMods will always have the newest and most innovative, with the service to back it up - and I will always do my best to keep costs down.
What would you say are some staples in men's fashion? Grey crewneck?
There's also a new class of drivers, the new SUV owners. Most of them seemed to have bought it for safety and are still driving overly slowly no matter what.
I would just like to point out that this is exactly, almost word for word and certainly in spirit, how anti-Americanism is expressed e.g. in Europe (where I grew up, born 1982).

It's crossing a line where one's ethnocentrism paints the other not just as "different" but fundamentally "lesser": e.g. many Europeans consider the USA to be "ethically behind" comparably rich countries for its arguable lack of reverence for human life (comparative differences like death penalty, no generalized health care, weak labor and family protection, a certain love for the harshness of capitalism, scientifically flawed sex ed, etc). From this view to qualifying the "lesser" as "evil", there is but one step that some don't hesitate to cross.

It's always been somewhat painful to me, because knowing both sides of the pond, culturally, I just know that the grass isn't that much greener on either side; it's really a matter of perpective, and Europe also has ethically grey values (think history, think apathy).

So today, whenever I hear a blanket qualification of 1.5 billion people (or their regime), especially in absolute terms like "evil", I roll my eyes first, and then I'm afraid. Dehumanizing others, believing that they're lesser than us, is but the first step down a very dark path.

Don't forget that for all our cultural differences, you might be closer genetically to a Chinese person of the other gender than you are with your own neighbor who otherwise looks and thinks just like you.
How would you write an application that uses global shortcuts in Wayland?
Imgui doesn't handle window creation/graphics - it's a GUI library which depends on another window/graphics library being in place already :(
Huh, launch day 5700 XT and zero issues ... then again, I don't play older titles which seems to have the most issues.
It's really not that big of a deal, honestly. My biggest gripe with the T25 is definitely the display, but not because of the aspect ratio... The damn thing is 220nit. It's crazy dim.
sillobol (bolsillo = pant pocket)
Here is an atmospheric treatment of the subject by indie history buff channel: History Time - "How Doggerland Sank Beneath The Waves (500,000-4000 BC)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DECwfQQqRzo
Are you sure?

As a thought experiment, if you infected an entire city with the flu, the ones to show up at the hospital are the worst cases, and if you just built your data from those people, you'd get a really really skewed perspective.
Our org was very much like this. Just couldn't get engineering specific tickets done at any meaningful velocity in such a product driven pipeline. It has finally changed with the introduction of an Architecture Practice Group where we do long term strategic planning across the engineering organization and a dedicated platform team who work on implementing the outputs of the practice group.

Finally feels like we're actually getting somewhere!
From the title I thought you made a calisthenics VR game where the trainer/competitor was Gal Gadot lol.
> But I guess each one of us is a victim of a propaganda machine

I would say the enormous difference is that you are aware of it, while the vast majority of Americas are utterly clueless. In fact they often take extreme offence at the very mention their media contains propaganda.
> MM_preload...

Yep, just trigger some trauma for me there. Had long since buried that.

>That's Dreamweaver I think, steaming pile of crap its pages were.

... seriously, this post brought up things I had long intentionally forgotten. I was one of those poor fools that fella for the WYSIWYGness of DreamWeaver
Ah, <marquee>, the Sonic to <blink>'s Mario.
Wouldn't a more accurate MO be "move along, nothing to see here, everything is fine, but if you speak out of turn we can make you disappear"?
On HN, we go by article quality, not site quality. No major media site is reliably good, and even the reliably bad ones sometimes produce a good-for-HN article, i.e. one that can support intellectually curious discussion. I wouldn't say that about this post though. The topic is not only divisive, but has been covered many times before, and curiosity withers under repetition. But the call should be about the article, not the site.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
What do you think mozilla is doing? They're certainly not being pressured.
>I think Obama was a great President, but he was also very little different than George Bush except in his oration

Talk about revisionist history, my goodness.
Takeaway Buys Just Eat for $7.8B
Meditation will make you a better programmer (2017)
With the exception of maybe loan forgiveness, none of those are party or candidate talking points. The rest are social issues and mostly gender issues so I don't really understand what middle class or white hat has to do with it. Was that just code for social conservatives?
I'm also a solo developer, or at least building a Ltd company starting at one. I wrote up about my developer setup here, and thought it might be of interest.

https://blog.alexellis.io/building-a-linux-desktop-for-cloud...

Would folks like to see more posts about branching out and working for yourself? I'd consider writing-up my perspective from the UK if it was interesting to people here.
They do, but it's hard to get a replacement for my 1070ti. :( The rx580s are reasonably priced and have a good rep for being reliable! But compared to a 1070ti they are less capable. A vega 56/64 would be perfect, but they're hard to find new now. The 5700xts seem to be a disaster.
Until they cut the quality enough, to achieve profitability, that you no longer want to go but they're still on the hook for their long term leases.
Or...maybe it could be because nobody knew Regus even existed prior to all these articles about WeWork coming out and mentioning them.

And most people still don’t know they exist!
>> (Native buttons also went out of vogue, for some reason.)

They’re back now for mobile with react and ionic. In a weird what comes around way.
So he sold $1 Million tickets to the mob for $50K and the mobster got half of the prize from people. And those people got (stuck with paying taxes on the hole $1 Million.)

He got too little but then it was just a "day's work" and after a while you cannot launder them yourself.
Oh, thanks for the idea! I actually want to migrate to arch a little bit at the time since I am not completely fluent in all the processes, and I would like to understand what each setting does. At the same time I want to have something that is functional from day one. Maybe I am overestimating the time needed to get arch running, I am a ubuntu/debian user through 11 years.
‘Uncanny Valley’ writer explains why women are souring on Silicon Valley