skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The question you should ask is: If Regus couldn't grow the market beyond where it's at, what gives WeWork a competitive advantage that it could

I already answered that - a pleasant environment - that's their competitive advantage. Regus aren't able (or don't want to) meet that part of the market.
WeWork is clearly less of a tech company than even this, because their app (which every company has now) is essentially no more technologically interesting than doing it all on paper. Uber for example would never exist without the app and its GPS technology. A clear difference imo.
In the Arizona Desert?

Plenty of houses in Detroit
If they shipped, gained customers and allowed the company to make money, they did their job.
I know that an Xapp can listen to everything, but I was thinking that it can listen to only some keys/combos.
Chandra Levy's murder was front page news until the attacks

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Levy

Also a good podcast episode about the case and investigation

https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/murdered-chandra-levy/
I always thought it was about votes at Election time.
The LICENSE file claims it's a dual-license: GPLv3 or a commercial license, but I'd be wary about that given quotes like the above...
> And so if the cost of experimentation is driven too high, it actually impairs my ability to get work done.

side note but so far I think that's what made python so wildly used.

But that doesn't undermine rust value, there are problems where you want rust features even with the cost.
Okay? And the US is a place where I can get brutalized, shot, and killed by the police based on.. nothing. The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of Chinese citizens are living lives thinking and worrying about the same kinds of things we do. Not cowering in fear bemoaning their lack of freedoms.
Money cannot be eaten. "Injecting" money brings only inflation.
January Update: Average User Rating for Scooter Sharing Companies
What is the typical return date for Chinese living in Europe and the US regarding CNY?

It is my understanding that the CNY was not cancelled and many will have gone back to visit family in China, at least outside the highly affected areas.

When will they fly back?
Anti-clickbait reveal: "The Zargana Countermeasure System...protect submarines from incoming torpedoes...by launching salvos of...small torpedo-like objects...imitate the acoustic and movement characteristics of the targeted submarine."

The article also says this is not new, just new to Turkey.
I have a friend in China right now who wants to leave but can't due to not having a reasonable way to make it to the airport. Apparently they're not allowing anyone to leave the city atm.
Of related interest: Her campaign to make lacrosse safer goes on, 20 years after her son’s death

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/01/31/lacrosse-he...
This is just an ad. What’s premium about a QR code? You can easily generate these for free.
Can someone tell me where did Apple get all this new data from? Was it taken from OSM, bought from Here Maps or some other provider or just built on their own from sattelites and on the ground surveys?
No, that’s GAAP loss, so that doesn’t include any debt repayments. That’s what the business generated.

And they produced the most cars they ever did and still lost money for the tenth consecutive year, in a year where the expectations given from Wall Street and the company were to make money.
There's a lot more in the podcast that's discussed in the comments as well, RE: linked lists, multiply owned data structures, and common goals of Rust and the Jai compiler team, but I got lazy with transcribing the audio by hand (it's harder than it sounds!) and left it at that. Besides which, the podcast episode outside of Rust was excellent!
I have the same problem as OP and I only use one USB port for my two monitors
sars and mers and thousands of others are also coronaviruses. this one is currently designated "2019 novel coronavirus" which is not very practical
I'm using this service called MealPal. It's ~GBP 5 for a meal, as long as your preorder it the previous evening (or same day early morning).

You can get meals that retail for GBP 8 using this service. So that's a 37% discount in an industry that is notorious for its tight margins.

My first thought when I heard of it was "oh wow, better sign up before their VC money runs out"
> made python so wildly

I think you meant "widely", but wildly works as well.....
Delphi could pull this off by being a language designed to be easy to parse (and often unnecessarily restrictive or verbose as a result). This goes all the way back to Turbo Pascal - while Borland's DOS C compilers were also very fast, their Pascal was unbeatable because of very straightforward parsing, and true separate compilation of units.
One of the issues I see with C is that there is a core set of C developers that sees C as the only systems language, being "just" a portable assembler, and if you're not good enough to avoid these pitfalls in C, you shouldn't be programming it. And, as you allude to, I suspect that many of the people with different viewpoints have moved on from the language, leaving this conservative C core in charge of language evolution design.
How are they generating the 3D models of various landmark buildings? It's hard to believe that they were generated from photos, since the lines look so clean. But there are too many of them to do by hand, no?
you could probably just tell it your vehicle and/or qualifications if it was important enough,
Another way to put it:

What’s easier? Regus learning how to offer free espresso and decorate their offices for the startup crowd? Or WeWork learning how to spend less money than it earns in revenue?
Maybe, maybe not. I think the contrast to past epidemics is stark and shows the government is willing to learn and improve.

In any case, the comparison to Chernobyl and 80s USSR is pretty off-base, wouldn't you agree?
Is it possible to use the speech to text feature of your OS to transcribe the podcast quickly? Just curious...
I have long had a suspicion that the Afrikaans use of two negative words is due to the French influence. I might be completely wrong, but the ne ... pas construction is the only one in any language that influenced Southern Africa that comes close to the nie ... nie construction in Afrikaans. What is the reason for the French ne ... pas to start off with?

By comparison, in an English negation you would just have not without any supporting word at the end.
Did it? They only produced a small number more than they did per quarter at the end of last year. Why do we think they are production constrained?
"[T]here is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong."

H.L. Mencken
Quite a few of my colleagues came back Monday the 27th. I imagine many stay longer since the trip is onerous.
Also there's some weird bug with external monitors where after waking up from sleeping the TrueTone is maladjusted leaving the screen super dark- turning TrueTone off and back on again (of course) fixes it.
> Indeed, that was their initial message to the public for this virus.

You're going to have to source that because I have a friend who lives in China and he was telling me from the start that China was surprisingly open about all of it.
This sort of what-about-ism doesn't address the core point. That top-down command and control systems are vulnerable to precisely this type of outcome. Providing a single western example of a much milder localized circumstance doesn't address anything except deflect attention from the main point.

Flint was a local event. This is consuming all of China.
It’s really hard to ever say a company is properly investing if their CapEx on their income statements exceeds their depreciation. Can you name other fast growing companies that is true for?
It absolubately can work, for a famous and oft-studied example see the city of Milton Keynes in the UK. Hundreds of roundabouts
There was a video in the late 90s of a young guy from parisian suburbs talking about how Verlan (the language of his generation) jumped the shark.

His quote was something like:

> First we started with 'arrete ca' (stop it),
> then 'te-arr ac', then one guy's gonna say 'te' ..
> surely one day it's gonna be 'et'.
> I swear, if someone says 'et' to me,
> I'll grab his collar and yell 'ARRETE CA' immediately.

I found the rare distance over its own generation priceless.
This is awesome. I wish someone would put vive trackers[0] on bowflex selectable dumbbells [1] and do something similar.

IMHO VR for lifting will be an easier place to start than VR for cardio or calisthenics because you're not moving around as much and sweating the same, so the HMD size is less of an issue.

[0] https://www.vive.com/us/vive-tracker/

[1] https://www.bowflex.com/selecttech/560/100581.html
Autopilot AI
A hacky solution is to point your speakers at a device running Google Docs with speech-to-text turned on, but I haven't found anything that handles multiple speakers well - especially with overlapping voices, as happens often in this episode.
Why your grand children and not someone else's?

Or put differently, would you forgo having children and grandchildren so that others can have this future you imagine?
Article misses the fallacy of the comparison. If I buy a cup of coffee, I get my end of the bargain immediately* and no further commitment on my part is needed. For most saas offerings though, I’m basically committing to a regular payment in perpetuity. Usually if I stop paying, I not only lose the immediate benefits, but also whatever I have put into the app in the time I used it. Even if it is just storage, if I cancel it, I have to find a way to replace the storage and the access to the storage from my devices.

Committing to a monthly payment is usually not the same as buying X coffees for a month.

*or close to immediately if it is one of those annoying poor over places
I strongly like the idea of pioneers as compared to "settlers" and "town planners" (see Simon Wardley's writing). But the idea that pioneers have and/or benefit from no process is BS.

The best pioneer is structured and has process. A pioneer's job is to efficiently conduct tests to derisk some space. This involves the creation of lots of artifacts which do not, usually and probably for the best, include running, trustworthy foundational code.

But that doesn't mean that work wasn't full of process. It's just often a little harder to scale and comes intuitively to some individuals. The process includes things like (a) rapidly reintegrating learning, (b) listing out assumptions and attacking them with an invalidation-minded perspective, (c) brainstorming novel ways to uncover new information cheaply, and (d) rapidly building new mental models and sharing them.

That's process, too, but not process that creates a functioning machine. Just one that proves such a machine could exist.

It's critical to not run the wrong process at the wrong time, so leaving when the pioneering is over can be a good move, but so might finding a new place for pioneering on the edges of the "settling" that's begun to move in.
> The prefix/postfix change is a red herring, that doesn't do anything

The prefix/postfix change does something to the reader. It's a distraction trying to figure out if that change was intended, whether the author knows it has no effect, or whether I'm wrong about the change having no effect.

I appreciate the author doing the hard work of fixing this, especially with the code in full view of the public, but if I were an official reviewer I'd ask to get all the unnecessary changes removed.
yeah, I thought about this for a minute and wildly still felt appropriate :)

thanks for the reminder nonetheless
When economic activity is temporarily unexpectedly reduced, companies start running out of cash / working capital.

Injecting extra liquidity means that companies are able to get short-term loans to cover expenses and continue functioning, instead of going bankrupt during the chaos (which would also facilitate bankrupting their suppliers and creditors).
For me, the grid version is broken, I open dev tools and it fixes itself, I close dev tools and it remains fixed, I refresh the page and it remains fixed, I close and reopen the tab and it remains fixed, I close the tab and open it again from the link and it's broken again.

Just plain haunted.
Alternative to Google search: searx

Non-Docker Local Installation of searX on Linux

https://persagen.com/2020/02/02/searx.html
How does the cellular network location sharing work? Would it be possible to use 1 radio to spoof multiple devices there, or is there going to be enough security to prevent that?
John Roberts Censors Rand Paul’s Question
The comparison fits in that a tendency to hide bad news (i.e. swallow errors and suppress warnings) erodes trust in (edit: and effectiveness of) the system.
"Thanks to an international law known as the Montreux Convention, foreign submarines are forbidden to transit [the Bosporus] under most circumstances."

I did not know that. Seems a little odd.
Kind of my point, it relies on the user setting something.
The player can jump both forward and sideways with a maximum speed. If you do that both at once the end result is you exceed to maximum speed diagonally. Now if the player is on the ground he brakes to the maximum speed. So by keeping contact with the ground as brief as possible you maintain more speed.
It doesn’t make sense at all. An enormous number of people who work on GPGPU will develop on consumer hardware before they move up to cloud computing or a Quadro or something. Trying to segment the market like this is based on a misunderstanding of developer needs and preferences. Which is pretty typical of ATI/AMD unfortunately.
This might be similar, but I see zero chance of Xi's power taking a hit. For as long as party's institutes are intact, he will be there.

Some people began to speculate that Xi wasn't seen for the last 3 days, and sudden activity of "party elders," but I bet this is just an enormous amounts of wishful thinking showing up.

Xi's "system" has an expiration date attached, but it's not tomorrow.

Following on that Gorbachev analogy, the Unior really started to crumble during late Breznev for reasons well documented by historians.

Basically, after Brenzhen loyalists, who mostly were his contemporaries (frail 70-80 and even 90 year olds,) started to drop like flies, a whole truckload of political adventurists, with rogue 3 letter services in particular, took advantage of that to grab power. This in a few years term led to the Union turning ungovernable, and ultimately falling apart.

The ultimate proof to that is that pretty much all across the former union, the power went to ex-KGB or men from other 3 letter services.

Even as early as Gorbachev's first year, there were officials who were publicly disobeying his direct orders. The last generation of Union's leadership was hamstrung even before the power was formally passed to it.
> really should be dealt by the local governments first-hand, with federal help on its way

Add "And some overarching flexible framework for regular coordination-practice and preparation-funding" and this seems quite clear.
I can attest to sweating. If you really get into it you can expect to change all your clothing afterwards.

For those who are curious what score the dev reaches.
I've just done the full workout (all 6 songs in a row, each on hard to get the most points) and im soaked now.

The total time is ~20 minutes (1172.86 seconds)
The final score was 306080 points
I would like to add Bootstrap to the list, including other CSS libraries/frameworks.

In Bootstrap case, it included a grid, and other UI components (like a dropdown menu, and a modal dialog), but most importantly, it took care that the page worked the same in all major browsers of the time.

It helped me to prototype various projects over the years.
Ontology - computer science (2008)
From a business perspective, “a pleasant environment” is not a competitive advantage. For it to be a competitive advantage, we need to understand why, structurally, WeWork can offer this and Regus can’t.

By way of analogy, if we say that Amazon’s pricing is a “competitive advantage,” we can also explain what Amazon has done structurally that makes their pricing hard to copy. Anybody can set a low price on a product or service, but not everybody can do so and make money.

Same with WeWork. If a nice environment is a competitive advantage, we can point to something in WeWork’s structure that makes it difficult for Regus to duplicate.

If Regus can duplicate it without difficulty, then we need to rethink whether it’s an advantage, or simply something you happen to prefer, but doesn’t matter.

By way of a different analogy, consider free coffee in hotel rooms. Everybody prefers it, but for decades you got it in motel chains, but not from the big hotel operations.

Why idn’t they offer free coffee? Because their customers were actually corporations, and the things that mattered to corporations were centralized billing, locations close to airports and business centres, and so forth.

This allowed the big hotels to drag their feet on in-room amenities like free coffee or free WiFi. It wasn’t nearly the competitive advantage it appeared to be.
"A few seconds to make" is a slight exaggeration no? I had such a grinder/Gaggia set-up and it took time and effort. Producing good espresso at home without very expensive automated machines, is a commitment.

There's a lot of fiddly cleaning involved - the grinder has to be cleaned meticulously after use as do the various bits of the espresso machine. The finely ground coffee is very sensitive to static so tends to jump/attach itself to white t-shirts and plastic kitchenware - more cleaning. All this cleaning is required even if you just want to make one espresso - otherwise later uses will have a nasty taint.

There's a lot of experimentation required to produce a decent espresso with crema from such a set-up. Depending on the beans, their age, the weather, etc., the fineness for grinding and how tightly you packed the portafilter would vary. On good days I was getting 3 out of 4 but that still meant 1 in 4 (or more) were dreck.
You might be surprised to learn why there's excess housing. Young men who are courting a lady need two or three houses to have any chance of winning her hand:

Why 50 Million Chinese Homes are Empty - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5SE47Xjx2Q&t=2s
> All the shopkeepers aren't from Beijing originally, so they close shop for two weeks and go back to their hometown.

Sounds like an opportunity for someone to open some bagel shops.
> we just keep making the same music over and over and over again, yet we still find new and novel ways to make it sound different and new to the point where most people don't realize they've been listening to the same few songs in new forms for the last 100 years or so at least.

What do you mean by this? Oftentimes I see people reaching the conclusion that because a lot of modern music is built around the same major scales and largely homogenous chord progressions, it must be the same, but this simply isn't the case.
As a 48 year old native Floridian who has traveled to less crazy states and countries, I do not believe our open records policies entirely explain the documented weirdness. The native born are a minority. Most of our population came here from somewhere else. I have been to the kinds of places from which they emigrate. To survive and thrive in places where it snows for a good chunk of the year requires a certain amount of keeping-your-shit-togetherness. In my experience, many immigrate to Florida or stay here because one can live relatively cheaply without ever planning ahead. This tilts our demographics toward the kinds of people who end up in Florida Man stories.
that bikeshedding
there is also something funny: beurette, which is a feminization of beur, didn't have any particular meaning in the 90's but became very perogative in the 10's meaning a girl that want to show off but is not interesting. Oh, and it's now use without regard to race.
So getting rid of an EV SSL certificate is as beneficial to web speed (and cost savings) as the dreaded Google AMP.
Thanks for the numbers!
Nowadays docker server, when run with the experimental flag, allows you to build images with the `--squash` option, so your whole image will contain a single layer.

Alternatively you can use buildah [1] to build your images via a script, but you'll lose the cache docker puts in place.

[1] https://buildah.io/
I always thought, and probably not for the most solid reasons:

Math is applied philosophy and theory of knowledge.

Physics is Math applied on reality.

Chemistry is applied Physics.

Biology is applied Chemistry.
Hungarian addresses are (or were) worse. According to http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/postal/, it's:

1. name of recipient,
2. town name,
3. street address or post box number,
4. four digit postal code.

(I have a vague memory of seeing that sort of order in German, too, in a historical context, but perhaps it was from Austria-Hungary.)
So how do I get it?
I wouldn't use the word "generally" here.

Pretty much none of the people I work with would consider this ridicule-worthy.

People are aware it's not usual to have different pronouns so the reason they'd make this request must be important to them. Probably more important than it is for you to use regular pronouns.

So if it's important, why ridicule them?

(Of course, if you have evidence that they're doing it on a whim or for frivolous reasons, then sure, you can make fun of them _for being frivolous_.)

EDIT: I've watched the video you've linked to. I think it's important to understand those are comedians doing an entertainment show. They're obviously not seriously intelectually engaging the issue. And Segura even says he's fine with using people's prefered pronouns.
Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong
I can usually just find an acceptably easier route (less bad left turns) picking one of the given alternatives.
Katrina was when I realized how silly it is to think our government would ever deal effectively with a major disaster and how vulnerable we are.

Having been through three major hurricanes and 9/11, I'm not as skeptical as you. Everything is local. If the local authorities are prepared, things will go better. The feds are backup for when things get too big to handle.

Looking back, after the initial shock wore off, the on-the-street response in the hours after 9/11 was very interesting. It was clear that NYC and its neighbors have many layers of plans for major emergencies. Do they have everything covered? Probably not, which is only logical since you can't plan for the unknown. But a good deal of faith was earned that day.
I was at one in Austin for about 18 months. After the first few months we usually had to go ask them to unlock the taps ourselves. Some days there was nothing but Coors Light
Why does that seem odd? It's an important waterway but passes directly through Istanbul. Like the Dardanelle straights these are contained inside Turkey. Unfettered military transit would is an obvious problem for them, but pretty much everyone wants easy commercial traffic.

Montreux is a pretty reasonable compromise. Note this control was taken away from the Ottoman empire as part of the treaty of Lausanne (i.e. fall out from WW1) but it wasn't surprising anyone when Turkey rejected the outcome.
How Far Can the Refresh Rate Race Go?
Code.org Asks Public for Teachers' Info for Tech-Bankrolled 'Scholarships'
I would recommend the entire episode, it was very good. Only a small part is about Rust.

I’ve listened to plenty of interviews and talks/rants by Jonathan Blow, and while I think he has a lot of interesting ideas, he also has a well earned reputation for being very blunt in how he expresses his opinions. Bryan Cantrill was an excellent interviewer, and managed to bring out the best side of Blow.
>with the end of globalization

Are you implying that globalization is in decline? If so, why do you think this?