skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any tooling you’re aware of in this space? I know of one small group in Europe making something but it’s closed source..
I'd rather be sick for 2 weeks than wear a mask every day. Surveying those around me I'd say 98% came to the same conclusion.
I haven't heard anyone talk about STM for OCaml, funny. People talk about, or work on, lightweight fibers, lockfree data structures, io_uring, etc. but not STM. Is it falling out of fashion? Even in clojure I hear that few people actually use it.
Surely if, say, netflix is offered to french costumers profit is made in france?
Being a commercial office landlord can be an ok business, but that doesn't mean WeWork was ever viable. They were often not the building owner but a lessor on their own, taking long-term leases and subleasing in pieces with little or no commitment. That made them vulnerable to shifts in demand and rents. Given how cyclical the office space market has been for decades, I suspect they were always doomed.

In a recession a real commercial landlord has existing tenants on long-term leases, limiting their downside. But WeWork's big selling poing was flexibility, so even if the pandemic hadn't happened I think the next recession would have wrecked them. And that's before we get to how it was basically a giant bet against remote work.
Imagine caring so much about global warming that you use your enormous platform to tell people to vote for the party that denies global warming is a problem. Only a genius could do that!
Reactionary has never left the lexicon, and is a perfect term for describing the bones of most modern conservative movements. It may become less relevant when the latter stop behaving in that manner, but you can't blame me for calling a spade a spade.

When they start talking about things like Laffer curves again, and stop trying to turn the clock back on things like marriage and contraception, then it will stop being an appropriate moniker.
You will be surprised.
SPLASH had another keynote on pattern languages this year. The analogy from architecture to programming languages seemed strained at best - the speaker spent most of the talk on social programming, i.e., programming humans how to act in certain social situations and making design concepts more explicit and user-friendly. He made a big fuss about what a successful consultancy he built around running workshops and distributing baseball cards with different patterns printed on them. I found the whole thing self-aggrandizing and borderline charlatanry for an academic PL conference.
I would love a nuclear plant in my neighborhood, especially if I could buy power from it without going through PG&E. I have trouble imagining waste storage being cost effective here.

Large nuclear wants to be somewhere that the (physically enormous) electric station and connection to the grid makes sense. Small nuclear could go near where power is used. Waste should be somewhere with inexpensive land and in a convenient location for putting the waste there.

If there were container-sized reactors that produced a few tens of MW, they could go all over the place. Fancy neighborhoods could pay a premium to put them in fake houses. But the waste would probably be much more economical to handle by moving the entire container to a service facility, refueling at the facility, and handling the waste at or near the facility. This would be in an industrial area, just like other large warehouses or factories.
I've got a theory that the TV show Firefly is appreciated today because it got cancelled before it was popular; they quit when they were ahead and before popularity ruined it. But most Firefly fans seem to hate my theory.
> What types of low-level things did you want to learn?

To be honest, I've dabbed in a lot of low level stuffs but never went deep enough to make any impact, career-wise at least. For example I completed a full course on MCU programming, completed the first half of nand2tetris, read the first few hundreds of pages of "Beginner Reverse Engineering" (basically the part that teaches one to recognize C from decompiled assembly code), and many others. My most recent low level adventure was the book "Practical Binary Analysis" which I planned to use the whole holiday to push maybe a few chapters.

But I never drilled deep enough into any of the topics. I believe I have the brain to drill at least a few more chapters deeper for any of them, but I don't have the mental power to do it. I secretly want someone to put me into some sort of prison and keep me from getting out until I completed all previous projects and learnings. But of course I need to figure out a way to deal with the problem.

Anyway, really appreciate your answer, and probably I'll still install Archlinux, play with it a few days and then lose interest -- just another failed project to spend time.
> the centralization of political power and the centralization of the energy grid.

Sounds a lot better to me than relying on the middle east and Russia for fossil fuels.
I am a very conservative person financially so the way WeWorks and other SoftBank-run companies are run doesn't resonate with me personally, but I totally get it.

I actually worked at an SB-funded company for over a year (I had a non-compete so it was a good time to branch out and try crazy stuff) and the way the company was run was explicitly poised to bet on high growth with acknowledgement that it was a very risky bet that had a high chance of blowing up.

We were one of the first notable companies to do the "we over-hired and now that the world is changing, we need to lay off" thing in this cycle, and got a tremendous amount of negative press for what is now just basically expected behavior across industries.

But anyway, neither company management nor SB were dumb. Everyone understood that we were playing a high-risk high-reward strategy and recognized that "high risk" means the company blows up if things don't go right. It's just a choice that people make about: where to invest their money, what kind of company to start, and where to work. Like, for some people working at the DMV makes sense (very steady, no growth or significant upside) and for some people working at a crazy startup does (not steady at all, some chance of hitting it big.)

The company I was in was very sensitive to rates. We bet that if capital remained cheap, we'd power our way to real scale and profitability. It was a reasonable bet. History showed that we bet wrong and paid the price (I doubt the investors will recoup their money, and my equity is likely to be worth nothing although the company itself still exists.)

But that's OK. My company made a bet at revolutionizing its industry (and to some extent, it did) as did We. If these companies completely die, well - that's the nature of the game we chose to play. If luck worked out the other way, it would be glorious.

My main point is you can't apply the same lens to an explicitly high growth/high risk company that looks to change the world (or die trying) as you would to a self-funded bootstrapped business that is looking to slowly grow (and avoid death at all costs) by taking only small incremental bets. As long as everyone knows who is playing which game (and I guarantee you that management, employees and the investors like SoftBank knows which game they are playing) it's all good.
Digital services are taxed where the services are rendered. In other words, the location of the user.
Because for a solar panel or wind turbine that efficiency is simply lost energy. Catching more is better but as long as it is economical it is fine.

For thermal power plants you need to spend money taking care of the waste head leading to more costs.
That original $40K price was because Cybertruck was announced at a $40K price. If Cybertruck actually gets released at $40K Ford will lower prices again, although perhaps not all the way down to 40K. And I'll eat my hat because there's no way Cybertruck will start at $40K.
One thing to keep in mind is that for traditional publishers your book's spine needs to be thick enough to be visible on the shelf and not get lost between other books.
I live in a city of ~160k and there's a fair amount of them.

They vary from larger 4-5 story office buildings with some shared space, to small single story parks with no shared space - usually with a door and a garage door to the outside.

For a period of time a friend let me use the front of the space he was renting - he was using it as a warehouse for his ecommerce shop. He employed about 3 or so people who would pick & pack orders to be shipped.
There is a lot of testing available, that would be very good to have the results for, especially in our food.
Heavy metals are easy. A little more expensive are the organic compounds: think herbicides, fungicides, insecticides.
There is no agency that monitors those ingredients in food, not even in baby food.
Fresh strawberries in January in central Canada are awesome, but at what cost, to long term health? No one knows.
There is sadly, no agency that over sees that for consumers.
The person buying is usually on planet earth and inside a country. This country is where the profit was made.
NYT article referred to in the article is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34004822
> Neuromancer is far more challenging than the first books of Dune.

How so? I'd expect that with both reality turning more and more cyberpunk, and the revived interest in the retrofuturistic '80s-early '90s form of the genre with Cyberpunk 2077 and its Netflix anime adaptation, audiences are primed for this sort of thing.
My information is about 10 years old, so that makes sense. It also makes sense that such evals are of limited utility, as the people I know who worked down on the ice were ... difficult personalities to get along with.
Ask HN: Where do human creativity goes?
It freaks me out.

Regarding A(G)I, automation, robots, etc.
Are we on the edge of a revolution that will completely destroy the ‘human touch’?

I feel, and concerned, with the fact that we’re becoming more spoiled, softer, and losing our human touch.
Everything is dehumanizing.

More and more tools are built that are suppose to make us do less work, think less, have an easier time.

Don’t you fear that at some point we will be so off what we are now and lose our touch?
This is what economists call the Laffer curve. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve.
This problem is traditionally known as finding the "diameter" of a set of points, e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27414060/find-the-diamet...
The difference in the amount of tax has a big effect on post tax money. If it's 45% (city + state + federal + social security etc.) you'd have to make x * (1 - 45%) = $80K * (1 - 3%), solving for x gives $141K which is a big difference.
The Republican party has yielded on basically every issue in living memory. They're the Democratic party with a built-in time delay. They only exist to bring up the rear of what is acceptable in the Overton window, not promote any policy of their own.

If you want examples
The Republicans fought the New Deal hard and then dropped it.
The Republicans fought the Great Society and then dropped it.
The Republicans fought gay marriage every step of the way and now recently have members voting for the Respect for Marriage Act.

They don't present policy, they just fight progress de jour until it is time to move to the next thing that needs opposition.
I am terrified of what they will do with it, but foundation was good.
Sure!

But only if they have reasonable system for telling the difference.
>What some people may not realize is that "executive suites" have been around forever, however they were never looked at as a "hypergrowth" SV/hot startup.

Regus was/is the main player in that space, and it certainly wasn't startup territory at all. WeWork took a very different angle to it, as they were looking to capture small startups that wanted to be in a kind of "incubator" type set up. The buildouts and the target clientele were different concepts than had been tried in that market. I'm not saying that WeWork didn't/doesn't have issues, or that the idea was profitable at it's core, but it was a different take and seen as quite "disruptive".

>They've also apparently had a business model where they don't own the spaces, so the underlying landlords can squeeze them at any time.

WeWork leases have single purpose entities on nearly all their leases with few guarantees from WeWork the company. That basically means that the landlord is holding nothing next to nothing. In fact, it's WeWork that could back out of a lease pretty easily leaving the landlord with little recourse, not the landlords that could squeeze them. And even then, the only squeeze the landlords have would be when renewing a lease, and landlords don't have the upper-hand there at all right now.

One of the things that WeWork did was buy up significant chunks of square footage in well located buildings that had trouble filling that square footage, then WeWork offloaded a lot of the initial capital expenditure for the buildouts onto the landlord. Some of these leases had break even points for the landlord outside of 5 years, which is quite long for leases that big.

So if WeWork goes under or backs out of a given lease, the landlord is left with a huge amount of space, that they likely can't lease, and will likely take a significant amount of capital to either A) break it up, or B) make it amenable for another company to lease out. That means that the landlords are likely going to give WeWork as long a leash as possible, because they don't want that space back.

The writing is on the wall though, and WeWork has been going downhill for years now. It was arguable whether it was a good business model before the pandemic, but I can't imagine it making sense in a post-pandemic world.

While WeWork clearly were squandering SV investor money, don't underestimate how much real estate fat cats made out on these deals. They got these seemingly sweetheart WeWork leases on the books, marked up valuations for the remaining space in the building, and sold the dream to other investment firms to make out like bandits.
This seems like a prime candidate for a "7 tips for app devs SREs will hate" article, that only works because you're the only one doing it.
Junto is a friendship subscription service for young professionals in SF
Being sick two weeks is a very clear cost. Less clear are the long-term costs associated with long-covid.

How would you characterize the costs associated with wearing a mask most of the time when in public?
ledger has a time tracking mode which is pretty neat. I've used it for a while and liked it, https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Time-Keeping

Otherwise Emacs and org-mode is handy as well, if you are an Emacs user.
A bit of both. I don't mind corps being taxed if that's what a country wants to do. I do have a problem with making this a "global government mandated" thing though. And as I mentioned in other comments, I despise the revival of the communist vocabulary ("reactionary", "bourgeois", "social justice", "equity").
I've seen huge AIX installations maintained on contract by IAM at financial institutions.
I live in Vermont which has many maple syrup producers ranging from large scale operations that buy sap from multiple farms to small producers that make just enough for themselves, friends and family. I usually get mine by spending a couple weekends helping my cousins out during sugaring season and getting a few gallons in return.

I prefer the darker varieties. They are thicker, don't run around as much on pancakes or ice cream, have a richer and more complex taste and are cheaper as well.
Japan Is Bringing Back Nuclear Power to Protect Its Energy Security
> voulez vous baiser

That's not what they sing.
In the late 80s and early 90s we wrote things with threads but they were primarily a kind of convenience to get multitasking behaviour and not any kind of performance boost.

Multicore / multiprocessor systems were not a mainstream thing in consumer hardware until the 21st century.
I sorta felt the same way. However I'll say this: I am very much looking forward to the next season.
Same, managed the first few episodes which were full of good ideas from Gibson, and then it meandered off into drivel. The adaptation of Neuromancer will be garbage, I plan on actively avoiding it.
Elon Musk's Twitter suspension of journalists draws global backlash
Severance is the ultimate example of this. It is very inspired, however, thanks to Ben Stiller at its creative helm.
I think if you wanted to "Tell HN" about Google's terms of service (which might very well include that a chargeback gets your entire account banned), that's fine, you could do that by leaving the URL field empty or setting it to a better source than a single anecdote. You could even link to the anecdote from the text field. But as it stands, there's a mismatch between the title and TFA.
> worn around the clock

I'm reluctantly curious what your thinking is on that.
The real twitter-killer will be something that stands on its own value prop without reference to Twitter.
The police can get precise information in a click of a button.
Just wondering, what's the reasoning for not applying more heavy handed moderation on which stories get dumped off the front page? Why not manually suppress a submission when you think the comments are likely to be of low quality, rather than leave an unrepliable comment at the top? A more curated place would be welcome, in order to stave off some of the eternal September-ness places undergo. There are other places on the Internet to have those discussions; HN doesn't have to be the place for that. There seem to be quite a few submissions on the frontpage these days that would fall under the "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic" section of the guidelines and all I can do is flag them when I see them.
Snowpiercer was pretty cool to the high school me all the way until I saw someone else's interpretation of it, which told me how silly it was.
I guess I'm Joe Hillbilly, because I loved the Foundation tv series. No, it's not a faithful reproduction of the books, and I couldn't care less about that. I can love both and not get bent out of shape, especially since the books would make a pretty crappy tv show.
They're kids. They're nearly innocent. It's their parents people should be sick of.
No, it just acclimates people to their government lying to them.

When (or if) they protest new measures, they're gaslit as if their concerns are hyperbolic and that scope creep isn't a thing that happens.

Fauci and others admitted to intentionally misleading people. In particular, I'm thinking of when they were trotting out the % of the population that would need to be vaccinated, which crept up from 60% to over 85, before they stopped talking numbers altogether.[0]

Now, you've got people who were already predisposed to mistrust authority who will flat-out disbelieve anything that comes out of the CDC, even if the CDC told them the sky was blue.

[0] https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/90445
If zealous deniers of nuclear asked for storage of other power waste to be stored anywhere other than the sky, they'd realize their argument is worthless.
"Streetwear" itself has a snobbish connotation as of late.
Building Beauty was new to me, thank you for the mention: https://www.buildingbeauty.org/beautiful-software
Unfilmable, but the David Lynch version is amazing? The new one was enjoyable but I honestly prefer the old one.
Tax companies that are currently hiding profits in tax havens. The idea is basically that companies headquartering in tax havens will get taxed anyway, until they pay 15% total global tax on those profits. No single country can do this, but when almost all countries agree to do it then companies can no longer hide.
It would make more sense to first back up all your stuff switch all accounts to the new email address, set up email forwarding for a month, and then issue the chargeback. From what you are saying this is actually an easier process and unlike your suggestion will surely succeed 100% of the time. Then you aren't anyone's hostage.
When you leave employment at Google do you typically retain your github account and contribution rights to the repo?
That's not realistic. The phone is calling out, begging you to pay attention to it, and makes itself more difficult to use the less you want to be entangled.

You just have to put it away. If it's a tool, treat it like a tool. You don't carry a hammer in your pocket all day.
I wonder if Matrix could be used for social media
> How would you characterize the costs associated with wearing a mask most of the time when in public?

I tried it for a year and it's dehumanizing. Not sure how you'd rate that vs the unknown chance of long covid but I've made my choice.
I really liked Foundation even if it is more “inspired by” than anything else.

I think the Empire aspects they added were surprisingly VERY strong.
My friend put a tuff shed with an AC unit and insulation in his backyard. Obviously not an option if you don't have a backyard.
Posting bugs fixed. Improved application and visual interface.

The Social Poster application allows you to send custom posts in social networks VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram and other popular social networks. networks.
At the moment, the functionality is implemented only for the social network VK, Telegram and Instagram.

Our application is an excellent tool for both SMM promotion and PR, as well as for publishing your personal ads, goods and services through open groups, communities, chats and channels.

The main feature of the project is simplicity and a wide range of possibilities:
- Adding social media accounts;
- Switching between social accounts. networks;
- Add and edit custom posts with the ability to attach attachments;
- Ability to select a social account. networks and records for publication;
- Ability to select communities to which the publication will be performed;
- Ability to view the history of publications with detailed details;
- Possibility of authorization in the system through social networks;
- The ability to automatically re-publish posts to the remaining communities, if the Internet connection was interrupted during the publication process;
- Ability to automatically publish a user recording on a schedule.
> Maybe Im missing out but Ive never felt the need to spend so much on shoes.

It’s something you can’t understand unless you actually buy and wear a pair of well-made boots or shoes.

A mall store pair of leather boots might weigh 1-1.5 lbs because it’s made of bad leather, EVA foam, and adhesives. A pair of well made boots, one boot will weigh almost 2 lbs because they use good leather uppers, real rubber or leather soles, a steel shank, and cork footbed.

A $300 pair of boots with last 5x longer than a $100 pair of boots if you take care of them and don’t wear them daily.
Tracking everyone in the City of London using publicly available information
Severance is so good it's the thing that should get people to subscribe to AppleTV+. Ted Lasso's fine and all, but Severance is astonishing.
A lot of smart people tell you to read. It's great advice. Even better is to write. Putting your thoughts into words helps you crystallize your thoughts, scrutinize them, remember them better, etc.

I wish someone had given me the advice to "write more" earlier in my career. (Note that I now maintain a blog and have written a book).
Why doesn't pipe make sense?
VAT taxed in this case, sure. Those are taxes on consumers. Article is bout corporate profit taxes.
Top three percent is fairly rich.

> The Revenue Act of 1913 ... established a one percent tax on income above $3,000 per year; the tax affected approximately three percent of the population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1913
Made for streaming platform movie is basically the new direct to vhs.

No. It will not be good.
Star Wars took many elements from everything, but his core motivation was to make a 'space opera' influenced by the serialized sci-fi adventures of his youth- Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.