skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mainly agree with you but want to throw a different angle on it. There is a lot of value in marketing and brand awareness. Like, when you mentioned "executive suites" - it makes sense to me but isn't something that is on my radar as a human being.

So like let's say my house got too crazy to work from, without being aware of WeWorks, it would seem like something I just have to suck up and deal with, but with awareness of WeWorks (and the associated concept of co-working spaces) my mind would at least go there. So maybe I'd shop around from the different co-working options based on location and price but wouldn't even occur to me to look at exec suites.

So all that is to say - I agree with you on the business, but that the existence of WeWorks may have widened the audience for that type of service with We itself getting the largest share of that business (same as Uber gets the most rides just by being the most associated name with taxis right now)

None of this is to say that We is "worth it" in valuation or as a service, I have no idea. Just point out the impact of marketing/awareness.
I hoped this would explain the anomaly in AMD EPYC 3rd gen
Milan pricing for the 24 core "F" (frequency optimized) parts being cheaper than the 16 core ones, but I still can't see any hint to the reason:

model | cores | price |
73F3 | 16 | $3521 |
74F3 | 24 | $2900 | <- cheapest
75F3 | 32 | $4860 |

Same for 4th gen Genoa :

model | cores | price |
9174F | 16 | $3850 |
9274F | 24 | $3060 | <- cheapest
9374F | 32 | $4850 |

The 24-core parts have the same number of CCDs, and thus same total L3 cache, and a higher turbo than the 32-core parts.
I suspect that having up to 3000 people per day working for a pittance in the middle of a global financial crisis was a larger factor in getting the Empire State Building built on time and budget than lack of planning or middle management...

Either way, I'm not sure Depression-era construction approaches are really what we want for nuclear plants.
Hottake: the author is effectively oblivious to the impact of the aesthetic scene and unable to filter its impact on contemporary youth culture.
US LLCs are pass trough entities and the solution of choice for digital nomads to completely avoid paying any taxes. US is still the best tax avoidance haven for most people. EU does not care about good laws they care about good headlines for the news not matter how shitty the things they do are.
For the WSB crowd, here’s one of their bonds:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/bonds/wework_companies_i...
Sounds pretty easy to do at that age. But how long are you going to protect them? Until their 18? Or 16? Or 12? When do you see yourself allowing a phone. Are you keeping iPads away too?

Some of my friends with kids gave them cell phones around 12-14. But most of the kids had iPads prior.
Flexibility is king for small operations - unless you're a restaurant. Moving a storefront to a new location loses half of your customers, and for restaurants that's even worse.

The tax you pay for wholesale goods includes the costs of logistics - the forethought, the scaling, the redundancy. If all of that were free then you'd get everything straight from the manufacturer for half the price.

It might be that there's a business model for a WeWork-style company that actually works, but I'm not sure this is it. There are a number of companies where most of their hard assets are real estate, and we joke about them being real estate companies masquerading as something else (eg, McDonald's, and Sears before malls died). If they owed buildings outright they might have something as well.

In many cities the number of landlords that own 80% of the available space is actually a pretty small number. What a WeWork would be doing is hiring charismatic people to build relationships with those companies to try to establish long term leases at a more favorable rate than you or I could ever hope for, particularly during a down economy when you can spin it as doing them a huge favor. Possibly by taking additional discounts for clauses like, "I can move you to a different suite in the same building in these situations" because maybe there will be a day when the guys on the fifth and sixth floor really want the fourth floor and meanwhile the tenants on the 3rd floor are downsizing. Some people will pay for those sorts of contingency.

If even half of that is reasonable, then you might be looking for a shared space company that's backed by a hedge fund, rather than VC's, because you're looking for a company that is watching the downward trends in the market, not the upward ones.

But I don't get the impression they did any of that.
Yeah, that must be the reason. Everybody can sleep well.
When I used Parsec to control a machine on the other side of my room, the monitor and my client were not even 1 frame out of sync. The only downside is the heavy compression to achieve that. There is also no color accuracy.
I wonder how much this is solely technical. Sure, if it's something like asthma medication or insulin, its' completely superfluous. But if I remember correctly, doctors have a few incentives for this. Part of them rather good, like a fear of over-medication, part of them related to budgets with the insurance companies etc.

The health industry is very weird from top to bottom. True for most countries, but Germany certainly adds a few cherries on top. Or at least massively diluted cherry essences…
It's cumulative, so you can't just take spot concentrations.
The US income tax was originally supposed to be a tax on just the richest, too.

These things have a way of scope creeping.
I’m not convinced of anything but brain dead takes like “he’s a conservative!” are not going to help identify his underlying motivations.
I still think there is an issue of trust.

What happens when you meet a bad actor vs someone you have known your entire life?
Aside of who's casted, I hope the director/producer is a strong figure with artistic liberty.

I'm gonna sound like a grouchy old man, but streaming services are completely killing cinema. TV shows spanning +8 seasons, with all different producers/directors.

I'd like this to be a short series (4 episodes TOPS) with one very strong director that can set their foot strong and don't comply to Apple to make it extremely mainstream (like what Netflix did with Cowboy Bebop's adaptation, couldn't pass the first 15 minutes).
The convenience argument is huge - the additional TIME hassle for the Lowes truck/hiring someone is substation if you have the money to not have to think about it.

A modern SUV can get quite decent gas mileage, too.

Obviously there are people who buy an F350 just to drive to work for no good reason, but it's not as clear-cut as "nobody ever needs a truck/SUV and anyone who buys one is ontologically evil".

I don't know the "actual new vehicle" cost breakdown, but I wouldn't be surprised if the average car price is quite high, comparable perhaps to the average truck. Most people who are "price sensitive" don't buy new anyway, and a number of manufacturers aren't selling cars at all anymore, only SUV/trucks.
So my data is stored in my Pod, and I can grant different platforms and services access to my data? So for example if I have a photo that I want to share on some sort of social platform, the resource is being pulled directly from my pod?
Woodpecker / drone is still not on the same level as Gitlab CI
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So you are indicating that this could be one reason that The VP wants the P dead.
What it sounds like you’re saying is “If you don’t know how to code, GTFO” because in all likelihood the parent made this comment because they’re not capable.
Worse than that, what has the wood been exposed to? Like all those folks who "recycle" railroad ties into raise bed gardens and ignore the fact the creosote they're soaked in is toxic and leaches out.
>… and into their own personal net worth, while building businesses that couldn't have possibly been profitable.

I disagree with this characterization of WeWork. Were they extravagantly blowing money on stupid things? Yes. Was the CEO directly enriching himself through his leadership? Yes. However, the business of being a landlord and renting office space is a pedestrian and profitable venture. It’s just not a sexy startup idea worth billions.
It would make a decent anthology show, but that doesn’t fit the prestige budget they wanted to throw at it. It’s possible that Prelude could have been a better start because it actually had action.
yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peripheral
That is because in the short-run everything is sticky so they resist spending more on salaries. So everyone is hiring, but nobody is willing to pay more. If conditions persisted then they'd be forced to start raising wages in order to increase output.

Due to the fact that we're also still fairly supply constrained on output they also resist hiring more workers at higher salaries when they're finding it hard to source their inputs (and since everyone is in that same boat, they're not missing out compared to their competitors by not focusing on increasing output).

And right now the Fed is also signalling that they're going to crash the economy so it makes absolutely zero sense to start hiring more people at higher wages right before a recession.
Yup. SCO OpenServer 5.0.something, for some partner's accounting department. Neither the OS nor the application software have been updated since the late 1990s, but if it works, it works, I guess... (to be honest: the application software is only used to run reports in response to requests from the legal department, but apparently still can't be shut down -- I ask once a year, next upcoming 'query date' in my agenda is March 2023).

This used to run on a Compaq Proliant server (huge noisy Intel 486 tower) until the end of the millennium or so, then was converted into a VM. First on VMware, then on Hyper-V, where it has been running comfortably on various hardware (Intel Dell PowerEdge, AMD SuperServer) since.

Access is the biggest issue, as the OS only supports telnet, and serial access. So ever since this has been converted to a VM, it runs on a dedicated VLAN (666, just to make sure nobody ever misunderstands the true evil underneath...), with an AD-authenticating-HTTPS-to-Telnet bridge (coded up in Visual Basic.NET using some long-long-deprecated libraries) connecting it to the outside world.

That VB.NET kludge was recently upgraded to .NET 6, in order to get TLS 1.2 support. This was surprisingly uneventful, and I'm pretty sure this abomination gets to live another decade or so.

Ah, yes, a career in IT... Always on the forefront of cutting-edge tech...

(Later edit to, like, actually answer the question: licensing costs are nonexistent: SCO is gone anyway, and we don't require any support/updates. Migrating to Linux might be an option, but is most likely going to be hugely painful, and the existing VM scenario Just Works for everyone involved. Security and such is not a real issue: only a handful of internal users have highly-restricted access via a proxy)
Project Hail Mary already has a film adaptation in progress.
What are you criticizing, the wording or the fact that big corps are being taxed?
Some pay $150+, some go to the thrift store. True beat-fashion or not, I would never malign someone for choosing quality footwear.
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Is it just me or is Apple TV+ really leaning hard into the Science Fiction and (and nerd) categories a lot more than the other streamers?

Foundation (Which I have not watched yet).

See

Mythic Quest.

Severence.

For All Mankind.

Prehistoric Planet (obviously not science fiction but for sure nerd).

And others that I am likely missing?

Also good science fiction that feels like they really invested in it
What is the actual method that a state government such as California (or Arkansas for that matter - I'm sure they would love to own Walmart) can use to seize control of a private company, fire the board of directors, cut out shareholders and then take ownership etc.?

The closest I can find is eminent domain which they can use to obtain privately owned land, but nothing that gives them the power to do what you're describing. Can you point me in the right direction?
They can use the EU as an excuse to raise taxes without taking the blame. Most people have no idea how the EU works and don't realize that that rule would not have been put in place unless their own government had supported it. That's what unanimity means.

Also at the end of the day most EU laws are aquiescence rules: if you have a specification for cucumbers it must be like this. But if you don't have such a spec (and producers in other countries aren't prevented from doing business with you) then you don't need to put the rule into place. After all, every EU "law" is actually a description which has be be implemented in each country by its legislature.
Western Europe is one example where IDs have not been abused. But China is another example where they have been.

If you give your governments tools that can be used for oppression, even if they aren’t abused today, it would make it easier for a new authoritarian government to abuse them later on.

Spain was a dictatorship for much of the 20th century and Argentina had had multiple military dictatorships too — it could happen again. Europeans are far too confident that they have overcome the problems of the past by building the EU etc. A bit more American-style distrust of government would be a good thing.
The original "Foundation" novel is a set of short stories that take place decades or more apart, and barely share characters. The second novel is more unified but has a 100-year gap in the middle. They would have been an interesting "tales of" anthology series, but not a great narrative series.
NoMachine would be perfect if it streamed macOS servers at full resolution.

No, I do not want to view my beautiful Retina MBP's screen on my 4K laptop at... 1440x900.
It makes sense if you're a team of like 5-10 people and you really need a physically space. Otherwise, why waste the expenditure when you can just work remotely and save yourself the lease.

They always sell networking as an advantage, but people aren't that chatty and the folks in there are in the same boat as you are, which limits the worth of that network if you're trying to find clients. Never made much sense to me if you have a home office or a space bedroom to turn into one.
Can you post the song title? Every time I see the word "Radiohead", I think of the startup I removed from my CV.

(They did things like say racist crap when the kind H1-Bs who brought them thoughtfully considered condo-warming gifts were out of earshot, and apparently still remember me getting drunk at their holiday party, saying I one day hope to get as much respect as Ben Ben Roethlisberger in this town without having to rape anyone, then ranting that the RFIDs they put into the passports were a security risk since you could create a bomb that only detonates when an American wanders by... someone referenced the conversation last week in the midst of abusing their access.)

Anyways TL;DR: Can you post the song title? I don't trust Youtube, and any mention of Radiohead reminds me of the startup that paid me with experience and had a stack of their CDs in their office in now gentrified Lawrenceville.
Don't get me wrong, he is not admirable. In my moral system his actions are fundamentally criminal.

But... as far as I'm aware he didn't hide any of this from his investors. They just handed over the cash no questions asked until the grift got too blatant (I think it was the trademark ownership/name change that was the straw that broke the camel's back.)
> Then you'll hear someone say "Well, he found a solution for the balanced tree problem, but he just didn't seem all that confident doing it, you know?"

This sounds like yet more evidence that it's really just pledging a frat.
This is empirically not always true. Higher taxes can lead to lower tax revenues if it reduces the size of the pie when business go to tax friendly jurisdictions.

This can also work with income taxes. For example if you set income tax at 100%, you'd get 0 revenue probably because no one would work. This effect happens at values below 100%
IIRC Gibson stated that Neuromancer is basically "un-movieable". I love the book and the rest of the Sprawl series but man. Neuromancer is a SUPER busy book with a lot going on. And I just think in today's world it would be hard to really capture the vibe AND have a good plot that isn't convoluted.

But I am with you. Hoping to be pleasantly surprised.
There’s a lot to automate when doing phone support. The vast difference between the sub 20 cents per minute you need to pay people to answer phones and the 98 cents per minute each call costs are largely things that could be automated.

And that’s ignoring trying to minimize call length or even the need for any calls in the first place.
...and the network intrusion detection system throws up all sorts of alarm bells about IPs being spoofed and duplicate IPs in use.

I assume MacOS actually only re-uses IPs if it sees the lease hasn't already expired but it might be dumber than that.
Thanks - just exploring Airbyte for a client so will be running through the motions myself. For another client, we just built our own data architecture to fix some of these issues and more importantly cut costs significantly.

Were you able to find something else self-hostable? Ideally, we really want to stay away from cloud.
> that if you're willing to ignore the rules of society that most people agree to, then it's pretty easy to take advantage of the system.

That's exactly the thing. He didn't ignore the rules. It's expected that founders lie, and the super-rich in charge of these giant investment funds are supposed to be the smartest people in the world, that's what entitles them to command the huge resources they do.

The game we agreed to was that these fund managers were supposed to efficiently allocate capital to worthy causes. Neumann made it extremely apparent that there's no guarantee that some rich banker will allocate anything efficiently at all. The bankers already skewed the system, Neumann beat them at their own game.

That doesn't make him a saint, it doesn't even may him "good", but I still think it's nice that SoftBank got fucked.
Doesn't America already have a corporate tax rate well above 15%? What would we have to do to "adopt" these rules?
I agree with all that and add.

The entire market is a dud in my mind. How many scrappy startups without funding that need co-work space really exist? I don't see enough for an entire multi billion industry across the world. Especially since the enviable outcome if those are successful is they no longer are a customer once they get a lease somewhere for less. They can't sublease at a better rate than a direct lease so again no business.

Also I tried one and they all center around the horrible ineffective for getting things done open floor plans. Yes they have private areas I know but they are the exception. The offices should focus on the needs of freelance professionals and provide a better workspace than the FREE library that is in every city.
Loot boxes are just the tip of the iceberg of predatory monetization
In regards to how religious beliefs are treated in the USA, it's not restricted to the major religions of the world. Someone's communication to their God does not require a many thousand year lineage, it doesn't even need to be able to be communicated in a comprehensible language to others.

It may be that some people aren't professing sincerely held religious beliefs, but if they say they do then as the law is written then it must be respected by their employer. The employer is able to ask some clarifying questions about the religious belief and they only have to provide what would be considered a reasonable accommodation.

The law can certainly be changed but besides the difficulty of the process the implications of allowing the government to gain additional control over what is an acceptable religion sounds like a great way to lead to additional religious pogroms.
I don't see how. 'global' is right in the headline.
Totally understandable. Star Wars might have been created only because Lucas couldn't get the rights to adapt Flash Gordon. Spielberg signed on to Indiana Jones after Lucas told him he had a better idea than simply making a James Bond movie.
Someone is doing a Hyperion adaption?! Man. That could be some GoT/HotD level of scope.
Hungary desperately needs EU funds and it would have lost several billion euros is it had blocked this.
any easy way to try it on windows (not wsl) ?
If we're going to listen to reactionary wisdom of folk sayings, I've got a long, long list of ones that will provide us with all sorts of simple-to-grok, contradictory, and utterly pointless advice for how to steer our politics.

And this particular one works just fine if you reverse the adjectives. After all, the justice system is generally the one responsible for executing people. It does tend to apply itself in a rather... Unjust way - but that's just one of life's little ironies.

If you're asking people to listen, you're going to need to actually express your arguments, instead of vaguely gesticulating in the general direction of a 'Four legs good, two legs better' poster.
Considering this is a piece in the style section I find that almost impossible to believe. Seems much more likely that they're just being a bit dishonest about why these kids are "luddites" because it makes for a better story.
He paid them money for a phone they themselves lost and then charged him for. He should reasonably expect support for that transaction and any situations that stem directly from that transaction. Furthermore when you do something that deleteriously effects people like take away access to more than a decade of email/files/photos/contacts not to mention apps and other purchases for which google was indeed paid you should expect that action to reasonably generate a support request and actually provide it in case as in this situation it is unreasonable and unjust.

But its free isn't an automatic get out of jail free card for the expectation for a company to behave like reasonable human beings.
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A friend and I spent a month throwing together a visual rule engine product– wanted to share it with HN today. I've been building automation tooling for a few years at prefix.app and one of the messier things both to support and to teach users was around encoding logic in their automations– most folks get a hold of the basic concepts quite easily, but every (visual) automation tool out there seems to have their own way of actually pulling it all together.

For small decisions those work great! But for bigger decisions and more complex logic we don’t think it makes much sense to be embedding logic in these platforms. A surprising amount of resources can get spent trying to work around seemingly arbitrary constraints in UI’s, entire processes usually need to be reconfigured/redeployed when a single decision point changes, and it’s pretty difficult to surface data around what are sometimes pretty important choices that get made from inside automation tools.

Generally speaking, both for automation tool providers and automation users logic seems like a pain to support– and we think these folks should probably focus on managing actions and states over implementing graph UI’s and logical operators, so we built Rulebricks– inviting you all to check out our product and would love any feedback.
You're really missing out if you haven't watched "Severance" and "For All Mankind".