skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing, it's just hopium from people who haven't read the article, fishing for upvotes.
I was referring to the fiasco of 2019 where WeWork went from $50B to $5B while giving Adam Neumann a $1B payoff - did you miss that, it was on here all the time?

https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-ipo-fiasco-adam-neuma...

The SPAC merger (not IPO) in October 2021 at $9B but then it has continued to slide now down to $250M. That IPO does seem to be trying to get some value out of this turkey by passing it off to public investors.

There was never a viable business here, just hype. Going through its finances that are public, it has never made any money. Its net losses per year are roughly its income in most years. Its valuations were completely speculative.
Sure they could offload them (commercial leases are usually transferrable/sublettable),but if you offload them for pennies on the dollar, that looks really bad on the balance sheet.

Better to keep them and tell your shareholders that this is a temporary blip, and profits will be coming any day now...
I'm somewhat surprised by this. I'm currently working out of a WeWork and not only was it hard to get an office there, but they are constantly expanding the location I'm in and just opened the fourth location in a 1.5km radius. Cost is also rather high for a very small office (supposed to be for 4 persons, but if with 3 people it feels very crowded). The business of renting office space en masse and renting it out in smaller, much more expensive parts seems rather lucrative to me.

I'm in Hamburg, Germany for reference.
To my knowledge, there is no specification for monospace width. Applying the East Asian Width attribute as a proxy does not work reliably. So in my opinion, it is all a matter of agreeing on what's reasonable while keeping it simple. I.e. if allocating text-presentation Pictographics to a width of 1 is reasonable, that's what renderers should do. It's what users would expect.
> fix low rent

This is not so easy as it sounds at scale, landlords aren't stupid. AFAICT, the main model is that WeWork simply charged more per desk/office/unit of surface area than they paid in rent to the building owner. This can intuitively work because they rent office space in bulk but rent out individual desks, and prices for individual "items" are almost always higher than buying in bulk. Obviously that model only makes a profit if you can maintain high occupancy rates though, and with COVID and rising interest rates the demand for expensive pay-as-you-go office space fell through the floor.

Through that lens WeWork is indeed like a bank: they rent long-term and rent out short-term. Companies like that are very vulnerable to a "run" where all the short term renters suddenly leave but the long term liabilities don't.
Quite apart from any content/copywrite issues, this wasn't a useful tool.

It was a badly-made tool that didn't identify anything valid or worthwhile. The measurement of passive voice is a particularly clear example: that's not what passive voice is at all, and anyone who understands passive voice knows that it shouldn't be frowned upon [1].

"Just add tech" is not a recipe for usefulness.

[1] http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.html
I also transitioned into tech from Samsung ATX. Working nights in Cleans, doing a weekend Master’s at UT for SWE, and writing shitty CRUD at work to replace even shittier Excel sheets.

I didn’t particularly like the job, but I’m grateful for the opportunities that time and effort has given me.
And the other half of HN loses their mind when AI is brought up, completely missing the point made quite clearly in the OP that _no_AI_was_involved_in_any
_of_this_.

The AI hysteria on this site is ridiculous.
Having also used both for several months each, I feel the same way overall.

I will say that Unity has better documentation and more learning resources due to the much bigger community around it, but I still found myself reimplementing several things that felt really basic on top of the various APIs.

Unreal's documentation can be really lackluster here and there and it can be difficult to find forum posts regarding specific topics, but after digging you often a function or component that is just the thing for your needs.
The whole point of this system is that the difficulty is set to automatically increase when it detects it's under attack. That's why expected traffic and likely failure traffic are configurable options - when the server is experiencing a higher than normal load the difficulty is ramped up to dissuade those attacks. Yes, when this is happening a real user will also have a slower experience, but they would anyway if the server was being kept busy by the DDoS.
There's also the much more complex part of other jurisdictions. Japan already has largely said everything is fair game in AI.
This kind of whataboutery is an ignorant and insulting to people who’ve actually had to live through the horrors of communism, which are on a different order of magnitude to the horrors of capitalism, bad as they might be.
You can do it with a linear supply, a common mod that people do is actually to replace the lm7805 regulator with a pin compatible switching replacement for less power draw and heat generation.

I think ripple-free is by 1982 standards ;)
Yet, if you lived there you would be issued a Russian passport, your official documents would be from the Russian state; your police would be Russian.

And; if you lived in Laos, Cuba, Cambodia or Afganistan: you would currently be taking the opposite stance.

We owe it to ourselves to not permit the affectations of propaganda to convince us that we are consistently right, the truth on the ground is much more complicated.

I certainly believe Crimea is an invaded territory of Ukraine, but I cannot pretend that it's a wise notion to demerit the entire conflict down to "Crimea is in Ukraine".

It does nothing to help the people there, and is completely meaningless in the face of my initial comment: that while I could sell games to Ukrainians, I could not allow them to play from within Crimea... a territory you claim; is Ukraine. The implicit argument you just made is that we have created sanctions against Ukraine itself.
https://mullvad.net/en/account/wireguard-config

In the wireguard config section of their tutorials, there’s a spot to put a custom port - it’s really unclear from the docs but this allows you to expose out a service within the higher limits of the port ranges, and only on dedicated servers.

Really hard to find but they call this “city ports” over global ports because you have to set them up beforehand.
> You are exactly modeling the chauvinistic Silicon Valley attitude that is causing the outrage in the general population to begin with.

Just like the writers he talked to and got positive feedback? Everybody not agreeing with you represents "chauvinistic SV attitude"?
SoftBank in particular seems to fund a lot of fraudsters. I wonder why? Just the number of total investments SoftBank makes or is there less DD? Just yesterday I saw this news: https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/04/softbank-sues-irl-over-ela...
Does anyone know if China's economy is growing anywhere near their magic 7% rate they craved in years past? 14% drop in exports is huge for them. I'd expect that without those industries greased some of them must be writing off debt. When debt is written off, the money supply shrinks. It is the nature of every national currency I know of in the present time. Money is debt. It is created as soon as some loan is made.

Could be a start of a vicious cycle of write offs, layoffs and worse. The Chinese are known to be savers in the past and they saw the worst of inflation like many places. Few people were expecting deflation. But there it is.

Last year someone said that Beijing was bent on invading Taiwan but didn't because of floods. Perhaps the report I saw recently was wrong but I believed floods as bad or worse are going on right now there. I have no malice for 2 leggers like me over there, if enemy or friend. Ultimately we are stewards of the same Earth and call ourselves members of the world. For now, at least.
Yes, it doesn't load for me (Europe).
The value of "historical artefacts" is determined by how many specimens remain, and how sought after they are. For whatever reason.

Aftermarket / modern replacement parts cater to a different market. They don't 'dilute' the historic value of original parts.

There is considerable overlap though. If anything, availability of modern replacements eases demand for original parts. Helping to keep those available for purists, musea, reverse engineering etc (and their prices reasonable). This should make both purists & non-purists happy.
I do just that on a regular basis with OsmAnd+. It's not Google Maps, has its rough edges but does it's job, provided your area is well covered.

For me two main drawbacks are no traffic and slow route [re]calculation, because it happens on device.
I think it applies to many technologies other than generative AI. How many devs actually think about ethics nowadays? I think it's all lost in the big companies they work for, behind the excuse that "it is not their job to figure out how their work is being used".

Interestingly, I think most devs would think twice before being paid for designing a missile. But somehow they don't really seem to think about the impact of work that is not obviously a weapon. Social network, Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, SpaceX... everything disruptive has the potential to be very bad (I see a lot more harmful use-cases for ChatGPT than legit ones, but maybe that's just me). But somehow engineers seem to believe that it is not their problem.
>Oh, you can also allow canvas fingerprinting, but that seems like a bad idea - maybe in a separate firefox profile just for sites like this one..

No it won't help. That is big problem with finger printing. It basically logs your computer hardward with the profile.

So no matter how many times you make new profiles. This can be mitigated via VM. However with bugs such as zenbleed, VM may not be enough.

Nothing is private has a good demo. https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/nothing-private
That is reason why we need to not allow WEI or anything like that on massive scale.
I guess we can never know, but I strongly suspect they've never sounded the same, similar, but not the same.
If you’re talking about McCarthyism, then yes, similar dynamic. If you’re talking about today, then don’t be silly.
The most annoying part about bc is always having to type "scale=5" before you start otherwise it makes you think all your answers are integer.
Now if we also get back some drug manufacturing we might even be ready for the 21st century
If right now we found a weird island with a population identical to that "common ancestor that goes way further back", the general population would label that ancestor as an ape - while it's not the same as any of the modern species of great apes, they were morphologically similar to primates as such, not something totally alien or conceptually different.
That's disputed (literally :P)
Don't get me wrong - I never saw the value! Just answering the question.

Why in 2021 did they give him that payout? Likely because they thought it offered the best ROI moving forward (and for some shareholders, especially anyone who sold at the post-listing peak, it did).

It definitely wasn't recognition for past success.
No, you're misunderstanding. First, they sold a lot to established companies who would get a whole office in the building to seem cool. I believe that's where most of the profits came from. The startup/hotdesking was there as well, but I don't believe it was as profitable. Otherwise, WFH would be a boon to them. Companies have paid for WeWork desks for their WFH employees/meetings to avoid needing office space. They would be doing great now.

The problem is their business model was to sign long-term leases with buildings and short-term leases with their customers. So they are paying 2018-2020 rates on office space, but leasing out at spot rates of 2023 office space.
Both the former and latter are information for writers. Neither create massive competition for writers (not that there is any law against creating competition), just FUD and better tools for writers.
To be fair, the announcement came with the option of asking for refunds, and I have no reason to doubt them. My few interactions with their support were pretty good.
Where would you like me to start? The apparent variance between list syntax accepted by the reader and emitted by the printer, the brambly thicket of special-case operators and grammars ('o' for function composition? Square brackets to reduce over an operator? Square brackets with a backslash to map? - I remember the "Periodic Table of the Operators", but even by that standard this is wild), function signatures as first-class values (...what?)

But honestly, I don't think I can provide actually useful feedback here, because I'm pretty sure nothing I'm doing is similar enough to anything Raku is doing for the conversation to really make sense.

Everything I've just described, and much else about the language, strikes me very much as needless complication for the sake of complication, the sort of thing that earned Perl 5 its "write-only language" sobriquet by encouraging, if not necessitating, the development of idiolects among its users - and Raku if anything seems to do much more of this than Perl 5 ever did.

That's not actually a bad thing for a small codebase maintained by one programmer, for whom the high cognitive complexity imposed by the language design can be managed by mostly working within their idiolect. But my experience has been that the maintainability of such a codebase decreases as at least the square of the number of people working on it, and that quickly becomes a catastrophe in the sorts of very large codebases, shared among tens or hundreds of engineers, in which I've spent the bulk of the last decade working.

That's not a world in which I see Raku being able to survive, and my experience there has led me to value languages and practices that are actively as un-clever as possible - because the cleverer something is, the harder to understand, which becomes a real problem when understanding it is necessary to resolve an outage denying service to millions of users.

That's also not a world in which I would expect Raku to try to survive, because it's obvious to me that that's not what Raku is meant for. Nor should it be; that that's not the place for such carefree, freewheeling weirdness for weirdness' sake isn't the same as saying no such place exists. It's just that that's a place I'm glad I don't live any more.
If you don't find it useful, don't use it. But why get outraged about something that others find useful? It's clearly a tool that other writers were positive and excited about. Why not let them have it? If you don't find those quantifications meaningful, so be it. You don't need to use it. Why force your opinion on others?
Thankfully the original work is now out of copyright, and there is an English translation here: https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Ilhome.php
It’s not related to the article, but the UK is currently restructuring its farming subsidies to, among other things, encourage sustainable farming and mitigate food security risk.

Basically everyone is unhappy about it for some reason. Some sheep farmers were told to reduce their flock by 90% or so.

But on the other hand, the pastures they’ve traditionally used to graze can no longer sustain such flocks (although this is controversial, it seems borne out by my reading). So if they continue to consider only profit motives, the pasture will end up dead and they’ll be out of work anyway.

It’s a hard problem that ought to have been solved decades ago.
How can he do it anonymously when we already know he's the only one who has it?
Your assumption is unjustified TBH, because HN comment section is not representative of retro community. Now I also cannot understand how something can feel same as old historic device - this is not true even for differen gens of the same hardware. Say Apple-IIe feel substantially different from IIc and deeifferent generations of Sony PS 1 are also feel different.

In any case I would agree with title "100% new C64" if it were made from silicon level replica of chips, not FPGA's, much like new 6502 sold on aliexpress are generally good replicas of NMOS 6502, with the quirks and even current consumption faithfully reproduced, not some Xilinx Spartan-based simulacrum of the real thing.
Just the cost of doing business. Quite sure the fines are lower than the gains. So this kind of behaviour will continue in the future.
> If

Yes, if. We can, and we have, but instead the field has been usurped by junk science, and those who would dump industrial waste on us and into the water supply.
I’m just annoyed at how much they spam LinkedIn by posting the same remote job listing in 500 different cities.
> I think it must be bizarre for why people want original artwork, and do not value replicas. You folks, _bizarrely_ fail to understand what is _historical value _ and what is _period-correct_ _substitute_.

No, I understand it, but yes, I think it is absolutely bizarre. Both can be true at the same time. To me the value in an original over a replica is purely whether or not a bunch of purists are willing to pay more for the original, which I find both bizarre and hilarious. To me the original has no additional value over the resale value - if anything it's value may often be lower if I suspect its age means a higher risk of having to replace components down the line. So, sure, if I were to buy one for the sake of potential financial value I'd value original, working parts because I know some proportion of others care. But if I bought one to use and found some parts had been replaced, I wouldn't stop calling it a Commodore 64 whether or not the replacement parts were original.

But in this case, the price for a Commodore 64 is still low; not even purists are willing to pay much for them.

> First of all neither FPGA's nor MCU are not going to "react the same way to electric signals", cause contrary to what many think, FPGA's are not tabula rasa you can put any digital design to - there are limitations to what can be synthesized. Secondly, 6526 to 8251 is not only period correct, but also a change made by manufacturer themselves, therefore has almost zero historical impact.

For the fidelity required for a 6526, it very much is reacting close enough or it wouldn't work as a drop-in replacement. I don't care if there's some sort of deviation that is small enough that it has no relevance to it's correct functioning in the real hardware. As for "period correct", I couldn't give the tiniest little shit, as the long as it works, as unlike the SID or VIC, there's no "works correctly but the output is different enough to affect my enjoyment of the machine".

> There is no way a new design, with almost everything replaced by FPGA's can be called Commodore 64, as much as a Ford-T with a brushless electric motor and lithium baterries can be called Ford-T. You can call it replica, and sell it to those who to pretend they own a historical car, but for everyone who truly understand value of old and antique, that would be laughable.

Of course there is every way in which something with everything replaced can be called a Commodore 64: All it takes is people choosing to do so. For me, whether or not I'd call it a Commodore 64 would come down to a subjective assessment of how similar it is. If you changed the physical appearance, that'd be a no for me, but replacing a part that doesn't affect the way the machine works? Sure. I wouldn't try to pass it off as an original, but I also wouldn't care one bit that it's not original, because I don't have any interest in a "historical artefact" but in the nostalgia of being able to use something which feels like the original.
This is a wildly off-base comparison to make, I'd be impressed if your comment stays up for long.
"suby", not "subby" :). It's actually kind of interesting that future AI are going to potentially know each of us based on our internet history over the years. It reminds me of this (https://twitter.com/marvinvonhagen/status/162552070776865996...) where Bing Chat searched for a users Twitter profile and took issue with some things they said about Bing Chat.

Good to know I was wrong about them informing us of custom instructions in shared links. I was basing that statement from reading their about custom instructions page, https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8096356-custom-instructi....

> Your instructions won’t be shared with shared link viewers.

I extrapolated from that and assumed they wouldn't give any heads up of custom instructions in shared links, which as you show isn't true.
Intel provides open source drivers GPU drivers for GNU/Linux. As long as that remains true it is unlikely they'd try to collect telemetry through those drivers. If they do, it would get stripped out long before it reaches the kernel.
Street Fighter 6’s Four TMNT Costumes Cost Almost as Much as the Game
Chrome OS Flex: a good start with zero follow-through
This complaint seems odd. First complicated is obviously not in the original text, it's in Greek. I guess what you mean is "No words I would translate as complicated are in the text" but then your complaint just becomes a tautology. Saying Pope's version from the 1700s is more like what you were taught in school is similar, it's probably the version you or your teachers read so it shaped what you were taught. Essentially this comes down to saying it's different, but that doesn't make it bad.
A car has the potential to be used for illegal activities. In fact happens every second, but that does not mean we go out of our ways to make them illegal.

That said, it is still an open question if the content generated by LLM is illegal. It only generates content that is inspired by some authors work, it is not recreating their work, only their style. Humans copy each other all the time in writing, music, art, you name it.
…also their atoxischste

Edit: I mean auto complete
It's only surreal when you think what ChatGPT is saying is 'real', when in fact it's 'just tokens'.
A quick search says it's actually ticks, which is OS and machine dependent (kernel tunable). Nanosecond resolution is not enough for a seed if it's a real datetime, so the 32-bit truncation is a separate problem.
> The article itself is clueless… it doesn’t engage authors’ concerns at all, and just portrays authors as stoopid AI-fearful luddites.

Going off of some of the tweets about this that initially whipped up the outrage about this…it’s not like they were making a nuanced case about their concerns, they were basically just stomping their feet and shouting.
Drawing from my experience in the eDiscovery field, I want to emphasize that there's no necessity for video or audio content. Rather, a tool can be developed to convert all audio into a text layer. This text layer can be extracted from the local files sourced from platforms like Zoom. Subsequently, AI/ML can be employed to process and analyze this data, providing valuable insights that compromises companies' intellectual property and sensitive information.
I can’t find the doc or post but it’s old. It’s 10 lines of code that resemble all ops you need for computation. Pseudo code but it refers to itself in an interesting Quine way.

http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-progra... Isn’t the link I was looking for but I think it’s the blog.
Either it gives you so much that you never learn anything of use from those iterations or it gives you too little that you might as well write it from scratch (and get better quickly).
But $1000 a month seems cheap compared to an office manager?

That is, a dedicated employee for receiving, kitchen stocking, security management, and even utility management (how many novice office managers try cable Internet before buying fiber)
See here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37061786