skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does appear to also be a problem in Tokyo [1] Houston's economy is still recovering from a natural disaster [2]

Are we sure this is not simply the product of a global shift towards populations migrating to urban centers? And maybe we might want to look at what is causing this rapid migration? For example economic growth has almost always gone hand in hand with rapid urban migration.

"We know of no coun-
tries that either achieved high incomes or rapid growth without substantial
urbanization, often quite rapid." [3]

So it appears that your solution to reducing housing prices, caused by economic growth, is to increase construction, which causes economic growth, which causes urbanization, which then leads us back to rising housing prices.

What am I missing here?

[1] http://japanpropertycentral.com/2018/02/rent-in-tokyo-reache...

[2] http://cokinoslaw.com/flood-hurricane-harveys-180-billion-im...

[3] https://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTPREMNET/Resources/489...
> "A 2015 study[0] shows that the real culprit could be as simple as less state support per research institution"

But that's still a "because they can" reason.
Thanks. I used to be a C++ user when there were no better languages for rapid GUI application development around (C++Builder/Delphi were the best). I've switched to C# with WinForms many years ago. Now I'm going to try Qt5 with Python (just because there is no WinForms designer for Linux, nevertheless Qt Creator doesn't feel as intuitive as C++Builder, VisualBasic and WinForms designer did though I believe it can do the job) but I'm certainly interested in the web GUI world as writing a single app that is going to run on every computer (smartphones included) seamlessly via a web browser feels extremely appealing.
Just send the metadata and the hex dump.
The Philosophy of Ruby
For undergrad, yes.

Having interviewed 500+ people at this point (and screened many many more resumes and github accounts), i'd there are rarely, if ever, meaningful differences in quality of candidate based on where they got their CS degree from.

I see much greater variation in masters/graduate candidates than in undergrad.
I think its the danger part that was not sufficiently recognized and is only now being realized. When the personal data was used to sell soap, nobody really cared. When its used to instead sell political agenda and conspiracy theories... that is when the danger starts.
Thanks for the pointer! It's been years since i read the book, well before Internet days. I should have done my homework before posting.
IMOP the best profession for a generalist is entrepreneurship. Not that entrepreneurship doesn't entail its own hardships though.
It gets even more bizarre. Rockland, Putnam, and Orange get board members but they only get 1/3 of a vote each. Three different unions get non-voting board members, as do three commuter councils (which are in turn not membership organizations but made up of political appointees).

I'm amazed they even manage to even get minutes printed with a board organized like that.
Local and state governments in the US build most roads and are responsible for them. When the roads are built in a way that causes lots of accidents at a particular intersection (even though the people "at fault" in these accidents are the drivers themselves) people expect the government to improve the roads and reduce the harm.

So likewise, Facebook's choices in how it presented content (giving equal weight to the NYTimes and fake news generated for profit in North Macedonia) and mechanisms for maximizing likes, views, and engagement, allowed lies and nonsense to blossom on its platforms.

This isn't an issue that's restricted to any individual political party or cause, though the people in North Macedonia have been clear that "right" fake news sold much better than "left" fake news in 2016.

Facebook build the roads here and made decisions about the tools to navigate those. Users are using those tools as designed to get maximum engagement and profit, causing the propagation of memes, trolling, and lies over quality content that doesn't generate the same metrics but costs much more to produce and fact-check. That people lie isn't Facebook's fault, but like any local government, now that they know their design is contributing to problems, some expect them to address that. Same would go for the owner of an event venue that's being used weekly to promote a violent cause, even though that owner isn't responsible for the tenants, they do choose to give them space to organize.

I'm not taking a position on what exactly they should do, but I want to be clear: regardless of if there is a scapegoat effect or not, claims of Facebook's degree of measured responsibility have clear precedent.
Sure, can't argue with that :)
You can patent a technology and not put every single parameter and process optimization and detail of supporting systems into the patent. Semi fabrication is pretty much the most complex manufacturing process that humans do anywhere.

It's like building a nuclear bomb. Any high school physics nerd knows perfectly well how it works, but the US performed over a thousand nuclear tests for a reason. The fine tuning is important.
> a company that adds so little value to human life (at least in its current form).

Only place I hear this is on Hackernews and Reddit. It's not a coincidence these are two sites where a huge portion of users are socially awkward single males in their 20s. For pretty much every other demographic on the planet, Facebook adds incredible amount of value to people's day-to-day life. They discover their long lost friends/classmates through Facebook. They can keep in touch with each other's life events from thousands of miles away. If that's not "adding value to human life", then I don't know what is.
The War on Feedback
Facebook received largely anodyne coverage for most of its life; it's only been the last few years that people took a critical eye.

And I don't understand your media argument. "The media" spends a tremendous amount of time analyzing and criticizing its own output, even within institutions. If anything, the media tends to catch flack for too much navel-gazing instead of covering actual news.

Facebook would benefit from some of that introspection, rather than top-down order-following.
Probably because it seems doubtful that ten million people (the estimated number of illegal aliens in the US), tanked wages for everyone in a country of 330 million.

It's curious you immediately point to illegal immigration as the big obvious factor with no citations to support your claims.

The fact is wages have been stagnating since the seventies and most people attribute that to the weakening of unions, offshoring, and automation before illegal immigration.

The US is producing twice as much today as it was in 1984 with a third less workers. That seems like it'd have a much bigger impact to me. And painting immigrants as the reason American's qualities of life has dropped off seems disingenuous, simplistic, and prejudiced.
Carbohydrates are also the cheapest calories.
No, I don’t think 25,000 positions will disappear. I think many previously filled positions will become unfilled as those employees get hired by Amazon.

Obviously, many (most?) of those positions will in turn be filled by someone else (and so on). But because of a strong preference to hire locally, that imbalance tends to ripple through the local labor market for some time before enough new labor is brought in to cancel it out.

Point is, dropping 25,000 “new jobs” into the local economy does not result in an automatic gain of 25,000 new taxpayers, so acting like it’s an automatic $3.75 billion in net new taxable income is just absurd. Eventually it may get close to that number, but there will be a significant lag before it gets there.
The company is most comfortable being at war. That's the first thing I noticed when I started working there. People glorified the days when they were fighting head-to-head with Google or before that with the other social networks. They reminse with pride about the "lockdown" periods when everyone would not leave the office for days to fend off a competitor. It's kind of an intoxicating feeling when everyone around you is driven to win, and I liked it.

However, I don't think it's the best environment to be creative, that's why I think FB has to rely on acquisitions to keep the growth going (except that on the infrastructure side of Facebook it is very creative and has the time and space for innovation, hence all their awesome open source stuff).
I’m not saying I’m a serious talent, but I’d sell my soul for the right price. Assume many others would do too.
I'm the indie developer of a marketing tool/community (https://storyoriginapp.com/) for self-published authors like the ones mentioned in this article.

Not necessarily related to the article, but for other interested in the learning more about the self-publishing world.

Courses and training for authors on how to use Amazon ads, Facebook ads, build an email list, etc. has become incredibly easy to find. Some of the bigger names in the space are Mark Dawson, Nick Stephenson, Joanna Penn, Derek Murphy, and the 20BookTo50K community.

Authors are now essentially internet marketers who also happen to write books.
You are conflating two separate things. Stalls in the aerodynamic sense (angle-of-attack above critical) have nothing to do with the engine "stalling" (engine-out) which is a mechanical failure.
Seems like there’s a third possible option as well. Allowing the links but not allowing copyright infringement?
> The assumption is that in a fair game, Americans will find a way to win.

Perhaps that's exactly why China feels the need to cheat? From their point of view, the deck was stacked against them. They need to even the odds.
I think its great. What better than a scumbag like Zuck to actually wake people up?
> International companies in a rush to get access to the largest single market in the world

and relatively cheap labor.
How do you flag a comment? I can only flag a post.
Well, a fax definitely isn't secure...
If you're joining a company because it's prestigious and looks good on a resume, instead of because you see the opportunity to do good work and learn from people better than you, you aren't a hacker--you're just some wannabe seeking affirmation.
Click the timestamp to view the comment directly. You should see a "flag" option.
Don't make it one-sided, "bad" only.

Make it proactive, but search-only. Search for your recruiter company or individual by name and see how many "good or bad references" this specific entity or person has.
American here. I own two different companies in China.

“In order to do business in China, non-Chinese companies must Partner with a Chinese company.”

These days, what you’ve asserted here, is only true in a very limited set of circumstances.

For example, one of my companies is an engineering/supply chain consulting firm and the other is a fully licensed CM factory. With our factory, I have the China government paying me VAT tax rebates on export. I don’t have a Chinese partner, for either of these companies.

That said, it is very difficult to get setup here, without a Chinese partner. It is a difficult convoluted process. And, the locals have no incentive to see a foreigner succeed.

But if Americans want to own a private factory here, and more fully control their own IP and what they allow Chinese nationals to see. From my view as an American that owns a factory in China. They can do it!

Get on a plane, come over here, stay a couple years getting it done, and voila, you own your own factory in China, without a Chinese partner.
>But in Facebook's case, they did not hesitate to commoditize disinformation and propaganda.

They're just in the business of making the world more open and connected (TM).
The cynical part of me is in complete agreement. I hate that I assume ulterior motive to charity, but Bloomberg wants to be in politics, and this is a big move at the very beginning of the primary races.
Don’t we need both?
You can see the modified logo with just arms here:
https://youtu.be/3RHo68RDFtU?t=8
Actually, it is. -This is what democracy, and giving tax powers to the state is about. We get to tell them, by virtue of what we vote for and how that translates down into tax code.

I welcome the donation, but I am suspicious of what ensues. Given the mix of public and private tertiary education and the mix of debt and grant funding, It's pretty complicated. If this levels-up Johns Hopkins against the ivy league, remember its still private education. It won't neccessarily redress all the imbalances inherent in university study. It might help, it might hinder. Its not clear

(on an individual level, I am sure it will help enormously. I'm trying to draw a distinction between individual benefit, and societal benefit as a whole)
To know the truth about the world we live in.
Spoken like a true former employee.
I think the real answer is:

1. Higher income tax across the board

2. Decreased wages for college and University staff. Fewer executive and bureaucratic positions. Just at one CUNY college there are about one hundred positions at or above the level of a department chair. It has fewer than 17k students enrolled.

3. Eliminate all competitive sports across all schools and colleges. This is just noise that nobody needs.

4. Reduce mandate of colleges and universities. No, a college is not supposed to decide whether an assault took place. Also, it makes no sense for a college to have to pay for campus police. Who came up with this nonsense idea?

5. Focus on reducing costs. Reduce if not eliminate most regulations state legislatures have forced on colleges and universities. Consider getting rid of freaking people soft to manage student records. Does it make sense that students have Employee ID numbers (EMPLID)? Who makes these decisions?
>the negative externalities of Western consumption, including pollution.

That pollution is their own choice. Companies will take advantage but its certainly a choice of the Chinese.

As for why China is treated differently...they act differently. America trades with many countries and China is unique in many ways.
It is not a good comment at all. I know its the go-to reaction for engineers in SV to empathize with a fellow engineer and portray him as a martyr in the altar of an east-coast elitist media. But please look at the facts and details of what NYT has uncovered.

> It seems to me that Zuckerberg doesn't know that he's in a media scapegoating situation. When you've become the scapegoat, there is nothing you can do to stop it. You can observe the scapegoating mechanism, but even that will likely do very little to halt it in action.

He's much much smarter than you give him credit for. A lot of folks think of him as a clueless programming genius, but this is brilliant guy who understands politics a lot better than most engineers in SV. All the feel-good tours were not for his personal political ambition, but to create goodwill for his most precious, valuable child, Facebook. And he has done every thing in his power to cut the criticism, scapegoat critics and regulation.

> The media cannot accept (or comprehensively address) its own culpability for the 2016 election. So let's put the blame on those guys, over there, instead of looking at ourselves.

Certainly there is some aspect of that. But please lets look at the facts. Facebook did hire a PR firm that spread Soros-based conspiracy theories against its critics. They fired Stamos when he exposed the extent of Russian intervention and kept quiet or dismissed the magnitude of Russian activity until it became untenable for them to do so.

All the steps they have taken to become better, have been forced onto them ... by who? Its by the Media. The media uncovering facts about the company. That's their job: to bring to light these facts. Let them do their job, and lets hope Facebook does its job as well.
By all accounts RTX delivers negligible visual improvement for games, for a huge performance hit.

The technology is a lot more interesting in professional 3D modelling where light baking and rendering can be done much faster.
After you've used it, absolutely. I wouldn't dream of using something I paid for and then demanding money back after I've used the item.

> is there a moral obligation to keep a bad product?

No, but I feel there's a moral obligation to not ask for your money back for a product you didn't like after using it. This of course doesn't apply if the product is faulty/broken such that it can't be used.

Do you do that for other things in your life, like demanding money back after watching a movie you later decide you don't like, or do you just walk out of restaurants without paying if you decide you didn't like the food (after eating it)?

A cultural difference, I guess.
There's a ton of things which impacted the 2016 election (disproporionate representation, 24 hour news cycle's obsession with Trump, foreign interference, people seeming to get most of their media from social media, disinformation, billions of dollars of dark money, disenfranchisement, Comey, etc).

However, Facebook's stock has dropped from a high of 220 to 140 (today) in less than six months.

That seems like an actual Facebook crisis to me.
No. The remote data can use any kind of SQL database (SQLite or otherwise), or does not need to use SQL at all (and even if it does use SQL, the view does not necessarily have to resemble at all the actual schema that the server uses to store the data). It does not even have to be stored data; it can generate the data on demand if needed. It is not direct database access! You have public access to the data, as the server implements it.

A few examples may be possible to specify. I mentioned above movie showtimes and weather; even if they come from different services, you can make a joined query on the client side, such as to find all movies playing within ten miles in places that are not raining, or whatever. Another use is you might hvae some set ofdata that occasionally gets updated (e.g. Magic: the Gathering cards Oracle texts), and you might make a local backup with incremental updates (which will be efficient if there is a last updated column, and the server can use such a constraint in the WHERE clause (if the server doesn't support the constraint, the client will interpret it and download all data and filter it), so that you need not download the data that you already have). Another example is remote databases that many people can help to add the data to (it can be writable too and need not be read only).

It isn't another version of SQLite; you can still use it with the ordinary SQLite (or implement the protocol even outside of SQLite; this protocol does not use any SQL codes, so it does not need to be used only with SQL, although it is designed mainly for use with SQL).
For sure it’s deserved, but as is often the case with scapegoats, FB is not the only one. The Gusrdian collects and sells used data to advertisers, for example.
Honestly? Snowden's leaks implied Obama did bad stuff; the Facebook scandals invariably point to mr. Trump.

(I'm comfortable with downvotes.)
The Soviet space program is an example of an economically unsustainable program kept alive by money being pumped in from external sources (govt tax revenue). Capital is most certainly required to make these programs work in order to purchase the fuel, basic materials, etc.

Open source is a good example of where innovation can work because all it takes is people donating their time. It doesn't require $15 million of rocket fuel and a $100 million rocket to make a commit to Linux.

Government-backed research works well when there is no immediate commercially useful aspect (e.g. basic sciences, space exploration), but it's incredibly bloated and slow compared to business R&D that has competition and motivation to make discoveries.

Where are the socialist programs producing processors competitive with Intel/AMD? Where is the socialist program producing an electric car people want more than Teslas?
In every game, every player assumes they can find a way to win. That doesn't imply unfair odds.
Yep that worked! Apologies for the briefness of my reply. I have a lot of flagging to catch up on this evening.
I've used btrfs as my main fs (with ample backups) since 2012. Plenty of file system corruption and backup restores in the intervening years, but I went from having it happen 4x a year in 2012-2013 to once a year by 2015 and never since 2016.

Its totally anecdotal to say just because my ~10 hard drives with it being stable for two years means its improved but I'd consider putting some faith in it now. A bit. With backups.
What game? they already won. The US makes nothing and now it is isolating itself, great move.
> The media cannot accept (or comprehensively address) its own culpability for the 2016 election. So let's put the blame on those guys, over there, instead of looking at ourselves.

After all this time, do you still not realize that Facebook is part of the media, perhaps even the biggest part.
Stockfish wasn't really configured correctly: they disabled both the opening database and the endgame database in the tests.

I dunno why AlphaGo devs would do that, aside from artificially gimping Stockfish on purpose.
I certainly wouldn't. And I assume many others wouldn't either.

There's plenty of jobs that offer just fine livings in relatively neutral ground areas. I guess they certainly have their workforce, so there's plenty of people who either don't care, or don't think it's wrong.

I met a youtube engineer who thought privacy was dead anyways, so what was the point?

Weird frame of mind for me.
What does this mean? And how would you transliterate it?
Yea I installed Signal yesterday. Open source, funded by a non-profit, default end-to-end encrypted, peer-reviewed encryption protoocl.
> Not even sure how it would work or even make any sense to have N:M handled by the kernel. N:M is usually a mainly a userspace thing.

Correct, I meant that the benchmarking program itself probably used that implementation. Not the Win NT kernel’s implementation of OS threads.
Hey as long as we're calculating here, let's talk about 1.8B as tax revenue. What tax rate would that be for someone like Bloomberg? Now apply that across the board to everybody making that much, how much tax revenue does it come out to? Extrapolating even further, based on today's split of public money going to education, what would this mean for public school (including universities) funding?
What part of my own advice don't I follow? I don't use web fonts. I use a popular serif font (Baskerville[1], falling back to other serif fonts if the user lacks that). I use the default font weight so text isn't too thin. I use high contrast (#000 on #fff) for readability with dim screens or old eyes. Links are underlined to make them obvious in body text. My CSS is 4.7KB, though only 1.8KB is transferred because I use gzip content encoding.

Honestly, I don't think my site looks as good as Butterick's, but I'm not a designer and I didn't spend much time on it. Also, my implementation is 1,000x more efficient.

1. I picked Baskerville because it's slightly more convincing than other fonts: https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/hear-all-ye...
We wouldn't have modern computers if it weren't for IP laws. The semiconductor industry would have collapsed and stopped investing fab research if they could have just waited and immediately stolen any better design.

I suggest you read up on "tragedy of the commons" and maybe some basic game theory to understand why there needs to be an incentive to invest in R&D for a company to do so.
> Tensorflow has ROCm backend support.

Why is it a separate repo rather than being contributed upstream to TF?