skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article appears to be approaching the issue from a leftist perspective and only telling some of the story.

Here's some contrast: US manufacturing output has risen while manufacturing jobs have fallen.

https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/manufacturing-f... (data is from the Federal Reserve)
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That's right but may be NYC is trying to avoid becoming another Chicago?
"Certificate of Need (C.O.N.) programs are aimed at restraining health care facility costs and facilitating coordinated planning of new services and facility construction ... The basic assumption underlying CON regulation is that excess capacity stemming from overbuilding of health care facilities results in health care price inflation."

Two paragraphs in and I need to stop reading this, I'm getting murderously furious.
This is why HQ2 is in Long Island City though, because that's how economic development programs work. Cities give incentives to minimize the risks involved in locating in a less desirable location.

It absolutely would've been smarter for amazon to remain in midtown like they currently are since it would be much easier to recruit from the suburbs many existing tech workers live in, but they would've lost over a billion of the incentive dollars they got in the process.
It's cool that you do this and I enjoyed reading the comment, but I'm not too keen on the idea of actively encouraging random strangers on the internet to try the same when they clearly are openly hostile. I can readily see that going bad places.

When I was on the street, people sometimes treated me like a zoo animal they could gawk at and would waste my time and energy and violate my personal boundaries by peppering me with invasive questions. No, they weren't going to be a positive social experience for me. No, they weren't going to help me brain storm or problem solve. No, they weren't going to do anything for me.

People who have nothing but contempt and excuses can just keep walking as far as I'm concerned. They don't need to listen to stories of how you behave, filter it through their mind and come to bizarre conclusions that are likely to just add to the problems of the poorest of the poor.
>In point of fact, a quarter of the 4,594 people surveyed by Pew Research between May 29 and June 11 report deleting the Facebook app.[1] Of those, half who qualify as young deleted the app.

For a population of 330 million, if you want a 95% confidence level and a 2% margin of error, you need only 2401 people in your sample. This is assuming the survey sampled appropriately (i.e. random selection methodology).

It is standard to take well executed surveys and extrapolate to the population. Calling it out is calling the whole field of statistics out.
The versions of Pascal that are practical aren't any safer than C.

With a properly designed programming environment, you don't need many bounds checks to begin with. Almost every embedded system can easily afford the cost of the few you can't eliminate.
Facebook’s PR blitz linked an anti-Facebook group to George Soros: report
Who? Anyone who knows that companies contract work out. At very few companies is every single function performed by employees.
Sirs

Big company gets critical piece published about a competitor: Good Lord, really? ... soz ... RLY?

This issue about fake news is really starting to get on my nerves (tits). Fake news is not a new thing and certainly was not invented in the current decade.

Sincerely

Angry of Andover
i dono about Groupon. with 'their more they sell more they lose' balance sheet, I thought they would go out of business in 2012 but they are still here, so maybe I was wrong about them?
They already do this, the excelsior tax break among other community development incentives are available to any employer that wants to locate in long island city. Small employers are probably less effective at leveraging these things, but nothing amazon is getting isn't totally open to the public.
> As a rider, there's no "cost" to having both apps, so I'll just check both

Sure, if you never left your country. I certainly didn’t want to register to Italy’s official taxi app - don’t wanna trust them my CC nor my life to horrible service I’ve received (same price as Uber, horrible car)
In that case wouldn't the alternative be having no insurance at all? How would that help?

Edit: I'm taking "government mandated third party payer" to mean something like the ACA mandate. If you meant a government mandated monopoly, then yes that's a terrible idea
I heard apart from Gecko most browsers still use immediate mode for rendering, which is insanely inefficient and does no caching.
China didn't ban all the transit boarding for those with low credit, just planes and first class HSR. You can take the normal train, which is still quicker than most countries.

No planes though. Planes are considered a luxury.
After reading the article, the impression I came away with was that they were choosing "comparable properties" that were recently re-sold big box sites. It seems that the municipality's appraisers take the infrastructure around the site into account whereas the appraisers for the big box stores are not.
Agree - in Brazil I also saw a few non-compliant paid political ads that should have been taken down, and there has been significant controversy re. professionally generated fake news on Whatsapp & fb having tilted results
>While that is obviously subjective and debatable, there really isn't any argument defending Facebook under the assumption that they are net negative.

That assumption is very much the point of contention here.
Yes, and that's a laudable goal, but it's not the same problem as the one the "low-fat" pointers proposal is trying to solve. The "low-fat" pointers proposal attempts to improve the safety of existing code.
And yet tests seem to have made this massive garbage heap actually work and enable a lump of spaghetti to continue to operate as a viable product. It doesn't mean you should write bad code, but it seems like if it can make even the most awful of code viable, then that's a pretty good system. The fact that modern medicine allows the most beat up and desperate to continue to live on isn't an indictment against medicine, it's a testament to it. Don't write bad code, sure. We can all agree to that. Don't prioritize testing? Why? To intentionally sabotage yourself so that you're forced to rewrite it from scratch or go out of business?
Such API’s should be mandated by government - after all road surface is limited resource hence its a natural monopoly.
Fwiw, E5 can make $400k-500k range or more. It’s an insane compensation just doing well on interview with 5 years of experience (know a few myself).
You're completely ignoring network effects i.e., the mob - the main reason to regulate social media - and the telephone doesn't have that, so it's not a good comparison.
This 1000x. It's fashionable to blame the shortage of SF housing on tech, when the truth is that NIMBYs have created the shortage over decades by not allowing high density housing construction.
I was about to just recommend you pandas, but just realized it doesn't natively support running sql on dataframes, but pyspark does!
How Zapier Reached $35M ARR
What is the extent of the Russian interference really though? Studies show it didn't change the outcome. We still don't really know who hacked the DNC, whether it was Russia as a hand selected group of people from intelligence agencies included was likely, or whether it was an insider as implied by Assange and security experts who looked at how fast the information was downloaded. We know Russia did take both sides on issues like black lives matter to "cause division" We know they created a "Buff Bernie" meme, but it really feels like a massive excuse by the Democrats for an embarrassing failure. The whole thing at this point has come to feel comical. Am I missing something or is this still all a bunch of nonsense strewn around for clicks and ratings?
The Extremely Large Telescope in Chile, which fits the "30 meter class" description, is scheduled to be operational in 2024.
> Even windows.forms was default in visual studio until like 2013 or so.

They are also bringing WinForms and WPF forward to work on .NET Core 3.0; and its still supported
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/10/04/update-on...
Yes, one needs to be careful and get good medical advice. Testosterone also has a link to prostate cancer, where one of the main treatments is blocking it (androgen deprivation therapy). There doesn't seem to be strong evidence it causes prostate cancer [1-3], but unless there is compelling reasons to try testosterone one can be careful & try other things first (starting with exercise, meditation, mindful walking). Also, even if one has "low" testosterone levels it may be that one's androgen receptors are more sensitive to it.

[1] https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/study-testosterone-therapy-does...
[2] https://prostatecanceruk.org/about-us/news-and-views/2017/11...
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4647137/
While there are some things that come up here maybe a few hours or days before the mainstream press gets to it (usually posted from a smaller press outlet), I've never seen an HN thread quoted or referenced here in the mainstream media. If you've seen one, I'd love to see it.

Also, just because sometimes there are some mainstream stories here (for example, a lot of WSJ, NYT, WaPo is posted here) doesn't mean that all stories posted here are mainstream. Most aren't.
Why can't high school students just take public buses which run all day anyway? (This is how I got to high school everyday growing up in England.)
Why not? He was petty enough to create a chick-hotness ranking software as revenge after getting rejected by Ashley Arenson at Phillips Exeter. His whole career trajectory has been one of building up his ego after perceived slights... he's CEO, Bitch.
Does Apple do the same with their fitness data on the watch?

You're free to speculate on the worst possible implications of their privacy policy too. Here's an excerpt from https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

Service Providers

Apple shares personal information with companies who provide services such as information processing, extending credit, fulfilling customer orders, delivering products to you, managing and enhancing customer data, providing customer service, assessing your interest in our products and services, and conducting customer research or satisfaction surveys. These companies are obligated to protect your information and may be located wherever Apple operates.
How are you single, healthy, and making 6 figures and only putting away 10-15% of your monthly income? I make less than half that and I can save 40-50% living in a similarly priced area.
I need info about APP creating
Is it worth it? and what were you guys exp. (experience)
Shrimpy-Institutional Platform Release
> Is there really $100b+ of investor cash floating around out there, getting spent on stuff like Uber?

Here are a couple links that might shed some light:

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

https://nvca.org/pressreleases/investment-venture-capital-ba...

*BTW, I’m actually surprised it’s not much higher than that, since private wealth in the US alone is > $100t. (https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-net-worth-surpasses-100-tri...)
Closure of ACE 2018 conference
Ya, it's kind of incredible. And it's equally incredible how few people seem to know about this. It'd be such an easy thing to fix, and it would substantially improve competition for hospital services. It's completely beyond me why this isn't getting changed.
I'm actually legitimately curious too. I'm a backend dev now, but I started working with CSS and frontend since early 00s and that's the only reason I know many of those things. For newer devs coming into web now, I have no idea how one would learn CSS quirks easily.
This is not a travesty. This is cementing NYC as the place to go on the east coast if you want to work in tech, and helping to diversify the NYC economy away from being so heavily dependent on finance.

Wouldn't it be nice if your options for working in tech didn't consist of a handful of large banks and hedge funds?
A healthy criticism is more valuable than fake enthusiasm, otherwise you will get the "emperor is naked" situation. They already got it.
Uber forbids price comparison in their TOS and actively threaten to shut down price comparison sites that use their API: https://www.wired.com/story/uber-and-lyfts-never-ending-ques...

I guess the plan for Uber was always to use low prices to win the market and jack them back up later. Price comparison would interfere with this plan.
I only use Lyft and I've had the driving in the wrong direction happen several times. It's infuriating.
This isn't even the whole story.

Uber has progressed to where they're raising directly from the people venture capital funds raise from, cutting out the VC, a middleman.
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I'm looking for a fast (non-cryptographic) random number generator. Preferably, it should have a relatively small state and it needs to be faster than the Mersenne Twister I'm currently using.
I do feel like they usually have rougher cars though. Not always, but on average.
fyi for anyone who might be wanting to search for the "billboard" games, they are commonly referred to as Sega's "Super Scaler" games.
This is actually kind of exciting because at least the probiotics are doing something. If they're strong enough to make you brainfoggy if you take too much, then maybe they actually can help you recover from depression/anxiety like some of the very popularized but yet still controversial research proposes.
Project Orion, the one that can hypothetically do 3% light speed, is definitely fusion as well. And the very high Isp versions of it are incredibly challenging to build (as you need like a magnetic shield to deflect the nuclear plasma ball). The more modest Isp versions are more realistic, but won't get you there.
Is Cryptocurrency a New World Order?
Is this the realdeal or all a scam?
I haven't checked the more 'obscure' services, but the Azure CLI is pretty decent nowadays. At least for VMs you shouldn't have to muck around with Powershell anymore.
NYC has absolutely just as much of a NIMBY problem as other American cities it's just the government at large cares less and people don't worry about traffic in the same way suburban areas being upzoned do. 25% of manhattan has some type of historic designation around it. Additionally, during the same period where the brooklyn and queens waterfront boomed with construction due to targeted rezoning, huge swaths of manhattan were downzoned from hells kitchen to the majority of the east and west village.

Additionally, there are hundreds of thousands of people who are rent burdened in New York, even in those places with so called cheap rent such as within south bronx.
More than a crowdsourced map: How OpenStreetMap is becoming a mapping standard
*on the surface.

It's beyond the frost line, so probably has deep icy oceans.
> Doing it properly requires a carefully designed interface to hide internal data structures, and splitting out the end user headers from the internal headers, but it works.

Out of curiosity, how? (If pointers or other mechanisms for memory indirection are allowed then it's pretty easy, so let's agree to ban those.)

Not a rhetorical question, despite the parenthetical.
Primer on Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork on November 15 at 16:40 UTC
I think just adding a simple low-pass filter on your distance measurements and tracking the derivative for PD control would cure that problem. Try it!
You can to some extent. The compliance requirements are daunting for many businesses.
I mean header files are C and C++ source files, so saying you didn't have to deal with them until using C and C++ is a tautology. Likewise, you won't have to deal with .py files until you're using Python.
The 25 million lines of code is only the source code of Oracle Database written in C.

The test cases are written in a domain specific language named OraTst which is developed and maintained only within Oracle. OraTst is not available outside Oracle. The OraTst DSL looks like a mixture of special syntax to restart database, compare results of queries, change data configuration, etc. and embedded SQL queries to populate database and retrieve results.

I don't know how many more millions of lines of code the tests add. Assuming every test takes about 25 lines of code on an average (every test used to consume about half of my screen to a full screen), we can estimate that the tests themselves consume close to another additional 25 million lines of code to 50 million lines of code.
The nuns helping save a sacred species
Sourcetrail 2018.4 released
Or maybe employees are being disingenuous with themselves
Is there serious research showing the state of speech on campus?

All I've seen is allegations and anecdotes and I fear an attempt to establish 'fact' via repetition, especially given the politicized nature of the issue (and this article and publication seem to reinforce the politicization problem). I find that only clouds issues - it's anti-information.
thank you. makes more sense now. much appreciated.
For those interested, Lou's pseudo-3D page goes over some of the techniques used in this and similar games: http://www.extentofthejam.com/pseudo/
Same here in Australia. My primary & high school buses were just the normal routes run by the local bus company, you'd often see 3 or 4 regular passengers on it as well.
> slave labor

Source? If you are referring to inmates who volunteer to fight fires, then you are just plain wrong.
I'm an east coaster that moved to the west coast for 8 years as an adult - and I have a large number of friends who have moved to the bay area from the east coast. As in, I could literally name fifty of them.

Is it expensive? Sure. But it's still pretty easy to move if you don't have a family tying you down. Moving anywhere is a pain, but people do it.
Absolutely this is the case. They trained the feed algorithm with years of A/B testing data and told it to optimize for engagement above all else. Well, guess what, this is exactly the same way YouTube trained their "Up next" algorithm and that's why you are 2-3 degrees of separation between cute cat videos and right-wing nazi/fascist propaganda.

When you optimize for user engagement above all else, this is what happens.
Schemes for memory safety of C code have already been applied to UNIXy OS's. SVA-OS with SAFEcode used FreeBSD.

Far as embedded, there were some done in Ada and a Java subset. There's even real-time GC's for that kind of stuff. One or two companies sell Java processors that run it natively. CompSci stays doing CPU extensions that could work with MCU's.
No need to give up, I know people who'd failed 4-5 times before getting their license. Maybe you need more time or a different instructor.
while it is true that you can easily switch from uber to Lyft or vice versa, there are only two of them. so they do have moats. its not easy for a new competitor to emerge unless they are doing something different like perhaps driverless cars.
many public libraries provide free subscriptions to Lynda.com which has some pretty good tutorials
I never said reddit was. The app in question isn't exclusively limited to content on reddit. Since anyone can post content from any website on Hacker News, there are several content sources and none of them are being displayed natively in this app.
We have a really old account, we still create instances in classic to this day. Every now and then we get some really bizarre problems that could be attributed to "account is ancient".
They're using a Payment in Lieu of Tax (PILOT) program [0]. I've been trying to understand why these programs exist for corporations but having trouble finding definitive answers. My hunch is that it's a marketing trick to help people stomach the tax breaks and go "oh, well at least they're building a school". Possible that it also allows for legal negotiation of terms like amount and payment schedule that can't be applied directly to property taxes.

[0] https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazon-selects-new...
It doesn't matter if the end result is a duopoly. The two need only stop competing and raise prices. It will be hard for a third entrant to come in because of the large cost to enter markets. The only viable entrant is, as mentioned Waymo, because driverless cars alters the economics and because they have the tech.
I don't see why people who spend 10-100x more than the average person should be treated the same as a casual user who uses it once in a while though. That's basic economics.
I guess I didn't realize someone would try this without letting the chlorine evaporate first. I should have worded it better: Chloride to kill the mold on contact, let dry, then vinegar to keep the mold away.
I think the developers who 'remastered' AOE2 struck a very nice balance between improving usability (high resolution displays, etc), minor graphics changes that still keep the nostalgia alive, and adding new content (new civs, units).
The article mentions that reality of more-output-less-jobs by stating that the workers are required to work harder, because the boss threatens automation if they don't. It is the fauxtomation (the author's word) that is scaring the workers to produce more.

I guess the point of view is leftist because it takes into account the worker's welfare. That doesn't seem like a bad side to be on...
> Nvidia will also put one on the market

Already done. Tegra Xavier includes DLA (deep learning accelerator).
From the link: "The entire fee is passed on to the driver."
Nothing reminds me how out of loop the Hacker News and Silicone Valley is from the rest of the America like an Uber post. It always degrades into an anecdotal competition on who had the worst experience with Uber and how amazing Lyft has been. The fact that they are growing 38% in a quarter at their scale and we're calling that 'slow' is pretty nuts.

Personally I've had good and bad experiences with both, but almost everyone of my friends outside of tech uses Uber exclusively and love it. Can't wait to see how the race to a better self driving experience goes.
it's basically always on sale
The price gouging here comes from owning the only hospital that serves a particular area, not from any sort of evil government insurance mandate. Your choices are:

a) pay high prices at the door of the hospital

b) pay high insurance prices (to the same entity that owns the hospital)

c) do without healthcare

Insurance mandates don't play any role here.
Worked for the Romans.
Any recommended links to more reading on his early days with those tactics?
Would you have preferred it if parent wrote that sometimes people are nice? I didn't read into parent's statement as much as you did. Sometimes communication is messy.
Mid 30s here. For me, fb is an easy way to connect with new people. Particularly useful when traveling or in a new school. You search by name, confirm the photo is of the person you're looking for, and bam, they're in your address book.

The rest of it - constant updates about mundane things - in other words, the whole news feed - can be ignored.