skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using yourself as a measure of these things is a horrible idea. Most impact is long term and not immediate to our personal lives. These shenanigans are deteriorating people's faith in the government and the country. This will have incredible consequences. Society runs smoothly when people feel their government is taking care of things. When people have reason to doubt their government, it naturally instills a sense of panic and self-preservation which I would expect hurts the economy in many subtle ways.
This is missing pointing everyone at a phenomenal ncurses git log viewer: https://github.com/jonas/tig

And another great bit: always do `git commit -v` for verbose commit edits. Read your diffs before you commit them.
> including the recent tax cut, which was a redistribution upwards in the income/wealth scale.

The net result of a tax cut, even if applied unevenly, would be less redistribution, by definition, not more.

> What exactly is "artificial housing demand"?

Supply and demand. Everyone obviously can't afford to pay $1 million in rent per month, thus market rents are substantially lower. Government intervention is creating artificial demand at a higher price point than would otherwise be sustainable.

> Agreed. It can only be solved by building more housing.

Why would a city build more housing when the wealthy control the poor with subsidized housing. They always have a steady stream of income thanks to welfare.

> UBI could in some cases, however, give some people the means to move away from high housing cost areas to areas where UBI goes a longer way towards providing housing for them.

The market has an answer for this. It's just going to raise prices in those more desirable areas.
The planet is much more crowded now and every piece of land is claimed by someone as owner. A mass migration won't be pretty. Just look at the Syria refugees and scale that up by lot.
A Future with Elon Musk's Neuralink
> sellers aren’t interested in experimenting...they just want their house to sell

Presumably sellers also want to maximize the money they get when selling. Why wouldn't they be willing to experiment on increasing that number?
I wish someone would tell me exactly what it is I should be worried about.

I get that there will be consequences to climate change that's how it's always been, but nature throws that at us all the time and have always been doing that. If anything we've just become better and better at dealing with it.

So I wish someone could provide anything other than speculation here.
Federal prosecutors investigating Huawei for allegedly stealing trade secrets
dunno if they still do it, but this was normal practice at Etsy when I was an engineer there (2013-2015). Every so often (once a quarter maybe?) I had to spend a day answering support tickets. We discovered (and fixed) a lot of bugs that way.
I noticed the shutdown of last year. In particular, my advisor(I was a doctorate student at the time) was informed he won a significant award by the NSF with guaranteed funding and was unable to recieve it until two months or so after the shutdown. (As a side note we were also disrupted by the immigration ban, and were unable to bring on excellent scholars to pursue research at our facility.)

I'm no longer in research, but of my companions who are, this is definitely being felt.
> They seem to have 13 carriers

20, I think; 11 large deck carriers (the regular fleet carriers) and 9 medium deck (the “gator navy” LHA/LHDs carrying Marine aviation.) There's two more fleet carriers (and another LHD) under construction, plus more ordered.

The rest of the world has something like 3 maybe/kinda large deck carriers (all smaller than the US ones), and handful of medium deck ones, and enough small deck ones that the total number of carriers is about the same as the US, maybe a few more, but nowhere near the capacity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_in... provides a starting point, but has some problems and inconsistencies.
Aaaah thank you! Much better. Not a big fan of icon, but that's just an icon. The sidebar was bothering me more.
It depends on how you measure that. They certainly were the first to make serious money by using simple regression to suggest 'people also bought'.

In general I think that all of the personal surveillance / categorization will end up being more truly profitable (as opposed to 'twinkie calorie' profits of ad networks) as they are used to suggest price points for products and services rather than to direct attention to products.
WeWork is a giant ponzi scheme on the brink of financial collapse. 2008 is happening all over again.
It absolutely is, please understand that I'm not american, and I believe the US Mil. budget is way, way, WAY over the top. But the opposite, not having any of it,

All we need to feel safe and be safe is a few nuclear weapons and a couple of oceans, both of which we already have. Everything else is either not a threat, not our problem, or not a military problem.
Automation of AzureDevops Workflow with Tomtit
Even if this was the reason everyone voted for Trump (a dubious claim at best), that still wouldn't make it the majority opinion because the majority of voters didn't vote for him.
Have you looked into the environmental effects of desalination?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/01/desal...
Towards Reverse Engineering FPGA Bitstreams for Hardware Trojan Detection [pdf]
Same here. I've had bad experiences, and AirBnB has not responded to complaints in any way. In one case, the host was so hostile that we left after staying one night. I've yet to hear back from AirBnB about it, and my review was not published either.
If a country were to take out all of our carriers I'm pretty sure nukes would be flying. At that point does it matter?
VCs are expected by their LPs to get 15-25% ownership. So there is no way for an investor to invest $2m on an $8m round and get to that level of ownership.
Gengo acquired by Lionbridge
We can deal with that so while it might effect it that doesn't mean they won't be able to get access to water. That's one thing we've become better and better at making drinkable.
Why would the owners of oil companies be interested in shifting away from oil? Why give up a perfectly profitable oligopoly? That doesn't make sense.
What he is saying is not that far off. When Monsanto sells those seeds, they include a contractual obligation not to resell the offspring seeds for planting. Whatever you feel about the validity of this contract, that's the current state of affairs. Monsanto also has patents on those seeds of the classical variety. That is, irrespective of their being genetically engineered.

The work around was to sell those seeds as animal feed, purchase the feed in bulk, which is a mixture of seeds and then spray a large amount of herbicide on the crop until only the Monsanto seeds are left effectively creating copies. The offspring seeds of that crop are then sold as feed and the process is repeated.

Monsanto argues that this is in effect making illegal copies of their patented seed even though the letter of the contract was not violated and that the feed sellers were infringing on their patents by selling the seed to be reused in plantings. It says all of this in the article you linked as well.
MongoDB should not be part of a stable release
I said 'problem', not 'illegal'. Other shareholders/boards/investors/employees should care.
Had a pretty similar relationship. I was the one that wanted to get back together though. But this one time he didn't apologize and did the most incredible 180 on me. Never felt so hated, almost killed myself [0]. I tried to engage once in a while, sometimes he would too. But would never act/talk "normal" again. He found a new bf and talked about how much he loved him just to make me sad [1]. And one day just minutes after insulting me all of a sudden he starts talking like the old him again. Wanted to meet up. Was so happy. He wanted to just hook up tho, not into that, but still I wouldn't outright say know, was very happy to meet him anyways. I tried saying something like "lets go eat something and we'll see what happens", but he snapped and started berating me again. And that was the final end of us, never messaged him again and neither did he.

[0] which what made me start reading about BPD
[1] he'd either talk about this or berate me, wouldn't mention anything else, work or anything. We were always super chatty about literally everything so yea
Is this not just a case of trade the rumor sell the news?
The OP didn't say the expansion was caused by the increase in marginal tax rates.

The coincidence does falsify the argument that raising tax rates would prevent economic expansion.
I typically then send that first refactoring commit to Github (on its own branch) so that it gets full CI test coverage. And then continue working on the fix/feature while it runs.
It's four penises.
Also, from the article, while traversing the solar system Oumuamua apparently changed velocity in a way not explained by local gravity or gas discharge. U.Thule may have had odd lighting, but I don't recall hearing it moved in an odd way.

"The most unusual fact about it is that it deviates from an orbit that is shaped purely by the gravitational force of the sun. Usually, in the case of comets, such a deviation is caused by the evaporation of ice on the surface of the comet, creating gases that push the comet, like the rocket effect. That’s what comets show: a cometary tail of evaporated gas. We don’t see a cometary tail here, but, nevertheless, we see a deviation from the expected orbit. And that is the thing that triggered the paper. Once I realized that the object is moving differently than expected, then the question is what gives it the extra push. And, by the way, after our paper appeared, another paper came out with analysis that showed very tight limits on any carbon-based molecules in the vicinity of this object."
Agreed, the '#' had a long history of indicating a channel, like on IRC, and by extension text-based communication.
This entirely depends on the real estate agent. For the company I work for, a decent amount of purchases are made from afar, where an agent really helps with finding and buying a property. Some of our purchases come through with "pocket listings", where an agent knows of a house or piece of land that someone would sell, and approaches the seller with a buyer already. How would you do this with tech?

There's also the agent's access to their rolodex, which new agents will not necessarily have, they'll depend on leads from zillow, trulia, knocking on doors, etc.

It's also "free" to buy with an agent.

For most higher end listings, it is expected that you do participate in the monthly mailer real estate magazines, that's just the cost of doing business. Brokerages do buy these in bulk, and can offer the discounts to an agent to participate in this sort of marketing.

All of this is pretty tough to do, you can't just wrap the MLS in a skin, make some signs and be in business. Real estate isn't just a tech problem, though there are some things you can do with tech to make the buying, researching and selling process easier.

You have to have distinctions for your specific market, some of these don't make sense nationwide, but are very important locally. For example, a "deep water canal for sailboat" is a term that comes up pretty often in Florida, an Ohana Suite is something that is often requested in Hawaii. Local knowledge matters unless you're in suburbia where literally every house fits into a formula consisting of: ++school - commute time + square footage - age of house +++in monthly payment. The formula would be different for every buyer.

Disclaimer: these opinions are my own, not of the company i work for.
Yeah, my mistake. From what I gather after reading more about it one only has to take care to dynamically link the qt parts when compiling a binary.
Compared to some other databases out there, MongoDB is a baby. These others... are not even born.
The impact at this point is mostly on government workers and the poor. I assume you're lucky enough not to be in one of those groups.

Most of the effects aren't immediate. The government does a lot of long term work, things that wouldn't otherwise be profitable. For example, with the shutdown, they've stopped inspecting our food supply. This will affect no one immediately. But in a few weeks, when we have our first e.coli outbreak, assuming we even hear about it (because that's something the CDC, another government org, tracks) then you can talk to those people about how it affected them, assuming they haven't died.

The government is currently missing their training and drills for hurricane preparedness. So in June-October, when a hurricane devastates some part of the US and everyone is screaming, "why aren't they helping people!?", the answer will be, "because they didn't get their training in January".

And right now NOAA isn't doing their climate research. So in 10 years, when there is a hole in the data that we need to fill out climate models, they won't be there. And no one will even remember why.

But no one thinks long term like that.
I think you've misread the thread.
Levels of Corporate Organization (cartoon)
I think the more important thing is to keep a single branch from using a shutdown as a tool to get their way. Government via hostage taking is not democratic.
Was using node over another language/ecosystem a baked-in requirement?
This is delightful!

And this phrase kills me (in a good way):

"The process isn’t entirely frictionless, which is why my phone vibrates lightly upon delivery"
I agree with you based on who is bringing the money to the table, but in most cases, the seller has signed a contract with the listing agent stating the fee structure for the deal before you made an offer on the house. The seller has obligated themselves to that structure, so you're not saving money by doing it yourself.

I found our house entirely myself, but brought in an agent on "my" side with whom I'd negotiated a 75bpp refund if I bought a specific property. I did and they cut me a check (out of my own money) at closing. In retrospect, I perhaps should have held out for a full point. (1 for the agent, 1 for the agent's brokerage, 1 for me)
This federal employee has to choose whether or not to use her small amount of remaining insulin: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-worker-forced-r...

Her blood sugar rose to a high level last week, but she said she felt forced to ignore it. Instead, she went to bed.

“When it gets that high you can go into diabetic ketoacidosis, you can go into a coma,” she said. “I can’t afford to go to the ER. I can’t afford anything. I just went to bed and hoped I’d wake up.”
Granted, the other way of thinking about it is that spending 5 billion on the wall is a lot less expensive than continuing the shutdown.
Sensing this is sarcasm relating to the restriction of freedom of choice, and would like to address it in a couple ways that might provide a different perspective.

The point isn't that gambling shouldn't be legal anywhere; it's that the current state of the government is unable to properly handle the social and financial oversight and fallout in regards to taking such immense measures. Compared to other state's tax rates, there is no reason why Illinois should be on the low (30%) end.

>the Video Gaming Act allocates just 5 percent of the revenue from the machines to local governments, even though they shoulder the bulk of the social costs related to gambling

Think about that - it's crazy. Five. Percent. Sometimes it is worth restricting the freedoms of individuals if they have a large net detrimental affect on society. At five percent they most certainly do. The majority of said society should decide whether restrictions are to be redacted, not a handful of politicians who live in the pockets of lobbyists.
Not in any way a defender of the current real estate system, but I've never understood this mindset. It presupposes completely irrational behavior on the part of the seller- that they will choose to give you a 3% discount for.... no reason at all?

Rational agents want to get as much money as they can for their homes, and begrudgingly pay any fees that they are forced to. If the seller gave you a 3% discount here for no reason, it would be the same as if they'd hired an agent- except, they wouldn't be getting anything for it? So why would they discount you the 3%? It's a zero sum transaction where your gain of 3% (very significant money in the Bay Area, as you note!) is the seller's loss.

IRL, real sellers will charge as much as they can. They are not giving out 4 or 5 figure discounts randomly or because they're nice. Do you randomly give strangers 4 figures of money for no reason?
That's still working for me, although it looks a little different than before. New messages show up as a white circle in the upper right. Being tagged shows up as a red circle in the same spot.
It’s also gonna make it way harder for the gov to attract talent for a while.
Are people really defending the military industrial complex? I have mixed feelings about it. The money the US spends on the military is bonkers but it does I guess work to dissuade people from attacking the mainland (domestic terror, the first and second attack’s on the World Trade Center and the pentagon not included) and all the spending has kept the dollar the most saught currency worldwide (not a fact just something I think might be true) and the big military allows the USA to keep it’s spot as the worlds reserve currency because it’s so secure and the government is relatively stable, etc., etc.

But we could spend 5% less and still spend more on the entire world combined and have tons of money for the sciences, social programs, etc.

I will admit many advances have been made in times of war but I would like to think that a stable country with decent spending in scientific research can keep that innovation going without having to have a race to see who can build the most accurate delivery machanisms for nuclear weapons or a faux space race to measure dicks and place the idea that one nation could put a giant nation ending laser in space.
The OP didn't say that it has to work perfectly to work. Capitalism just has to be better than the alternatives and society needs to do its best to fight back against the corruption and cronyism which corrupts it.

Too often people want to abandon markets and replace it with something that solves some of the problems but introduce tons of their own, instead of fixing obvious problems within the current system that was otherwise working well.

The better solution is a bunch of smaller experiments being run simultaneously in large economies (Ala at the state level) to see what works best. Instead of pretending we can have a one-size-fits-all best solution for the entire world.
Both.

2008 didn't substantively re-tether the financial markets to the real economy.

Governance mechanisms are beginning to crack.
I think this is pretty misguided. 3% of $100,000 is $3,000. Many housing purchases will be more than that, but let's just talk over $3k.

Some people will be very comfortable with dealing with negotiations, pricing their house (the quasi-ethical can even talk to a few realtors before hand to get their opinion), and doing the paper legwork.

Just because someone chooses to use their time and effort rather than forking out what could amount to several months salary doesn't mean they're stupid.

With that said, we've tried to sell a home by owner, with a good realtor, and a bad realtor (same home, different time periods with renting in between). The bad realtor was worse than doing it by myself (got 2 more offers doing it ourselves...we just felt it was worth more to us renting it than selling it at that time). The good realtor was fantastic and easily earned their commission by pitting buyers against each other and creating a bidding frenzy (it was a good market, but we got way more than we expected).

I would wholeheartedly recommend a good realtor, and say absolutely avoid bad ones. But how do you know?
But can they actually execute this? Does every citizen in Afghanistan posses a smartphone and a government ID that could be used to hand out money via an app?
If we're talking about cross-platform: X11 is not native on Windows, it's not native on macOS, it's not native on Wayland. (On the first two, it requires deliberate installation of some X server, and you won't even get direct rendering with that!)

Most annoying for me personally: it doesn't support proper HiDPI scaling. X11 apps are blurry on my HiDPI Wayland desktop, which makes me not want to use them.

In general, X11 is absolutely inadequate for the modern world. It's a legacy protocol that has the "any client can be a keylogger" security model, drawing primitives from the 80s that no one uses anymore plus all the history of bolting on more modern ways of rendering. (And don't get me started on the input systems, of which there are several and no one knows how that code even works.) And the protocol is synchronous, so you'll always have some slowdowns. Oh and the fucking screen tearing! In modern display systems, every frame is perfect, by design, by protocol design. X11 only has various "tearfree" hacks in the server that work with varying levels of success.
The disagreement would likely persist even if it was $5M. I haven't heard anyone object to the issue because of its price. The US government spent $4T last year. So yeah, an extra $72B does seem like a drop in the bucket.
Both branches of the government are holding the country hostage.
Exactly. What is the super secret use case that a DB that might shut down in 3 years give you, over the tried and true?

Postgres is great, mysql works... You really need to exhaust them before you go to random.db.
Sucks. Don’t like it.
They might know the house will not appraise for what they're trying to buy it at, so it'd be a non-starter without additional substantial down payment that they might not have. there's non-permitted additions, construction is suspect, insurance will be crazy due to proximity to ocean bluff, etc.
That’s just another reason why Chicago’s population is lower today than 25 years ago, and Illinois has lost population for five years straight. Corruption and bad policies are rampant, so why start a business or stay there if you can leave?
Also, the $5B number that Trump is hung up on seems to be completely arbitrary. Every estimate — including by the White House — suggests that any border wall even close to serving its stated purpose would cost at least $20 billion, probably way more.
I'm not familiar with landscape in Australia but there's two most popular websites not owned by real estate companies: realestate.com.au and domain.com.au (both owned by competing media companies!)
Isn't it clear and obvious that gambling is non-productive and negative sum?
I, for one, am very glad to not be a government worker. Imagine getting a free month-long unpaid vacation, or worse, a month of work without pay!
> Even if this became the law no one with more than a half of brain would ever pay 70% tax. People earning north of $10M usually have a team of tax advisors, and a lot of options of avoiding income tax: offshore companies, charity foundations, etc. The discussion about this is just a distraction from more pressing matters.

It's a fallacy verging on propaganda to argue that a reform should not be pursued because another policy can be used as a loophole. All that means is that the reform needs to be more holistic to be successful.
Not quite answering your question, but a16z had a recent video talking about startups trying to disrupt commissions: https://youtu.be/IRPH3K1GXj0
What music services have a history of getting shut down after 11 years of profitability and complete cultural and market dominance? Spotify is hardly comparable to Zune or whatever.

It's totally your prerogative to not use spotify or other music streaming services, I'm just saying fear of imminent market apocalypse isn't really a good reason to deny all of the upsides.
How do you find that?