skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since I originally mentioned UBI in my reply, I'm going to clarify. Many people oppose UBI in the sense of not expecting UBI as the one solution to every social issue. From that POV, I also oppose UBI. In fact, I think everyone should be enabled to engage in productive and highly-paid work, as far as practicable. However we should acknowledge that people sometimes get stuck in poverty/welfare traps, that traditional forms of assistance are all too often ineffective and lead to people falling through the cracks. It's hard to see a solution to this that doesn't involve a UBI of some sort.

Edit: We should also point out that UBI does play a role in addressing the housing-unaffordability problem. Being stuck in a high-rent, high-COL place is a sort of poverty trap that is solved by enabling people to move to somewhere cheaper and seek successful work there.
Such a huge step toward more peace in the world. What do you expect when world major democracy advocates are also the world major weapon sellers.

I don't think there is any technological glory on destroying a satellite that deserves such a public announcement. Perhaps it is far less complicated than putting a satellite into space which is what India was already good at it.
Their most popular content shows another story:

https://www.youtube.com/user/bigthink/videos?view=0&sort=p&f...
why of all things should people have the right to live in a dwelling they dont even own for a fixed price in perpetuity? prop 13 is pretty awful but at least it makes slightly more sense than rent control.
>Also theres a german law which forbids additional fees for paying with CC.

Interesting, because lots of brick-and-mortar German businesses (especially restaurants) simply don't take credit cards, because of the processor fees. You'll go very hungry in Germany if you go there with a credit card and no way of getting any cash.
Doesn't Quake traditionally come first?
Programmers take the easy way out and not implement proper password security
Yes, that's the mechanism. The point is that if Android were really Free/OpenSource, that integration work should have gotten pushed back to the main branch and carried into the new version alongside everything. Then that work would be done across the board when making breaking changes to the driver API.

I recognize that the embedded culture of zip+email version control has much to do with this - manufacturers don't care if the starting source was retrieving using git pull or wget. But that's merely an explanation, not a justification.

I don't worry about not being able to install the latest Debian on an older machine, because the drivers for the hardware have been carried forward.
Chances are the python class does something useful as well as being of a beautiful form. Probably not true for what a 4 year old would do.
Is it side-stepping if UBI actually happens?
San Diego has the tenth highest rent in the US and while it may be cheaper in absolute terms, the average salaries are lower too.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/real-estate/sd...
> This is equivalent to saying, why would anyone want a Starbucks to open in their neighborhood when the value of the Starbucks is captured mainly by Starbucks shareholders? (Assume, for the sake of example, you like Starbucks, otherwise replace with whatever you like.)

> The answer, obviously, is that enough people find it to be a beneficial trade for both parties: people want to spend more money for better coffee. That's the invisible hand of the market that improves the sum of things.

But that's precisely the fact that Starbucks doesn't capture all or even most of the value they create. Trade is a wealth creation mechanism for both sides; Starbucks makes more money than it costs them to make coffee, but people get coffee that's worth more to them than they paid for it. If that wasn't the case - if Starbucks was charging such high prices that the coffee was only barely worth it to customers (perhaps because they were in a monopoly position) - then people wouldn't care whether a Starbucks opened near them or not.

> Similarly, gentrification is about people wanting to pay higher rent to live in a nicer neighborhood. Yes the landlords get more money... but the tenant gets the nicer neighborhood! (Or closer access to more jobs, or whatever.) That's the whole point. That's free trade.

But it isn't free trade, because there's no meaningful competition. No-one can build new buildings, so the landlords form a de facto cartel.
This is painfully relatable... Marketing and sales teams don't seem to mind much but as a developer I once had to quit a job because of this.
Ya Perelman - Fun with maths and Fun with Physics brings back so many memories (Irodov had too much at stake so there no unbounded joy of learning for learning's sake)
I have half a mind to run a Paranoia game over lunch.
I have a bachelors in Physics. When I finished my bachelors I took a long look at my odds of getting a job in physics, then moved to Silicon Valley and marketed myself as a software developer. I'm now about a year out from finishing my PhD in Aerospace Engineering, and I've been working at NASA for the past three years.

It's nice to read all the other survivor stories in this thread of those of us that spent years studying to be physicists only to be crushed by reality. Physics is tough, and I'm happy to read that many folks here have found success in the field.
>> Whether it's literature is something else entirely.

And the bar for whether something is literature is subjective, and can change with the passing of time.
I would like to add: Even if you are ethnically Chinese and speak the language, don't go back to China unless you really cannot find a decent job in the west.

Especially if you are young and educated in the west, here are the things to consider:

- It is not very hard to find a STEM job in the west, and the pay is good.

- Your parents are healthy now, not much to worry. It's better to get a green card before they get old.

- You may start a family soon. It is much much easier to raise a child in the west.
Montreal isn’t exactly a city experiencing a massive influx of high paid workers.

Easy to solve the problem when their isn’t one.
Probably. But maybe he'll get a kick out of modeling and automating it. Challenging his intellect seems to be the key point here.
I suppose my wording implied otherwise but I do to, at 38.
Sad the article is behind a paywall. This is a topic I care about.

The penultimate generation MacBook Air keyboard is still my favourite typing device, and it’s what I use today.

I would pay Apple double the price of their current MacBook for the same thing but with the old keyboard, and the MagSafe connector.
> So ask them how they became so wonderful.

Oh God, never do this. The only CEOs who respond well to saccharine flattery are the ones you never want to work for.
I hate to say it, but the litmus tests seems to be, "Do they have a PMP?"

If the answer is yes, run away fast, you're in danger of being crushed under a mountain of paperwork.

If the answer is no, I guess the answer isn't so clear cut, but I have definitely worked with ones who are worth more than their weight in gold.
Alternatively, as others have mentioned, log as usual but include an instance id and then use an external service/process to aggregate log entries with the same id together.
This is a really bad attitude. People should be able to take care of themselves and their families financially. You shouldn’t shame them for not living like monks.
> those who intentionally refuse to pay their debt when they have the resources to do so

Having resources and having resources to spare for paying creditors are two different things. You can't hope to pay off your debt long-term if you don't buy food in the meantime. That's an extreme example, but the same principle applies to clothes for interviews, transportation to business opportunities, and, yes, possibly high-speed rail travel. An individual can't pour every yuan they get into paying off debt, or they'll end up in poverty (or worse) and their debt will have no chance of ever getting paid. Everybody loses in that scenario.
Creating more electronic waste for that once in a year time you need to locate your keys VS spending 15 min to find them.

It's nice in theory but it doesn't really solve anything, a bit like Juicero, nike self lacing shoes, &c.

If you start putting bluetooth tags on everything you could potentially forget somewhere you're in for a wild ride.
Excuse me if I come across as naive, I'm kind of a noob on these architectural topics, but how is this different/better than what the JVM is/accomplishes? When WASM first popped up I thought about the similarities with Java Web Applets and Flash.
>Should we also allow Microsoft to be sued for all the criminals that use windows?

YES. YES. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! If Microsoft is complicit with the crimes.

What the hell is wrong with people?

Backpage wasn't a hammer that somebody bought from Home Depot and used to bash someone else's head in.

Backpage was actively and aggressively cooperating with human traffickers.

Backpage provided coaching to ad submitters on how to get around the bare-bones filters that backpage implemented.

Backpage refused to implement basic, industry standard, practices that would have practically eliminated the reposting of known, confirmed, undeniable cases of human trafficking ads.

Backpage stalled and obstructed any attempts to remove known, confirmed, undeniable cases of human trafficking.

Backpage lied and covered up the fact that they knowingly cooperated with human traffickers.

Backpage forced the skeleton crew, through quotas and the threat of discipline or dismissal, of community reviewers to overlook known, confirmed, undeniable cases of human trafficking ads.

None of this is supposition or innuendo, and none of this is an accusation. It is all fact, taken from Backpage.com's own internal communications and public testimony of backpage officials and employees.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-115shrg24401/pdf/CH...

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-1st-circuit/1728752.html

Why do people think that Backpage was "done dirty"? It is mind-boggling.
> China managed to not have Xi Jinping announce when they did it.

Which test you're talking about? Xi wasn't leading China back in 2007. And thanks to the ignorance of their top brass, the Chinese received considerable negative reaction after the test.[1]

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_...
I think you should hope to live in more than the handful of square meters than a classic tech worker occupies in an office.

Housing people on the same ground area than the offices would probably prove to be a huge technical challenge since it would effectively need probably 8 to 10 times the square footage, not to mention I'm not quite sure people really all want to have their colleagues as neighbours.
People thinking about visiting Chile, don't stay for too long in Santiago, there's nothing to see there. Just go immediately to the north if you are into deserts or go south if you are into mountains and Patagonia. Don't waste your time going to places close to the central regions.
This is critical for the geopolitical stability of the region. Pakistan, China have traditionally assumed that India lacks the political will as well as the technological capacity to build advanced weapons such as these. This will be a big deterrence and help bring it peace to the region.

I would not be surprised if India announces ICBMs in the next 5 years. A country that can place 100s of satellites in space as well as place geostationary satellites, has the necessary rocket technology to build an ICBM. Just because they don't talk about it, doesn't mean they can't do it.

I think India is in the midst of adopting an active deterrence policy. Being passive hasn't yielded good results.
If I’m honest, I think it’s the most intelligible file in the folder (besides the readme) so its issues were more accessible to me.
What? In his current situation, if he zones out, he can produce erroneously transcribed data too. What's your point?
It's because a date and a time are not the same thing. Storing date as a UTC time is of course always wrong.
Condensed Matter PhD 5 years ago. Now a (once or twice promoted) hardware engineer at one of the big Silicon Valley hardware companies. Job occasionally uses my PhD, but not often
UBI seems like a interesting idea but I don't think it's more than a small part of a bigger solution.

It could possibly help people from having 3-4 part time jobs just to make ends meet, but other problematic areas still exist.

Affordable housing, get people off the street / living in their cars.

Public medical care that doesn't require insurance or bankrupt you.

Higher education system that doesn't leave you with a life long debt.
PhD in Physics (2009, quantum optics and quantum info, both theory and experiment). After my first postdoc in Tokyo (mostly computational in C++ toward the end) I decided to move into industry and worked as a Node.js server dev for a games company there. Got married!

These days I'm back in the UK (Brighton) and enjoying the arrival of my first child. I'm still working in Node for API and unusual proxy servers, with some Rust on the side. Enthusiastic about the indieweb movement.
Mamata Banerjee already has.

I'm not arguing over the legality. I'm saying it's an obvious see-through attempt to circumvent those rules and to hold on to power.

Modi-ites like you are not going to convince me or any other objective observer otherwise
Actually missed that they did say a date, which is... After the police seized Backpage in April 2018.

"The company is helping to sponsor an anti-human-trafficking event in April"

It also said its nonprofit arm spotlighted groups that worked on the front lines of the issue in 2017, which could be said to be PR campaign but it is stretching the meaning of a PR campaign a bit.

"The lawsuit includes an order form billed to Backpage that’s dated in December 2016."

Which dates before the campaign done after April 2018, and after the nonprofit arm spotlighted groups in 2017.

So the dates did matter as I suspected. Saleforce did not first do a PR campaign and then elected to do business with backpage (as will_brown said above). They first elected to do business with backpage, had a nonprofit arm spotlighted groups a year later and then did the PR campaign after the police seized Backpage. That implies strongly that the PR campaign was a reaction to the police seizure.
I curated a list of 'winning' questions from this thread. Good luck and please ignore everything in this thread.

* Does the company have contingency plans for down markets?

* what is the current strike price and how many shares are outstanding

* Will you share slides from the last board meeting?

* Why the heck are you still working?

* Have you had any regrets?

* Does the company take any money in, or is it simply running off funding?
This is bad advice if you need to store future events/appointments. Because in the majority of cases the meaning of the future datetime is "the date/times on the majority of the calendars and clocks on the wall in the vicinity of the event". The implication is that if the local timezone rules change between now and the future event, the user wants the local datetime of the appointment to stay unchanged, which implies that the UTC/epoch version of the appointment has to be changed. Generating the correct datetimes from UTC/epoch+local timezone requires a lot more administration and logic than storing just the local datetime. (You need at least both the current TZ database and the version when the appointment was made/last changed to have a hope to do this correctly.)
The hard part living in HK for a lot of people is real estate price. It's extremely expensive either to rent or buy apartments. Lot of people live in apartments less than 200 sqr feet, and the average living space per person is less than 100 sqr feet.

Moreover, Shenzhen is one of China's tech capitals while HK is mostly finance.
I've had decent success so far with CouchDB 2.0 and Mango for performing ad hoc queries.

I believe Mango will automatically create the view index on the fly for any query you make and save the index for later. Before CouchDB 2.0 this would usually have to be done manually before the query was run.
We could pick some aspects of the past, instead of taking them all wholesale, you know, like intelligent people.

In which case all the above negatives are neither here nor there.

Or does anyone thing "kids playing outside" is necessarily and always casually correlated with "more racism"?
you could avoid mistakes on such an important issue

I think the other issue is that for you and me and everybody here this is a super important issue, but for many of the MEPs it's just confusing regulation nr. 843 they have to vote on this year.
"I turned a blind eye to the power abuse, human rights violations and corruption"

I'm not sure how you can compare the US, which does have it's problems, but is one of the least racist (and offers many more opportunities to people that start with nothing) countries in the world to China, one of the most corrupt and authoritarian.

In China, for example, you need to include your head shot on your resume and I've known people that were told the were too fat to work at a company.

If people actually cared, they would look at the gross human rights abuses by the Chinese government.

You just don't see things like this:

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2018/country-chapters/china...

In the US.
It's interesting because the argument these NIMBYs use against studying rent control is the exact same as the one gun rights activists and the NRA used against allowing the CDC to study the effects of gun ownership rates.

These privileged "progressives" need to be put in their place politically.
>Specifically, I'm not going to form an opinion on an article with no facts

It’s very odd you say the article has “no facts”, yet it provides dates for these business dealings, invoices and salesforce anti human trafficking/prostitution efforts...what do you consider a fact? Do you believe salesforce had no idea what backpage was doing and how salesforce products facilitated the same?

While waiting years for the court to decide, you should kno statistically there is less than 10% chance there is a trial that goes to verdict and >90% chance salesforce settles with a requirement of confidentiality and no admission/finding of wrong doing/liability.
Correct. The most credible study on the matter (Diamond et Al. 2018) makes it clear rent control over the decades evolves to hurt the disadvantaged the most.
I actually worked in sales and trust me, we DO mind the noise. Imagine trying to talk to a client on the phone when you can barely hear yourself.
LTEFuzz: Dynamic Security Analysis of LTE Control Plane
Basically, HOAs are smaller scale. Also, there's a big difference between a bureaucratic gov't doing it and a bunch of residents doing it. Here's the thing about zoning: the people on whom it is enacted probably have a part of one vote in the city council. The decisions are mostly made by the rest of the city. This is especially true in a city as large as Houston.

It's the classic problem of tyranny of the majority, which is best solved through hyper-locality (i.e. HOAs).
Delphi comes with the full RTL and VCL source code. You don't get the source for the compiler, but this is useless for anyone than a 0.0000001% of the people who use GCC or Clang.

Also all the tools you mentioned were incredibly productive and with way better documented than any equivalent open source solution today - assuming there is an equivalent open source solution (especially for something like dbase where the best you can find is somewhere between the awful joke that is LibreOffice Base and the plain awfulness of Harbour).

Honestly you used the worst examples you could come up with if you wanted to paint a "proprietary software bad, open source software good" image. Those were excellent tools (yes, including Visual Basic, which like any user friendly tool with a very low barrier to entry was abused to hell and beyond, thus - again like any user friendly low barrier tool - got a bad name for itself).
Without a source, how can I tell which ones are real?
Man, some of the comments on here are really disheartening. What's the deal with trying to humble people with long-winded, tangential counterpoints, gotchas, and condescending questions? Constantly proving one's intellect seems to be a prevailing theme on HN and I'm not seeing how it adds to the quality of the content. I'm sure someone will unearth the irony in this and let me know soon enough.
I think that’s a fair point. It sounds like it’s possible with Miri to write unit tests for specific UB concerns, and it’s more likely to catch them than standard unit tests. This will be useful.
> I'm yet to see any resident going to council meetings complaining that the streets are too clean, that public transportation is too good.

You'll see them complaining that rents are too high. And you'll see them objecting that better public transportation would "change the character of the neighbourhood" or whatever, which tends to be code for pushing up the rents.

> Finally, I also doubt that the improvement of public services is the main factor driving land prices up. For instance, here is Lisbon, it's mostly due to the foreigners buying up the stock (more than half the buyers are foreigners). I suspect the cause is similar in London.

No respectable economist agrees with you. Foreign investors are a bogeyman who are easy to blame for everything since they're not there to defend themselves.
I'm a Software Engineer at Orbital Insight. Most of my work time is spent porting principles from Category Theory and Automata Theory into front end codebases. Problem solving techniques from Physics come in quite handy, and are a differentiator from 90% of software engineers. It's all about optimizing for the right variables at the right time. Often times delivery to market supersedes code quality, but in the long run you can make software that's better than anything else out there if you apply yourself and use the right principles.
The argument is that if a reasonable legal market exists to do things, there's less incentive for the dangerous/harmful ways to do things, hopefully to the point its not worth it. And I hope its fair to say that criminals are in the business of trading risk of arrest/harm for money, and an overwhelming majority of trafficking is for that purpose.

I'm not saying you'll fix it overnight, people still smuggle cigarettes as a form of tax arbitrage, but changing the market incentives absolutely has an effect on behavior.
Link to the research paper: https://syssec.kaist.ac.kr/pub/2019/kim_sp_2019.pdf
There was a similar issue with power laws in biology, mostly driven by a guy named Barabasi. I don't think any of his results have held up when someone did the math right, but he's gone so far as to try to politically pressure people to keep quiet about it because they were hurting his career.

I've been out for a few years, so I don't know what the current state of affairs is.
> Treat your office like a library, not a kitchen.

A VP at my fast growing and profitable Fortune 500 publicly ridiculed my proposal to let our smallish engineering team geek in empty, unused offices in the building, on grounds that the office was not a library. He was kicked upstairs and to another division, bless him.
A coverage-guided fuzzer written in Swift
I've enjoyed the keyboard on my System76 laptop. Granted that's a special case since they're not for everyone (Linux-focused).

I've found most laptop keyboards at least adequate, the MacBook that I'm forced to use for work is the first one that is objectively terrible. I've been told the ones <= 2015 were better in the keyboard department.
I wrote a blog post about that a few months back, here's the HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17616459