skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In San Francisco the return on land is so much higher than the return on work. There's no scenario under which this leads to a healthy society. NIMBY excesses created a modern feudalism. Why would the new hard-working generation subsidize the previous one and suffer taxes order of magnitude higher than the previous one (through property tax for example)? This is like a Ponzi scheme. There's nothing fair nor sustainable with this model. That's when in a properly working society you would have the State or Government take over and override the local policies to implement what's good for the greater good. Not what's good for the SF boomer wanting to sell his shack for 2M and retire in Florida. A couple of billionaires in Atherton should have no say on Caltrain improvements that could benefit millions of working people at the expense of a couple of trees in their backyards.
Its the thing I'm most worried about misplacing.
“Look at how awesome I am for inventing Redis” wouldn’t have been as interesting, though.

Ideas are cheap and plentiful if you have the eye for them, and learning the sources of inspiration other makers had can be informative if you also want to make things.
There are lots and lots of consultants who implement Salesforce instances who work for themselves. Many do have certifications from Salesforce, but that doesn't make Salesforce accountable for their actions.
It's funny how often conservative propaganda is posted here, and how quick people are to make excuses for it when it's pointed out.

And how quick they are to downvote anyone who calls them on it.
Their standalone keyboard is my favorite keyboard I've ever used, simple and very nice (but still with keys for volume control and playback control). I've never used the MacBooks with the keyboards people hate so much.
According to the FAQ put out by Gov of India [0]

V. Does the test create space debris?

The test was done in the lower atmosphere to ensure that there is no space debris. Whatever debris that is generated will decay and fall back onto the earth within weeks.

[0] https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/soon-after-pm-address-foreig...
UBI is a libertarianish policy, and Big Think has published pro-UBI articles in the past.

OTOH, Rushkoff's objections are from a left perspective, and leftists in general seem to be coming out against it.

In the past some less-radical leftists have been for it (and one or two very atypical communists), but now that it is officially coded "tech-bro" I see leftists reiterating conservative arguments against minimum wage, except against UBI. It's odd.
> because there's no meaningful competition.

That doesn't make any sense. Landlords are competing with each other for the best tenants (hence buildings being improved, amenities added, etc. as necessary), and tenants are choosing between landlords for the best buildings, between neighborhoods for the best quality of life, and between cities for the best value.

It's all competition. Just because there's a fixed supply of real estate doesn't mean there's no competition within it! One has nothing to do with the other.

If all buildings in a city were owned by the same single landlord, then it would be a different story. But that's obviously not the case.
It deserves an investigation at least to decide if it's worth exploring further and how complicit the company may have been. The courts can then decide and they may or may not side with your point of view. That's how it works in America.

Throwing out cases because they are difficult to persue or because it may cause trouble for a business is not how a justice system should work.
1. It's an open standard that the major browsers have agreed to, so it's not a plugin that you have to install. A WASM app will work seamlessly in your browser without any additional software.

2. WASM is designed from the ground up as a compile target, not a language. We already see many languages with support for building to WASM. C, C++, Rust, and eventually when WASM supports garbage collection we'll probably see Python, JS, Go, all with support for compiling to WASM.
The effects of a beam of light strong enough to push a satellite into a rapidly decaying orbit would bloom like mad through the atmosphere, and create very detectable thermal effects. It would be detectable in a number of wavelengths for a staggering distance. You’d also have to impact the satellite so strongly that its station-keeping thrusters would be insufficient, while account for losses through the atmosphere. It would have to work quickly enough that the satellite wouldn’t fly out of range, and your weapon would only work during the day in clear weather.

It really makes no sense at all.
Apple’s New System Fonts Page
Who is going to want to invest millions developing new apartments if they know they'll be greeted with razor-thin margins thanks to rent control & excessive taxation when complete? I might as well just go buy some Treasury bonds or something.
Wow, in the WSJ. That'll get some attention from Apple management
Maybe "is_valid" is checking the validity of externally-provided/third party data, that is, it being invalid is a problem, but its not a bug.
Thanks for pointing that out— I just updated the post with a note about that!
>>> This probably wouldn’t have happened if you had only used Pony

I tried to look at the page of Pony and I can't imagine how it could have helped in this situation.

You can promote your project when it is truly related (a disclaimer in the comment is nice), but in this case it seams to be completely unrelated to the problem.
(PhD, 2005 in condensed matter)

I left academia after my postdoc and went to work at one of the think tanks in the DC area for a few years. When I got tired of being a government contractor and left to work in natural language processing and machine learning.

Now, I build machine learning software to detect financial misconduct like insider trading. I also built software that helps law enforcement find minors who are being trafficked.

Some of the mathematical and computational methods used in physics are used in machine learning, so it was a relatively painless transition.

I'm also developing some mobile apps in areas where there isn't already saturation.
I think that's only correct as of like 1995.

Even simple tools like spam assassin read the body, and you can bet that almost any public provider is doing more than spam assassin.
Will this be backwards compatible with existing libc?
Interesting angle, thanks for the post.
Do you sell really cheap products or something? Paypal's fees seem pretty normal from what I've seen: the worst rate, for low-volume sellers, is 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction. So if you're selling things that are only a few dollars each, then those $0.30 fees are going to add up to a significant portion of the product. How is Stripe better?
Should they standardize to run WebAssembly on the Web first? There's like hundreds of things to do: https://webassembly.org/roadmap/, https://webassembly.org/docs/future-features/
To me, part of the problem is that nobody can simply "live" anymore. While there are homesteaders who can effectively "live off the land", people can no longer actually do that.

Instead of UBI, why not create a system where people can actually "live" without needing to create a whole system where the government ends up requiring people to pay into the system?

From the video: "We can't just give these people houses because they don't have jobs".

Yeah, because they don't just get "the house" they also have to pay property taxes, and for the utilities, and for everything else that is required, you know, actually live in the house.

Maybe this is overly simplistic, but it seems like you can do one of two things: prop "the system" up by continuing to require things like property taxes and the like, or find a way for people to be able to actually, you know, OWN their property and do whatever they want with it so that they could be completely self-sufficient.

EDIT: Actually, that seems to be something along the lines of what he is saying: "UBI perputates people as consumers but not as owners" (my paraphrase)
Nabokov, to be fair, left Russia before the age of 18 and I don't believe he ever returned [1]. Lolita, his magnum opus (at least by public opinion), was first written in English. Despite his upbringing, I'm not sure he would be best classified as Russian Lit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov
Is this article available via Apple News+?
step 0.5: research which sites have the best articles on how to manage your time, evaluate the history of Hacker News, search Quora for opposing opinions on its voting model to avoid bias, skip work, write a language-independent pattern analysis framework to determine whether /pol/ is leaking into your site, lose your job, put your framework up on Github and spam HN for advice, get tons of comments on how great your idea is, create a Patreon so you can eat, and by the end of the month determine that the best option for articles on how to manage your time is Hacker News.
SalesForce also has professional services, which are SalesForce employees that help you with the integration. My guess is this is what the suit is about, the professional services.
I've been reading Calvin and Hobbes to my 6 year old, which has made it very clear how "adult" Calvin sounds sometimes. Like, my 6 year old never harasses me about how my polls are down as dad, or expounds at length about philosophical issues (even while riding a wagon). So, while I think Watterson did frequently capture the manic spirit of childhood sometimes, he also did his fair share of speaking through his characters with an adult voice.

When we first started, I thought, "wait, maybe this was a bad idea." Calvin is not exactly a good role model and kids love to imitate things they think are funny. But it turns out my kid is pretty good at separating entertainment from reality. So, there haven't been any real buckets balanced on doors, or trying to sell the car, or emptying the entire bathtub in one huge splash--at least not yet.
Your, or more generally, the present population's children, are among those who will seek to establish new households.

Whilst unlimited population growth is impossible, stagnant communities and regions tend to slide into decline. Those regions most amenable to and rewarding of new activity tend to grow.

California occupied this position, globally, for much of the period from ~1930 - 2000, and particularly from ~1950-1975 or so. It does so far less now, with housing costs being a major factor.
They found all of their developers on Freelancer.com. I've used this platform a few times and the majority of developers here are not very good and cheap.

It's no wonder the majority had no idea about password security.

Good developers are hard to come by. Many companies don't realize this and just want to hire the cheapest they can find.
> I've been there, it's a pain in the ass to get to

I guess the easy version might be Carrara, Tuscany where marble has been mined for millenia. You can drive around the hills above the city on roads carved into and through the marble accompanied by dusty trucks laden with giant blocks.
Community and Collaboration Is the Key for Building Ethical AI
I'm not sure how productive I'll end up being, but it's way more fun to play with than Visio.
> Latest purchase was Exercises for the Feynman lectures.

Those are wonderful! I dug them up late in my undergrad and spend some fun times with them.
Rashed has been in the CyanogenMod -> LineageOS community for a while. He has quite a bit of experience from this and from all my interactions with him he is a solid Android Systems Engineer.

I would generally trust Rashed's development but I would still question the company until they prove themselves, which may or may not happen.
If you're willing to dive in a bit, Matt Strassler has a nice blog aimed at the lay reader. His mini-series on the structure of the proton is quite excellent:

https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/largehadron...
No one cannot possibly know what happening in your mind, to find what is wrong with it, based on this short description. But I have a guess.

Mostly people do not try to remember this things, they do it the other way. For example, I'm learning what is two's complement. I'm not trying to remember math representation, this representation is not something to rememeber, it is just one more way to explain what happening. It is a way to clarify things, in case when textual explanation was not enough. What I'm trying to do, is to find a way how should I think, to reinvent two's complement when needed. I'm trying to understand what original inventor of two's complement was thinking: why he did it this way, not the other? And I'm trying to find a visual representation of two's complement.

It is the best way to deal with math and technology. Even if you learn social science, you can learn how some author thought, instead of remembering his books by a heart. If you learnt how to think like others, then you would need not to remember their thoughts, you would be able to generate their thoughts yourself. It reminds me: https://hackernoon.com/how-not-to-memorise-mathematics-98fef...

My history teacher in the school claimed, that he didn't remembered any historical dates except two or three. He managed to calculate all the other dates, using these as a reference. I never learned to do that, but I believe that it is the same thing, as I do with math and CS. He learned to think like history, and to generate dates like history did, instead of remembering them.

Your memory is not like computer's one, your memory is generative, your mind is a compression algorithm, that can represent data by smallest possible about of remembered bits. As a funny consequence, your memory can generate ideas, that no one have found before, and sometimes you cannot tell is the idea you found is novel, or you read it somewhere. It is because generating new ideas and remembering old ones actually the same process in a mind.

(With two's complement, I confess, it is easier for me to remember, because if is modular arithmetic, it is ring of integers modulo 2^n, I dealt with them a lot while studying math.)
The article is about the difference in philosophy and strategy between the communities. Which I noted in my comment.

But the set of licenses is essentially identical, the differences being in licenses where only one of the two groups has rendered an opinion, which arguably isn't even a difference other than in degree of certainty.
But lack of good and safe isolation was a serious problem
Local Maxima [video]
AndroidHardening is quite interesting.

I think that since AOSP is getting better, it's also more sustainable for a single developer to maintain a smaller project rather than a full blown distro.

It's a shame no other phones aside from Pixels are able to run AOSP without significant limitations. Some Sony are quite capable to run AOSP, but there are several hardware glitches [1]. Aside, hardware independent ROMs enabled by Treble are also promising, but there are many pitfalls too [2].

Android would be a much more interesting ecosystem if a significant portion of the phones were capable of running AOSP.

[1] https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/get-started/...

[2] https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki
Ohhhh.... I never connected these two aspects, but now everything makes a lot of sense!

I wonder if it was all fortuitous chance, or long-term planning of the most cunning type, by EU leaders.

Also, now I wonder how Brexit fits into this chess game.
Favorite line: "It’s time to stop prioritizing thinness over usability."
Are you...trying to debunk a well-known five year old method of obtaining fingerprints from photos?
Oh my, I thought the userbase HN was high level/confident enough to leave articles with "influencer" in it.

Can we please go to a situation where skill is valued and not "famousness" on itself?

Also it is not a good sign when a lot of paragraphs/sentences start by default with "I". (seriously count it, it's scary how self-obsessed these people are)

Edit: OK instead of just anonymously down voting And flagging, how about giving a argument instead?
This is one of my favorite posts. I really enjoyed working with the IRG at Ames. A lot of people at Orbital Insight came from Ames.
I have been wondering this, it seems to me that it is potentially related to the memory allocation strategy for WASM should be more flexible than using something like the JVM
I never said it should have to be at a fixed price, and you could ask the same question for why does a person own property that they don't live in.

Landlordism and rent seeking is an inherently immoral thing that we allow to exist in our society, and we need land value taxes alongside reasonable rent controls (like the ones Oregon just passed) to stop these behaviors.
A talk by the Throwing Rocks as the Google Bus author. A little muddled but I think his argument is the problem UBI is "it's just a way of perpetuating our roles as consumers at the bottom of the pyramid not as owners" while I guess the 0.1% still own everything.

Which I guess could be an issue although as we don't have UBI who knows how it'd play out.
like any transmitter, this depends on the gain of your receiver :)
> I never saw an issue with this. Council tax pays for things like garbage collection, local services and street cleaning. Unless those things are disproportionately more expensive for expensive houses(and I strongly suspect they aren't), why would they pay more?

Because we live in a society and those with the most expensive houses have likely derived the most benefit from that. Just like anything else, the price of civilization is about the value it provides, not about what it cost to produce.

> Like someone else already noticed - when you buy a house for say £20m, you will pay about £3 million in stamp duty, which is insane already. Owners of expensive housing already pay a tonne in that tax for the privilege of owning it.

Stamp duty is a terrible mechanism: it mainly just discourages people from moving, which then means it doesn't even raise that much revenue.
I actually haven't seen any statistics on this, but based on knowing how the industry works in the U.S. it seems like if it's not already the majority it's going to be the majority very soon.

Basically there are thousands of vineyard owners and thousands of wineries, but most of the vineyard owners take their grapes to the same handful of places to process them in between when they're picked and when they're sent off to the wineries. And these machines can process enormous volume, and there is tons of risk around labor.

And especially given that the majority of wine is made by the same handful of companies and sells for less than $10, I can't see any way that the majority of grapes aren't passing through these things at this point even if it's not really talked about.
There will never be a legal market for underage girls, slaves, etc. Some markets just shouldn’t exist, but demand clearly exists for them. Drugs are easy because the black market is so much worse than legalization, but that’s not the case here. There will also be a market for cheaper alternatives to legal offerings, and you can’t get cheaper than slavery. Contrary to what some people desperately need to believe, markets don’t solve everything. If someone wants a disposable prostitute, someone to abuse, someone underage, someone unwilling, they’re not going to care about legal avenues which don’t satisfy their desires.
Maybe so, but that ex Philly cop is still jailed on contempt, because he says that he's forgotten the disk password.

But generally, I'd rather avoid having a warrant served, and my stuff impounded. So advertising my IP address as a Freenet node seems like a dumb move.
I agree. Another thing that I failed to understand from a pretty young age was this frenzy to turn out every single vote, and the treating of turnout as a per se good thing. As far as I can tell, an uninformed vote, determined entirely by fashion and social pressure, is _worse_ than a missing vote.
>mando

Is it a regional norm around you to refer to Mandarin as "Mando?" Never heard of this in my life...
It's a good question. WASI currently doesn't allow you to set custom access-control permissions when creating files. But we're just getting started, so if we can find a design that works, we can add it.
If you're relatively young, no kids, etc. then it's definitely worth trying out for a couple of years. You won't have lost much time.
Plenty of western countries, including the US and UK have record high employment, and plenty of un-filled open positions. The unemployment we do have is a skill shortage, not a jobs shortage. Meanwhile China has employed hundreds of millions of people and salaries there have boomed. None of this shows any real sign of a squeeze on overall employment.

I know there’s a lot of talk about AI putting people out of work, but it doesn’t actually seem to be happening yet. Automation has been putting people out of work for hundreds of years now, yet there are more jobs than ever. Ultimately maybe we’ll all live in a Star Trek future when ‘work’ is synonymous with ‘slavery’. We’re a very long way from anything like that, yet people talk a lot as though it’s already happening when it really isn’t.
> "passable clustering" you talk about PG which has nothing, so when you start to re-implement sharding yourself you're in trouble.

Or you can just use Citus.
UPS is using drones to transport medical supplies between hospitals
The cryptographic answer is: yep, that sounds about right (with low confidence because the model violation is subtle).

The cryptographic engineering answer is: use OCB3 instead which doesn't have this problem :)
Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com? I'd like to look into this categorization.
Minikube Hits the v1.0 Milestone
Try the web link at the top of the page in an incognito window then click through from the Google search results. It worked for me.
Sorry, could you clarify that?
I had to briefly use a Macbook two designs old a while back—the thicker aluminum kind, that could still accommodate a disc drive—and wow, I'd forgotten how much better that keyboard was than the one after, even, let alone the loud-as-hell, uncomfortable butterfly ones. It felt great—probably about as good as a laptop keyboard could be. I want that kind back. The tiny bit of extra travel and slightly softer action made a huge difference.
One anecdote - I moved to Japan 12 years ago when I was 26 to work as an engineer in a game company. I stayed for two years. Like anywhere there were pros and cons but overall it was a fantastic life experience that I’m very glad I did.
That's actually an example, not an alternative (the instance id is the “context information”, the external service/process is the separate component using the context information to construct the structured view.)
The line in the US is commercial use. Even in an artistic work, if someone's likeness is in the picture, you have to have their permission to sell it.
This 6* Min. clip (gender equality in the workplace) with Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff is outstanding and apropos to this thread. Benioff is reassuringly pro-equality (women's rights advocate).

https://persagen.com/files/misc/benioff.mp4

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Aside: for the techies here, in 2016 Salesforce purchased (Richard Socher's) MetaMind ... a superb group who continue to publish leading edge NLP/NLU papers ...

https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/04/saleforce-acquires-metamin...

https://www.recode.net/2016/4/4/11585854/salesforce-acquisit...

Very forward-thinking.
Today's ultra-luxury is tomorrow's cheap housing.
Nice title, sad paywall
Yeah, I work adjacent to the Apollo org (and have worked near Pfrheak, too. Hi!). I would love to see a HackerNews commenter's idea of what it would take to re-implement Apollo. I'll bring popcorn.
If we're tossing other countries in the hat, throw in Taiwan. It's like China, minus the smog, tyranny, and bad internet!