skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm originally from Vienna too and now living in London and I can see the differences very well, but the main reason why Vienna is rated so highly is because the population has remained mostly consistent for a long period of time.

However, Vienna isn't without its faults. In Vienna you have a huge segregation between better and worse off people. You have a lot of low income people living in places like the 10th district and people in higher income brackets living in Doebling for example. This is counter productive in the long run as it will slowly create "ghettos" and mono cultures within the city. In London the wealth gap is much higher than in Vienna and yet people live more closely together. You can walk down a millionaires street one second and in the next moment be surrounded by council housing. In my opinion this is much better, as it prevents places from turning into ghettos and helps to keep the city in a sane state. There is a lot of gentrification happening in some parts of London too, but this is more of a side effect of the consistent growth rather than segregation.

The other problem which I see is that the average person in Vienna does not own any property. Most people are in rental properties for most of their lives and they mostly rely on a future state pension in order to retire. To me this is a fragile system, because it forces the country/makes it reliant on a highly taxed middle class. It is extremely difficult to prosper from middle class to being rich in Vienna - for the better or worse.

The entry barrier to creating a new company and the huge amount of regulation also makes it extremely unfriendly for startups and innovation.

Long story short, socialist cities in a capitalist Western country only thrive as long as the population is small enough and stable for a long period of time. It takes many years to build new schools, hospitals, GPs, train lines and bus routes, whereas it takes only a few weeks for an individual family to settle in a new place. If a city undergoes a massive growth in population then it doesn't even matter if everyone who moves into the city is a hard working high tax paying person, because the new money which they bring in will not be able to keep up with building the necessary infrastructure to comfortably accommodate everyone. It will take decades to catch up and only if there ever will be a slow down of growth, otherwise it will be a never ending chase.
If it was a strategy like "we are looking for really driven people when we hire journalists, this is why we usually track events that show a strong drive for example A:... B: The applicant sends a thank you note even when they don't have our email address, C:..."

It would really be a different situation. But this is not about looking for a specific trait which is tied to a job.

Unfortunately all that they achieve with this strategy is locking out people who are "not like us". It all boils down to different cultures different rules, in Germany sending a thank you note to a business contact over a non disclosed communication channel would be perceived as very unprofessional or creepy.

It's the step right before adding your business contacts on facebook uninvited... So if your goal is to avoid hiring German people, the strategy is probably great.

(Taking the German example here because we Germans are very sensitive with data and privacy. The rule could also be exchanged for any other different no hire rule, overall what you achieve with such rules, is simply locking out a group of people, but those are people who could help your business succeed.)
Census is dated. I can vouch there are a lot more families now in the city. Hospital baby birthing rooms are filling up - there is a legit surge of babies in the city right now.
Sorry, maybe should have clarified, webhooks are typically processed in a queue, we reply to Stripe immediately, but we block the processing of the webhook on that lock. As we're processing in a queue with multiple workers this typically doesn't block much work from happening.

There are some cases where we specifically want to propagate the error to a webhook provider (not in the case of Stripe, so we work inline, but that's rare). There are also some cases where we want to process webhooks on a serial queue, one at a time, to ensure in-order delivery (again not in the case of Stripe).
The Pigs Are Alright: Sentiment Reading in Facial Recognition
Based on previous history, chances are Microsoft will first abandon UWP (but leave its zombified corpse in Windows for backwards compatibility) and introducing something new-but-incompatible-with-anything-existing before Windows become irrelevant. Actually, they might do this 2-3 times before that.
> Brutally-honest but constructive feedback

Abandon Windows, it's trash. Base your business on a decent OS instead.
From an Amazon job posting. Seems to imply at least some of the Corretto maintenance would be in-house, at Amazon:

"sharing your findings with the rest of the engineering community, hardening your patches in Amazon's production systems, releasing them as part of Corretto, and contributing improvements back to OpenJDK."

https://lensa.com/software-development-engineer-openjdk-perf...
But they're really, really Establishment. They wouldn't advocate adblocking, because it would challenge the status quo.
Airbus agrees Boeing should make its software opensource.
Funny that you picked this example, because it's actually true, check with my dentist.
New York is filthy. Try visiting Chicago sometime.
Perfect for a response to 'nipponese's comment.
Zone boundaries seem very confusing to me.
Look for the Senior Executive you can best help.

Hop on Linkedin. Sort individual profiles by Titles/Market/Industry/Key Word, etc..

Ex: CTO , VP Engineering, Manager E-Commerce

Then reach out to them direct.
Using Reinforcement Learning to Design a Better Rocket Engine
Drupal and jQuery are now the top two "Most Dreaded Web Frameworks," with Ruby on Rails and Angular.js trailing.[0]

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...
That was for dramatic effect, if you will ;). SF isn't exactly a legendary human habitation like Ur or Babylon. There are thousands of cities that have come and gone since Ur and Babylon, just because they stopped "making sense" their inhabitants.
Show HN: Using WebAssembly to port the Asteroids game to the web
Hey HN!

I wrote a post about how to use WebAssembly to port the Asteroids game to the web by compiling the game from C to WebAssembly.

Tutorial: https://medium.com/@robaboukhalil/porting-games-to-the-web-w...

Live demo: http://www.levelupwasm.com/apps/asteroids/index.html
TL;DR: Airlines used to set SLOs that they couldn't hit consistently. They updated the SLOs based on actual performance, and now they hit them much more consistently. Article author seems to believe the pointy-haired boss idea that if they went back to the original (over-optimistic) SLOs then the airlines would somehow increase performance to hit them.
I'd add point 0:

0. Allow increase in supply, which fixes most other problems. Stop artificially constraining supply and allow more manhattanization.
Well, segregation is definitely a part of Texas. But what I think he/she was saying was that blacks and hispanics could shop and eat at the same restaurants and shops that whites and asians shop and eat at. Of course they won't live in the same areas, as you said, segregation is a part of life in Texas. But there is more mixing is what he/she was getting at I think.
Google could create the greatest messaging app on the planet, but the carriers have more control on Android. They would just not install it on their phones by default. Which means it would not get the traction needed to succeed. Heck most US carriers don't even install one of googles current messaging apps, they install their own customized one.
>see how cmake builds your project

Yes exactly when you remove a piece of the build system the build system stops working.

When I use bazel I need python installed or it doesn't work. That doesn't mean my build system is python. It means my build system takes advantage of python. Same for cmake and make.
This is a National Review opinion article offered as a news piece

What? National Review doesn't do news, it does opinions. And it's pretty upfront about being conservative.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/When-WWI...

https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/hidden-monuments-to-r...
> I asked about the JRE autoupdater, and got this answer:

Thank you for asking! It all depends on the warning that is displayed, of course. I still think that our IT has a good point in blocking the update completely.
Managing EFI Boot Loaders for Linux: Controlling Secure Boot (2018)
The Age of Robot Farmers
Wish the full CSV results were available already as I use them to negotiate my salary since they're much more reliable and up to date than Glassdoor.
Most Americans "hate politics" because they've been socialized to, not because they actually do. "Bureaucracy is bad," is an idea deeply seated in the American psyche.

It's true though, if more of us went to local government sessions, we could probably just utterly dominate the discourse and reject a lot of NIMBYisms outright, and that'd probably result in a lot of political changes.

I myself regret bitterly how much I let my parent's culture influence my opinions on this, and it's only as I get older that I fully appreciate the many toxic and counter-productive ways my fundamental christian socialization has influenced me even as I've struggled to move more left throughout the course of my life.
Opera is a Chinese owned company now, right? How safe are you in trusting a Chinese VPN? Maybe slightly better than a VPN operated by Facebook...maybe?
I think the west coast passive aggressive types don’t do dog whistling. Southerners do that quite a bit.
I did not know that, I assumed it was just made by Free File Alliance. It definitely should just be IRS facilitating all of this.
To the USA's $9.5k/year per-capital healthcare spending.

Did my taxes and my family of four was well past the $30k mark for insurance, copays, dental, and optical this year.
If you search on 'redlining' you can find an extensive literature.
Unfortunately I don’t recall which podcast it was, perhaps 99% Invisible, but one had a show on this. One of the things they mentioned was that during WW II now-liberal enclaves like Berkeley told the federal government that they wouldn’t allow housing to be built for black shipbuilders, and similarly Richmond refused but eventually relented on the condition they all be moved out at the conclusion of the war.

There were also redlining practices and things like razing and redeveloping the predominantly black Fillmore making it a neighborhood the previous residents could no longer afford.
It's math. China also has more English speakers than the USA too.
Atlassian Eyes Future of Development
Nicely put together. One minor thing to consider is for drawing lines in the whiteboard the current approach seems to be line drawing starts with a ctrl+click. In other applications (e.g. gimp) it seems more natural to trigger line drawing via the end location (e.g. shift+click draws a line from the last drawn point to the cursor location).

Since I've seen the latter behavior more frequently it seems to be the more intuitive/usable option, though that's just my experience.
> But somewhere in the bureaucratic hierarchy faceless city functionaries administer labyrinthine regulations that benefit the rich over the poor, the old over the young, the here over those to come, the past over the future.

One would think that, given this article comes to us from the National Review, this would be presented as a positive.

Jokes aside, the city and really the Bay as a whole are unlikely to change much. Prop 13 goes unmentioned in the article, somehow, though it remains a core part of the problem; so does the tendency for tech companies to build their headquarters on the peninsula or the west side of SJ. One would think that with the extraordinary amount of wealth floating around the bay that there would be some effort put into making the place better for everyone, ie. the old "changing the world for the better" idea that presumably drives a lot of startups, but I don't see it.

The standard for tech seems to be avoiding the hard problems of politics and long-term local issues that require campaigns and consensus rather than code and servers. I remember finding it striking a couple years ago to see that on the list of corporate sponsors for https://www.spur.org/, Microsoft was donating more money than Google. Perhaps there's another non-profit dedicated to urban planning in the bay that Google prefers to support, but I haven't heard of it. Apple could have considered building their HQ closer to public transport, but last I checked decided to go with tacking on a set of ugly massive parking structures to set the backdrop for their nice shiny new building.

I'm not really sure what should be done. The transient nature of many people that live in SF/the bay means they're unlikely to have an interest in city/area politics, much less take action on it (if they even can - several of my co-workers are on various kinds of visa). I'd guess that in the coming years tech will wax and wane but never really fade and the wealthy will gradually retreat from the public sphere and areas, surrounded by an ever-increasing array of private software functions that replace public services for those that can pay.
Ctrl+F "contractor"

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This move is basically meaningless if it doesn't extend to the temp agencies and businesses BoA buys labor from and contracts with to provide basic services (custodial, POS systems support, etc.). Sure the gesture is nice but it's hollow. Modern BigCos don't hire for low skill, low wage positions unless it's part of their core business. They contract all that out, either they get bodies from temp agencies or they get the entire service provided by a 3rd party.
>There’s even a classic joke about it: “How do you make a small fortune in the airlines? Start with a large fortune.”

"The secret to become millionaire is to be a billionaire and buy an airline"
BASIC was the best. Very simple language that's very accessible. In high school, we programmed Lego robots using BASIC to follow a black line.
Some of this is a product of our city planning. We’ve built cities such that goods and services are in one area and housing is in another. It makes it more convenient to order online. In Manhattan you can find everything you want within a few blocks.
Google Cloud CEO says that he’s borrowing from the Oracle playbook
The crowd arguing with me might say that a bunch of those babies will move to the east bay or similar by school age. And many will. But it's still a very good place to raise kids and grow up.
"Our country is full" is racist for "whites are in danger of losing their ethnic voting majority to latin americans". Evidence is given by his continued support for immigration from european and asian countries but not latin american ones:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/01/12/5776731...
Clearly, it can vary a lot what people consider free. And therefore, this statement isn't true in general. The US does indeed have a lot of things I would consider freedoms, yes. But in Germany, for instance, I feel it is a great freedom to not have to worry about most healthcare issues, regardless of their income. A freedom (in my perspective) I wouldn't have in the US. There are other issues that fall into that category as well (free to not really have to worry about school shootings, free to not have to worry about people (including kids) to find a gun in the fields, free to not have to worry about insurance of people when having an accident, etc.).
I'm sure there's going to be some legitimate criticisms (they don't have many low paid workers; they're only doing this to win favor with the democrats; he still makes too much money; etc) but I don't really care.

It's a good thing to do. They didn't have to do it. They did it. I'll judge people on their actions first, intentions second.
Opera is owned by Chinese governments. It’s worse than Huawei.
Microsoft Edge uses Linux for its build system
What? Why even say this?
Wow, I had this exact book and I believe I typed every last program into my Commodore 64. Including the (to me) massive Super Star Trek game, which I did over the course of several evenings. Ended up porting that one to the PC as a way to learn Pascal. What a trip down memory lane.
Also, AFAIK, most people don't even need to file because HMRC handles the simple situations automatically (I've never had to do a return, for example.)
Surely the author can find breakfast cheaper than $37?!?!
You are not, you just have constant propaganda to that effect and you believe it because most of you never leave your country. And that is not just me personal opinion. Going over a (incomplete) sample of freedom indices listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices we have:

Rank 6 on the Economic Freedom index https://www.fraserinstitute.org/economic-freedom/map?geozone...

Rank 17 on the Human Freedom index https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/human-fr...

Rank 45 on the Press Freedom Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index

Rank 10 on the World Index of Moral Freedom http://www.fundalib.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/World-Ind...

Rank 53 in the Freedom of the World index https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world-2018-table-cou...

Rank 12 in the Index of Economic Freedom https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking/

That is not a bad score overall, but is a far cry from an unchallenged "we are the most free".
http://www.midss.org/sites/default/files/ncogscale.pdf
you are right that 3 monitors is excessive. I find myself only really using 2 of them.

Using the 3rd requires me to twist my upper body a bit uncomfortably. as a result I find that I tend to keep it dedicated to little used apps, like email and sourcetree (a git gui)
Humans are not rational beings. They do not always purchase things they need. Fentanyl and Heroin are obvious examples.

Obesity is a problem in the united states and represents the over purchasing of food.

- Let's say you go to such place with cheap electricity, start your own business, use that cheap electricity and produce something. If you cannot generate the same profit with your product as the bitcoin miners, then that's a waste. You just wasted electricity on your business that could otherwise be used to mine bitcoins and turn them into more dollars - more value for somebody.

Value cannot be produced out of thin air. Mining a bitcoin without doing "work" is the equivalent of having a printing press and printing money. No work is done.

When you print money it is a form of theft not a form of work. Most countries recognize it and classify it as counterfeit. When you exchange a counterfeit dollar for a real product that required work, you are doing an act of thievery. When you mine a bitcoin then exchange it for real money, it is similar to theft. The only difference is the person you exchange the money with has knowledge about what bitcoin is, and the "work" (nothing) you did to get it. Sort of like how when a drug addict buys some heroin he's either in too deep or for users just starting out, he's ignorant.

A currency that constantly uses up energy is more wasteful than a currency that does not. Simple logic.
You can have almost anything through extensions and that doesn’t disqualify built-in alternatives such as this.
Its even more absurd because your health, well being, and potentially life is held hostage. Like, if the choice is "you pay this or you die", it's not exactly a choice. They can charge whatever BECAUSE OTHERWISE YOU'RE DEAD.

But the mere fact that you can go get a surgery, and not only will you not know what it will cost, you don't even know who you're doing business with: you're going to get bills from the doctor, from the hospitals, from the nurses, from the anesthetist, and god know what else from, for the next 6 months. You don't even know if you're done paying all your bills or not!

Its completely absurd.
Links to the examples are broken at this time.
This is not what IDE support means for the most part. The big question is does the IDE understand how the files are compiled well enough for its autocompletion and jump-to-definition features to work. A build system/IDE combo which does not support this is DOA to most users. Sadly, there is no standardisation of the interface between IDEs, build systems, and compilers (though the language server spec from Microsoft is making some headway in this regard), so each of these integrations needs to be rebuilt each time, making development of new build systems extra painful.
Hey, remember how we said Article 13 won't cause upload filters? Yeah, see, we weren't lying - you'll need upload filters for other regulations instead.

Also, how is this not censorship? It's not like you can look at any content and easily tell whether it is or is not terrorist content.

I legitimately want the EU to stop. Either they don't understand what they're doing or they're malicious.
While I agree with what you said I would warn everyone who decides to pursue this endeavour and has no experience that capacitors can store a good lethal dose of voltage for quite some time.

Also I enjoy this YouTuber's explanation about capacitors quite a lot. Uncle Doug is a terrific presenter:
https://youtu.be/l-u8J-yh9ZA
XiJinPing is watching you :p
UI designers (or especially the ones that have blogs) seem highly susceptible to 2 common afflictions, which affect many people when they live for too long in their art:

-- Believing that fonts and lines can solve major world problems

-- Believing that anything they touch must've needed solving

I find it rare that a UI designer will say "that version of it is fine, and better than the additional complications I would introduce if I put my mind to it!"

Sure, there are some interesting aspects of this redesign. But let's not overstate faults of the old map that many people were just fine with for decades, to justify the need for a redesign.

You can even see the creator's belief in his own work's importance, as the last picture on the webpage shows he's actually posted the map without authorization in some subway car.
> whose ethics?

But is that not clear? The ethics of the person who made that list. You may not agree with it, and that's fine, but it's still useful to people who do agree with these ethics, or even with just some of them.

I do agree it'd be better if they offered some explanation about the basis of their selection, which would make it easier for people to determine if they agree with it or not, and it would certainly form a better starting point to discuss these ethics and suggest improvements. That they didn't include that explanation is absolutely very valid criticism.

But ultimately, if you don't agree with it, then this selection is not going to be relevant for you, is it?
Microsoft has embraced linux for a longtime already.
from an iphone users perspective there is no problem that requires a solution. Since iMessage is installed by the default, and there is no need for another app. And with iOS being pretty dominant in the US, no other app is going to get the traction it needs on iOS to be a successful cross platform communications.
Cali is a progressive state. Is socialism really that feared there?
Last time I looked at operas "VPN," it wasn't even a VPN. Just a http/https proxy.
It's funny how your comment answers all your own questions. You seem to be extracting the ethics of this list just fine.
The dev build is pretty good. I could see myself using the new Edge if it had Windows-specific features or support for things that typically only work on Edge/IE.
Most of the article was simply stating the obvious about SF, but the end was very weird. When the National Review starts calling for a land-value tax and a “redistributive policy”, I’m sorry, but I’m going to call this disingenuous trolling by the author, because these are not policies the National Review honestly advocates for.