skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem comes down to taxes. Donations to universities are tax deductible, but if it's an explicit quid pro quo for admission, then it's no longer eligible. So any quid pro quo donations that are written off on taxes are tax fraud.
Yes. So rent had to be regulated and controlled. The ROI is across rent as income and capital gain. Capital gain would make up a lot of the long-term ROI of owning property. Even cooperative housing and co-owner models have to recognize this.
People displaced: 0. Both buildings were previously co-living spaces (for the past 4-5 years) before our management of the property. And before that, both buildings had fires and sat vacant for many years prior. So yeah, nobody displaced.

Getting the future of AI/ML right stands to massively benefit/hurt everyone, and there's a strong need for this sort of community to help with that.
What alternative do you propose that doesn’t involve betting against all of those things? Hoarding gold?
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Some people were using replies to the job ads as opportunities to attack the hiring organization and make it look bad. Since we have no way to know which of those are factual and justified vs. not, and since the who-is-hiring threads don't have space for a community process in which all the details get explored and readers get enough information, we decided the only fair thing to do was disallow this. It's too open to abuse.

For one thing, the job poster is in an impossible position, since they look bad if they don't answer the attack and bad if they do. For another, some people abuse voting in these threads to try to disadvantage their competitors [1], so it's probable that some were using comments too. And finally, even if the attacking comment is sincere (which I'm sure most were), a sincere "company treated me badly" story is still one-sided—and sometimes these things are highly misleading [2]. There are two sides to each story and to be fair one would need to hear both of them.

I completely get why and how you would find such comments useful, but unfortunately that's also exactly why they're open to abuse, and we don't want HN to be a place for that. It's better, albeit more boring, to stay on the safe side. I'd rather let some of the guilty go free than punish anyone innocent.

An alternative place for such comments is any other HN thread where they're on topic.

[1] We have ways of dealing with that, and take downvoting rights away from accounts that do it. But if anyone notices an unfairly downvoted job post, please email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it.

[2] I know this from moderating HN: people post the most godawful-sounding stories of how horribly we treated them, leaving out all the information that would explain why we really banned them, how many warnings we'd given them previously, and so on. The internet martyr narrative is an artistic genre.
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> The reason the CIA got involved was because the country was turning communist, which is the worst thing that can happen to a nation.

Was it? I'm not super well informed on the topic, but my impression was that Mossadegh's policies were largely the kind of mild social democracy that Europe has been engaging in pretty comfortably for a few decades. The two big exceptions would be nationalizing natural resources under foreign influence and raising land taxes, and again, you could probably find plenty of moderate to conservative economists today that would find both of those reasonable.

Is there anything in particular you're thinking of when you say Iran was "turning Communist" in a way that warrants comparisons to "the worst thing that can happen to a nation"?
Are you aware of any laws on the books saying that public universities can't give preferential admission to people who pay a lot of money?

I mean, said laws might well exist, but if they don't, then it's all perfectly above-board.
Oh, God. I forgot about the empty src bug. YouTube wasn't the only substantial Google service affected by it from time to time. But I remember it differently.

Yes, it triggered a GET for /. But that generated HTML (usually the service's homepage, as was our case), which the browser would attempt to parse as an image, obviously failing. It would not trigger a recursive fetching of all the resources on the page. Even without recursion, it already inflicted major damage, because our service's homepage was dynamic, while the resources linked from it were mostly static (and thus a lot cheaper, as well as cacheable). I think I would have noticed if it multiplied other traffic, not just the homepage.

This was the bane of my existence for many months. Every few weeks I would have to fire up Dremel and try to figure what was causing the spurious page loads. I hated and still hate SQL, so that was no fun. I knew when it was time to investigate thanks to our human monitoring system: our PMs would get excited or puzzled by a sudden jump in the page view dashboards. (They lived by those graphs...)

Thank you Chris and co. for your contributions in killing the browser version from hell.
Not just me that got the bash reference right?
That is a substitutable good and you know it.
Different careers have different amounts of local correlation - I'm planning on waiting on buying a house until I get established as a remote programmer, then buying in a relatively low COL area.
Everything costs something.
This is an discussion topic, and this text provides a viewpoint. However, from how I read it, the "current paradigm" is imperative languages like C/C++, and "next paradigm programming language" is Datalog (this word occurs 31 times on 9 pages of text).

What is missing are functional and descriptive languages.

No explicit loops? "heavily leverage parallelism, yet completely hide it"? lazy evaluation? This sound like functional languages.

"Example: An Interactive Graphical Application." describes HTML+CSS exactly.

I understand author really loves Datalog, but omission of other languages makes the message less effective.
Maybe because music labels don’t want to cede too much control or it could just be an artifact from the FM era.
Just one word: Thanks!
There are several rent control bills in California right now.

AB 36 will allow cities to enact rent control on older buildings. AB 36 would not apply to new construction, only to buildings older than 10 years. This should help to prevent supply crunches, or at least not make them worse.

AB 1482 would set a state-wide cap on rent increases, for example inflation + 10%. The idea is to stop massive rent increases that lead to evictions. The exact number hasn’t been determined yet, the bill sponsors are trying to figure out a good number that protects tenants and gives landlords a legally guaranteed return on investment.

These bills will face a lot of corporate opposition. It’s important that our electeds here from renters, homeowners and “mom & pop” landlords as they consider these bills.
My nexus 5 still works, I don't use it anymore but the thing was an absolute tank.
Ironic because one of the main arguments by locals against building higher is that it lowers local home prices.
Auto-delete controls for your Location History and activity data
> CD Projekt Red and GOG is doing some great stuff, I think you'd find Epic is much closer to that than you might imagine.

Absolutely absurd. Steam fundamentally is less of a walled garden than the EGS feature-wise. All you need to do is look at CD-key activation on the steam store. Both Steam and EGS come with the app-requirement constraint, but only one allows you to redeem games purchased offsite.

Besides "He's a good person and will do good things", what actions show this.
Check out the work done by Viewpoints Research Institute.

http://www.vpri.org/writings.php

APL did away with English-like text and was moderately successful, but the high learning curve inhibited popularity.
Uh, these folks worked like 80 hour weeks. And had “unlimited vacation”, aka no vacation. 1 week severance is a huge slap in the face.
The long term average return on a primary residence doesn't even keep up with inflation.
I worked at Stanford in both academic and business departments.

Given the prevailing attitudes and pedigrees of the non-scholarship students, I'm surprised it took this long for the public to realize how elite institutions operate.

Furthermore, I don't think people appreciate that going to an elite institution isn't concerned much about academic rigor, rather it's about networking and getting a pedigree "certificate of authenticity." I'd be willing to bet around half of students cheat as there can be no proctors per the honor code and guess around 10-15% of students buy their way through school.

Universities are a business; elite universities are also status reaffirmation factories.
Do people use debit cards online? Should they?

The (US) regulations around liability for fraudulent charges for debit cards are totally different those for credit cards [1]. Specifically, consumers bear far more potential liability if their debit cards are used fraudulently than if their credit cards are used fraudulently.

The money quote from the section on what the consumer is liable for if their debit card is used fraudulently: "All the money taken from your ATM/debit card account, and possibly more; for example, money in accounts linked to your debit account."

By contrast, credit card liability tops out at $50.

Given the regulatory environment, it is not very consumer-friendly to encourage wider use of debit cards online.

If you have access to a credit card, you should use it instead of a debit card when purchasing online. (And in person, but the OP is about online payments.)

[1] https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0213-lost-or-stolen-cr...
Can users not just point Google at the site, or are the contents not index able in that way?
Just to reinforce this: for the vast majority of people who don’t live in the countryside, desirability is almost all about nearby human activities. Look at what makes a location desirable: good schools, good job prospects, retail, night life, transportation, etc. It should be pretty clear that this is definitely not fixed.
> a withering economy [...] for Russia

The Russian economy is growing, not withering: "Although economic sanctions tightened, [...] Russian economy expanded at a 1.6 percent pace in the year just ended," - [1] (or [2] if you think rt.com is fake news).

> massive population outflow for Russia

It is true that Russia population is decreasing, although Poland, Germany, Hungary, Japan etc are decreasing even more [3]. It's hyperbolic to describe this as "massive".

[1] - https://www.rt.com/business/448357-russian-economy-grows-san...

[2] - http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2019/01/08/da...

[3] - https://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?v=24
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My iphone 4 was pretty much as fast as the nexus 5 and way less buggy.
The nexus 5 is the only phone that I almost threw against a wall, I’ll never touch android anymore after that shit show.
You must have a very high tolerance to bugs and poor performance. My friend was very happy when I sold him that piece of crap, so it must be subjective.
Why is that? Did it turn out to be a bad game? As a fan of Magic: The Gathering I was quite interested in it and the concept looked interesting too.
I think programming languages today focus too much on features and then they all look like another Algol variations with couple of features borrowed from elsewhere.

I don't think people these days try to understand what are the building blocks of languages and computation.

I'd wager the true next generation programming languages will be ultra minimalistic languages, retaining only the essentials while not losing on legibility.

Lisp for example is still not minimal as it has 'special forms', ie. hacks to make conditionals work. The unintiutive prefix notation also doesn't help.

Also not many languages allow people to explore true powers of deeper stack modifications by delimited continuations. Using them the users would be able to create their own looping and threading constructs as well as custom exceptions and iterator mechanisms and effect handlers.

It's important to realize that the economic incentives for truly innovative languages are bleak. The academia is stuck in incrementalism. Private sector wouldn't pay for it and the benefits would only be collected by cloud vendors, adding yet another trillions to their valuations.

Why bother.
There are separate Case-Shiller Indexes for 20 large metro areas, as well as composite indexes for the 10 or 20 largest metro areas.

For the 10 largest metro areas (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPCS10RSA), the annual returns are the following. Interesting to note that nationally home values are over their 2006 peak values, but that in the 10 largest metro areas home values are only about even with the previous peak.

10 Years: 3.8%
20 Years: 4.7%
30 Years: 3.6%

Alternatively, if you look at just San Francisco (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SFXRSA):

10 Years: 7.8%
20 Years: 5.7%
30 Years: 4.8%
Why not? Search is an incredibly complex problem.
This part is why it worked:

"He had come in on an otherwise normal day to find email from every major tech news publication asking why the second largest website on the planet was threatening to cut off access to nearly a fifth of its user base. Fortunately for us, the publications had already settled on a narrative that this was a major benefit to the Internet. By their call, YouTube was leading the charge towards making the web a faster, safer experience for all of its users."

Go with the Zeitgeist, and you'll have a lot of wind in your sails.
I haven't used Arch in quite a while but their wiki is great and generally isn't specific to Arch.
There are, you know, other reasons beyond financial ROI to engage with university.
But if you hold your boyfriend’s hand during your birthday your grandmother would probably wise up to your sexual preferences.
Maybe there's a conflation of the "shock?" There's the level of shock implied by the media and then there's the level of shock experienced by viewers of said media.
But they are competing on the quality of the platform. What do they have a monopoly on? Being the only place to watch Star Wars or whatever is not a monopoly. They compete on both the quality of the content and the quality of the streaming experience.

If Disney doesn't make much content that I want to watch (and they don't), then I don't have to pay them a dime for anything. If HBO only makes one thing that I want to watch, then I can subscribe for a month and then pay them nothing after that. That's a significant improvement over the previous way of doing things.

Why would it be good for a single company to control distribution of all content?
Unless you change your admission process to be based on competitive entrance exams everyone has to take, with an anonymous review process. This is mostly the norm in France.
Depends largely on how the code is structured with C++.

There's the number of compilation units within a lib vs overall. Typically you can parallelize within a module, but not externally unless you have some smarts.

Edit: I use module in this sense as a producible result, not the future language concept of modules.
Tesla (and/or Musk) keep saying it's safe to let the car drive, and then when you let the car drive and it kills you, they say you're holding it wrong.

If you're actually trying to increase safety, the right things to build are computers to supervise the human driver, and not systems that require a human to supervise the computer driver.

If the human drifts out of the lane, nudge the car back in and beep, but don't prevent the human from intentionally going over the lines.

If the human appears to be driving into an obstacle, beep and apply the brakes, but allow the human to override.

If the human isn't paying attention, beep, then turn on the hazard lights and slow down / try to find a safe place to pull over.
Have you taken a look into OpenRA? There is a RA2 mod you might be interested in.

https://github.com/OpenRA/ra2
The legal problem is: which humans? It's one thing to say that on average, the system will save lives compared to an average human. But perhaps the human in the car is above average. Is the car safer for them? Perhaps not. How can they discern the relative safety?

The easiest way to deal with the issue is to be safer than, say, 99% of drivers. I don't think Tesla can make that claim at present.
I think betting on the tech industry (minus adtech) is reasonable.
Future news headline: "Software limited range upgrade offered to Canadian Tesla Owners"
Aren't the algorithms for extracting depth from stereo imagery already solved and thus also essentially "free"?
General Aviation airplanes use differential braking as well.
Some people are picky about which brand of bottled water to buy, but people still have a right to water.
And this is how you hack organizations:

"Shortly thereafter, the Google Docs engineers whipped up their own IE6 banner and pushed it into production, presumably under the mistaken assumption that we had done our diligence and had received all of the necessary approvals."
How is this different from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_sort ?
It's pretty wild that you think that providing preference to the most able people who have typically come from disadvantaged backgrounds (i.e. affirmative action) is equivalent to providing preference to insanely rich people who are vastly underperforming their privileged cohort.
Yes this is true and important, but you and the parent poster probably agree. "in the long term" i.e. asymptotically is constrained by "nobody hav[ing] discretionary money left", hence the OP's conclusion.

Now ROI and asymptotic analysis are both mathematical niceties the belie real world limitations, but that's how people talk.
What about just ordinary proles? I mean the big shiny economic machine is not nearly so automated as it appears to be. It’s a mechanical Turk composed of billions of low paid laborers. Even Elon musk is discovering that there’s a limit to automation.
People weren’t told that they were supposed to prioritize those three things in that order. First reduce consumption, and then reuse the things you do use, and then recycle the things you can no longer use.

Most people think recycling is as good as never having consumed in the first place.
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A simpler explanation for the Chinese military build-up might be the same as the explanation for the USAs disproportionate military spending - a military/industrial complex that furthers the careers of the rich and powerful.
yeah "stripped down" monolithic kernels rather than "built up" libraries are basically guaranteed to not be much better architecturally.
I applied a few weeks ago and heard nothing. Can I send a resume directly to you?
To go straight in a car, just release the steering wheel.