skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would expect property crime to correlate with wealth generally, ie, where there's... more property.

This is obviously not true. Wealthy neighborhoods have far less crime.

The point is that because of the policies of SF to go easy on theft, but go hard on violence, causes a lot of theft.

This doesn't just hurt wealthy people, but anyone who owns anything worth stealing, which in turn hurts any poor people trying to make their way out of the gutter.

If they had their police enforce against both types of crime, SF wouldn't look as third worldish as it now does, with lawless shanty towns surrounding ultra rich, well protected areas. You've probably never lived in a very poor neighborhood, but I have. In my experience those that aren't involved in criminal activity, and are trying to get into a better situation want police presence. They want crackdown on crime, because people just trying to live their lives in these neighborhoods these are the ones that these crimes hurt the most.

This blindeye'd activism which prevents the rule of law in poor areas causes the very same hopeless conditions they are rallying against.
Induced demand in itself is not a bad thing. The reason why induced highway demand is almost always bad is because expanding highways rarely results in faster trips after a few years. But a public transit expansion on the other hand can move many, many more people for decades before the induced demand causes the transit system to choke up.

Likewise for housing, induced demand isn't that bad. Most people will only ever have one house. In the case of a highway expansion, people can easily take multiple auto trips that they'd otherwise avoid given congestion. Unless the price of housing craters, I doubt most people will start consuming multiple homes.
Wow, look at the stark simplicity of that gun. As an engineer/programmer, there's something appealing about simple, durable machines like that.
Much faster than waste at a government is curbed, which is essentially not until the country’s currency collapses.
Sure, after transferring their IP and source code ;)

That's the game China is playing.
That's a strawman, plus nazis/white nationalists are groups that actually spread anti-LGBTQ propaganda
I don't buy into all of this anti-sinitic paranoia, but if suspicion of China-produced semiconductors were reasonable, why wouldn't suspicion of Taiwan-produced semiconductors also be reasonable?
Which law forces me to pay google money?
It's the other way around, you got it all wrong. Bush wanted to introduce a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Cheney was against this amendment.

I'll tell you more, Obama was against gay marriage well after that, as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6K9dS9wl7U

Specifically, written of Cheney in 2004:

"Vice President Dick Cheney, whose daughter Mary is a lesbian, distanced himself from President Bush’s call for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage “Lynne and I have a gay daughter, so it’s an issue our family is very familiar with,” Cheney told an audience that included his daughter. “With the respect to the question of relationships, my general view is freedom means freedom for everyone. People ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to. “The question that comes up with the issue of marriage is what kind of official sanction or approval is going to be granted by government? Historically, that’s been a relationship that has been handled by the states. The states have made that fundamental decision of what constitutes a marriage,” he said."

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5817720/ns/politics/t/cheney-odds-...

Which is basically a position identical to Obama's position in 2008. Funny between two people holding the same views one is called a "homophobe", and another is a paragon of virtue.
Given that Saudi Arabia considers atheism to be a form of terrorism already, I don't see it as particularly far fetched. The reason to do so is because it allows making misleading claims for propaganda purposes.
Regular motor vehicles don’t do nearly as much harm to the roads as OTR trucks, yet we subsidize those for the benefits they bring...
I'm considering it after reading this. I have considered it in the past, but you know... I find it hard to start and finish tasks once something else catches my fancy.

I don't know if it's me or modern culture but my brain needs instant feedback. Video games are nearly unparalleled for that. Programming is similar, exams and homework (unlike a lot of people posting here) do it for me too, because I get that feedback in a solid, concrete number.
To be fair one should audit any no-name app that wants to access your bank information, no matter what it looks like.
Wait, are you saying that watching the video is considered a crime in and of itself? Not redistribution, and not even mere possession, but just seeing it?
SpaceX to launch 60 Internet satellites and deploy them like a deck of cards
Move to a location with multiple electricity providers. They exist all over.

If you don’t like your employer healthcare, quit and find another or buy it on your own. There is choice there and you just don’t like it.
> PS: if Haut "cutis, skin" and Haus "house, family, sex" ("race"?) share a root, is that a remnant of racism?

No, because even if they did share a connection related to "skin", there are far simpler speculative explanations, like animal skin being used as a covering for a tent like house structure, like on a yurt.
I suspect everything he does is vetted by the telcos.

I think another way to implement it that would be "telco friendly" would be to charge for each phone call, even if it doesn't connect.
I use Telegram and so does my friends despite I (primarily) know about the questionable security.

And the reasons are very simple: Because it's packed with features and it's user interface is so extremely well done it simply outclasses any other option in those regards.

Second, our normal level of communication simply does not require perfect security. Being on Telegram or as a group on a bus being overheard by everyone would make no difference. No one of us cares because it doesn't matter.

I talk to my family and spouse over "normal" Telegram, and it's the same thing there. When we need to talk about intimate things we do so eye-to-eye, and even if it would become public I believe audience would find TV soap operas more exciting.

What I am saying our choices are dictated by convenience and enjoyment. Signal, Riot and Wire provides none of those compared to Telegram.
Here are some I like in SV:

Magical Bridge in Palo Alto. Caters to kids with developmental disabilities and kids who like to scramble over fun obstacles.

Magic Mountain in Coyote Point.

San Mateo Central Park. I think this one might be older than a lot of current standards.

For a playground that gets it all wrong, there’s a pirate ship structure in Vail, CO near the main base. It claims 5-12, but it ends up being very dangerous, even for adults, for all the wrong reasons. Hint to playground designers: make your slides as adventurous as you want, but give a good run-out before the slide dumps you on your arse two feet above the ground. That hurts without adding any sense of adventure.
can't comment on this topic as whole but I would like to chime in from IT perspective -- lot of folks in IT industry with educational background in Computer Science or Mathematics tend to have anti social / cold / weird personalities. Maybe Universities and Colleges should incorporate 2 courses on how to act more social / warm as part of their curriculum.
Are your days any less "wasted" laboring away?
Oh, I don't think that's how it works when it comes to Israel doing terrible things.
I'm originally from a country where laws against "extremism" are actively used to target political opposition for over a decade.

Go ahead, tell me again how slippery slope is a fallacy.
I was shopping for flights last Christmas and got price X on every site. I started checking out and the price became X+50. I got angry and left and came back later to find the price, on all sites, was X+80. Since I had no choice but to travel I paid X+80. Then for kicks and self torture I checked the price on my Android phone and it was still around X.
How to Build a Fuel Logger “Android App” Guided by Tests
I once did a job for a European client who ended up being a manager in some government department. He had a use-it or lose-it budget and needed an app prototype turned around in 48 hours to avoid losing the money.

After the initial prototype we did a few more rounds. That ended up being IIRC $30-$40k for what amounted to 5 days of work.

Client was super-happy. I guess the prototype was enough to convince his bosses to fund the project for real.
His manifesto also included memes and copy pasta.He listened to meme music as he drove to the mosque, he said "Subscribe to Pewdiepie" before he shot the first victim.

The fact that he was a member of an online community that considered his views normal is extremely significant.
Hopefully it will be more open source friendly. Some US industries are just plain anti-FOSS, like electronics and chip design for example.
Web Browser: Firefox

Email Client: ProtonMail in Firefox?

Terminal: Gnome terminal

IDE: vim

File manager: my shell

Basic Text Editor: vim

IRC/Messaging Client: web; used to use irssi, but I don't do IRC as much anymore, so it's mostly freenode's web client now

PDF Reader: Firefox

Office Suite: I don't bother, but I suppose LibreOffice occasionally

Calendar: the one built into GNOME

Video Player: Firefox, VLC

Music Player: I don't bother

Photo Viewer: the one built into GNOME

Screen recording: idk, I do it so rarely that I just pick one up when I need one

Honestly, must of my Linux time is spent in the shell, browsing the web, or playing games on Steam, mostly in that order. I used to be picky about my software (used to use XMonad with a curated set of keyboard-driven software), but GNOME seems to work mostly okay these days without fuss, so I've been using it.

I guess I'm trying out KDE because I'm moving to opensuse, so replace some of the stuff above with "whatever comes with KDE". I really don't care that much anymore until something doesn't work right, and that's pretty rare anymore.
"I don't want some small-time amatuer working on my $5000 power suit!"
> For instance, the first 10 trillion cases of the Riemann hypothesis have been checked numerically using computers. Who, at this point, can still doubt its validity?

They could check a trillion trillion cases and it’s still 0% of all the possible cases.
> Also having cops test this tech out, knowing they're going to be deliberately monitored to how often they use it for good reasons (e.g. child abductions) vs abuse it, would probably produce incredibly biased results. Think about it-- the experiment would be entirely self-serving: cops get to trumpet that it helped them for the legit crime here and there (and sitting through public safety committees, believe me, they will TRUMPET it), while showing that zero cases of misuse happened.

To be fair, wouldn't that suggest strong oversight might work then? True, any test might differ from real-world conditions, but theories need to be tested one way or another and it would provide some evidence.

While caution during early testing might lead to less misuse, one could also imagine countervailing factors. For example, lack of familiarity with a new technology might lead to might lead to mistakes. Regulations are written in blood, as they say, and the development of new ethical guidelines may take time.

Which, as we've noted, could be a pragmatic reason to let others be the test subjects. I'm not eager to open the can of worms myself, though it might feel a bit selfish to put it that way.
Are you worried about China, or the company itself? They probably don't care about your credit card info. State secrets, closed source code, or proprietary business processes might be more useful. But anything nefarious would need to be worth getting caught.
I'm sure people will be scrutinizing them a lot closer now?
I used Silex (the symphony micro framework which was merged back into Symfony), which means I'm now using Symfony. I too prefer it to Laravel. I thinks less opinionated maybe?

honestly its ok to have a different opinion, different people prefer different things.
Here are some examples of how Western countries with democratic governments and rule of law actually utilize those laws that place limits on speech and expression:

https://theintercept.com/2017/08/29/in-europe-hate-speech-la...
What you're talking about absolutely is measurable. There has been tons and tons of research into various aspects of audio reproduction and how to measure different things and to what degree they're audible. Techniques for measuring transient response have been around since the 1940s.

Unfortunately most places writing reviews of audio equipment don't bother to go much beyond frequency response and distortion. Audioxpress ran a really nice 2 part article a decade ago describing a bunch of different types of speaker measurements and summarizing some research into how audible each aspect is.

https://www.audioxpress.com/article/testing-loudspeakers-whi...

https://www.audioxpress.com/article/testing-loudspeakers-whi...
The Royal Commission of Inquiry is just beginning and will specifically focus on what the relevant agencies did, or failed to do.
Since china exports so much and we export so little, rather than send empty shipping containers back to china, we fill it with our garbage and send that back to china to recycle.

At one time this was true of the trucking industry, too. Trucks would haul goods to a city, then carry that city's trash back out. It was considered better than running a truck empty.

Then they started doing it with food trucks, and the regulations came.
the problem with that statement though is that's also what happens with every internet attached device people buy. At this point I would be surprised if an off the shelf IoT/IoS device didn't have at least one root login and RCE via a command line passed in a url.
Leap years are actually just slightly inaccurate. Leap years estimate an orbital period of 364.2425 days but the actual orbital period is 365.24217 days.

Also, it should be noted that basically nobody actually understands a "year" to mean an orbit of Earth around the Sun relative to the Local Standard of Rest, which is called a sidereal year (ca. 365.256 days). Instead, to most people, a year means a cycle of seasons which recreates the same angle between the Earth-Sun axis and the Earth's axial tilt, which generates seasonal temperatures and is called a tropical year. Because the axial tilt is variable, the tropical year also varies and eventually drifts away from the sidereal year. The tropical year and sidereal year differ by about 20 minutes, so today's year starts about a month "away" from the year Julius Caesar enacted the first true solar calendar.

The difficulty in this case is that spinning rocks in space can float around however they please.
Would a holiday have helped? If you went somewhere else you didn't need the help, and stopped taking it for two weeks would the tolerance have dropped to the point where it didn't cause issues?
Shouldn't storing and checking a hash solve most of the security problems? That way, you know the asset hasn't changed at all. It doesn't matter if there's multiple caches because unless you've managed to break sha256, they should all be the same file.

The actual html can also be cached, which should make it zero latency. However, I am realizing now that I'm not sure where the checksum gets stored...

(I'll readily admit this was a spur-of-the-moment idea that I haven't actually thought through intensively.)
The way I view this, funding can definitely raise suspicion. But The open sourcing of the protocols should help to remove those suspicions.
No, but I didn't say it was was a good idea
This is a useful estimation formula, and I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted.

The reasoning is as follows: institutional investors prioritize ownership % over $. For the first couple financing rounds, they will want 15-25% of the business and will increase the check size until they get that. If they get 25%, post-money valuation of the business is 4x the investment. If they get 20%, post-money = 5x the amount. There are outliers, but "post-money = 4-5x the check size" is a useful heuristic for mid-market deals.
FCC Wants Phone Companies to Start Blocking Robocalls by Default
barring U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment made by firms posing a national security risk

Huh. Did the US government just make my cell phone illegal to use? Replacement is on my list of things to do, but I wasn't really planning on it this month.....

Not to mention basically every other option I could look at is also made in China, with the exception(?) of Samsung - which I'm not inclined to cough up the $$ for.
And they pay the gas tax that pays for road maintenance.
JavaScript inventor say originally no difference between == and === in JS
> every customer got charged what my mother felt they could pay

I suspect with advertising profiles and amazon purchase histories (and possibly amazon visa card applications requiring household income)... this wonderful "service" previously only available to the rich will be democratized for everyone!
Is this piece of open source used by Bing search engine?
It becomes a political issue when all companies start engaging with it, especially when they do so under external political pressure ("We really don't want to pass a law - how about you self-regulate?").

Consider the situation in Australia, where all ISPs acted in concert to block websites. It's technically not government censorship, but the effect is the same - so any utilitarian rationale behind restrictions on government censorship should apply here equally.

Or maybe this should just be considered a form of illegal cartel.
> Inevitably, when the number comes back as bogus, they get angry, and yell at me

I was really surprised the first time I got a got a bunch of obscenities out of one of these scammers-- I figured they'd consider being screwed with just a cost of doing business.

Weird.

Aside: I went from a couple a day to none in the last three days after saying "DO NOT HANG UP. You have reached the US department of illicit telephone communication"<click>. Perhaps a coincidence.
> If the US was an authoritarian dictatorship and we bulldozed every single family home in the Bay Area

No where in the Bay Area "is built out" so there's no need to bulldoze single family homes. There's lot of parking lots, abandoned or under-utilized malls (e.g. Valco) and land zoned for other uses like office or manufacturing that can be used for new construction.

I'm pretty sure building more alone won't solve the affordability problem, but it will stop prices from rising. As it stands as a software engineer I can't afford rent in the average San Francisco apartment (I live in Oakland, so I'm OK for now).

But that's why many housing advocates support the three Ps: Production, Protection and Preservation. These three ideas combine to build more homes, protect exist tenants from abuses and to preserve existing affordable housing stock such as SROs.

Zoning is not a magic pill for ending the crisis, but we can't even begin to do things like build government subsidized housing when communities spend 20 years battling one apartment building to house 28 families [0].

0: https://twitter.com/LibbySchaaf/status/1128517407486517248?r...
> 4 states pocket excise taxes on rental cars, in addition to standard sales taxes and airport surcharges.

Initially, I was going to argue that the existence of random taxes on car rentals and other mostly benign services is already an arbitrary unfair practice for state governments to raise more revenue.

Then I looked at my own state's, Colorado's, rental tax - it's $2 on top of sales tax which seems pretty reasonable. $2 seems pretty reasonable and small to the overall rental cost especially when tha artical says they can add up to an extra 30% on the car. Would I be happier if the extranalities of car rentals were collected some other way? Absolutely but I don't think the extra $2 is what car rentals are complaining about.

If the users of these apps are cheating and not paying the sales tax and rental tax, then the rental companies have a 100% valid point but I have a hard time thinking they just want these ride sharing/lending apps.

On the other hand, I would much rather have no random excise taxes on arbitrary services and more taxes on the actual externalites they produce such as taxes on fuel and conjestion pricing in dense areas.
(Co-author of the post)

The fact that gVisor is being used in multiple services at Google is probably the confusing part. In case of GKE Sandbox, the users here are external and using Cloud (specifically GKE). The target use case is to add defense in depth to their pods running on potentially shared GKE Nodes (VMs) for Multi-Tenancy. Our talk at Next'19 [1] includes a story by one of our customers, which may help understanding the use cases.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQfc8OlB2sg
They would lose access from China
Same argument applies to those rules or enshrined values. Times change.
I think that this is great for the most part. I think that in process caching in C# can be tricky, especially dealing with concurrency because even through the access to the backing dictionary for creating and retrieving is safe (assuming the function delegate for creating the object doesn't do something interesting), you are returned a reference to an object in memory.

At this point if you have multiple threads doing stuff with that object you can obviously run into issues.

Anyway concurrency is hard. I keep thinking of writing a cache that uses something like https://github.com/ReubenBond/DeepCopy to return a copy of the object.
China does not have Japan-level human capital. Even if it did, the 'Japanese miracle' lasted for barely two decades.
I suppose it's a familiar strategy, pass draconian laws against terrorism, then expand the definition of "terrorism" to anything you don't like.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/us/politics/georgia-offic...
I'd hazard an alternative hypothesis that other forms of life are so radically different at a chemical level, that we don't even recognize them as alive.
OK, not simpler.

So what? They might end up nuking some accounts, when some symptom pops up. And there'd be no recourse, whether or not it was a false positive.
Given what China is willing to do in Xinjiang, can it really be called fear mongering? Someone willing to turn an entire state into a surveillance camp is definitely ok with using a hardware company to spy. In what world would they have scruples about spying with Huawei but not in restricting the freedoms of an entire ethnic group? For what it's worth, I'm aware that could partially apply to the US as well.
Does it involve banning nazis?
Ask HN: What was it like to work at a “dotcom” in the late 90s?
I'm curious what the work environment was like back in the dotcom boom. Did the people on the ground believe the hype? What did it take to get a job in development back then? Are there any good blogs or articles I can read on the topic? I want to understand what it was like and how it's different from today's environment.
Huawei Says They Are Willing to Sign No-Spy Agreements with Governments
Starlink won't bypass any national firewalls. If you're in China, your traffic will come down to a gateway inside China so it will still have to go through the Great Firewall. Same for every other country. If Starlink doesn't work this way it will be outright banned.
SpaceX Is Launching 60 Starlink Internet Satellites Tonight
I think the initial inspiration might be accidental. E.g. you work at a place, spot a problem then turn solving that problem into a business.

But once you decide to start a business, there has to be a money making plan from the start. Even if that money is further down the road because of initial R&D efforts.