skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's wrong if it contradicts the evidence of raw sense data or knowledge derived logically from the evidence of raw sense data.

You can choose to reject even that, but there is no reason to make such a choice, and it would be supremely impractical to do so.

> And as far as it being disastrous, I know a number of very competent people that take that view

The view that knowledge based on sense data isn't really knowledge was advanced by Kant, and certainly helped make room for the Nazis. Marx also exploited the anti-knowledge ethos of the time with his dialectical materialism. Finally, religion thrives when the ability to know is denigrated; that was Kant's stated goal [1]. Religion is fundamentally dishonest and leads to an infinite plethora of evils.

[1] "I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith" -Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Sunsama.com - Oakland - Task/Project mgmt tool - they just scored $2.4mil
Not the second one.
IAG ( parent of British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Level and Vueling ) just ordered 200 Max at the Paris Air Show.

So plenty of executives lack such qualms.
Where are these numbers coming from? Adding central air to an old home without it costs way more than that even outside of the bay area.
Didn't NASA write a bunch of software for the space shuttles in LISP?
This is not "advertising and deception from Google", it's a spam/scam/phishing campaign.

https://www.wired.com/story/phishing-links-google-calendar-i...

Similar attacks have been directed at iCloud users, too.
If you flush the market with supply, you get the same result. You also get the side benefit of more poor people have access to housing. The rent control model means a small portion of the poor wins the artificially low rent lottery.
> ps: I mean descent

As in, you would rather see it running Descent instead of Doom?
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In this day and age for sure!
So if a company or person is sanctioned, can Facebook or someone else freeze their Libra currency?
It's a lot of work, but it is possible to "side-grade" to 64-bit.

In dpkg, add the amd64 architecture. Install and boot a 64-bit kernel. Then carefully replace 32-bit packages with 64-bit packages. You'll hit a few bumps along the way, but it's possible to do without reinstalling from scratch.

That said, it'd likely be easier to install 64-bit, diff and copy across configuration files, and port over your installed package list (dpkg --get-selections) with a bit of care for packages whose names differ between 32-bit and 64-bit. I've done something similar when setting up new systems, and it's about a half-day's work, not a month.
Would you use your savings to build property in a city with policies like this? How long will new property be exempt? 5 years? What then? Nearly no one will build anything anymore.
Er... colleague.
FTA:
"In Mountain View, we’ve already worked with the city to change zoning in the North Bayshore area to free up land for housing, and we’re currently in productive conversations with Sunnyvale and San Jose."
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Thanks for noticing ripgrep's performance on Unicode. :-)

> If you're just searching for an ASCII string literal in a single file rg probably gets slowed down by its UTF-8 validation.

This is most definitely wrong. Firstly, ripgrep doesn't do any UTF-8 validation. That would make it much much slower. Secondly, searching a simple literal is one of the cases where ripgrep should actually do better than GNU grep in many cases. This is because of the slightly smarter way in which ripgrep keeps its vectorized loop active more often than GNU grep does by trying to search rarer bytes. I talk about this quite a bit here, which even includes a benchmark where I measured ripgrep at 2x the speed of GNU grep for a simple literal search: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/#subtitles-literal

Anyone can try this for themselves:

$ cd /tmp
$ curl 'https://object.pouta.csc.fi/OPUS-OpenSubtitles/v2016/mono/en.txt.gz' | gzip -cd > subtitles.en.txt
$ pv < subtitles.en.txt > /dev/null
9.28GiB 0:00:01 [4.89GiB/s] [======================================================================================================================================================>] 100%
$ time grep ZQZQZQZQ < subtitles.en.txt

real 8.713
user 7.495
sys 1.212
maxmem 9 MB
faults 0
$ time rg ZQZQZQZQ < subtitles.en.txt

real 1.857
user 0.573
sys 1.282
maxmem 9 MB
faults 0

On my system, /tmp is a ramdisk, so this doesn't factor in I/O. If you look up this thread, you'll note that someone was trying to search a 30GB file. Unless that person could fit that file into memory, it's very likely that they were just measuring the I/O bandwidth of their machine.
The term "concentration camp" has an extremely negative connotation though due to Nazi Germany. China isn't gassing and cremating people. They are helping minorities integrate into Chinese society via ethically questionable means.
It is expanding a bit and the housing prices are having ripple effects throughout second/third tier cities. Housing in some areas such as Nashville has more than doubled over the past decade, some areas have seen 5x price growth in less than 10 years and Amazon's not really even there yet.
Yes, but Google isn't the one that created this problem. You should be drawing the opposite conclusion: that the problem is so bad, even a company town would be an improvement!
Okay that's a more reasonable argument than what I thought you were making.

I'd contend that you're not considering the impact of sunk cost fallacies on business decision-making. Or if you have considered it, you've probably discounted it far more than is warranted.

It could be the case that, out of all the people currently employed by these companies, the majority believe they thrive in an onsite role rather than a remote one. Years of self-selection (especially if exacerbated by a lack of diversity in their employment experience, since these companies tend to hire out of colleges) could lead to a feedback loop.

Just because they're smart people doesn't mean they're impervious to human cognitive distortions.

How many of these companies have even trialed 100% remote positions, even if only for a year?
I don't think that's huge, considering that questions with clear-cut answers shouldn't make it to the Supreme Court.
Have you seen the absolute explosion of skyscrapers/mid-rise condo buildings in San Jose, Redwood City.. Hell, even San Carlos and Menlo Park have quite a few higher density units going in.

I'm glad there's more density, and it's near transit, for the most part. Of course, it will still increase traffic, but by going with density and near transit, it'll reduce the impact vs building more single family homes.
Yeah, just like Google bot crawls the web putting enormous load on people's servers (G-Bot can pull hundreds of thousands of pages per day from a single server), while being very sensitive to automated searches and banning your ass (IP) in a heart beat. They sure don't want to be crawled by anyone.
> If we start a new town or city and put a major employer in the middle, people will move there.

Welcome to Houston!

Seriously, the typical model for growth here has been for a major employer to make a new campus out in the middle of nowhere away from town, then things spring up around it. As a result, we have lots of urban clusters with skyscrapers a long way from downtown. The energy corridor and the med center started out that way. Ditto for NASA and League City. Currently we have Exxon in Spring, Igloo out west of Katy, all of the Woodlands (weird place), etc.

It's not exactly good or bad, but it is a recipe for sprawl.
> It wouldn't surprise me if one of the biggest problems for Google was retention of young talent driven primarily by prohibitively high housing costs.

Well, it would surprise me :-)

According to levels.fyi, a new grad at Google is clearing $180k/year all-in.

Next tier, still not senior, clears $250k/year. That's more than $20k/mo pre-tax. Even at an outrageous $5k rent on a single income and with no roommates, you're still talking about $6k or so >>monthly<< surplus for living your life and saving.
Being the happiest and healthiest city doesn't really affect what's counted as desirable or valuable in the housing market. This doesn't really follow.
Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter's position from a time-velocity graph
You know those are paid for and marketed by your local city's real estate industry, right?
Obligatory: https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13
The worst morale boosting gesture I've ever experienced was the CEO telling an all-staff meeting that anyone that wasn't happy to work there could get $2000 for quitting on the spot.
As someone who lived in South Bay for 5 years, I'd hardly call it a "desirable area".
Looks like Newbery might have lost its way as it altered its business model (athletic program etc).

The founder had iterated rapidly to find a niche that worked, but times change and I assume they needed to change or die, and they picked the wrong changes.
This is a great observation: my observation is that there's a tipping point. Get enough people in the office, and side conversations are much easier to do face to face, and you end up skipping the collaboration tools.
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How are browsers supposed to prevent the page from detecting that an extension changed the page's DOM, or that the extension explicitly made URLs accessible to it?

As the author points out, there are mechanisms for showing extension UIs that don't rely on DOM manipulation.
Ask HN: Best Language/Framework for building desktop apps on Windows and Mac
If you were hired today to build a brand new app that would run on both Windows and MacOS what language(s) and framework(s) would you choose to build it?

Assumption here is that the client is asking for a really rich desktop experience, with offline capability and some other requirements that make building it as a web app not the best option.
It’s FOSS - they owe you nothing
I don’t understand why all the growth need to happen in this place and this place alone. Wouldn’t it be nice if “good” jobs overflow SV and appear in other places? (kind of happening to Austin, Boulder, NY, etc.)

And people who already live in the area should absolutely have a right to direct it’s future.
Presumably for https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/2653433?visit_id=...
Comments are useful and type constraints are a better way to express specifications.

It varies on the level of expressivity and soundness of the type system employed as to how valuable comments are. In my experience there's an inverse relationship: the more expressive the type system, the less valuable are comments. This is true in so far as the types get richer the more they can express with less ambiguity than prose. In a way this makes the comments that do exist in such a code base even more valuable since they describe far less and are probably filled with interesting information such as why certain propositions are important, etc.

However when you're working in languages without a static type system or a rather weak one, comments can be necessary and invaluable.

Update

To clarify, in a type system as rich as a dependently typed language, given an inductive definition of vectors, and a type; Agda, for example, can often find the solution (the term) that implements the type. You could add a comment if you wanted to but you'd only be elaborating on what is already obvious by the type signature.

This does scale beyond trivial examples such as vector products and into the realm of business logic; it's possible to encode state machines this way. Code comments of this kind of code end up looking superficial.

In a more common FP language like Haskell, often derided (even by me) for it's lack of commenting and documentation, seems to be that way precisely because once you get used to understanding how to reason about types... well it gets redundant... and the compiler cannot check that comments are correct with respect to the term level code. The comments are sparse and rich instead of redundant and full of exposition.

That's not to say that comments don't exist! Other poster have given many good examples where they are definitely necessary.

I ascribe to the rule that there's a balance and too many comments are not helpful just as too few are as well.
Off the record conversations, which may or may not result in good or bad things.
In addition to that I can’t help but to feel completely energy depleted after 5min of LinkedIn usage. The feed is just horrible. Everybody is doing great, no real discussions going on, trashy superficial insight videos. I only log in to read messages, but I am not able to ignore the feed.
Yup, corporate development isn't a substitute for cohesive publicly funded policies, particularly with issues like housing. Companies will do just enough to keep people from guillotining the execs (or just raising taxes), meanwhile eroding the public services we do have. Company towns are definitely going to be making a comeback.

I think you might mean Snow Crash though :)
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I _love_ the idea of rsync.net but the pricing just cripples it. $40/TBmo up to 10TB, $30/TBmo up to 100TB or $20/TBmo beyond that. And you have to buy the storage up front and pay for it even if you don't use it.

To put this in perspective, I can get a Hetzner SX62 dedicated server for $72 USD/month. This comes with 4x10TB HDDs which I can put into RAID5, giving me 30TB usable storage. It also comes with an unlimited gigabit pipe, RAM and a CPU. In total, this costs $2.4/TBmo.

If I want duplication in multiple countries (which isn't included in rsync.net's base price?), I can buy a second one, increasing my costs to a horrendous $4.8/TBmo, still a quarter of the cheapest price I can get at rsync.net.

I get the "I don't want to manage the hardware" argument but 4x (arguably 8x) is way too high a cost for me.

I'm aware of the Attic/Borg plan and I really like the idea but it's only close to competitive at the highest 100TB+ pricing ($5/TBmo).
I'm locking the area to a specific region. If I divide the universe into 365 discrete areas, the problem is exactly the same.
Magic Leap is based in Florida, so CA laws would not apply.
How would you feel if you opened a program and the program started to check your file system to see what other programs you had installed?

Not true. You definitely figured out how to market your scraper by lying. Nice job!
For that you have to know the right things, or to know someone who knows the right things. That requires a degree of empathy.
Does it really matter how the compiler does it? Faster compilation speed makes programmers happier. And it's not like you can convince a C++ or Rust or Scala compiler to just trust you with the types this once and compile your program ten times faster.
Because it's a language build by engineers with a pragmatical mindset ?
I worked at a company that handed out monthly "awards" to one member of every team, but it was clear that winners of these awards were picked out of a hat and everyone knew it. One guy on my team got an "outstanding excellence" award the week after getting chewed out by the CEO for not pulling his own weight(which was totally untrue).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes
That's the first thing that came to my mind too when I saw it - looks like a Holden or Ford Ute from Oz. Her dog is an Australian Blue Heeler too.
> Why is greed so bad here? The problem isn’t greed it’s the demand in the face of the lack of supply.

Greed is bad in this situation because you can make more money of luxury apartments than those suitable for people who are somewhere between the poverty line and upper middle class. Hence new apartments in major cities tend to be more and more expensive to satisfy the demand of wealthier people. Greed is also bad when existing apartments are made much more expensive, thereby forcing senior citizens who have been living there for decades and who are barely able to afford the rent to basically leave town, family and friends.
Customers of LinkedIn. LI is just mad that they aren't paying.
There is a name for that. It is "damning with faint praise."
The structure of the plane is solid and it will fly. The issue I have and obviously the FAA has a similar one is the fact buggy software is driving it.

Its one thing when the system offers assistance but when it takes over to the degree you cannot fix it and lives are in danger it needs to be reworked
I doubt that high buildings help, no matter how many people you square per cubic meter, in big cities it will never be enough to allow affordable living...
Cool project - that's not a truck though, it's a CUV (think el camino). They're still huge in Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup%C3%A9_utility
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Pork isn’t popular amongst meat eating Indians either. Just look at your local Indian restaurant menu. You will see very few, if any, pork dishes.
But why would people move from linkedin to another platform? Most people that use it are not really concerned with privacy, so they'll need a better reason to switch.
Anyone can build their own wallet, Facebook will offer its own wallet (calibra) but you will not have to use it. tl;dr, they can't freeze your wallet if you're not using theirs. Paypal, visa and coinbase will offer their own and you can build your own.
This is not simple in any way.
cgo is convenient for being able to use "lib*" packages, but calling these packages is not free, and certainly writing cgo for performance reasons is not likely to be a gain.

Go is plenty fast for most things, notably things that work well with a GC... but cgo doesn't make the GC go away.
Exactly. Work somewhere where there's a default expectation of regular recognition, raises, and promotions.
Ember's beefy, but you can't blaim 13MB on it.
True, though I'd argue he doesn't need to use the rhetorical tactic. Tyrants invite violence implicitly when they exercise their power over the weak.
This is a really good argument. It is the same reason why authors instead of staying in their homes by themselves writing all day, will go to public places to be around other authors/people. We are social animals.
There isn't a pilot alive that isn't now fully aware of MCAS. Is there still a risk of MCAS causing another crash?

I think the issue Boeing has now is credibility, and the idea that there may be other MCAS-type issues lurking.

> we were told certain things such as ‘the companies that bought these planes, a lot of them, their countries didn’t require them to go through the test flight process that needed to happen.’ So we were told, ‘Hey, that’s not on us, that’s on them. We have this program, they’re suppose to take it, they don’t have to take it, that teaches them how to use this thing.’”

To me (as a layperson), it seems pretty obvious that Boeing specifically didn't mention MCAS in the flight crew operations manual because it would have meant extra training/certifications to fly the MAX, and there is a pretty clear profit motive to avoid that. By attempting to weasel out of this by saying things like "a pilot should never see the operation of MCAS in normal flying conditions" and "not a separate system to be trained on" [1], as well as the above paraphrasing, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence that Boeing is really putting passenger safety above all else, which is what I as a non-stockholding potential passenger would prefer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au...
> So if they were inhabited, what happened to them? Are they exactly at our level of development? Earlier? Hopefully. Because later poses some real big questions - does technology top out about where we are now - no FTL travel, no really big radio transmitters or stellar engineering? No probes to nearby star systems? Did they even make it past the nuclear age, or avoid wrecking their climate?

You get more than one chance. While finding intelligent life would be great, finding any life is nearly as great. We might not catch them at a comparable technological moment, but over 8 billion years, intelligent life could have come and gone many times. All we need are some biosignatures to confirm that something's out there, and exploration will kick into overdrive.
They are not minorities in the region they mostly live.
the West is being murdered by populists
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https://github.com/libra/libra/issues/41
Anyone who sits down and reads the Senate report (not mentioned in the article until about 75% of the way though) and is still on the side of Backpage.com is probably a monster.

The report makes no allegation not directly derived from internal company policies, documents, emails, and sworn employee testimony.

Backpage.com was an active participant in human trafficking.
> The only solution is changing the zoning laws

Or these companies can move. If you take successful STEM related businesses and move them to better area's the talent will follow. There is more than 1 answer to this problem, most people just want to change laws because its easier for them.
Nah. Build too much and your margin gets slimmer and slimmer. Build less and get same profit with less work while keeping the market hungry for the future.
Last time I was in the bay area I stayed on a boat with some colleagues in a marina. There are a surprising number of people that already do this.
Why should LI be able to sell you the data (Recruiter service) that they don't own?

The difference in this analogy is that films are fully the IP of the production company but LI sells data that they don't explicitly own.
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I’m afraid not everyone understands your sarcasm here :)
It ended perfectly well for the person who built it. The object wasn't to make the workers happy, the object was to make Pullman money.
Apparently, attempting to export one’s own contact emails now counts as abuse.

(LinkedIn disabled this option about a year ago; now it’s only accessible via extensions.)
If a function description includes an "and", it's wrong

yes :-)
I'm not following. (If it doesn't apply at all, how is anyone doing it...?) Of course you can identify drawings per second, much the same way a monitor can display a 24FPS video at 120hz without needing to be an 'intelligent system': you increase or decrease the number of duplicates as necessary. You in-between pairs of different frames, replacing all the identical ones which are simply displaying the same drawing.
Amazon expands its air cargo fleet
I was actually doing research a couple of days ago to support more remote workers for my company and... unfortunately almost all of the research I found was backing co-location. There are degrees of remote work, but it seems that for most teams and most products being co-located provides the most productivity.

There are a lot of shades of gray there, like, if someone commutes for 2 hours through stressful SF traffic to get to a campus where they jump on a Google Hangout since their team members are spread across 3 buildings... yeah, I don't think productivity is going to get much of a boost. However, our team is in a suburb of Cleveland Ohio where you can live within 30 miles, get here in 30 minutes and have dirt-cheap housing. I'm having a hard time coming up with collateral to support my "modern" viewpoint on the benefits of remote workers.
They probably knew exactly what they were doing. The truth being mostly already out there, they probably wanted to show something like "look, it's not that bad, we are not killing them". Some sort of damage control I guess.