skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be noted these are the three cities that come to mind where Google has bought multiple billions of dollars worth of real estate just in the last 5-10 years.

When you spend that kind of money, in additional to otherwise having a large economic presence in a city, the Government tends to listen. Moreso than to individual developers.
Mastodon. You can set your own server up and benefit from all othe other existing servers. Mastodon provides a decentralised service running on decentralised infrastructure. You can run your server as you see fit, because access to the wider network is federated.

Zuckbucks provide a centralised service running on decentralised infrastructure. Try add your own server to help run Zuck's blockchain...
I live in Somerville MA, which is has about 18k people per square mile, compared to the ~2-6k I see in the South Bay. It gets that density through many two and three family houses placed closely together, and it's not smelly or noisy. Here's a representative street view example: https://goo.gl/maps/ggwHETDomuRUQAB89

You can be much denser than the Bay Area while still having trees and feeling "residential".
Not providing an app for FirefoxOS is not the same as refusing entrance because your phone runs FirefoxOS. The LinkedIn case seems to be closer to the latter.
This is the associated paper, sorry for the paywall.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019...
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Other than universal entropy, probably nothing. Though math is also decentralized, maybe even moreso, being independent of time. So maybe "nothing that is relevant on a human timescale" is closer.

I strongly suspect that what we have developed a habit of calling decentralization, as if this referred to a final state of a proposed coordination solution, is in fact just a temporary, transitional phase between centralized regimes.
Pools are very fluid, large numbers of miners move from one to another to avoid centralization. And it's not like they can decide one day that transactions from address X are banned. That doesn't happen, there's not even a mechanism. And if some pool were to implement it, they would lose most miners very quickly.

Corporate censorship, on the other hand, is abundant and is widely accepted. Lots of left-leaning people even proudly support it these days (for obvious reasons).

So no, pools are not like corporations, and generally crypto currencies have attracted more libertarian crowds.
Is PayPal any different?
I bought an Apple Mac in 1994

Paid $1000

If instead I had bought Apple stock, that would now be 25,200 shares or $4.7 million dollars.

Sad but true.
But CAPTCHAs do not fingerprint all your users, contrary to legislation in quite a few countries. Fingerprinting is illegal in the EU.
XDR: Special Drawing Rights
This is the sole reason why I would never think about "owning" (if you can call it that) a Tesla.
I've packed a Saturn Vue full of hay. My wife is better than I am at it: I used to be able to fit 7 small square bales, she's been able to fit 9 more consistently.

However, the fact that it can be done doesn't mean it's the vehicle for the job. We have a pickup truck, but I'm not a big fan of them.
No it's not a better solution, it can help but the you have a ghost town that is the Bay Area it makes sense to make it denser and more like European cities.
In Sweden I think the bank system have really stepped up with their apps and our transfer times are pretty fast. We also have things like Swish, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish_(payment) , which is great as well.
Yes, this is how Berlin government operates, more or less.

The same logic applies to planning new underground lines and keeping the city airport functional.

Don't expect rational decisions from this city.
A nontrivial amount of opposition to vaccines comes from communities, both online and in person, that circulate accounts of atrocities committed by authorities. Naturally, accounts of mistreatment, whether or not its systemic nature is seeming or proven, will weaken trust in institutions. Good actors are always having to compensate for the activities of bad actors, even if those bad actors were in the distant past.

But it says a lot about our society and the quality of our institutions that the lack of trust isn't just among groups that have themselves been mistreated, but is also found in others who observe these issues of social justice from a position of relative privilege. Based on their observations, some of them have concluded that it's far from certain that malice, corruption, or lack of transparency don't factor into the mainstream stance on this issue today, likely because there is evidence that similar factors were at play in similar issues in the past, and the incentive structure of actors and organizations need not have meaningfully changed.
Not the person you're replying to, but I'll give a hypothetical argument. The Amish have an extremely successful culture right now because their society positions them advantageously versus the predominant culture. Their practices are excellent for building strong communities and providing efficient, effective mutual aid in a form that is lacking in society at large; and unlike what most people think of the Amish, they do adopt some modern technology, but only that which strengthens the community.

As the Amish community grows, they will face the same challenges faced by all growing, successful "challenger" cultures: envy and resentment, followed by active undermining of their culture and attempts at assimilation through popular media, fashion, and a hostile legislative environment. (This presents itself as a sort of "embrace, extend, extinguish" effect, with the end product being ethnic restaurants and kitsch once the culture has been fully digested.)

The Amish may be able to adapt to face this challenge, but what often happens is that the process of adaptation ruins the good and unique things about the culture, and the assimilation happens anyway. Cultures that resist this effect stay small by necessity.

An example of a culture recently reaching this "breakout" point where pushback is encountered is the Hasidic community in New York. A good example of a culture that is left alone due to its small size is the Sikh-American community. An example of a fully digested culture is the Italian-American community, which no longer exists as a separate identity.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/02/07/131363098/the-...
> Can you explain why the ledger being run by ~27 different entities is NOT decentralized?

27 entities? Not decentralized.

$10M fee to run a node? Not decentralized.

Anyone can run a node from their computer? Decentralized.

Blockchain validity is determined by mass consensus? Decentralized.

51% of the hash power is considered an attack rather than a feature of the system? Decentralized.

Edit: Removed item about forking. That's probably more about decentralized governance than decentralized currency.
> 1. The world could use an online independent currency

I'm not 100% steeped in cryptocurrency theory, and so I don't understand why this is presented as if it's agreed on by everyone. What problems does the world have that would be solved by an online, independent [of any nation, presumably?] currency?

> 2. Adding stability to blockchain currencies and having

> that work on a large scale is a good thing

Having a blockchain-based currency at a huge scale would be interesting for many reasons, but I'm not seeing how it's a fiat "good thing," excepting if you're excited about the technology and waiting for a big player to push it forward.

> 3. Unlike government issued currencies, any monopoly or

> control facebook derives isn't done through force, it's by

> making a coin better than all the other coins. Other

> people are still free to make their competing coins.

I can't buy into the meritocracy/free market purity argument for a currency. Things are already volatile enough, and sometimes economies collapse and people's life savings become worthless. "Other people can make competing coins" sounds an awful lot to me like treating collapse as a feature.
The Libra blockchain is a new blockchain, based on (heavily modified, Barel told me) HotStuff protocol, launched a few months ago by VmWare

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05069
This seems like the most likely reasoning; some of these extensions probably do allow certain uses that LinkedIn charges for. Still shady behavior, but this is at least more reasonable than user fingerprinting.
Maybe the Great Filter is real and screwing up a system is as easy as screwing up a planet ;)
The truism of supply and demand seems to be very popular in this topic. The devil is in the details behind the supply and demand and what is influencing both.

In Berlin there's many cases of people being pushed out of their homes because of rent increases, people having to do apartment tours with 50+ other people and having spill all details about their private lives to have a chance at being chosen, etc.

The situation's crappy already. Even if the current tenants will be protected, that's already a small victory.
My great grandmother lived through the last smallpox outbreak in Canada, where their boarder caught it and she had to be quarantined.

My grandmother told us about how she come back to school after summer vacation and found out about friends that died from measles.

I had a vice principal who had polio as a child.

None of those are around now, although measles is making a run for it.
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Maybe it's my selection bias but I found books that I read [0] to have higher information density than what I find online.

[0]: I usually pick books with "Advanced" in title (or similar) even when I'm beginner in the subject at hand. It's easier to work backwards from advanced stuff for me.
first technique: consider using rust :)
I also try to write reasonable code for even the smallest projects. It doesn't have to be perfect but it should be possible to add the bells and whistles in straightforward manner. A lot of people seem to spend time thinking about whether they should do the right thing or not but I find it easier to not think about it and do the right thing by default.
A logical eventual extension of https://freight.amazon.com/
They are cheap to build and you can ask for enormous rents, like whatever the top of the market might be you can ask for that, because chances are you are the only apartment in town with fresh smelling paint, new carpet, faux granite, and bundled internet.

That's about the only perk of these places. Sometimes they have nice things like a pool, but with how cheap the buildings are, you are going to hear your neighbors above, to the sides, and below you all day. Toured a place like this and noped the fuck out when I heard some dog bark in another unit and it sounded like he was yapping from the bedroom.
There's a common belief among conspiracists/Zerohedge believers that the amount of physical gold is basically fraudulent, and that the gold that is being traded doesn't exist. So when the coming financial crisis happens and gold becomes the currency of trade, when people actually open up their coffers, they'll see that it either doesn't exist or it's gold bars filled with tungsten.
Seems like having the right to be a jerk is important for financial independence.
Bay Area is not a ghost town, it is already overcrowded
> excess whitespace from the HTML at the traffic layer with middleware

What? Can you expand on this? It sounds like a server rendering issue which has nothing to do with the framework itself.
None of this was ever really required. All that was required was:

1) Make a law requiring all websites that allow user contributed content to enable RTA headers within {n} period of time.

2) Then make a law requiring all browsers and web apps look for that header and enforce parental controls within {y} period of time.

That's it. That puts the control in the hands of the parents and lets them decide if their progeny are ready for adult content. No need to give up PII.
"“The way management kind of works is we never really know who our managers are sometimes,” he said. “We get shuffled around so much that our job codes, our job titles, everything changes. Because they are trying to make progress. With the Max being down, they are bringing other people down, trying to correct the issues and trying to make it a better place.”"

This is a huge management mistake. Teams need a direction, consistency, and time to execute. During that time managers often need to keep things on track and keep up team morale, but also need to know that they have to step back and be more passive while the team is executing. Constantly changing things means the teams are distracted, probably a little frightened, and not operating where they could be.
So the compiled kernel potentially misses out on instructions that newer CPUs support?
The most dangerous parts of flight are during takeoff and landing, something Boeing didn’t seem to accurately account for in the design of the 737 Max’s safety systems.

If you’re over 10K feet in the air there is some room for recovery procedures, but if you haven’t reached cruising altitude you have much less time before a plane finds itself impacting the ground.

Per-mile travelled isn’t an adequate standard to compare aircraft with other modes of transit when talking about safety.
What I haven't heard is how they plan to help US Citizens properly report taxes on any gain or loss when spending Libra.

Either the IRS will need to look the other way or this will become a huge hurdle for mass adoption in the US.

My hope is this helps get the IRS moving faster at making some laws based around using cryptocurrency to buy & sell goods. I do get that this isn't an easy decision to make. At some point someone will have to make it though. You cannot expect people to use a different currency on a daily basis & report any gain or loss on the currency at the time of transaction. It would also be an accounting nightmare to decide which coins you spent at the time of purchase.

My guess is they're waiting for cryptocurrency to become popular enough that it forces their hand & they have to create some type of leniency regarding gains & losses on each transaction.
The information you can derive from seeing a person's full financial transaction record is so much more "pure" than trying to parse the drivel they're posting on their FB feed.

People say a lot of things on the internet, and visit a lot of places. Trying to infer who they truly are and what they truly like from that is actually hard: signal to noise ratio is not great.

But when the time comes to actually spend money, peopl really tells you who they are.

It's the digital equivalent of "actions speak louder than words".
Yeah, not everyone has to live in Berlin. Better that the current citizens have reasonable living conditions than everyone paying through their nose.

Everyone knows about supply and demand, few know what the situation's like in Berlin or even care to find out before supplying us with economic platitudes for which there is little if any demand at all.
> In many metro areas property values have increased more the savings from the median income, meaning that the application, or aspiration, of the majority of people is going in reverse.

That's because a lot of people want to live in cities like Berlin. But don't worry, the Soviet Union had a solution for that, too!

You would get assigned a job by the central committee, based on grades, people you know, who you're married to, things like that. So a lot of people would get assigned to very undesirable places, such as villages or very small cities, thus solving the problem of too many people in large metros. Do you think that's an acceptable tradeoff?
IIUC the benchmark did not use pipelines and the numbers show that. Redis itself can outperform this by a factor of 10 with pipelining, and I'm betting the difference from the module won't be that big given such a setup (which is how you should ideally work anyway).

Still, nice to see the modules API being put to interesting use cases.
I think Big Tech has enough clout to make a dent in the housing woes of large coastal cities. The cost of moving away from California is too high for Google, using it's political capital to advocate for housing is a great way to force change. NIMBYs are gonna NIMBY, but if half these NIMBYs work for companies that are lobbying for rezoning of land they own and providing grants.. who wins out?
Plain English summary please?
Us rail freight is amazing. Have seen these low slung cars with two stacked containers. Wheels were at the ends.
"There's enough wrong with the current financial system to make it worth trying new things even if they don't work out"

Is it really though when 'not working out' means that someone loses their entire life savings?
I don't know, there's something utopian about what you describe. If the city doesn't have housing for everyone, why should the rich get it first? Leave capitalism at the door, we're talking about a roof over your head for janitors vs. business executives.

If an 'ideal' free market means the rich get the houses and the poor are on the street, because developers don't have motivation to build, then I'm happy to see everyone compete for the same housing and seeing both the rich and the poor on the street while we figure out a real solution.
So Google plans to spend 50,000 for each home?
"You should ideally be able to take your hard drive out, put in a new one, install a fresh OS, run 1 script, and be completely up and running in less than an hour."

this is great if you can pull it off but if you have a lot of disjointed systems plus maybe custom hardware it gets really hard to automate the process. In general I agree though. I also have learned to just live with the defaults of my IDE(s) instead of setting them up to my taste every time.
We are back up, had to move to a bigger server haha
You are not alone. The lead developer on my team hates multiple monitors and only uses his laptop. In fact, his argument is that he gets distracted with monitors and cannot code unless it is on his laptop. I am quite the opposite. Even when writing code, I need at least 2 big monitors. So you are def. not crazy.
Most of the bottleneck is in the TCP stack. That's why user mode networking like this module does helps a lot.
This seems like it could be dangerous as it creates incentives for slumlords. If the landlords need to raise rent but they can't, then the only way for them to turn a profit is to cut their expenses.
Just explain your opinion you annoying idiot.
I agree with the sentiment, if not with the needlessly aggressive wording. Also, the spelling you're looking for is hordes, not hoards.
> If affordable housing is an issue, then perhaps the government should provide it for its citizens

We already pay very high taxes in Berlin and not really getting much back from it (police, firefighters, cleaning services, public transit, even government offices are heavily underfunded).
This idea would only make the taxes higher or take away much needed money from other areas.
FWIW, noun-verb ordering of functions is reasonably idiomatic in lisp, particularly when single-dispatch might be used in other languages.

The usage of eval there makes sense because it is launching a program. It's equivalent to e.g. using system() or /bin/sh in a launcher on a unix system.
I'm curious about this, which cities with those be?
Yes and no, the 1st amendment says the govt does not have the power to infringe on your preexisting right to free speech.

I am not sure where the govt thinks it can give corporations that power since the corporate entity is a fictitious person created by the govt.

Free speech is a right, the right to travel is a right corporations cannot prevent you from doing either. Arguably the internet is public property.

The line blurs when you offer the public access to your computers but no one has the right to curb your speech. Corporations might have the right to delete data but then they arguably lose the safe haven of simply being a service provider.
> That said, I'm glad Tesla was good enough to "certify" their changes.

So, when you buy a Tesla, do you actually own the car? Is there any legal precedence if they brick your car if they don't like what you're doing to/with it? Or do you sign this away by agreeing to Tesla's EULA?
Lower transaction fees and your friend likely has an account (or it is very easy to sign up FB user with Libra). As long as Libra is cheaper compared to existing method of transferring funds, it'll be a success. Say it costs me $8 to send money to South Africa. If Libra is free or costs $0.01, then of course I'd use Libra.
... for now.

But there's a funny thing about investors: They look at what governments have done in the past to judge the risk of things happening in the future. Set a precedent that you'll meddle in the market for political reasons, and every potential real estate investor will be worried that you'll do it again in the future -- even if you're not doing it to them yet.
Chiming in as an NYC resident:

I'm _extremely_ grateful that my current lease, as well as the upcoming one that I hope to sign if my application is approved, explicitly spells out the penalties for renting out apartments on Airbnb as a fee equivalent to 2 months rent immediately applied to the tenant.

It's been a massive improvement to not have to deal with the externalities that come from sharing a building with Airbnb guests.
A little closer to dystopia of Black Mirror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
I was in Hawaii last month and had an interesting chat with a former Boeing engineer. He was involved with ramping up the South Carolina plant which built the Dreamliner. I asked him if he would fly Boeing right now and he also said that he would not.
Blatant gender bias is not the way to reduce gender bias.
From my understanding, the US market is not a priority for them with this project. They're looking at the unbanked markets first and foremost.
1. Another one?

2. In the sense that it'll likely lift other cryptos, sure. Is that actually a good thing?

3. Facebook IS the internet for many consumers in third world countries as their FB access is subsidized and free. I find it hard to believe FB isn't going to similarly force-push Libra.

Hacker News is biased against both Facebook and cryptocurrency, and for good reasons. I hope Libra fails.
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How many of them had the manuals? Very few. The famous "Orange Wall of Manuals" was often secreted away, for the wizards to consult, but not for the masses to enlighten themselves with.
Yes but we can at least grow the city up to the 6th floor. There's so many building that barely reach the 4th.
I took a look and saw no evidence of conspiracy voting. I also don't know what basis you have for the first sentence there.