skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't call it a bad argument, as it's rooted in rational economics - which is also why it's unfair to call it "bad faith."

The ecosystem of tech is partly built upon the idea of decentralization - as long as you can connect to the internet, you should be able to do what you need to do from anywhere. Otherwise tools like "video conferencing software" would tank quickly, as we might as well just fly to visit everyone we need to meet, right?

If you as an employee want to price in the substitutability of your job search as the demand side of the market, fine - as a homeowner, I would recognize that inelasticity and price my rent accordingly. There is no "bad faith" there - just rational economics, where one market understands that the other refuses to correct itself.

A "Google Salary" doesn't mean anything if you take home a small fraction of it, and what's left is eaten up by higher prices of the same goods; anywhere else, you can take home more, and those remaining $dollars can get you more. It's at the point now where I recommend to my employees / friends / colleagues that they shouldn't move to the valley unless they're getting 2.5x their salary, as that _might_ get you the same standard of living vs. our current spot.

Now I don't live in the Valley, but I somewhat empathize with the homeowners argument to _some_ extent: It's not necessarily classist or anti-environment for homeowners in a community, who _own_ the land, to band together and dictate what should go on in that community: how it should look, what would be the best for their investment, etc. And the point that talks past them is "this pushes people out to metros." The easy response is: it only pushes those out to metros _who feel like they have to live there._ Otherwise you price that into your decision to move there along with all the other factors at play.
No, they sell the same service to people. LinkedIn are trying to protect their profits, not their users.
Language isn’t planned and created. It evolves. The problem isn’t language, but how it’s used. A dire statement from a doctor and the same statement from an unsympathetic actor comes across differently. That’s not quite the fault of language.
The way the US deals with Saudi Arabia vs. the way it deals with China.

And the disciplined way in which people here rationalize that status quo.
How many of those offers have actually resulted in you taking a position though? I know my LinkedIn signal:noise ratio (where signal is an actual commercial deal of some kind) is extremely terrible
I actually did this with a debian sid a few years back. I guess I got attached to that trusty system which I moved from PC to PC for years and had a few too many customization.

With my latest PC I went with a clean install though.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's a valid thought.

And Warren Buffet agrees gold is not a good choice because it's not a productive asset. A bar of gold in your safe won't produce anything. After 50 years it's still just a bar of gold. Compare that to what the market does over 50 years.

It's better to buy farmland or part of a company or a property that you rent out. Productive assets.
> toll-transponders tracked silently by municipalities (off of toll roads!)

Hadn't heard of that before. Gross. Although I can see it being helpful in answering some planning questions. Take Seattle with two competing bridges, 520 (toll) and I-90 (no toll). How do rates/congestion effect which bridge commuters take?

I wish this stuff was made more clear. Unfortunately, with license plate readers everywhere, it's just becoming more and more a given that your car gets tracked through major intersections/choke points. While it's going to vary what people do with that data, it's pretty safe to say someone is holding onto their share of it long-term.
How does one get to be blacklisted by Linkedin?
That's a bit of a misnomer. Most cities inside/near Houston are zoned, and Houston itself is effectively zoned. Almost all of the sprawl is zoned. (E.g. Katy, Sugarland, Spring, etc all have zoning laws.)

Land usage inside Houston city limits is mostly controlled through deed restrictions. E.g. I'm technically breaking the law by working from home as my deed is explicitly noncommercial. It's completely inflexible, as it was all set around 1900, but it is a form of zoning, nonetheless. Commercially-deeded lots are in planned areas that made sense at the time the property lines were drawn. There are also deeds that forbid residental development (often due to flooding, but again, it's inflexible).

The key differences are that there aren't any real restrictions beyond commercial / non-commercial. As a result, you'll often see a shipping yard in the middle of a residential district or similarly impractical commercial developments in unlikely areas.

Most of the examples people will dig up of flooding during Harvey that could have been prevented by zoning are actually in cities that _are_ zoned. The real issue is that developers get to dictate what the zoning laws are and get to develop however they want. For example, there's currently yet another development going up _inside_ the reservoirs on the west side of town. It's in a city that's zoned. They changed the zoning to allow the development there literally inside the reservoir, 10 ft vertically below the top of the dam.

I'm not saying that zoning is bad, or that Houston doesn't have problems, but I am saying that zoning here wouldn't help. Developers have infinite political sway and get to change zoning at will. That's the real issue.
You got me. I'm from one of those planets.

A group of us decided to move to earth for the warmer weather. It's also why most of us live in California and Florida.

Tan Mom is our leader.
because they are nitpicking in a sexist way. it's the same reason people are doubting how much work she "actually did" on the project

people should just embrace it as a cool, slightly ridiculous project that turned out well.
Posts like this make me wonder who doesn't think they're safe so I did some light digging for anyone who's curious.

"Skepticism with vaccines crosses party and demographic lines, according to the Pew Research Center study released Monday, with about 5% of Republicans and 9% of Democrats saying vaccines are unsafe, and 11% of men and 8% of women saying the same.

Younger people, however, were significantly more likely to believe vaccines are unsafe, with 15% of Americans aged 18-29 saying vaccines aren’t safe, compared with just 4% of Americans over age 65."

https://time.com/3701543/measles-vaccines-poll-anti-vaxxers/
> What are the USA's solutions?

Definitely not concentration camps. Not since WW2 anyways.
> If you don't believe that this is already happening, hang out with some teenagers.

Ever since I moved away for college (2009) I had started becoming curious how the lives of today's American youth were interacting, and how that was different from my own experience.

Unfortunately it's not easy getting close to that age group without raising flags for being creepy.
Which is why I often try to walk them back to "let's run one server room and let Cloud providers run one in NY/Europe"

If you let your Ops people go then you lose a lot of competencies.
Iraq did the same thing under Sadam.
TFA said the planets were rocky and 1.1g.
That limit is $250,000 per bank. For 90% of Americans, government insurance is complete protection. If you consider only those Americans with at least some savings, 90% of Americans could be entirely protected by dividing their money into two banks.
> Every bit of data we give away for free is a massive mistake.

I'm not sure you need "for free" in this sentence.
Oh, sorry, I didn't express myself clearly: freckles still uses Ansible under the hood, it's just that the whole project sort of went it's own way and dragged me with it. Feels like it, anyway :-)

freckles actually supports multiple backends, but Ansible is the only one that is implemented currently. I chose that mainly to take advantage of
all the modules and roles out there, those can all be used from within freckles.

As to it's disadvantages: for some things Ansible is a bit heavy (needs to be installed, and Python available/installed on the target), or not as well suited (orchestration -- although I'm quite happy with what it can do in that space), so the plan is to have other backends (shell, Terraform, direct K8s, etc) that are a better fit for whichever context you are operating in. And of course you will be able to mix and match.

Anyway, if I could have only picked one backend, I'd still go with Ansible. It's a great platform, and it can do almost everything.
>> England let a lot of its colonies go peacefully,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-church...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March

The protesters were peaceful. The English oppressors were violent.
Kudos on launching, sounds very exciting. I personally wonder how sales/marketing works in this industry as I often found it tough to convey (necessary) investments that are a bit intangible and more in the cost center / risk reduction side than in the profit center. Anyone has thoughts on this?
> No, it's going to become higher than a rent increase would allow (those have a limit by law, new contracts don't (yet)), that's the problem.

Yes I get that

But there are ALSO circumstances where a landlord TRIES to have a much higher increase as new contracts don't have a limit, but they go way above what actual participants in the market would bite at.

There are also circumstances where EXISTING tenants don't have a limit on increases

This observation is not just about Berlin.
Nobis Hotel Copenhagen by Gert WingåRdh and WingåRdh Arkitekter
What happened to Firefox Quantum?
This is one of the reasons I really love Rust: it not-so-subtly nudges you towards avoiding heap allocations by adding extra boilerplate and making them obvious in type signatures (unless you hide them behind wrapper types).

This contributes to Rust programs generally having good performance characteristics without spending time on optimizations.
Another discussion on current state of China (was on the homepage, but got flagged right away)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20215382
Indeed. But then developed it hitch hikes a ride on asteroids and spreads virally. See Dr Zubrin’s recent discussions https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2017/12/21/interstellar-comm...
Whether it's soft or harsh depends on your POV. Inner and outer party members might well say "soft."

https://www.wired.com/story/how-silicon-valley-fuels-an-info...

The West is still indeed much better than other parts of the world. However, the West is supposed to be better qualitatively, not just quantitatively.
Nymeria – Find Emails on LinkedIn in Seconds
If it is a typical mini itx board, it should support 64-bit just fine.
Why does life have to be chemical as we know it? Why can't a massive galactic-scale lifeform exist upon gravitational waves, radioactive particles, or even dark matter or things we don't know?
We use Sqreen and it's great. Best of luck!
1984 wasn’t written in a vacuum, it very much derives from soviet experience, which the PRC also inherited. None of the similarities are coincidental.
This will prevent the referendum to expropriate major german housing companies to gain traction.
So in this way this could actually be considered as a pro-market law when considering the political alternatives.
"other countries do bad stuff as well" is just the excuse you have, when you would like to support your country doing the bad stuff... Everybody has a free will and can decide what to believe and what not. Forcing other people to believe in something is making robots out of humans. But robots can't express love... Love can be expressed only out of a completely free will, where no force is present...
> Make it so.

I have no interest in hurting anyone so the CIA has no interest in me
We're not selling your data, you are!
Falun Gong claims they could cure any cancers. If you believe them, cancer patients could save a lot.
North Korea is under the protecton of China. Going to war with North Korea means going to war with China as well. And China already has nuclear ICBMs.
Actually no. We get a ton of amd laptops and some arm too.

It's been years since I saw a 32 bit laptop anywhere in Asia.
> When you live in a rural area none of these are needed, zoo, aquarium

Perhaps if you live adjacent to a major national park or forest, or marine preserve, but most easily habitable rural areas are not that, and instead are industrially farmed or extracted from - essentially factories. Sure, there are exceptions, but not enough to accommodate the number of people that it would take to make a difference in cost of living in urban areas, not without ruining the access to wildlife viewing that makes those places unique in the first place.

> bike trail, running path

The environment doesn't provide either of these. They are created by many people either re-using the same route routinely, or by some institution building and maintaining them.
One, which is still enough to make everything else worth it. I get pinged for random contractor positions from bodyshops sometimes but also have gotten pinged by FAANG and hedge funds/trading firms
Thanks Ron. I will check them out.
Because a rational labor market participant would consider that $1 purchasing power in SF <> $1 purchasing power in [Any other city / state].

Hypothetically if you were planning this as Google you wouldn't make the 1-1 scaling of lower salaries, but if you as employee would pay 80% less rent, could buy a massive home after working for <1 year, and still have more left over than you would ever have working in the bay, the trade-off would at least look somewhat appealing.
> This is not a planned economy, and people do not need to profit from housing to build it

Can you explain? Even if I were to build my own house, I would myself profit because the enjoyment I got out of the new house would be greater than the enjoyment I'd have had without it, thus my 'profit' is the cost of the enjoyment of my new shelter.
No matter how terrible Backpage is, legal chicanery isn't befitting and not what we should hope for from federal agencies.
> there is existing unsatisfied demand for short term rentals

This may be all well and true, but cities have no obligation to accommodate such demand. For residents, short-term visitors are annoying, since they rarely stay long enough for their behavior to warrant more than a warning from the police, they have no interest in maintaining the neighborhood during their stay, and their economic power is mostly used on things that local residents have no interest in or actively dislike.

You could "solve" this problem by providing more short-term rentals, but unlike housing I find it hard to believe that city residents actually want it resolved that way.
The Fed can trivially replace China's US debt holdings, just as they could with Japan if needed. They can run a $50 billion per month QE program - starting at any time - and permanently, calmly remove China from the equation and the US dollar would hardly notice. US households are sitting on $110 trillion in wealth for comparison to what a $1 trillion debasement by the Fed actually means (and that ignores the dollars outside the US). China's holdings are typically around ~5% of US national debt and declining (eight to ten years out, it will be 2.5% to 3% if nothing else changes; ie increasingly meaningless).

It's ideal for all US debt to be held domestically if only to remove this constant absurdity that people fall for, the propaganda that China (or the Saudis et al) could do anything to injure the US using their very modest treasury holdings.

So far the US hasn't actually done anything drastic with tariffs, even with regards to China. Mostly what Trump has done is use it as a bluff to get concessions, and that's mostly all that he will do. China may be the exception, as necessary. That may be warranted, the US should match China's barriers if China doesn't start opening up fair access & treatment re their economy.
It's in my best interest to keep moving projects forward so that they continue to build and compile under modern environments and work with modern tools. I believe the cost of sticking with outmoded products or technology is to eat the training cost when onboarding new people (thus increasing the amount of time between hiring and getting them to work). We aren't all as wealthy as Lockheed who can (apparently) pay so much that they are literally talking people out of their retirement!

That said, I'm not flying airplanes over here. It's mostly business software. So there's that.
I don't think the claims are primarily being made by the Falun Gong, and I don't think it's fair to dismiss a religion you don't agree with as "an insane cult".

There are no credible refutations of the findings of the Kilgour-Matas report that I could find... it seems to be just the Chinese government saying "nuh uh, we don't do that".
Do a Google search for Wells Fargo and overdrafts.
I've learned to take Amazon reviews, especially those where there's a high likelihood of user error such as this case, with a giant grain of salt :-)
As opposed to what? Where in the world -- at any point in human history -- have people spontaneously made houses without any benefit to themselves?
Teleport 4.0: IoT Security, FedRAMP Support
Named parameters _might_ be my favorite part of Python. I don't understand why every language doesn't have them.
As usual when big tech talks housing, "Bay Area" actually means "Peninsula and west SJ". The other two-thirds of the Bay, bedroom communities and cheaper areas - who cares about those? Perhaps there's something about say, the tri-valley area that makes it unacceptable for office buildings that I don't know?

Dublin has doubled in population in the last 20 years. That sounds like an area that is pro-growth, where a company could have a useful impact without getting shot down by NIMBYs every step of the way.

I'd dig up stats on the biggest employers in Dublin, but can't seem to find any, so we'll go with Pleasanton as a proxy - Kaiser, Safeway and Oracle. Wew. We got one. Too bad most of tech doesn't even know the East Bay (much less the parts of it past the hills) even exists.

There are options to deal with the housing problems, even staying within the bay. Companies simply aren't pursuing them.
Well shit, I never noticed that!
obviously I shouldn't have said "no one" and made such a blanket statement. But the average age of a vehicle on the road in the USA is 11.6 years and the average length of ownership is 79 months (so 6.6ish years), according to the IHS.

https://www.autonews.com/article/20161122/RETAIL05/161129973...
This was in the context of employee morale. They went on to discuss it further, including the potential threat of layoffs.

It wasn't a remark on the aircraft, it was a remark on how Boeing's employees are feeling right now.

If you read beyond the first two paragraphs the context is clear.
drove down from Palo Alto to San Diego up to LA yesterday and I passed so many amazon 18 wheelers. they were by far the most prevelent of a single "trucking company" that I saw (there were a handful of others that I saw more than one truck of, but must have seen at minimum 5-10 amazon trucks)
That logic leads to monopolies or oligarchies or corporations/rich people "owning" the democracy. Those with resources can easily stop those without resources from ever competing with them in a free market, unless there are regulations.
China doesn’t have enough missiles for MAD, and perhaps they can only reach the west coast with most of their arsenal (though maybe they have a few longer range ICBMs now). At any rate, China isn’t going to risk anhilation for the North Koreans, who are frenemies at best.
>the U.S. are not perceptibly better or worse off as a result of such choices.

How is that true? We can print more dollars. We don't have the same kind of control over other currencies.
Even in the late 90s, you'd get a lot of pushback on "VMS really wasn't bad". One manager I knew believed that the built-in versioning existed solely for DEC to sell people extra disks. I personally can easily believe that filesystems with version numbers don't exist anymore. I'm going to have to reference "The Hideous Name", Rob Pike and Peter Weinberger: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~rsc/pike85hideous.pdf
"There was not enough hustle..."

Canned phrases from company leadership is too often a sign of cluelessness. In practical terms is means the CxO does not know how to grow or improve the business, and falls back on "Work more! Work harder! Forget smarter!"

Also:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hustle

2b: "to sell something to or obtain something from (someone) by energetic and especially underhanded activity"
In Python 3 at least, anything after the * args is a required keyword-only argument:

>>> def a(b, *args, c): print(c)
>>> a()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: a() missing 1 required positional argument: 'b'
>>> a(3)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: a() missing 1 required keyword-only argument: 'c'
>>> a(3, c=5)
5

It's also valid to define it this way, if you don't need the * args:

>>> def a(b, *, c): print(c)
In the relationship graph that Linkedin builds, suggested connections could be based on a lot of things other than shared connections. Just speculating here, but it could be based on shared email address, shared IP address, shared physical address, membership in same groups, linkedin messages by you and wife to other people within 1-2 degree of either of you .. or some combination thereof for higher confidence.
> Did you know that in the late 90 the housing was good and affordable?

Obviously, affordable is subjective. People in cities have demanded ever-expanding services. Better sanitation, better public transit, electricity, everything new has to be super safe, everything new has to have 16 handi-capable toilets per 1 handi-capable user, subsidized housing for the poor, free education, free higher education, free healthcare, higher taxes on businesses, higher regulation of existing businesses.

Some of those things are probably necessary. Some are probably really nice to have. Everything has a price. Rent control is a great way to make slums. There's no market incentive to make your placer any nicer than someone else's because you're competing for a set amount of $$. The good landlords will exit the business, and you'll only have slums.
I agree that it's a likely theory and fits much of what's known, but there can be other reasonable explanations for the things mentioned above. The aircraft was already assigned 35k feet, was a climb to 40k feet really necessary to ensure the passengers and crew would be incapacitated? Might he not have been trying to avoid traffic in established flight corridors, since the transponder was not operating and he wasn't talking to anyone? Anyway, to be clear I'm not challenging the overall conclusion. It's the best theory I personally have heard, but I am also not an expert on any of this. I just felt like the article didn't make it clear enough that the depressurization event was complete conjecture.
> I'm running Debian not Ubuntu, but the absolute minimum they owe their users is an automatic upgrade path.

Do you have a support contract? If not, ask yourself about the complexity of what you feel entitled to — especially given that a system which will “take a month to get everything set up again” is far from a clean upgrade — and ask how much effort you've contributed to the project helping make that feature exist.
I'm quite sure it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBJ99bIhAVk
If you visit some real high schools in China, you’d find they are not very different from these camps. Curfews, political classes, and compulsory attendance are commonplace.

These facilities are not built to treat ethnic minorities in the most brutal way, but reflections of an authoritarian society.
Not on American soil, I believe more accurately.