skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had a "discussion" on which formatter/linter to use for a different language. There were 2 choices and I bet we spend 300 man hours on nonsense. Everyone had to have their say.

You can decide TO use a linter, but then you just get to argue about which linter...
I think detecting extensions would be reasonable if they're doing this in order to figure out what features their users want that LinkedIn isn't providing, so they can start offering those features as first-party features instead.

But I doubt that's why they're doing this.
Yeah, like I'll EVER trust Facebook to manage my money... If you're libertarian or conservative, you definitely cannot trust Facebook to not keep your money, let alone safe. And if you aren't, you probably shouldn't.

I don't mean to be tin foil hat... but given the amount of account deletions that FB, Twitter, Pinterest and to some extent Youtube and Instagram. I don't agree with the people blocked necessarily, but it belies anything resembling what should be required to trust them.
Yes. To be clear "non-exclusive license to it" is way different than owning it. Especially when they say "We’ll honor the choices you make about who gets to see your information and content, including how it can be used for ads." That means that they do not have the right to use it "as they see fit" because they agree to use it "as you see fit".

My point stands. They are selling your content without your explicit permission, and against their own terms of service unless you argue that people would agree to their data being sold to recruiters.

That's fine and they're able to do so. But don't say it's also ethical for them to aggressively prevent other services from doing that without paying them.
Given that "About 71 percent of tech employees in the Valley are foreign born," I think that if a group of FAANG+Friends agreed to open campuses in some other state at the same time, they could easily build a new tech community.
Congrats on the launch! The solution is simple yet effective. I have been exploring this space for a while and you are absolutely right that the infosec space is due for an overhaul like what is happening with devops. Even the CTO of Amazon said the one thing he is keeping an eye out in the next 5 years is security.
The problem is that the local governments are not doing their jobs so private industry is stepping in to address the gap (with obviously a biased interest towards their customers, shareholders, and employees).

Literally every Bay area government has regulations (zoning, community review, etc.) that prevent housing to be put in place. On the transit side, we have multiple transit organizations (Muni, BART, Caltrain, etc.) that do not coordinate and operate as one entity; contrast this with NYC where the transit orgs have a common leadership.

What is happening in the Bay is that we are having an infrastructure crisis because a Nimby philosophy is preventing investment in critical areas like housing, transport, etc.

I agree that private industry won't solve this problem correctly because of its self interest, but frankly the problem is that the policy makers have no interest in solving the issue. Their loyalty is to their wealthy vocal residents who have no interest in creating housing or transit. They definitely do not care if underserved and disadvantaged people are suffering.

So while I agree that private industry will not tailor their solution to the disadvantaged (due to self interest), I don't think policy makers will either (due to self interest). Proposition 13 is a perfect example of how the voting population does not care about infrastructure for the poor. Prop 13 was marketed as a relief provision for the elderly, but the bulk of the measure is essentially a tax break for largely white wealthy landowners.
It really is just to spell "FAANG" which sounds a bit nefarious. Netflix is by far the smallest of the five; Microsoft is a lot larger than Netflix by market cap.
And unless I'm completely misinterpreting all of this, a "$1bn investment in 20k homes" that are each ultimately sold for an average of $100k (I'm assuming the average would actually be far higher) would net a $2bn return, so as much as the investment might be welcome, it's also hard-headed capitalism, not charity.

- ed

I'm busy and distracted and realised after I posted how obvious and unenlightening a post this was. Sorry!
Fair point, but then we forgo learning how to build a rocket to leave this rock should there ever be a need.
The only solution is changing the zoning laws, and that requires changing peoples' minds.

There is another solution - don’t locate on the west coast or build out satellite offices that aren’t on the west coast.
Random example of bad news here:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/877703/only-32-bit-distros-a...

The CPU may be, but the bios and motherboard... possibly not so much. The system is pretty old and could use a replacement anyway before it croaks on me.
Upgrading from Ubuntu to Debian solves this one among other problems. Ubuntu comes from a company, Debian from a community; the main difference being that companies must be kept profitable, so they will axe any piece of the product that won't be or appear as profitable to them, either because it doesn't sell, or because it consumes resources (developers time).
I agree - I think some startups like SoFi have been challenging that space, but they address that in their value proposition. I don't see anything leading me to believe that anything Facebook is doing is innovating risk management overhead, which is why I would be suspect of their fees.
If there's any truth behind the stories of Bitcoin seeing widespread use (purchased, not mined using subsidized electricity) as a store of value in countries in the grips of hyper-inflation, surely a coin which is pegged to a basket of currencies and easily purchased through the Facebook messenger app would see even greater adoption.

That said, I absolutely hate the idea of Facebook as a fintech platform and really don't look forward to being forced to maintain an account just to easily send/receive money once the network effects take hold.
Might this be a fingerprinting technique they use to ensure you're not abusing their system?
NYC is in america which has a complete different economic Idea.
While Germany was and sometimes still is a social market economy America is a full blown free markt, of course just slapping a rent control and nothing else is a bad idea
The dissolution of the Warsaw Pact meant the old definition was a bit meaningless, hence the shift in connotation where "First World" is a glorious modern stable democracy and "Third World" is "shithole."

That said, "developing country" isn't necessarily the most precise phrase either, since many of those countries are either keeping the status quo or are actively decaying due to environmental disaster, war, famine, etc... Also, when you say "developing country" what a lot of people still heard is "shithole". Still, it's the preferred phrase and the inherent optimism built into it does count for a little.
Not the op, but for me the turboprops I've flown on [0] have a deeper, louder droning noise that really gives me a headache after a while. I think it's personal though, I've spoken about hating them with travelling companions and no one else shares my dislike. I've never actively tried to avoid them though, mainly because I rarely have a choice of time or route when I fly on the airlines I know use them.

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_Dash_8
Increased use of airplanes is one factor in why US greenhouse gas emissions grew last year after years of decline: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/1/11/1817711...
I am an American, here is what I am going to do.

There's currently an USTR tariff review session happening right now in Washington. A bunch of companies are protesting against tariffs on China, saying they can't live without China. Some of these companies are:

- Best buy

- American Apparel

- Kenneth Col

- iRobot

- Roku

- Element Electronics

- Hallmark Cards

I will not buy from these companies for the rest of my life, as well as any other companies that have products that are 'made in China'. These companies must have heard about the concentration camps, and possible organ harvesting/slave labor in those camps, and choose not to divest away. These companies are horrendous actors who choose freely to prop up a regime like his.
The georgist approach.

I was pondering a high annual ground tax instead of a capital gains tax
> people do not need to profit from housing to build it

People do need to profit from something to do it in a capitalist society.
A quick search on DDG revealed it's because of the value of their stock.

That doesn't make sense because the value of Microsoft's stock is a lot closer to the other four than Netflix's stock is. It is just because FAANG is a cooler-sounding acronym than FAAMG.
We end users don't need this. I hope you got a more honest job.
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Let us say that there was a nuclear war, and everyone left is near starvation, lacks resources and security. What holds value? Gold? I'd say useful or desired commodities: Food, fuel, guns, working machines, liquor, tobacco. Perhaps gold will be settled on as the most fungible (and transportable) material for trade, but if I were preparing for such times, I would be betting on the commodity, not an inert bit of metal.
Why would “knowledge workers” be unproductive in another region?
For the sysadmins, there's always "Savaged by Systemd"...
How often do you rewrite your existing projects?
Optimising for our reading effort is not a given, neither in length or style. It's a choice.

Insinuating incompetency when choice is clearly a reasonable explanation is in my opinion quite disingenuous.

If you don't like the style, at least say so clearly, if you have to. But why do you have to?

The authors tip to disable comments, I fully understand. I find writing hard, and I could never cope with all the things - except the actual text - people find the need to complain about.
Not the same question but "if the government doesnt like what the outsourced department is saying, they can replace them." Indirectly they could control speech.
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From "Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis", which I read too many years ago to clearly remember, this was a economic war strategy. During economic war-games the Pentagon set up this strategy was successfully employed.

China, Russia- the "anti-west" powers started buying gold, dumping US debt and finally proposed creating their own currency for regional trade instead of using the USD as their reserve currency.

This is a summary based on a book I can't really remember and concepts I might not have understood. That said, I do remember it was a good book, worth a read.
Exactly what I was thinking. Similar to how FedEx built its fleet on retired DC-10 aircraft.
so? I find it interesting to point out the double standard

I'm hardly the first Canadian to notice the insane ramp-up in anti-China sentiment from our American neighbours, especially given the stark contrast with the royal treatment given to the genocidal regime in Saudi
Arabia.

Dismembered journalists, decapitated feminists and democratic activist teenagers, famine in Yemen, Senate voted to stop the war and Trump vetoed it... and yet HN is all China every day.

China isn't the only country that looks a lot like 1984 from the outside peering in.
Sounds like they have a choice.

They do not have the ability to fight with them, so let them go peacefully.
I went from three monitors (2x thunderbolt + laptop), to no monitors (just laptop), to two monitors (external + laptop). Each phase lasted about 2 years.

If I'm working mostly in one place, it's nice to have as much screen real estate as possible. If I'm frequently working from unpredictable places, I am forced to use only my laptop screen. In that case, I prefer to always use only my laptop screen because otherwise I get used to the multiple monitors and have trouble when I need to work on my laptop.
>This is why I find Bitcoin useful. It's nuclear chemistry proof.

But not people proof, as it's wild fluctuations will attest to.
Go is specifically designed for fast compilation. You can't just skip some checks and get similar results.
Also, what happens when they decide you're "alt-right" and block your wallet?
Adding further support to my view that in today's world, (mainland) Europe is civilization's last hope.
> Yeah. Central banks are actually a kind of technology, which I don't think a lot of people recognize.

They are. And a very unbalanced one at that which relies on constant credit growth (which is insane).

Not defending cryptos but I gotta say that we need better monetary systems which reward work and not investment, and does not rely on constant money printed inflation.
The UK ones are covered by GDPR and other restrictions on what you can do with the camera footage and how long you can keep it.
Going through security is one of my little personal hells. I'm brown so I'm as such scrutinized more. Then the inconsistent procedures across airports even in the same country. Do I remove the wallet and the phone? Do I keep them in my bag? Do I keep them in the tray? There is never any clear information and you just have to keep looking at your fellow passengers to figure things out.
Having an HQ seems increasingly antiquated. Sure, there probably needs to be a designated executive center, but otherwise it seems far less risky to partition your organization into smaller units. Just look at what Amazon is doing with HQ2.
The fact its all by wire and doesnt have an override stop button or something is a bug. A serious one.
If they can launch a global currency, they damn sure can build a tech community in a red state.
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Your argument assumes China could find more than ~$675M of physical gold on the market in April.
Even as a person who adores my properly-configured IDE with that feature, I vehemently support the idea of IDE-independence for even internal projects. Requiring developers to use a particular IDE evokes the dark days of Java projects based on Eclipse's build system. Developers are happy and productive with their pet tools, and discontented and resentful when forced to use tools they hate. The choice of editor/IDE is one of the most personal that a professional developer makes. Let's ship code that stands on its own (with an independent build system for heaven's sake) and not even implicitly force the use of particular IDEs.
Someone must not have hired a lobbying team and lined some pockets in Washington.

Also the crooked US justice system, you don't have the right to defend yourself using your own money:

> The asset freezes raise all kinds of thorny constitutional questions. Generally speaking, federal prosecutors are permitted to freeze a defendant’s assets based on probable cause alone, even before the defendant has a chance to challenge the government’s case in court. But regular forfeiture rules do not apply in cases involving forums for speech—newspapers, films, books, magazines, websites. The US Supreme Court has decreed that when the government seizes these expressive materials, or the proceeds derived from them, it must immediately hold an evidentiary hearing to determine whether the seizure is valid.

> But the Backpage defendants have a problem: So far, they can’t get a court to hear their claims. Since last summer, the Justice Department appears to have been playing a clever shell game. They’ve brought cases against the Backpage defendants in two federal districts—civil seizures in Los Angeles, criminal matters in Phoenix—and they’re making the defendants spend what money they have left chasing Uncle Sam from place to place. So far, judges in both districts have agreed with the government’s suggestion that they should defer to each other, effectively denying the defendants a forum to challenge the asset freezes. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear arguments in the case in July...
As the person most closely responsible for Netflix’s nines from 2011-2014, definitely not 2011-2014!

We worked hard and managed to keep it pretty high, but in all that time I think we only had two or three perfect weeks worldwide.
Presumably because data races are so inconsistently triggered that creating a reliable exploit would be generally infeasible, even with control over user input. However, this unpredictability is also why data races (among other concurrency issues) are some of the most maddening types of bugs to observe, hunt down, and diagnose, which is why eliminating data races is actually a big deal for anyone who's ever wrestled with threads before.
> That's really not actually why these laws have been created. Their intent has always been to protect existing residents.

I'm well aware of the history of rent regulation in New York City, and this is flat-out incorrect.

> Not poor or low income, necessarily, in fact for the most part the original idea was to protect the middle class, not so much the poor. Which should be unsurprising if you have any basic concept of who wields political power in cities.

Rent stabilization, in its current form, is a handout to the upper-middle class, couched in rhetoric about helping the "poor" and "working class".

> It's not that hard to figure out: having massive rent increases possible upon vacancy, as well as almost no means testing (only in one special case) are two of the several obvious tells.

This is... not how the rent stabilization law in New York City works.
> Is there still a risk of MCAS causing another crash?

Yes, because it's difficult to recover when MCAS goes wrong, even when you know about it. The pilots of Ethiopian 302 turned MCAS off and still crashed[0].

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...
Since they had no experience in Lisp programming, they chose the wrong language just for 'doing something different'.

Writing a database in a performant way isn't something for a Lisp newbie.

"By the time Version 1 was operational, it contained about 17000 lines of LISP and about 63000 lines of C".

Version 1 was written in a mix of C and Lisp.

That's also not surprising, since that would have been a common approach for some technical reasons. But it's a bit difficult to do - again, especially as a newbie.

> Was it them, or was it LISP?

Their lack of experience, their approach, the LISP implementation they were using, the hardware constraints (4 MB footprint was not acceptable to them), ... A conservative approach using a lower-level systems programming language like C was a good choice at that time and they were much more successful with that approach.

There were/are a bunch of databases written in Lisp and even in a mix of C and Lisp: Statice (Symbolics), Zeitgeist (TI), Orion/Itasca, AllegroStore (Franz), ... But they were written by Lisp experts.
It seems like OP just thinks Jefferson has written some "extremely valid criticism" of central banking, from before the US had the system. Who knows? I think central banking is probably fine and cryptocurrencies are stupid and I don't see where the appeal to authority is.
> American Apparel

Wow, they've come a long way from how they were founded. Sad to see
Of course it is, it's SOP. CAPTCHAs, for example, are much more intrusive but are used everywhere to catch a minority of bad actors.
So we replace one broken system with another. This wasn't the cryptocurrency promise.
Bigotry is not necessarily a conscious choice. It is often a label placed on you by political opponents seeking to discredit or smear you.
I know i have 3 years but... new toys ;)

Thanks for the suggestion (amazon reviewers aren't so happy with it though). I want a motherboard not a NUC-like system though. Still using sata, running some servers on it etc.
Which libraries? I recall having to pull in a whole 32-bit system on Arch Linux to install Steam’s binary package.
All laws that prevent people from doing something they want to do promote illegal behavior by this definition.
That's actually a pretty darn good idea, the invasiveness aside, in fact, if they were doing this for that reason, it may be easy enough to let folks know that's why so it doesn't feel so invasive.
> if you want to rent your apartment on such a plattform you have to clear it with everyone who lives in that house.

I love this idea. My friend currently lives in a building in Brooklyn where a person rents out rooms in his apartment on AirBnB and it's been nothing but an annoyance since day one. I'm glad NYC has put some restrictions on AirBnB .
U.S. airlines != Amazon cargo. How do you propose Amazon ship their products? Rail?

Amazon is effectively just replacing UPS / FedEx. In the long run, the net result to society is the same whether UPS, FedEx or Amazon flies the plane (assuming every plane operates at the same capacity and have equal fuel efficiency). The pollution from these planes is a function of how much people shop online, not which company flies the plane.
>So in this regard Google usurps the mandate of the community government

Great. The mandate of community government has created $3400 / month two bedroom apartments and I, for one, welcome some additional housing units.
Nonviolent protests only work when the people they're protesting believe in some amount of basic human rights to begin with. Many Cherokee peacefully protested their land being taken from them in Georgia, but they were forcibly moved anyways because the US government didn't care.
>Wouldn't be so sure that Uncle Sam isn't going to crack down even harder than the EU...

I wouldn't be so sure that Uncle Sam wasn't in on it in the first place. The potential military, economic, and intelligence value of this thing should be self evident.
as I understand it, the only parties authorized to buy/sell libra are resellers operating through a smart contract, while founding members act as multiple oracles for such contracts, and the minting is in the public ledger.

I agree this is wildly unregulated and problems exist, but it's not just a party clicking "mint coin" and cashing out.

Edit: unless you consider all parties as cooperating in the scam, which seems possible but unlikely.
what do you think is the environment? we can't survive without biodiversity
All those things you mentioned are a) bad and b) off topic. I suggest you create a new post to discuss those.

The right vs wrong question seems straightforward. If the people in these concentration camps are suffering, then it is wrong. If they are unable to speak about whether they are suffering, then that is also wrong.

It's only a "story planted in [your] mind" until it happens to you.
Unless you've got some Frankenstein system with lots of random binaries dropped in by hand, it shouldn't take months.

1. dpkg --get-selections 2. Backup global data (databases and such) 3. Backup global config (/etc, /use/local/etc) 4. Backup home directories 5. Reinstall and apply all to the new system.

This is a weekend job at most if it ends up being complicated.
Maybe you were underpaid to start with? Unless each job you get 40% extra at which point i'll call you Bill Gates.

LI is awful.
Who exactly would China sell that debt to, and for what? How would that impact the US dollar? They certainly aren't going to cut off exports to the US.
Then do something.

Fight with the evil which is so close.
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”Hubs" for various industries pop up all the time. Hollywood for movies

I think you just argued against your point. A lot of blockbuster movies and popular TV shows are being shot in other places because other places are cheaper and they offer better incentives.
You’re correct here; however, the narrative that China wants Americans to see is that they can mess up the dollar. The truth is selling a huge pile of dollar denominated bonds wouldn’t do much other than hurt China by pushing up the yuan and thus depressing exports even further.