skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The joke is Facebook deems itself the new Rome.
Well, if I sold a chat application that was loosing hundreds of millions of dollars, for $19 billion dollars to FB.. I'd be wondering how they're ever going to recover the money. Its easy to paint one side as the villain in this.
> People who disagree with rent control largely disagree with the goals

This is absolutely false. They just understand, by economics, and history, that it has failed. The best way to decrease rents is to make housing more affordable through supply. Unfortunately it sometimes takes time for supply to catch-up and you get price surges...but you also have special interests, especially in the US (aka real estate firms) that lobby zoning boards to limit development and drive up prices for their own benefit.

This is not even a partisan issue, economists on both ends of the spectrum are in near complete agreement that rent controls are damaging.
I wonder if being public traded cant be used as a tool to say the company isnt private ?
If our current ideas about physics are correct, acceleration _never_ gets you to speed of light.

The faster you go, the higher your relativistic mass, so if you accelerate by constant force, the lower your acceleration. Conversely, to keep acceleration constant, you would need larger and larger forces, in the limit ‘infinite force’.

For more and better info, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_ac....
One can only hope
Surprised as well, for that money in the bay area it sounds more like motor-homes or something like that.

I still don't get why all this concentration is needed in the bay area in the first place and don't buy the argument that they need to be all in the same area.

There could be multiple bay area like places throughout the US. All these problems would suddenly disappear. Other areas would flourish, more people could own property at acceptable prices. I can't stop thinking that some are profiting from this bubble and want to keep it this way but it's going out of hand..
Did nobody think that to invest, you need to have liquidity?

It's called LIQUID for a reason. If another place has better investment opportunities, the investment will simply cease. Why would anyone take their LIQUID assets and put it into real estate (in german it's called IMMOBILIEN, meaning immovables to make it clear) in a place that actively discourages return on invest?
I understand it worked in Vancouver where it was tried. I've not heard news that London or Paris has tried.
Many of the work trucks I see on the road, actually being used for work with stuff in the bed, are 2wd. They still count as trucks.
New apps should NOT implement SAML.

All platforms support OpenID Connect. It's better in every way. SAML is effectivly dead from a development standpoint. All the energy from the standards bodies are focused on OIDC.
Simone has a pretty stellar track record of creating high-quality and durable products. For some more of her work, check this video exposition: https://youtu.be/O61wJPNJgZQ
I'm completely uninterested in bonuses, because they're a one-time thing.

A merit increase at the end of the year stays with you for the rest of your career. A $1,000 bonus is gone as soon as it's spent.

I've seen some organizations that use bonuses to cover over the fact that people aren't getting raises, and I would expect people who do cognitive tasks to be better able to run the math on why that's bad.
grep takes a file directly, so this could simply be:

time grep tt9184994 title_complete_json.txt >> result
When things go bad government should intervene to protect people. These steps are always going to be extraordinary, because the situation is extraordinary, but it is the very role of government to apply necessary fixes without false pride for any economic or governmental models.

Of course, questions as to how one ended up in a bad situation have to be asked. Underlying issues should be fixed.

But when things get out of hand, when extraordinary action is deemed necessary to adjust for an untenable situation, it is not only right but paramount to take action.

As is with all issues, people will disagree with any specific course of action. By all means, vote to that effect.
Seems like it can work with others too, though I don't know how well: https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/LanguagesAndPlat...
It's not just probability and expectations. People also think, if I'm gonna die, it better be due to my own faults, not Boeing's greed. Just because I might be willing to die at my own hands that doesn't mean I should be okay with you killing me.
Companies do this all the time for all levels. It was basically an early retirement buyout. There’s a big Lockheed plant in my area and I’m pretty sure all managers, engineers, plant workers, etc were all offered buyouts. Everyone with 3 or so years until retirement.
Business logic tends to be more organic than the rules of geometry and physics. Thus, many of the "toy" OOP examples that use shapes and physics don't extrapolate well to real world abstractions, which often turn out to be semi-abstractions. Geometry and physics generally don't change so we know certain patterns will always stay around. Business logic (the domain) is often NOT like this. Be careful.
statistically, so few people use bitcoin, that one might as well round to zero, so governments do not need to care. FB has 2.5B users whom they can easily manipulate, hence governments care.
Those companies are pretty cool and I think we'll see more in the future. That said, while they're better than the alternative of not existing at all, it's not a given that they're not inferior to a company operating out of one office where it's easier to communicate.
It's achieved its goals of letting/forcing people to stay in their apts.

It has utterly failed in actually dealing with housing
Flying on a 737 Max and Driving aren't the only 2 ways to travel long distances.
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remember, gentrification is typically used as a pejorative

good point in that it undermines constructive argument
Well, what I was thinking is that you live in an AirBnB or other short-term rental for 6 months and then quit. Some consultants work this way: only working for 3-6 months on a gig, getting paid a fortune (plus extra for living expenses because they're not relocating, just living there temporarily), and then leaving.

If the company really needs the work done that badly and there's no qualified help willing to take it full-time, then this is a viable option. If there's no qualified help and they're not willing to go for a deal like this, then the work just doesn't get done.
It's becoming that for me as well. I have yet to run into any real downsides. I'm sure I will eventually hit a few packages that aren't in nuget. But it hasn't happened yet.
We read a lot about the SF real estate market, wonder if it would be possible to dredge up a couple of Islands like the palm island in Dubai.
I agree - I read the trilogy and enjoyed it somewhat but I wouldn't recommend it to others (unlike e.g. Hyperion Cantos or Fire Upon the Deep, etc).

The amount of suspension of disbelief for some questionable premises is very high. e.g. the real-time comms developed by one of the races breaks down one of the key axioms.
This is 100% my experience as well as a SAML SP. After the first few customers onboarding largely consisted of certificate exchanges and figuring out where the IdP put the fields we needed. Before that there was s lot of development to add those configuration knobs.
You can't create a new user without to verify it. All the transactions are monitored(i.e for fraud prevention so expect to receive "suspicious activity" emails and your account frozen). What do you mean off the grid? You don't have access to the blockchain.
Do I understand your argument correctly?

Effectively, what I'm reading is, "Because large tech companies do X, it's very important for everyone else too (including billion-dollar companies that don't do X)."
Windsor could be (near) where the shoot happened. It's likely you saw Simone and/or her team.

Dark grey van? See 25m20s here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jKv_N0IDS2A
The point for Facebook is chiefly to compete with Apple Pay, along with capturing more user data.

The point for Visa et al. is to A) hedge their bets against possible long-term disruption from crypto in a safe, centralized manner, and B) to attack crypto head-on by satiating the curiosity of those who may want to dip their toes into the water, creating a walled garden that no one bothers to peek over.

The point for the user is to... umm...
My parents grew up in the southwestern corner of the Ozark Mountains and I've been to Branson, Missouri a number of times, so I have at least a passing familiarity with the Bald Knobbers. Nevertheless, I had not made the connection between Balds in the geographic sense and the Bald Knobbers. The southwestern Ozarks are actually a heavily eroded plateau, and I'm not aware of any hilltops that look like the Appalachian Balds, but then I have only actually seen a tiny portion of the Ozarks.
By electing a socialist government the people of Berlin have indicated that they don't want their city to become a five star hotel. Simply letting the market take control is therefore not an option.
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> There would be no endeavors if there was no incentive of credit

Speak for yourself, the vast majority of tasks in the world aren't really worth bragging about, and credit doesn't put food on the table.

That said in this particular case, the people who built this certainly deserve credit as they clearly have great skill and vision. But that's not what our society is built on.
There is only got to be one socialism movement in town, to drive the shares of landlhorders down..
The kernel still supports 486 processors, but most distros compile targeting a minimum of 586 (Pentium [MMX]) or 686 (Pentium Pro).
If a Silicon Valley controlled currency becomes the preferred method of payment, then the companies controlling it get unchecked power over the economy.

Banned from Facebook? You need to find other ways to reach your audience and make money. Banned from Libra? Now you need to find another way to spend your money in a market that preferes Libra.

That's one possible bad ending, but maybe I'm a bit paranoid. Still, you'll also have to consider the dozens privacy issues that will pop up in the meantime, especially given Facebook doesn't currently have the best track record.
LinkedIn has been doing this (and a few other shady dark patterns) since way before being acquired by MSFT. And MSFT seems to be letting the recently acquired companies do their own thing and not interfere, which is what employees of those startups would most likely prefer. Not saying that this kind of hands-off approach is the best idea here (because i dont have a strong opinion on that), but i dont think it is fair to extrapolate the shady behavior of LinkedIn (that has been documented since a very long time ago) to the rest of MSFT
I'm already at the point where I refuse to donate to charity events that friends and relative link me to through Facebook. I don't trust Facebook to have access to my money, in any way, shape or form.
> If the same company offered the same job to remote employees for comparable pay

Why would they do that? They only pay as much as they do in Silicon Valley to offset the cost of living.
Well, it may be true that the "blame" for why CGo is slow is up for debate, it's just a fact that it's rather slow to use.

Go isn't unique in this; there are many languages with runtimes that require similarly intensive amounts of copying and context conversion before C code can run on whatever the data is. However, most of those languages, like CPython, are themselves slow enough that the penalty isn't as noticeable against the general background noise. (In general CPython requires a lot more copying too; Go is closer to C struct and array semantics and can more often get by with some form of memcpy, the internals of Python look nothing like that.) Go is fast enough that it's much easier to get into scenarios where in a tight loop you're spending 90% on CGo overhead if you're not careful with data flow. For those languages that have to copy a lot out of their runtime and are also fairly fast, they'll face the exact same issues. It's not really a "Go" issue per se, but the challenges faced by any language that wants a runtime significantly different from C.

(One of the miracles of Rust is building an environment and runtime that isn't stuck on C's limitations but at the same time can still speak to C really, really cheaply. Plenty of languages have one or the other of those, but there aren't very many that have both. I'm not sure there's any other language that has threaded that particular needle so cleanly.)
I worked for a while for Thomson Reuters, where some years ago somebody in charge read that companies with value statements performed better than those that did not. So they hired a 3rd party consultant to write down their values and they had these posted all over the walls.

They also had posters of stuff like "the mood elevator" pasted up in the kitchen: https://themoodelevator.com/

Everyone I felt like I could talk to about this thought this was childish, idiotic nonsense. Do companies have thousands of childish people who take this stuff seriously and think it is great? Or does everyone have to just pretend because they don't want to get fired?

I have a hard time understanding it. Anyway I left that place.
Actually (again, just based on the samples we saw), candidates that came from the Elixir community submitted _way_ better code for the programming assignment compared others, which is one of the reasons that made them better candidates.
I think this is a great point that indirectly highlights how people are often talking past each other when a go vs rust debate comes up. People work in different problem domains with different constraints and therefore the a good language choice in one domain might be wrong for the other.

I don't think anyone in the go community would suggest you write a browser in go. Ignoring the GC performance issues, just the awkwardness of using cgo would make most go developers shudder.

Likewise there are many problem domains where a GC'ed language works just fine. In these cases it is appropriate to consider other factors when deciding which language to use. Perhaps your team is made up of a bunch of experienced scala developers, scala might be a good choice for you over go or rust. That doesn't mean your good choice is universally applicable to all teams.

Some teams might care more about getting the most value per cpu cycle possible. Other teams might care more about the time it takes to get a new engineer up to speed in the language. Both of these can be valid reasons to choose a specific language.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: "Try to choose the language (and other tools) that best matches your organizations constraints. Don't assume that other teams have the same constraints."
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Open offices with white noise generators don't exactly strike me as the paragon of ease of communication.
Excellent article! I hadn't read that in a while and it was a good refresher. I would also prefer going the way of green threads instead. As for typing, I'm coming from C and Python, so the type system has been a fantastic learning experience.
There are several glass bridges in China.
Many people want to live in deaireable areas. There's a reason why your home is cheap.
So how do they solve this in Russia?
How do you know that these supply building and incentive programs are not part of the plan? Such programs take years to materialize and show impact. I would imagine that's why they voted on a 5-year freeze.
Overpopulation is 100% a big problem and then some.

The overcrowded cesspits that we whimsically call 'cities' in India are founts for all kinds of shit like the water table drying up, widespread water-borne and air-pollution diseases, anti-microbial resistance, shitty healthcare in overworked hospitals in general etc. These things are ALL made orders of magnitude worse to deal with just because our population is through the roof.

Not to mention the "smaller" quality of life factors. Enjoyable walk in nature? Hah! It's impossible to walk for even two minutes in Delhi and not see another person. Never-do-wells loiter the streets all day. No possibility of orderly queuing, just this huge, irritating, wearisome crowd wherever you look and wherever you turn. The metro. The park. The roads. The neighbourhood. Even the fucking hill stations that you seek to escape to. No solitude.

In an ideal world, these thing may manageable while still fostering a large population. But an ideal world this isn't.

> "...more than enough space and resources for everyone"

That's going to be a hell-to-the-no from me dawg. I hate the fact that we fucking breed like Rabbits.
And then once the ship city state has developed enough independence it can quietly slip out to sea beyond national borders and become its own seastead mini-nation of Google.
Thank you for that comment, @cmiles, I couldn't agree more!

I think that it's important to remember that there are both direct and indirect costs to "not changing something that's working".

If you don't keep abreast of change, then you're unable to be nimble enough to change when change is hugely advantageous.

Locking yourself into design decisions is usually cost-effective for the short term, but may be ultimately very harmful in the long-term.
I said comparable, not equivalent. Cost of Living Adjustments can be included in their offer calculus.
What I really don't get is the regulatory aspect. They are creating a financial derivative asset/instrument. To be moved across the borders. In what freaking universe will the regulators not be all over it with endless KYC/ML rules?
>I agree that the service provider shouldn't expect the SAML identifier to be an email. I suspect that the SUNetId is something readable (based on the human's name) as opposed to a fully opaque alphanumeric string ?

Yup. For those curious, you can find Stanford's list of released-by-default attributes here:

https://uit.stanford.edu/service/saml/arp

>On the other hand, having emails (or namespaced identifiers that look like emails but aren't) does provide a nice way to start the login process from the service provider's login page, as opposed to having to start from the IdP side, since the service provider can infer which IdP to use based on the identifier's namespace.

Yup, totally agree, and that's one of the annoying things about SAML. In Stanford's case, that's the eduPersonPrincipalName attribute.
Disagree. Enterprise customers have SAML SSO deployed and want to use it. If you want to serve those customers at any sort of scale you need to implement SAML.
Bottle neck: commute between ship and land.

How do you factor for that?
I would argue that the select is the more important feature. Goroutines are just lightweight threads, and go isn't the first language to have them.

No generics suck, unfortunately. I don't care that most things aren't expressions, and tbh, I don't know a lot of people that do. System-depdendent int is not a problem for me, but I recognize that it is a problem in some fields. I like how interfaces are designed and used in the language, so I don't share your opinion there. For the time package, the only thing that's badly designed is the American-centric parsing system. Everything else is, for me, ahead of the various package I've used in other languages.
The border is quite long. If there are multiple fronts, a small force could penetrate the border.
Since version 12 it's been somewhat more easier to use.
and face-to-face communication is very important to this job.

For what purpose specifically?
I've seen this page posted twice and both times it escaped me that this core had not one but TWO fatal accidents. Why didn't they build a rig??
If people worried much about surveillance today, cryptocurrency would already be mainstream. If what FB brings is pretty much the same as the current banking solutions but with some technical advantages on top of it, I doubt they are going to facepalm about it because the better alternative (true cryptocurrencies) is unknown to them.
When there's a will there's a way.

Personally I would go for unpacking the 64bit userland+packages in a subdirectory, boot once into a rescue userland which just switches the directories around, then boot normally.

GRUB already has support for "boot once in this alternate configuration", so it's all there.
Yes, in capitalism, the strong man setting the price is the one who owns the city by owning the #something# fund. This is a outrageous uprising by the people against dominant male. If stalin could see this, he would purge that idea right out of society.
Should be "deaths / person-miles" when comparing to driving.
$2,000 house payment vs a $3,000 apartment rental is only $12,000 a year in difference.
Frame-by-frame and slow-mo should be fundamentally easier than scrubbing/backwards. Nothing about a forward oriented codec would make frame advance or slow-mo harder. You still get a series of image buffers eventually.
George Pullman made a town outside of Chicago for workers to build his railcars. It didn't end well:

"the town and its design were... a paternalistic system that took away men's rights as citizens, including the right to control their own domestic environment"

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1030.html

Happy that google is making this investment; it's worth a shot even if it is far the ideal way to build housing. Hopefully the NIMBYism that defines this area won't kill it.
How will this liberate control from governments? Libra will still be pegged to government controlled currencies, libra is just a proxy for transportation. Governments can still regulate transactions that cross borders, the same laws will apply and will actually be easier to enforce because the libra network is managed by legal corporations rather than an anonymous pool of users.
If you are receiving transcripts it means your private voicemail data is being harvested. Even if you may not care, this is a violation of privacy for your friends and family.
It wasn't clear to me, after a quick skim, if the public-access channel had received state funding and therefore was effectively the state but outsourced. I would assume it had, which in my eyes doesn't mean it's a 'private platform' but more a privately operative public platform.
> as if even 1% of people actually factor in the plane model when buying their ticket

As if they have to do it before buying their ticket.
Except it doesn't work, and has been proven to not actually work.
How is this whole thing different than paypal then? We all know how "better" paypal is. Frozen accounts anyone?
An alternative way of looking at it: whether or not face to face is important for the specifics of the job, it might be important for emotional connection between humans, fulfilling a common human desire to connect with peers and be happy on the job and _outside_ the job. In other words, we might want to be around peers for social (non-job) reasons.
Here is a buisnes idea Ive been thinking about lately for SF, Hong Kong, NY and other expensive places. Buy a smaller cruise ships and rent a pier to dock it.

This has been tried before.

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

EDIT: Oh, you mean as residences! There are people who live in the marinas. There is some gatekeeping for that.

A high speed high tech ferry running between SF and the South Bay would be dandy.
what if the other person has allowed LinkedIn access to their calendar?
Interesting! I didn’t realize that was to avoid the chicken tax. Same as the rear-windowless Ford Connect.

Reading the wiki page it mentions Ronald Reagan owned one and used it on his ranch, which speaks to their versatility.