skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You get exactly the same benefit if government only backs 70% of each student loan. Then it's not profitable loan if the student cannot pay back.

But if you keep significant government backing, then the student loans would get lot lover interest rates. Which is probably good for absolutely everybody.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. If you'll scroll to the top of the comments on this page, you'll see where I stated the case that NIMBYism is the problem with housing there, and specifically that Mountain View's resistance to denser housing is part of it. I also think that Google and other large companies can expand elsewhere to alleviate some of the housing pressure, as Amazon has already started doing. Google has offices everywhere, but they are tiny compared to HQ.
I'd call it a Ev Camino instead of a pickup.
While I don't necessarily disagree with rent controls, portraying this measure as people vs corps is simplistic. As long as the city relies on private investors to build new residences, lower investment also means the PEOPLE who could have lived in Berlin are left out.

(The measure is also typically bourgeois; it throws some crumbs to fix the outcry so the capitalist system can remain in place)
It would be easier to take Brex more seriously if they implemented basic security practices like 2-factor for login.

Especially as virtual cards and transactions are shown without any kind of additional checks after a basic username/password login flow.
One guy, at least, had manuals.
VMS also had an excellent help facility.
If we added a carbon tax to the sale of gas (ideally paid depending on how efficient your car is, but that's a pipe dream), then we wouldn't have to consider the reduced amount of cars on the road because Amazon would save that much money by not paying it when they don't drive.
> 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?

Visa and Mastercard are taking a 3-4% cut of every single consumer payment made in much of the world. That ends up being a very, very big number.

There are many people all over the world without access to banking - they can't store money, they can't transfer money, and they can't invest money. That may be someone who has poor credit in the US, or someone who's living in rural India or Africa. Without access to banking, you are essentially cut off from globalization.

If you live in a country that has extremely tight currency and economic controls but with a corrupt government, and are experiencing hyperinflation (Zimbabwe, Venezuela, others https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate), access to alternative currencies can literally be the difference between life and death for individuals, where the money you make on your salary will be worthless by the time you get your check.

Plenty of other examples. Whether this is a good solution I don't know, they just announced it.
This actually did happen in SF with the Maritol "Icebreaker" ship by Creon Levit and Brewster Kahle:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/startups-aboard-...

I don't know what's happened to it after 2014, though.
Actually I'd be surprised if they're even paying market rate for these developers, regardless of how difficult or impossible it is to find them. COBOL programmers still make about $70,000/year or so (https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/cobol-programmer-salary-S...) even though the entire world is going to collapse if they disappear. It would seem that the laws of supply and demand don't apply here.
Evolution, because no other phenomenon can drive the required complexity to reach 'life'. Natural selection works by inheritance and mutation. Things that can create copies of themselves with mutations that allow selection to act on, this list is short.
Ain't that the writer's life, though!
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Well, if you take away a website were bad things happen, all the bad guys will magically disappear...right?

I enjoyed the article, a good read. I hate the topic; government overreach.
So you hope for expropriation and irrationally behaving financial investors.

I wanted to say I have a bridge to sell to you, but you already got the Airport... it just hurts that I'm paying for the punchline.
Why is there a vaccine injury court?
Linux is fine with a few hundred thousand threads too. I didn't mention it because it's significantly suboptimal to run that many OS threads or green threads like goroutines. If your scalability needs are that high, all the other little inefficiencies in Go, such as the lack of compiler optimizations and GC, are likely going to end up dominating more than threading models. We usually talk about high scalability as C10K; C100K is an extreme case.

> "Async IO" in itself doesn’t even offer a means of exploiting multiple CPU cores.

Sure it does. Multithreaded epoll is the standard solution for such things; that's how nginx is multithreaded, for example. Node isn't multithreaded, but that's a Node problem, not an async I/O problem.

> then memory limitations are not going to prevent you from running 100,000 Goroutines.

100,000 Linux kernel threads with 8kB kernel stack + 2kB user stack is only 1GB, which is likewise tractable.

And that 2kB assumes that the goroutine stacks remain small, which is not always the case. They can and will grow based on the dynamic behavior of the program.
If you haven't yet, I'd recommend reading the "Blue Book" (Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation) by Goldberg. It has a very holistic approach and, as such, is one of the most accessible and pleasant books describing a computing/programing environment one can find.
> We don’t want financial data and social data to be commingled

"Want" can change with one board meeting. And if they start "wanting" it in 3 years, is there a guarantee it won't happen?
Transaction acceleration exists and was built by the largest pools in cooperation with 'several leading Bitcoin pools'. This is literally a mechanism to tell a mining pool what transactions to focus on (and therefore which transactions are low priority^). And yet BTC.com is still the largest pool and Antpool the second largest. I mention both because they are both operated by the Bitmain company (33% of all Bitcoin compute is in those two pools), which also sells the ASIC.

Bitcoin is decentralized in theory alone. Fundamentally Bitcoin has structural flaws due to its design that create a self-reinforcing cycle of centralization. The corporation with the deepest pockets can survive the sparse rewards. They can reinvest in hardware, reducing the value of everyone's hardware. This runs people out of business (or forces them to join the largest company). Once they have enough market share they can set transaction prices as they like.

Transaction prices have grown 20x in the last 3 years. Even more than that considering you need to pay for accelerated transactions to have a good chance of the payment going through within an hour (a requirement for most real currency use-cases).

I'd be happy if you could explain how this is wrong, but in years of asking this to crypto enthusiasts, I still haven't found a convincing argument of how cryptocurrencies can truly be decentralized while serving real-world use-cases.

^Corporations don't generally censor by banning - that would be stupid because they'd lose the lawsuit. They prioritize some things and allow unprioritized things to be buried (ask Yelp).
A market can be broken through the actions of private actors too. Monopolies and other anti-competitive organizations, criminals, poorly educated market participants, externalities not properly accounted for, etc can “break” a market. In this case a large number of voters seem to believe that rents should not increase even if demand vastly outstrips supply, forcing the government to create short-sighted policies to try to appease them.
PayPal is part of the Facebook Coin consortium.
Some people don't have the luxury of living in bespoke housing, and legitimately do want a roof over their head for the minimum price possible. Some others are not architecture aficionados, and would prefer to save, even if they could afford "nicer."
You are referencing the access controls specific to the Calibra wallet, the story for the Libra blockchain with respect to account generation and usage is different. It's open.
You're aware this is just a symbolic and futile action, right? Boycotting every company "tainted" by the Chinese is unfeasible if you keep your standard of living. I'm not talking about refusing to buy t-shirts, but cars.
We use Sangria: https://github.com/sangria-graphql/sangria

Our usage of Sangria is unusual, though. We use it for parsing and serving GraphQL schemas. We take advantage of their builtin validation logic. Everything else between parsing and having a result to serve back is piped through custom code that translates Sangria's GraphQL AST into Fauna queries.
We could have had nuclear but nope too scary!
There are a lot of possible nuanced conversations but I think that the rejection of FB-coin on principle is the simplest argument and doesn't require much nuance to achieve.

That principle simply being the principle of decentralization which is core to the concept and purpose of block chains. No single or cluster of large companies or governments can create and control a block chain without violating that principle and thus a rejection on principle is justifiable.
This is what Amazon does. See Amazon Basics? Sellers sell on Amazon, Amazon tracks what sells well, enters market with same cheaper product and puts you out of business.

You are doing a large part of the market research for your competitors by using cloud services and platforms. You just pray they are good actors and ethical.
I guess you can get non-dairy spread, mayo, salad cream, etc to put on. It's not her being sneaky and trapping people, it's just that people are dumb.
"You're offering me butter when I specifically asked for dairy free?"
"Yes" Adds butter. Bosses all slap foreheads in frustration.

Lack of training. Stupid people. I dunno. She's got a lot of stories. The animal neglect are the worst. The pub food ones are the amusing ones. She gets a lot of food poisoning from dodgy food.
The speed isn't from "not checking things that other compilers do"; it's from not performing more agressive optimizations.
AWS Summit in New York
San Ramon as well. GE digital and SAP are big in Bishop Ranch. Of course there is the Chevron HQ.

Many of my neighbors are FANG employed, equally as mystified as to why none of those haven't opened a satellite office here.
Wasn't trying to be pedantic; whatever is "entirely clear in context" is not entirely clear to me at all. Did he use a term that I'm unfamiliar with or did he use the term I'm familiar with in a way that is incongruent with my understanding?
The only one I have an issue with is

> Future thinking is future trashing

It really depends on what you're building, and how long term the project will be around.

Git vs Javascript Frameworks
Quote where in the link it says a CUV is a Pickup Truck, which this Model 3 is claiming to be, and which it is not.

Show up in a CUV at a car show, try to park in the truck section, they'll tell you to move. It's not a pickup truck.
It's important to point out that the whole "physical cure for autism" thing is an evil scam that dehumanizes autists and sucks in the parents to spend big money on scam treatments, often wrecking their quality of life because they are spending all their time and energy on keeping their children on weird diet regimens rather than learning who they are and loving them.

I hope they open a new circle of hell for Wakefield.
Well 3 of the entities are Andreessen-Horowitz, Uber, and Lyft. Not exactly independent concerns.
No, the white paper explicitly states that plan to phase this out.
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One of the most painful parts of my career was writing a multi-tenant SAML authentication service in Golang (~3 years ago). experiencing painful flash backs
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I feel that the problem is that too many people want to live in Berlin, the solution is for a large fraction of those people to choose to live elsewhere, and the rising rents would have been a good way to achieve that outcome.
NB: "mess with" would be more idiomatic than "mess up with", both here and above.
Yep, and based on the journal article, that photo is even from 2016...
We're not focusing on the states no. I live 10km outside one of the largest Danish cities and work across town, that is not doable with public transport or biking (biking would add 10km to my commute). It becomes even less possible when my child starts daycare and I have to pick her up no later than 17:00.

It's not even that I can't take the bus, it just adds 1 hour and 45 minutes in the morning and at least 1 hour in the afternoon.

Due to Danish taxes on cars and the high starting prices on electric cars it's becomes a problem for most people.

You can't even take the train across the country in Denmark, it takes to long. If you have a meeting at 9 in Copenhagen, you have to leave Aalborg (400km away) the day before. You have to fly or drive, which will be significantly cheaper anyway.
That is because in the case of a goog share you arent telling someone else what they can do with their share.

No one is telling a SFH owner that they have to do anything. Instead, SFH are being allowed to have more options for what to do with their property.

In fact giving more options for property actually increases the value of that property.
Please don't take this as snark -- I'm dead serious. There are climate change deniers who will point to this as support of their position. "See, those climate scientists' predictions are always wrong."

The fact is the IPCC is well aware of the political headwinds it faces and its reports are conservative -- they have always underestimated the likely outcome because it is hard enough to get sign-off on even that, plus the consequences of overstating it is harmed credibility.
I predict if it happens, demand to cut off $BAD_PEOPLE from the service will start the next day the service is launched. And if it is technically possible, the demands will be complied with the next day after that, for some values of $BAD_PEOPLE. Nobody wants to be a platform for moving terrorist money, right? Or drug money? Or alt-right money? Or gun manufacturers money? Or pro-life money? Or wrong-presidential-candidate money? Or persons-whose-opinions-I-don't-like money?
The thing that really grinds my gears is that they sell cars in certain specs which have the hardware for something, but you can't use it without paying extra. Like....you can buy one which physically does have heated seats, but you can't use them unless you pay for the option. I just wonder if wiring in a physical switch to turn on the heating is considered piracy?
Correct. It's backed by a basket of fiat currencies (USD, GBP, JPY, EUR).
I can tell you I simplified an existing process from a company in the Internet Marketing Data space :)
> China isn't gassing and cremating people.

Don't conflate concentration camps and death camps. Nazi Germany had both, and they are both different things.

Death camps operated very differently than the concentration camps. Specifically, people got off the trains and went into the gas chambers rather quickly. They didn't stay in the death camps for months or years awaiting execution. (This is in contrast to people who stayed in concentration camps.)

The death camps were also geographically isolated, so that it was very hard for civilians to learn that mass executions were happening. (The Nazis learned to do this when they performed mass euthanasia in hospitals in cities, because civilians would see people arrive in busses, then smoke come from crematoriums, and then more people arrive. They nearly got voted out of power because the churches started to turn against them.)

Honestly, as an adult, it's worth spending some time reading up on the holocaust. It's not that our history classes were wrong, it's just that the depth of understanding that we can get as adults is much more than when we learned about the holocaust in grade school or high school.
I will eagerly wait to see how this unfolds. Count me in the skeptical camp though.

From an outside perspective it looks like the Overton window in Berlin is skewed heavily because of the runaway prices. I remember just last month the huge protests against Deutsche Wohnen and people demanding the nationalization of apartments. It’s no stranger in New York City that the most inattentive landlord that had the hardest time getting things done is NYCHA, the city agency. I’m skeptical of this solution, but the alternative was scarier.
Thank you for asking me to double-check.

I was wrong. I confused MongoDB with Redis.

The earliest MongoDB AGPL post in Archive.org is https://web.archive.org/web/20090515015736/http://blog.mongo... . It clearly is concerned with software freedom and doesn't mention funding.

(Though it does comment 'the goal is that you have to contribute those modifications back to the community.' But AGPL doesn't require contributions 'back to the community', only to the downstream users, yes?)

The blog post I was thinking of, for Redis, is archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20180825041319/https://redislabs... titled "Why Redis Labs’ Modules are AGPL".

It makes the odd statement "Therefore, we wanted to make sure no one else can resell them for commercial purposes."

I say 'odd' since anyone could resell them for commercial purposes under the AGPL, yes?

It also has "In other words, if you modify a Redis Labs Module source code, the goal is that you have to contribute those modifications back to the community."

So .. does AGPL really require contributions of modifications back to the community, as both Redis and Mongo wrote? If so, that's quite at odds with the GPL.
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Exactly and going out of the Bay doesn't solve the Bay Area's problems. It only tries to plug the premise that all the housing problems are happening because of the influx of people into the Bay Area. A lot of people who want better-housing options are millennials who Bay Area or nearby locals or people who have already been living in the Bay for more than 5-10 years.
We should be able to make some approximations regarding sentience. If we only consider Homo Sapiens Sapiens, then yeah we only have one data point. If we consider other extinct hominid species, we have more. If we consider dolphins, ravens, etc - we start to have a fuller picture and can make some (at least slightly) informed estimates to that term
>> "Before the vaccine, measles infected more than 3 million Americans and killed more than 400 of them each year. One in four people who get measles are likely to be hospitalized and one or two in 1,000 are likely to die, the C.D.C. reports."

So, after vaccines started, measles mortality grew an order of magnitude worse? (According to presumably conservative government's estimate). Am I the only one who thinks, that anti-vaxing has nothing to do with perceived safety of vaccines, and mostly reflects perceived safety of vaccine facilitators?

edit: after boeing 737 max troubles, we learnt, that boeing employees serve part time in capacity of government regulators, approving their own creation. Isn't it possible, that the same goes in the HRSA injury program?
I used to sell something like over 50% of all the HP LTO cleaning tape that got bought in the US through our FBA setup with amazon. The 3rd month in a row we grossed more than 80K in sales, guess who started stocking and selling LTO cleaning tape 'shipped from sold by Amazon'. Thankfully my HP oem pricing had them beat by a mile when it came to cost and we still did pretty well until the market fell out for the product.

Their entire business model at this point seems to charge other business for the right to figure out what a good business for them to get into it.
(Aw, I was hoping this would be about publishing a book with LaTeX...)
That's just a more wordy way to say "ignorance is bliss".

But I totally agree, and I do not think you're wrong..
That's because most literate Indians(thanks to media, text,.. bias) have zero confidence(in some cases hatred) in traditional Indian/Chinese methods of life. They will die hunting for modern scientific solutions these problems but never even once look back to their history for answers.
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Agreed. 20,000 homes isn't going to budge the needle even 1% when it comes to housing affordability in the state, let alone in the bay area.

Not sure why they feel like this is a good billion well spent...
They are necessarily connected. Supply and demand is connected. If rents are frozen, that lowers housing liquidity (because people won’t move if their rent stays “affordable,”) which reduces supply and necessarily creates a shortage. It lowers mobility as well since there is a shortage of available housing which leads to inefficiency— if someone moves to another job in another part of the city, that person would be less likely to be able to move. Then, there’s added stress on transit since people must commute less optimally.

On the issue of new housing, who would risk capital to build new housing when their returns would be subject to the whims of rent caps? What’s the incentive to improve existing housing when the revenue for doing so is limited? Basically, what’s the point of making non-legally required improvements if you can’t raise rent to cover those expenses. That’s going to result in a decline of housing quality over time.

Unless the government is also going to reduce taxes and expenses and inflation for property owners to help offset the lack of revenue growth? Property owner expenses are going down are they? That lack of revenue growth also means less future capital to build more housing.

Rent control benefits a specific group, but ends up costing the whole far more than it saves the few. It’s popular to “protect” the visible because they are visible and typically sympathetic figures. But there is a greater harm being effected that is less noticed because the face of that effect is the “greedy” property owner, but the invisible victim is the overall public.
Let's say all meatspace currencies in their basket go off the rails. What would Libra do?
Surface land is a bit of a misnomer here. While the crust is 4.4B years old in Australia, that doesn't mean all 4.4B years are sub-surface. The top surface there is new, but there are exposed areas going back billions of years. This is how all fossils are found; the oldest surface is the 1.8M Negev desert, but we constantly find 300M year old dinosaurs sticking out of the sides of river valleys and other eroded areas. My point is that we'd also find evidence of a billion-year-old advanced civilization the same way, and that in Australia in particular, you can go all the way back to the formation of the planet.
By that logic, there would be no way at all for the poor to get a house.
Interesting, I haven't had this issue really in a dense US city, even near enough to an airport to also hear every plane. Neighbors aren't bad, guess it just depends on the city.
Visa and Mastercard have invested so I wonder how they might weigh in on the project. Also, the Libra-coin should also have a transaction cost associated but I would expect/presume it stands an order of magnitude lower than 3-4%
That is what is curious. Something comically dysfunctional should be be absurd and outlandish but isn't. Saving 15 years for down payment so you can have some sort of cost control and housing stability in a modest apartment outside of a city is the reality, or even unattainable, for many people without assets today.