skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be a shame to have to pass on any job that required relocation for 10 years.
Electric car charging interoperability is the next big thing in mobility
Probably not worse than the one that already exists. There are a lot of people illegally subletting their apartments for 2-3x their original rent.
Ok, we'll switch to the subtitle above.
Of course residents love rent stabilization. They like it for the same reason the rich enjoy greater returns on wealth. Rent control makes housing disproportionately cheap for those currently living in the city and disproportionately expensive or unavailable for those seeking to move in or youth seeking to move to their own place. In effect, it's a tax on the young and the migrant to subsidize the older, richer, and more entrenched.
Isn't providing insufficient restroom facilities an OSHA violation?
How Fast can A Single Instance of Redis be?
What is the structural flaw?
Gay marriage required closely split court action (and it'd likely go the other way in the current SCOTUS). It's unclear if Federal law protects gay people from employment discrimination, being gay isn't a protected class, and you can be fired for it in a wide variety of states.

The idea that gay people and their allies hold all the power in American society simply doesn't fit the facts at all.
In most of the analyses I've read, the petrodollar has been of huge benefit to the US - effectively propping it up in the face of massive QE efforts and (in theory) allowing much more to be printed to service debts than would otherwise be sustainable.

I mean, there must be some reason that trading or threatening to trade oil in Euros is practically asking for some kind of forced regime change.
Good point. I'd like to find an article on phones with the least amount of, or no, Chinese parts. Anybody have anything like this on hand? Otherwise, I'll start researching and put an article together.

Similarly, I'd like to do the same for Laptops. Toshiba, Fujitsu, Samsung, Panasonic, Sharp may not come with "made in China" labels, but components will be Chinese.

I've been googling a bit and surprisingly am not coming up with pure non-Chinese machines. Given that some people believe China puts spyware on devices at the hardware level this surprises me - surely there's hyper-paranoid out there, or people selling to the hyper-paranoid market?
>How many of those offers have actually resulted in you taking a position though?

2 out of my last 4. There's a huge amount of spam.
Mostly from big Indian firms looking for cheap labor to staff out a contract. But if you filter that out most of the other messages are legit that have a realistic potential of a job offer.
Thanks for posting this. I've held out as well, but I question myself each time I get a slack-jawed stare (or the text equivalent) for saying it.
Not just your services, you also have to take out a 7 figure loan to invest in the project.
Not to mention, even after you somehow take into affect all of the various variables at play here, they can easily claim you miscalculated and just wave off the concerns "Oh Amazon is a Green Initiative Company™.... blah blah blah"
An interesting article on why the mid-rise apartment style is so popular now: "Why America's New Apartment Buildings All Look the Same": https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-13/why-ameri...

The quick summary is that the 2000 Building Code allowed inexpensive construction of 5-floor wood buildings over a concrete base. This "5 over 1" construction gives "near-high-rise densities at a wood-frame price", so it has become very popular in the US.
Yeah but they don't matter. All the trying was worth it, because I can fly halfway around the Earth for a few hundred bucks now. If in a different world I got gold out of lead but no airplanes, it would be fun too, but in a different way.

If the no-sayers really won and nobody tried, we would have neither.
I also believe another option, where we can throw massive amounts of money at the problem, is to completely fix our transportation system.

If you have been to any major city in Asia, they have WAYYY more people and are able to commute from much further distances because the public transportation is clean, safe, fast, reliable.

We have tons of land under utilized in the bay area, especially in the east bay, if we were to allow those people to reach their offices under 1 hour, then I think a lot of issues are going to be solved.

I also believe we should build more taller buildings, but that's happening already. I grew up in Cupertino and everywhere you go there are apartment buildings going up right now. Likewise with Mountain View where my parents work.
Cyclomatic complexity is a measure of complexity not an estimation technique (although some people do use it as part of estimation).

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity)

Calculating this involves working out the number of branches through the code, nothing to do with estimation. It is also very much in use today to analyse codebases, finding hotspots, etc.
> This is LinkedIn's anti-scraping team at work, and nothing nefarious is going on.

Are you a primary source or do you have a source to cite?
There is a balance. A theater probably shouldn't discriminate based on the shoes you wear, but may not offer a rewards app for FirefoxOS. Or a restaurant may not accept customers without shirts.

Of course where to draw the lines is important and up for debate
Are Initial Offerings Overpriced?
Ah, I see that now with the while loop restrictions. Thank you.
Additionally, China's gold acquisitions may be as a hedge against inflation risks as they (a) devalue the RMB; (b) reportedly see 70% increases in pork prices due to swine flu, and (c) need to purchase gold to keep their ~3 year old RMB/Gold/Petro market intact.
As I understand it, homelessness has more complex causes than simply not having access to affordable housing.
> It's so much more complex than "young naive devs want to throw out the manual". Extremely valid criticisms towards central banking have existed since before central banks even existed.

Isn't a lot of Bitcoin/cryptocurrency ideology basically "Wasn't the gold standard great? Lets go back to something like that."? The gold standard may be have some positive attributes, but it also had problems that lead to its abandonment, and any new system should at least try to intelligently respond to those problems that central banking solves than to deny their existence or impact.
It's not necessarily that straight-forward - and people shouldn't blindly trust Facebook and the other unelected global brands with 'voting rights' to make decisions related to the function of such a monetary system.
When speaking of finances, a trying things out mentality and failure can lead to a lot of value being wiped over night.

When the bubble bursts, if enough value disappears, we are then faced with an economic recession.

Not saying that we shouldn't try things out, but many people right now are conned to invest in Bitcoin alternatives that are the new ponzi schemes.
Talking about Firefox, I've recently heard some people getting annoyed that Firefox now depends upon Rust and Rust doesn't build on their obscure legacy platform.

I'm in turn getting annoyed at the complete lack of cost/benefit analysis that this entails.

Every software project has to deal with limited resources and the attitude that the vast majority of people running on more mainstream platforms should forsake improvements (in security or usability by Rust for example) in order to support Solaris, Illumos, HP-UX or any of those niche platforms, well that just pisses me off.

I still have a 32bit Debian installation (originally installed around 2003 and been Ship of Theseus-d over the years so it actually has 64bit hardware now) that I didn't have the time or motivation to upgrade, but if 32bit support would go away tomorrow I'd understand. What's the percentage of 32bit vs 64bit users? 0.3%?
It does show an icon representation of the intersection and which lane to be in. I just prefer zooming in, sometimes Boston intersections are quite complex.
This is true and explains some of it, but it doesn't change the fact that currently wanting to live in a desirable area and wanting to live in an area because of a job are conflated with no options that could effectively separate or distinguish between the two sources of demand. It's not like everybody would get up and leave the Bay Area, but it would allow those who only want the job to leave the market for housing in the Bay Area and lowering demand overall. At worst, the drop in demand would be supplanted with people who wouldn't move to the Bay Area at the current price (and thus the price wouldn't see much of a drop), but at least you wouldn't be crowded out by people who would leave the Bay Area given the choice.
I was under the impression that Smalltalk contributed more to what we think of as “the modern desktop” than LISP. If anyone has the real story, I’d love to hear it.
ArchLinux32 - https://archlinux32.org/
Except this particular area isn't the "rust belt".
Let's talk about the current topic. I agree that if people are suffering, then it's probably wrong (I say "probably" because some people need to endure "suffering" to improve the overall happiness of other people. Think about Psychiatric hospital). But our knowledge of the suffering is from media, and media can present biased view for whatever reason. And we decide to believe in that media because we share some value with it. So seeing this news from BBC and immediately draws conclusion seems quite rash to me. The story between Uyghurs and Han Chinese is a complicated one. It dates back thousands of years. And there's human thinking fallacy involved here (I mentioned it in another reply).
How are the exact payout rules for the investment tokens?
The sad part is they probably could have assimilated the Uighers faster if the Han were less racist against them. There were pictures of job agencies that had signs up that said no Uighers.
Great link. I strongly agree that calling it a "software problem" undercuts the major engineering defects the aircraft has.

The 737 Max doesn't even have enough physical sensors to supply the software with enough data to conduct true voting logic (something typically found on "safety critical" systems). The spec also didn't even have the software use both sensors it did have to detect defective inputs.

The aircraft design was faulty before even one line of code was written. This wasn't a software bug. It wasn't a software design defect. The actual specifications and the physical design of the aircraft itself were flawed, and software was poorly used to plug the gaps.
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I think I read that it is limited to 720p for Firefox on Linux (probably for DRM reasons). For the most part, it looks as good to me as typical 720p or 1080i ATSC over-air broadcasts. And, I'd say both look better than the typical digital cable or satellite TV I've seen elsewhere.

I have a 1080p TV, but the only time I've really cared is certain 1080i PBS shows, with natural landscape scenes deinterlaced via MythTV. Otherwise, 720p seems fine. It feels to me that every provider is optimizing their compression levels for an audience who is less picky than me. Usually, I am bothered more by inconsistent compression than absolute resolution.
I don't disagree with that idea, after all the market for gamers is so large. But I do know that the ~30 or so people I regularly played with in PUBG left PUBG because of the poor code and cheating to go to other games (most of us went non-BR I think). And even now that we're told that it's better we have no desire to go back. The wounds go too deep. XD
He says both of those things, with the "No, not in a million years" qualified by "Would I send my family on a flight right now?", while they are doing testing flights. Is putting family on testing flights for a plane you don't work on routine behavior?

The reporting from myNorthwest is pretty shoddy, it's mostly a right-wing digital tabloid run by a talk radio station. Equivalent to the NY Post.
> 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).

Could you clarify this? It seems like the opposite to me. Borrowing requires lifetimes in type signatures, but boxing yields owned objects, which can be passed around easily like value types.
Have you never heard of a carbon tax?
Astronauts left poop on the moon. We should go get it
Rather than straight cash, using it as a more-secure credit card would be enough to sign me up. It would prevent card skimmers, people copying numbers, etc. They could generate one-time card numbers for online purchases at existing merchants. Despite lots of mitigations, VISA/MC still have huge fraud problems. This would give them a new tool to lock things down.
This is basically it for me. I don't care about how much it costs as long as I can get it. It could worth $1, I'd be fine with that. Personally, I have no interest in the financial aspect of real estate.

I want a home that I can modify to my desires and use as I please. I want a woodshop at my home or to do some small machining in my garage - can easily do it if I own the home. As it stands, my landlord gets on my case about even the smallest of changes or for even using my god damn backyard patio. (He says my furniture ruins the "cutesy aesthetic" of the exterior; the oh so visible area that no one but us can see)

It's pretty annoying and home ownership doesn't remove all the burdens/restrictions but it is better than the overbearing landlords that seem overly abundant in the bay area.
> It's landlords that subsidize rent controlled tenants.

Are there any studies showing the extent to which that is true? I would be curious to see what fraction of the rent control is paid for by landlords vs new tenants. My intuition would be that rent control reduces the supply of market-value housing, which would lead to prices increasing even more (even before you take into account a landlord wanting to compensate for the money they're not making from rent controlled apartments).
And given that the dollar has been very relatively high for the last five years, now is an ideal time for China to begin selling. I'd like to see them get on with it. The Fed should immediately start a repurchase program and take the entire position off of China's hands permanently. China of course won't do any such thing, even if the trade war gets worse. The only value in it is the bluff, because it would barely scratch the dollar if they began more aggressively selling. It'd be a great excuse for the Fed to run some more QE and lower the cost of some US debt.
https://www.lamag.com/askchris/percentage-movies-filmed-in-l...

Last year a scant 7 percent of the 100 top-grossing live-action movies were shot here,
Many of us actually volunteer our services for social good all the time (not construction in my case, but people do that too). This should be celebrated and even expected from people, not met with incredulity and snark.

And please do not twist the words of OP. The whole point of a democratic government / social contract (at least on paper) is to have a communal entity deal with this stuff when there are not enough volunteers.
Unfortunately, I believe that more value can be extracted from grinding the lessons into future management types, government representatives, and regulators.

All the engineers in the world can't stop a bunch of executives capable of creating an environment so full of confusion, second guessing, and clouded communication capable of allowing these types of tragedies to occur.

The mechanics of the problem laid bare were simple. The problem ended up being the levels of obfuscation and lack of coordination/miscommunication surrounding the certification process that allowed the aircraft to be certified and flown with a clearly uncategorized avionics system, and insufficient communications to pilot's that in the end could have negated the technical need for a more robust system, if they'd only known to look out for it..
"Posts like this make me wonder who doesn't think they're safe so I did some light digging for anyone who's curious."

The MMR vaccine (a 3-in-1 vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella) has been dogged by claims that it is unsafe and causes autism. These claims have been proven false, but the damage persists.

I recommend anyone interested in this subject read this article:

'No link between MMR and autism,' major study finds

https://www.nhs.uk/news/medication/no-link-between-mmr-and-a...
Yes this is an inherent flaw in laws. They benefit those who get away with breaking them.
Making meaningful contact with someone on the other end who is TRYING.

Most contacts I have with recruiters of all types involve indications they haven't read my resume (or anything about me) and effectively are a sort of "cold call" situation where they know nothing about me compared to the job.

I feel like there is a whole recruiting business of creating busywork for themselves.

I'm inundated with folks contacting me on various services (most are turned off as I'm working), and most every contact was a waste of time for me the last time I was in contact with anyone.

For a given job the real technical decision maker probabbly could give me a thumbs up or down in a matter of seconds as far as the first filter goes, but instead you dance around with various other people first for what could be hours for no good reason.
>It is made up mostly of places in the Midwest and Great Lakes, though definitions vary. Rust refers to the deindustrialization, or economic decline, population loss, and urban decay due to the shrinking of its once-powerful industrial sector.

None of these things are true of the area. I've lived here for 25 years.
You've also pointed out that FAANG is outdated, so I'm switching to FAAAM
One place handed out awards to half a dozen of us but the ceremony and the gift were not given at the same time.

We had to harangue them for 6 weeks before they gave us the damned thing and by that point the fact that we had to work for it a second time completely undermined the thoughtfulness of the original idea.

And earlier boss would come to us at 10 am on Friday and said we could leave early if we finished up early. The third time he did this we all shot daggers at him and there was no fourth time. Because every time he did this we ended up staying late on Friday instead of leaving early. This is the same guy who argued my estimates for a project down by 50% and then the project took 3x as long as he told the customer (if you don't have time to do it right you have time to do it over). But that's a different story.

It's important not to offer an award that you are not 100% sure you can follow through on. It's way worse than nothing. It's Lucy and the fucking football.
However, a transmitter with enough power to signal earth would be too massive to get fast with a solar sail, given today's technology. Maybe a chipsat gets to 20% c, but no way a dish does.
The apartment was subsidized, but not free. Unless you were a part of Nomenklatura (the ruling class government officials), you could probably hope for a 40 sq.m (430 feet) apartment somewhere in Khruschyovka (a poorly built 5 floors block housing) at the outskirts of your city. After 15 years of hard work.

Perhaps it is better than nothing, however, living in Soviet Union's surrealistic "economy" was not worth that.
I'm glad I don't use LinkedIn.

But one day I may have to.

Can the URL be blocked in uBlock Origin so that the uploading of the collected data will not take place?
We actually have a system in place to do exactly this.

The EPA + Taxes (of various kinds) are how companies/individuals pay for environmental damage, and it's also how companies/individuals pay to protect the environment.

Cleanups use tax money, research into potential regulations to minimize impact uses tax money, etc.

So it's not some kind of outlandish idea, but at the moment the EPA is REALLY buddy/buddy with large companies so they're currently effectively neutered.
Usually the only problem is 32-bit EFI which isn't a big deal to work around (you just copy an extra file to the usb drive you copy the installer to) and the computer will otherwise work fine with a 64-bit OS.
If you want code brevity, at all, PHP is not your language (nor is Go, nor is Java)
Here's a permanent public archive of this article in case it goes down for some reason.

https://perma.cc/23ZX-JZZB

(FYI: Perma.cc, an anti-link-rot service run by Harvard Law School, is free for up to 10 links per month. The project is run by my department, but I'm not on the Perma team.)
> To handle a longer fuselage and more passengers, Boeing added larger, more powerful engines, but that required it to reposition them to maintain ground clearance. As a result, the 737 can pitch up under certain circumstances. Software, known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, was added to counteract that tendency.

https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-fi-boeing-max-de...
Yeah, if I remember correctly, a company called Paddy's Pub tried it a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyxxE1AcUSM
The same argument is happening in Seattle now, too. It seems absurd.
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OK: there are two fundamental problems that have to be solved in any monetary system: how to keep the records, and how to control the money supply. With regards to the latter, there are only two options:

1. Let the money supply be controlled by the laws of physics, e.g. use a scarce material as money.

2. Let the money supply be controlled by some policy.

The second option subdivides into two further sub-options:

2a. Let the free market produce money competitively like any other product.

2b. Let the government (or a private entity acting on behalf of the government) do it as an artificial monopoly.

That last option is a central bank.

Those are all the possibilities. All of them have been tried at one time or another in human history. Flawed as it may be, the one that has produced objectively the best results in terms of economic stability and prosperity has been 2b. And there isn't really much more that can be said about it.

Oh, almost forgot:

> > Arglebargle?

> Because I know what that word means.

Arglebargle is the name of an obscure author who wrote on all manner of topics, but whose work has been largely forgotten.
This is a common argument that sounds reasonable but is actually based on faulty logic.

Airbus pilots can't safely fly their jets at cruising speed without software (envelope protection, etc) assisting them. Air France 447 crashed, killing 228 people, when that software became disabled due to bad values from frozen sensors. The pilot flying thought the software would save him from stalling but that protection was disabled, so he crashed into the ocean.

So does that mean it's a bad idea to make flight software safety critical? Probably not.

It probably just means that safety critical software must be extremely good. MCAS v1 was not good software but if MCAS v2 is good software then it could might function safely for decades. And, if MCAS v1 had been good, it would have been lauded as a great solution.

Engineering is about trade offs and maybe Boeing made the wrong trade off here. Ideally, you would have as little safety critical software as possible. But the fundamental concept of software correcting for flight characteristics seems entirely sound.
I'd like to see a compromise on this. If there's a passenger, they should be able to use a touchscreen. For someone not used to the car, a scroll wheel is going to feel very weird. And obviously safety isn't much of an issue if the passenger is controlling it.

Cars already know whether a passenger is present of course.
Interesting... I wonder whether he holds the same views about his own privacy?
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