skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can certainly chime in on this. Yes it is Ember but I'd blame that on the way it is "abused".

At one point it had become so bad that we had purge the excess whitespace from the HTML at the traffic layer with middleware. It actually had megabytes of whitespace.

Not to mention the server side rendering mess.

However when it comes to the subject matter of this thread, I don't think this is as sketchy as the OP makes it sound to be. This is LinkedIn's anti-scraping team at work, and nothing nefarious is going on.
Can’t you just not use it at all? I’ve never had an account (indeed I got them to blacklist me) and I can’t say that I’ve suffered. Though I guess I’ve had the benefit of being white / male / etc etc.
Can powerful nation states that commit atrocities against populations of humans be over thrown peacefully? That is to say, without a war?

What will it take to have China removed from the UN? Or, is it better that they are represented so that these issues can be raised and resolved in a peaceful manner?
Looking at driving patterns 600km range is required for a very small subset of cars. Most people drive to work in the morning park their cars for 7-8 hours then drive home or where ever. Cities should be providing car chargers at places where people park their cars at work which is the same period of large solar production and commercially in some cities is selling at zero or negative. At home night charging should be actually discouraged in favor of day time at work charging.
Possible? No, not really, assuming they have "right intentions", the EU laws rarely turn out to be good for the population(link tax & copyright law for ex.). Even GDPR has some flaws that can be used to target the same people it claims to protect.

The main reason for this is simple,most of the bureaucrats making these laws have little to no "internet-sphere" literacy(or even technology as a whole to be quite honest).While they tackle the problems from a legal perspective,this same legal perspective is de facto putting handcuffs in the freedoms of the people, no matter the "intentions" the law-makers initially have.

And i agree, the best-case solution is to spread the idea of an internet bill of rights, specially in Europe.US is still one step ahead, their own constitution would be the thing this bill would be based on.Their smaller problem is that (few)corporations enjoy the benefits of both state incentives (see twitter,google,etc. through taxes) while also being a "publisher"(not being responsable for the content the users post).
There are a lot of people who don't need backseats, don't need a full-size pickup for towing or very heavy items, but need to be able to carry 4x8 sheet goods, large furniture, or sports equipment like bikes, kayaks, etc.

IMO there are very few people who actually need a pickup truck for towing or very large/bulky items, but they're still very popular since there aren't great alternatives in the US due to the chicken tax.
Kubernetes Operators. What are they anyway? Are they useful?
Steam is 32-but only, I wonder what will happen?
I saw a study recently, unfortunately I can't locate it now.

It discussed the possibility of there having been past civilizations on Earth, hundreds of millions or even billions of years ago. The conclusion was that this can't be entirely ruled out. It noted how few actual fossil remains we have for what we know of dinosaurs, and that there's a lot of space left in those gaps for all the evidence to have been destroyed.
I haven't had LinkedIn for almost 10 years now, and I haven't had Facebook for at least 6 months now.

Explaining why I don't have either is a burden I live with in my professional life, but the degree to which even other technical professionals don't sympathize with not having accounts on LinkedIn is pretty amazing.

I guess I'm relegated to a bit of sub-culture-ness. I'm self-employed, so I'm okay with that, but I guess others might find it challenging.
Usually we err on the other side, especially when it comes to perennials like this article.
How will this impact Wine users who rely on 32 bit libraries to run 32 bit windows programs?
Haha no, but I'm sure if we combined work stories we could easily get enough material for a few more 'Horrible Bosses' movies.
Austrian here, very true the cameras!
The corporate culture seems to be a disaster across the board. They’re building planes transporting millions and you’ve got quotes saying workers no longer care and don’t know who their manager even is. That’s terrifying
I don't think it's a monster at all. It's a great country. I do think the leadership isn't giving the full due set of human rights to the citizenry.

The people are more important then the current leadership.
> same number of bones

This seems wrong. What about breeds with significantly different tail lengths?
One of my faint hope in this project is in the fact that most of the development will happen in Google's real estate (if I understand correctly), which is proposed to be combinations of (relatively more) dense residential and commercial area with a more "urban" style planning.

Of course, the zoning law is clearly the root of all housing evil in the Bay area. But in order to fight against it, we need a clear demonstration which can rebut their FUD against a more dense zoning law. I guess Google is trying take that role here.
A raspberry pi will replace a P4 system, no problem. It's a waste of space and energy keeping a loud dusty P4 around.
I don't know why you were downvoted, I think it's a good question. My understanding is that this is a 4 degree difference in the average temperature. Meaning there might be times of the year that don't change much at all but other seasons get dramatically hotter. That affects rainfall distribution, the speed that snow melts (and wether snow ever falls in the first place), etc.

My guess is that "uninhabitable" in this context refers to specific critical periods that are deadly short of water or deadly hot which last long enough to make building/maintaining cities in those places a losing (i.e. prohibitively expensive) proposition
A lot of speed also comes from some decisions about the language architecture. Go packages can be compiled separately and the compilation result in binary form can be just used by code importing the packages - usually no recompilation of these packages is necessary.
Really it is about the trend. China couldn't just dump their treasuries (as explained in the article) as they would lose a lot of value that way. So dribbling them out and exchanging them for gold maximizes the value returned. At $20B/month that is a pretty steady pace of a quarter trillion a year.

EDIT: A quarter trillion not billion dollars, thanks.
> The truth stops being a tangible concept when it’s suffocated by a cloud of swirling lies.

American news media came to mind when I read this
C++ with QT.
Can we stop arguing on the terminology and whether other countries do bad stuff as well and just agree that this is something we should condemn.

It may be difficult or even impossible for the rest of the world to stop it, but it shouldn't be so hard to come to a consensus that this is wrong.

Edit: this just dropped off the front page from #4 to #34 in a few minutes while another article about China selling US dollars with far fewer upvotes and comments from around the same time is still at #2. Can we get an explanation for why this happened?

Edit: It's now almost off the 2nd page at #52 in under an hour.
Can't you (as a hypothetical landlord) simply ask the same rent for the new housing as you'd ask without this measure? Then it should be about as easy as it is now to find renters (as this measure does not affect supply), and just as attractive to become a landlord as it is now.

(Granted, demand for existing housing should increase if they are cheaper, but presumably supply will decrease as well as fewer people living there will move out - so I guess it shouldn't affect the pricing of new housing much?)
It's an interesting question.

How much less productive would these workers be if they were moved to Salt Lake City or Henderson, NV or Syracuse, NY?

If you lost 20% of the productivity but could pay 30% less that would be OK, wouldn't it?
So much of these reminds me of the Discount Speakers Bureau in Dilbert:

https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-05-12
Wouldn't be so sure that Uncle Sam isn't going to crack down even harder than the EU. Financial control is a big part of US power abroad and I can't imagine that the US government is going to tolerate a private entity taking that control away, and that's probably for the better. This entire Facebook currency thing sounds like something out of Shadowrun.
I can guarantee you that Bay Area politics would destroy the $1b if you gave it to them.
> The goal of rent stabilization is to make neighborhoods more stable. The concept is right there in the name, and that's exactly what it does.

No, it's not. Rent stabilization is, purportedly, about ensuring that poor or low-income residents specifically aren't pushed out of neighborhoods or New York City entirely due to gentrification and rising rents.

In terms of making housing affordable for those people, rent stabilization is incredibly ineffective.
$50? Bloody luxury!

Why, when I was young, well, about 20 years ago at least, the small team that included me was offered a bonus to get something done on time. We worked hard and hit the deadline. The very afternoon we delivered it, I was made redundant.

They gave me a week's severance pay. Unfortunately I had a contract both sides had signed that they'd forgotten about, which entitled me to a month's pay. I waved that in their face (very carefully, I literally did not put it past them to grab it off me and rip it up, they would do that). They paid up.

My share of the bonus? They told me I had no proof so I wasn't getting anything. I took them to the small claims court and got it all plus interest.

It took 18 months but I knew how much they hated losing money, and how they loved screwing people over just because they could.

The biter bit. I enjoyed myself.
It is actually an industrial metal.
If the validators (Facebook, Visa, Paypal, etc) agree (re government regulations), your account can be frozen no matter whose wallet you're using.
Source? Btw, landlords will be able to apply for excemptions, if it is necessary.
Simply because you are not the target demographic.
So, I've just realized that Chase online banking, while mandating SMS 2FA, also lets you choose "send code via E-mail".

I'll… just leave this here without any further comment.
Building Debian Images for LePotato and OrangePi with Debos
Unless you're a snowden, DPR or khashoggi you're probably not worth the headache, effort and time that this process would require just to get your encryption keys.
Upper middle class are usually not homeless, right now they occupy some pool of apartments in cities anyway. By building more luxury apartments you encourage them to move, thus leaving their old apartment behind, either by putting it on sale, or renting it out.

Think of this like a domino effect: those earning $10M per year buy luxury residence, leaving their old house for those earning $1M, who in turn leave their own houses to those earning $500K, who leave their apartments for those earning $200k, and so on, and so on.

In the end everybody benefits from new housing being built, even if it's only luxury housing.

Also, increasing supply keeps prices down, thus decreasing profitability of buying houses as investment, causing larger share of apartments to be bought by people who actually plan to live in them.

EDIT: yes, this effect might not work as described if is limited to just one city, because there might be a lot of people wanting to move from elswhere. Or more precisely: it will work, eventually, but it would require much more housing to be built to meet the demand.
I think you should consider how well it has worked with the target audience (i.e. not the West).
>a million line

Yep. That’s Go for you.
> Can powerful nation states that commit atrocities against populations of humans be over thrown peacefully? That is to say, without a war?

The USSR serves as a pretty good example.
It just occurred to me. We're in a very similar situation as Americans were 90-100 years ago when hearing about the extreme atrocities of the Nazis. Many didn't believe it, many believed it but didn't know what we could do about it. I wonder what we can do about these abominable practices we keep hearing about in China. I mean, what can we, individuals, do to help put an end to the constant stream of injustices there?

The obvious solution is to boycott Chinese merchandise and vote with our wallets. But will we be able to overcome the inconveniences it would cause us? Could enough of us actually go through with it collectively to make a dent?
Sure. Most of that desire is "I want a high paying job". With that goal, they sacrifice things like affordable housing, good schools, crime, congestion, etc.

Don't forget housing is stupid expense in NJ as well. I wouldn't call NJ "desirable".
None of those are private info. And if they are, why does your contact know it?
That's underestimating the impact the Max 8 problems have had on peoples' willingness to board these planes. The two flight attendant unions that have to travel on Max 8s demanded the planes be grounded and one threatened to refuse to board the planes if they weren't grounded.[1]

It's hard to measure the impact of sentiment alone since they grounded the places pretty quickly and numbers are reported quarterly, but its very likely we would have seen travelers choosing airlines that don't fly the Max 8.

[1] https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/flight-attendants-union...
7.4 Tons of Venezuela’s Gold Landed in Africa and Vanished
Will it work after the Istanbul hard fork?
And no federal insurance program.
If that’s true, as it is true for planets in the TRAPPIST system, then at least there is a potential for life to develop around the thin longitudinal slices located more centrally, where climate may be more temperate.

Also see this comment below, something I wasn’t aware of: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=20212953&goto=item%3Fi...

I’m curious- at the end of the article, one of the scientists remarks that the stars might be “zipping around” their host star faster than measurements predict, which could rule out potential for life. Is this referring to your suspicion re: proximity => tidal locking => extreme temperatures? Or is there some way that speed of orbit can affect potential for life?
Those islands are wasteful, expensive, frivolous, and ecologically disastrous. They are not something to take pride in or repeat.
There is no silver bullet for any kind of problem in software engineering. And, distributed systems is no exception. Also, when designing a large system e.g. a distributed system, the fact of selecting a language for its functional, procedural or object oriented capabilities is not much important afaik.

Hence, I think the first sentence of your question has no effect on the question. For the question of >why isn't it functional? I think current state of Go is performing enough for Google's problems.
I agree... on the actual technical points. Particularly the bits about design patterns and thinking about the users first.
I'm on team comments too. The article puts it well:

> When you start the code by writing the documentation, you're actually making a contract (probably with your future self): I'm saying this function does this and this is what it does.

> If later you find out that the code doesn't match the documentation, you have a code problem, not a documentation problem.

"Self-documenting code" is, in my opinion, a silly canard. Maybe it's appropriate for some brain dead glue logic or frontend boilerplate, but any time you really need to think about what the code is doing, a comment will be immensely helpful. I don't at all buy the argument that comments too easily get stale. They won't get stale if you maintain them.
Aren't we going towards a technological omni-surveillance state? Aren't we going towards ubiquitous screens that monitor us while we get all of our information from them? Haven't we already had "2 minutes hate" with people screaming at the sky? Don't we already have a class of elite technocrats who create media for a proletariat they look down upon, kaleidoscopically recombining and rehashing old stories? Don't we already have Julias and the civic league she belongs to?

Why does the world of 2019 keep using 1984 as a playbook?
Yeah. Having read all three, they were interesting but not anything I'd re-read.

The opening of TBP had me hoping -- being a big Neal Stephenson fan -- that the whole book would involve a lot more of the historical context of the early PRC, and then it all went somewhere completely different. I strongly feel that the first bit of the book set in the past is the best part of the entire trilogy.

The idea of Chinese sci-fi in general becoming a thing is very cool though, I think.
The intention is for China to reliably store capital, but digital currencies have not only been extremely volatile but also have hackable private keys.
Superblocks in this iteration are different, because while the interior streets have car restrictions they follow the pattern of the existing street grids. This means that pedestrians and cyclists can continue using the interior paths to pass through the neighborhood as they did before, and their commutes are no longer via the superblock.

Corbusier-inspired superblocks have meandering, parklike paths, both to play up the similarity to a park and discourage through pedestrian or cyclist traffic. This was supposed to increase safety by limiting the amount of unknown strangers passing through, but in many cases decreased it as the available "eyes on the street" dropped dramatically and in some cases totally disappeared. Stuyvesant Town has been spared mostly because of its location and upmarket residents, but the public housing projects have fared less well.
>This will enable us to support the development of at least 15,000 new homes at all income levels in the Bay Area, including housing options for middle and low-income families. (By way of comparison, 3,000 total homes were built in the South Bay in 2018)

This nails the root cause of the housing "crisis" in the bay area.
Because we have always been at war with Eastasia.
(1) It's only cautionary if you associate with Winston. If you wan't to be O'Brien, it's very tempting: a stable and not completely decrepit society where everyone is subdued except your clique.

(2) I'd not say "China insists", but rather "current CPC leadership insists". The very presence of a massive apparatus for suppression means that opinions within China still differ a lot.
> Just ask my man Thomas Jefferson what he thinks about central banks.

Appeal to authority.
Not unspeakably so - the more we speak about it, the more people aware that China is harvesting the organs of religious groups.
The technologies may have a shorter iteration time, but can the defense establishment adapt? I am skeptical but hope you are correct.
The concept of the dark forest is pretty interesting for sure.

Do we really want to be announcing to the galaxy our presence where malevolent alien species may be present. If they have developed technologically even just a couple hundred or couple thousand years ahead of us we'd be easy pickings.
I'd imagine that they hope the five years is enough time to sufficiently increase the supply such that prices can't rise that much.
Rent control doesn't apply to new construction in California.
No, I'll just Uber everywhere :)
> I know all the dirty dirty hacks that are put into our systems

I would really hope that airplanes are a place where "dirty hacks" are unacceptable.

This doesn't mean they are 100% flawless, but any known potential problem areas should be well-documented and accounted for.
People buying apartments to rent out via Airbnb is not inherently a bad thing - it just indicates there is existing unsatisfied demand for short term rentals, which cannot be fulfilled by hotel industry. And guess what - hotel industry is another example of an industry heavily regulated by government (zoning laws, construction permits etc.). So the Airbnb problem most likely has the same underlying root cause.
All sorts of electronics have gold in them. Minute traces, to be sure ... but it is a use ...
Not only that, but the article itself is a retelling of a story that would have happened two years ago [0], and the GitHub repo he links at the end is a clone of the repo in [0] (which the author himself is the sole contributor to).

The whole thing is weirdly deceptive.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853607
Its scarcity is the primary reason it holds value, from what I understand.

But: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Other_applications

Electronics mostly, it seems.
It's a problem of delegation. Some executive "reads" some whitepaper (I.E. gets told about offhandedly by their buddy at the golf course), and thinks that it sounds like a great way to prove their "doing something" about moral or diversity or whatever. They then turn around and tell someone under them to "make it so", who does a tiny bit of research and then passes that off to someone under them. Eventually this arrives at someone with a clue who actually does some research and figures out this is an idiotic idea, but at that point you'd basically be telling your bosses bosses boss that he's a moron, so instead you just play along, get it done, and hope everyone forgets about it in a couple months.
Nobody cares. The international community generally shrugs when something is done orderly and internally.

China has too much money and business opportunities to be thrown away.
I think this is the likely explanation, assuming the Chinese propagandists are competent. They need to put disinformation out there to cause people to doubt.

The other explanation is that it's a ham-handed attempt by propagandists that are operating outside their element (i.e. they are used to operating in an environment where they literally dictate the narrative to the media (whose surname is "party" and all that)).
There's a difference between not wanting a racist or homophobe to use your service or be your friend, and forcibly re-educating them.

You have a right to be a moron. Everyone else has a right to dislike you.
"Exfiltrates files from your system" is a very alarmist way to say "checks the list of installed browser extensions". Not that it isn't creepy, but let's calibrate, shall we?
> Well, it would surprise me :-) According to levels.fyi, a new grad at Google is clearing $180k/year all-in. Even at an outrageous $5k rent

Is that really enough to afford to live? Is that housing cost accurate?

A programmer at Google making $180k/yr salary brings in about $9,315.58 in after-tax income (according to PaycheckCalculator). The average house within 10 miles of Google's HQ currently costs about $1.5 million dollars according to Zillow's current month averages. (That's $9,745/month in after-tax costs per month, assuming 0% down on 30yr mortgage).

Like, maybe if you are single and live off of ramen and you pick the shittiest housing you can find, those numbers can work. But I personally couldn't afford to live in California on that salary (despite it being, under normal circumstances, an amazingly high salary).
Having learned what happened to Soviets/Russians, one would imagine they'd prefer avoiding a repeat of the consequences...
Is your start up killing you?