skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this time it's stored digitally on their servers, so they can just steal it whenever you violate some vague ToS clause.
But there are different houses. Typically the most expensive are those located in the center of a big city with good transportation access. Do such apartments need price regulation? Poor people could live somewhere further from center where the prices are more affordable. Otherwise you make those nicely located apartments unavailable for other people who are ready to pay more.
CLI that generates beautiful README.md files
"9. The user can access to its desired resource."

This one is fun. In step 1, the "service provider" auth/auth system freezes the original request and satisfies it in 9. I wrote a Java Servlet filter that performed this dance (https://maniagnosis.crsr.net/p/web-authentication.html) many years ago, which may be one of my few pieces of software still in use (although the guy who took it over may have rewritten it; he doesn't like other people's software).
Yes, I believe that was it. Thanks!
My hope is that it's not a proper economic response, but short-term political firefighting.

That is, "something has to be done" while the capacity is being built, and it cannot be built fast enough.

Surely price control will result in various shortages, lines, increased corruption, etc. OTOH this may be, at least in the politicians' reasoning, not as bad as rapidly pricing out their constituencies out of the houses where they live. And if not directly their constituencies, this applies to all low-wage workers needed by the city economy; raising their wages abruptly would raise other prices abruptly, which may be politically undesirable.

So, as a temporary throttling measure this may be not so nonsensical, with emphasis on "temporary".
Person A: Do you want to get tacos for lunch?

Person B: Sure

- goes to taco stand -

Person A: 3 tacos please

Person B: I'll take the enchiladas

Person A: Oh my god, we were supposed to be getting tacos for lunch. How could you do this to me?
I notice you keep saying it's against their terms of service, without actually quoting where in the terms of service they say they won't do it. You keep picking and choosing partial quotes to try to prove a point that you can't make. Not sure if you're intentionally or unintentionally being ignorant, but you're wrong. If you don't like them selling your data, don't use the site. You agreed to it when you signed up.

I can just keep quoting it or you can just admit you're wrong:

>We will get your consent if we want to give others the right to publish your content beyond the Services. However, if you choose to share your post as "public", we will enable a feature that allows other Members to embed that public post onto third-party services, and we enable search engines to make that public content findable though their services.

>You and LinkedIn agree that we may access, store, process and use any information and personal data that you provide in accordance with the terms of the Privacy Policy and your choices (including settings).

Literally says right there that they're only getting your permission if they share your content outside of "Services" - meaning outside of the Linkedin Platform. Those recruiters are using the service.

>Services

>This Contract applies to LinkedIn.com, LinkedIn-branded apps, Slideshare, LinkedIn Learning and other LinkedIn-related sites, apps, communications and other services that state that they are offered under this Contract (“Services”), including the offsite collection of data for those Services, such as our ads and the “Apply with LinkedIn” and “Share with LinkedIn” plugins. Registered users of our Services are “Members” and unregistered users are “Visitors”. This Contract applies to both Members and Visitors.
Interacting w/ a car touchscreen when you're on the highway isn't the brightest of ideas... Every car - even those w/ touchscreen - has physical buttons for top level commands (e.g. play the radio) that one could use via muscle memory or, at worst, a quick glance. Doing anything more involved that requires attention _while the car is in motion_ is just asking for trouble.
It’s for practicing being a plastic, corporate drone.

“Congratulations on hiding your misery for 10 years!!!”
Ready Player One is the shipping containers.
You need much more density around the train stations than currently exists for it to be sustainable to operate those trains on a frequent schedule. So yes, you're correct that better transportation is needed, but greater density is needed to make that transportation system possible.
So you'll force tax payers to pay for it? Government doesn't have free money. Why should people be forced to pay for the construction of such housing?
Well, please define what is "wrong".
Do you have any idea how astronomically inefficient jet aircraft are? How ridiculously large amounts of energy they burn?
I like to entertain a mad fringe theory that the K-Pg asteroid was a war weapon.

You might think no species would be insane enough to consider bombing its own planet to the point of extinction-level oblivion, but - that doesn't appear to be true.
Sure, but the majority of it comes down to "money": https://i.imgur.com/aUvpH0S.png

The fact that we can't solve homelessness "just" by giving everyone easy access to affordable housing isn't an argument against affordable housing. It's an argument for better mental health services and a wider safety net.
There’s actually quite a bit of data that’s viewable to anyone, logged in or not, that’s public. All we did was speed up what was happening anyway. Sales people all across the world copy and paste data from LinkedIn to sales force every day. They either do it manually, using the app I worked on, or one of the literally hundreds of competitors.
Prisons are a bit different from concentration camps. One has people accused of doing the deed, the other has people who are friends, family or somewhat remotely connected with those doing the deed. As a mainly British invention (rounding up the Boers during wars in colonial South Africa), the past time America bothered with something like that was the Japanese internment camps during WW2.
Yes, this fits closer to reality. Most people want to spend as little as possible on rent for a situation that matches their needs. Just because fancier apartments become available at higher prices doesn't mean people will move into them from a cheaper place just because they can technically afford it. Plenty of people rent apartments below their "I can afford this" level in order to use that money elsewhere or save up for a future house.

Building luxury housing doesn't push prices lower on the bottom half of the housing spectrum, it just makes the top end higher. "Trickle down" housing takes way too long to be realized, while subsidized housing has a much stronger and immediate impact[0]

[0]https://www.urbandisplacement.org/sites/default/files/images...
> In A/B tests, we tried delaying the page in increments of 100 milliseconds and found that even very small delays would result in substantial and costly drops in revenue. - Greg Linden, Amazon.com

Just curious, do vendors on Amazon get reimbursed for the drops in revenue during tests like this?
It is not a dichotomy.

Ideally you’ll have lots of unit tests and a few integration tests, all valid.

I’m scarred by seeing test suite runtimes (THE most important element of programmer productivity IMHO) completely balloon after focusing too much on integration tests. There is a world of productivity difference between a 1 minute test suite and a 40 minute (or 4 day) test suite
Recall that America allowed Germany to start invading Europe, and may not have gotten involved outside of some supply chain assistance but for the fact that Japan literally attacked American soil first.
This is just literally privatizing the cost of reproducing the city onto its lowest paid workers, i.e., entirely regressive. Why should those guaranteeing the very basic functioning of a place (janitors, firefighters, nurses, etc) bear not only the burden of lower wages, but now also terrible commutes? There’s no sane logic behind this kind of sentiment besides “might makes right,” which is fueling the rise of “eat the rich” populism.
There are millions of dollars of software sales that say otherwise.
> Are there any studies showing the extent to which that is true?

There are actually plenty of studies that show that it's not true. Some of them are linked elsewhere in this thread. Your intuition is, in fact, correct and supported by a vast body of empirical research.

This is one of the least-controversial topics among economists. It's very difficult to find a topic on which there's more academic consensus than rent control and its effects. But people dig their heels in and refuse to acknowledge it, even when there's copious research behind it.

As Paul Krugman put it, "So now you know why [people say] economists are useless: when they actually do understand something, people don't want to hear about it."
XML encryption is weird. Some IdPs can handle the official "Encryption inside an XML doccy" thing, but others only like XML, encrypted.
They are going to get the regulators in their pocket and play ball with them. They will filter all transactions requested and provide a convenient place for governments to go for information or control.

Its a way for companies to capitalize on the cryptocurrency hype, without, ultimately, acting like a real cryptocurrency. Its going to be a giant bank that has government law enforcement and intelligence agencies as its clients and patrons.

This is sponsored by Visa and others. They are co-opting "cryptocurrency" for their own purposes. The goal is for this to become mainstream before real cryptocurrencies and take over before they can really get going for mainstream payments.

I filed a bug report. https://github.com/libra/libra/issues/41
They even tried reproducing it in simulators and added 1000 feet (relative to the Ethiopian aircraft) in order for the aircrew to use the recovery procedure (nose down pitch) to be able to move the horizontal stabilizers with just the handle.

At low altitude, even with full knowledge, MCAS can make the aircraft unrecoverable. Aircraft should not fly without it being corrected. The Ethiopian crew maybe have had knowledge of MCAS.
Ripple has an extremely flawed design, do your research before investing.
>China has a trade surplus with the US, but is net losing dollars because it has to use dollars to buy oil and other imported goods as very little international trade is transacted in yuan

China is a net exporter to the tune of half a trillion per year. I don't see how they could be running out of dollars. Your first link is behind a paywall so I'm not sure what stats they use to back that up.
Yeah, but those who are sanctioned by governments have much more incentive to use Bitcoin, so the fact that most don't use it is not important, what is important is its existence as an option.
Since there's already some effort to confiscate property that's been empty for too long, I doubt too many landladies in Berlin will dare to go that route.

I could be wrong.

Relevant article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-housing/berlin-ac...
Yes, Obama administration was working to bring down its operation. But after the arrival of Trump in the office, he has vouched to bring it back it in significance during its golden 2002-7 era. There are around 40 detainees there now.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp
There's much more to movies than just where they were physically shot. Guess where Warner Bros is HQ'd, Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Universal Studios, etc.

What you've linked to is the equivalent of arguing that the bay area and Seattle aren't that big for cloud computing because hey, there aren't that many big datacenters there.
They can "sell" a lot of it back to the US government. The debt is held in bonds that mature. Big bondholders regularly roll their bonds over, so it acts as if they're just holding the same debt indefinitely. But some fraction of their bonds mature every month, and if they don't buy new ones, the government has to give them their money.

It doesn't directly impact the dollar, per se, but it does mean that the government has to find the money elsewhere to continue operations. If it has to look harder, it will have to spend more, and that ultimately has to be backed by the taxpayer.
What's your go-to question for starting such a conversation, if you've got one?
Very neat. I'd love to see the old coup/pickup hybrids come back as an official line
Tons of companies print their own money. It's just called "miles", "points", "coupons", "credits", etc. - but it is a medium of exchange that can be used to buy stuff at this company, i.e. money. Of course, airline workers would never agree to be paid entirely in miles, but probably would not mind getting their hands on some more of them.
Now Facebook has Libra to replace US dollars.
Yes, there's a big difference between someone who rents out their apartment using Airbnb because they're away half the year, or has a spare room that they rent out, and someone who buys an entire building of 20 apartments and turns it into a hotel in all but name, skirting around all the consumer protections and regulations that have been put into place around hotels.

You can argue that the regulation of hotel-style Airbnb use is too lenient, or the regulation on real hotels is too onerous, but I don't know of any good argument that they should be treated differently.

Sorting this out would either lead to reduced demand for apartments to use with Airbnb as it becomes less attractive to large-scale landlords, or lead to greater demand of land for hotel usage.
This is off topic, but maybe you know: what’s the practical difference between being an autonomous region and being a province?
> Surely 32 bit Ubuntu is still very much in demand in developing Countries or for people wanting to get old machines running with "okay" hardware?

Every mainstream desktop CPU since late 2005 has had support for 64-bit, and mobile CPUs since 2008. If you're still running pre-2005 hardware, is the latest version of Ubuntu even really running that well at all?

Besides, they can continue to use 19.04 or 18.04 LTS. It's not like discontinuing support means existing installs are going to break.
In the US, you already lose your credit card if you speak out politically.
I read this thread with such a jaundiced eye; from blunt cluelessness to outright cruelty - who is on the other side of these transactions? Surely these are humans who think about the things they (do to|inflict on) their underlings? Surely they are surrounded by other humans of moderate good sense who could see the harmful, if unintended consequence and talk them out of it? And yet, here we are.

My contribution: office Christmas party. One drink ticket. Spouse or significant other specifically, emphatically, disinvited.
And as a person born in the west, ordering prices to stop raising is a useful and often necessary tool in the economic policy toolkit.
Here is an article about such a case from Munich (in German): https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/zu-nett-fuer-muenchen-der-ver...
Carta 101
Yeah, it got placed by C by the suits though.

When you think about it, Lisp is perfect for their use cases. Pushing patches live without rebooting and easy modification of a running system image while running.
My assumption: because people really want it to sound like a real word, but dropping the "N" makes a very unfortunate cognate with an offensive English term, and "FAAMG" doesn't sound like a real word. Netflix is just there to avoid what "FAANG" would be without it.
I believe it is because those extensions have intentionally exposed themselves so they can do bidirectional communication with the page.
Explainer: 'Stablecoins' in spotlight as Facebook unveils Libra cryptocurrency
There was a paper recently that argued that the habitable zone is smaller than anticipated because either the concentration of carbon dioxide will be too high (and thus toxic at least to life on Earth) or - for small stars like this - there will be (toxic) carbon monoxide in the atmosphere.

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-complex-life-require-narrow-ha... (good article with link to the paper)
I agree that some regulation serves a purpose.

But the way many things are implemented, especially when there's lobbying behind it, creates an environment where the only people who can navigate it are the people lobbying for it. As much as we need regulations for pollution, I'm of the opinion we need less regulation for many other things.

Banks are a great example. Banks should be regulated. If I put my money into a bank I want it guaranteed there.

But the industry has successfully lobbied itself extensions in their charters and ventured into financial and investment territory, which I don't believe should be coupled with banks.

Investing and securities (like cryptocurrencies) have an inherent downside - it can go up OR down. I don't need a short sighted politician to put laws in place to protect me from having my investments go down. That's part of the game. If you don't know what you're getting into, you shouldn't get into it.

But thanks to regulations, it's essentially impossible to open a bank or have competitive services, while they get to abuse their positions to leech money from the general population.

There's no reason that banks (safely storing money) and investment companies should be a single entity.

And before you mention inflation, realize that your savings account makes 0% interest, for any useful purpose.

If I want to start or invest in crypto under my own accord, there's no reason I shouldn't.

Don't want to lose your money on cryptocurrency? Don't put your money into it. We don't need regulations for that. We need common sense.

This idea that you deserve a risk free ROI is a moral hazard for society.

Disclaimer: I haven't ever bought cryptocurrencies, because I don't understand it and I'm not an idiot. It's gambling, pure and simple, and the people who lost their money deserved it.
I think the idea is that, when you're measuring in units of many thousands of LOC, those differences roughly average out.

Whether that's true across widely differing parts of such a huge system I'm not convinced, but within a single more typical software project it seems believable to me.
Homelessness is a problem of addiction and mental illness. Cheap highly regulated housing in the middle of expensive cities don't fix that.

Social workers and detox programs help, but there is no easy fix (other than "finance their life") for people who can't kick a drug habit, or are mentally incapable of holding down a job.
Combining those two with thousands more is the point of Palantir, and has been since its beginning.
There are many civil rights groups which oppose growing surveillance. It’s not simply a case of millions upon millions of cameras monitoring our every move, though. There are restrictions on what images and footage can be used for.
I mean, sure why not? CL can be about as fast as C if all you care about is performance.

Also macros might get you faster than C, for the same reason that C++ can be faster than C (compile time metaprogramming).
IMO this is worse than Canadian Tire money
> saying that 70+% of mining happens in China doesn't support the statement

I think the implication is that since China does not have meaningful rule of law, that 70% of mining could in practice controlled by one entity: the Chinese state.
Congrats on the launch! I've actually tried this out, and both the developer experience and dashboard user interface are very slick.

The main concern I've heard from senior security experts that have advised us is about __your__ access. By embedding Sqreen to intercept all web server traffic at the gateway (e.g. WSGI in Python), your solution adds a worry about an attack vector -- if Sqreen itself is compromised, everything about our website is compromised. Or, any general server errors at Sqreen will bring down the entire web application, possibly without warning (web app won't be able to trigger 500s), with no way to remedy except removing Sqreen and re-deploying. That actually happened for us for 12+ hours during the one month we tried out Sqreen.

I think the problem you're addressing is definitely a very real and huge problem. Would love to hear your response to the above.
goverment build housing

Berlin government is not building housing in meaningful quantities to keep up with demand. You can look at BER (the airport that was supposed to open in 2012) to get an appreciation for how dysfunctional Berlin's regional government is.

Berlin's NIMBY population is also to blame, they voted against developing former Tempelhof airport [1]. It would have been easy to erect dwellings for > 10k people there.

The rent-freeze is populist political action to cover up government inability, and redirect anger away from the root cause of the problem (Berlin's government) towards scapegoats. Freezing rent will not create a single new dwelling, indeed it will reduce incentives from building property.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksentscheid_zum_Tempelhofer...
I think most people with an understanding of economics would agree that more supply is needed. The problem is, zoning laws are made by the cities themselves, which means they are ultimately made by the people who already live there. People who already live there don't want their neighborhoods bulldozed for luxury high rises, which is what happens when zoning is abolished.

Then, there is the problem of the suburbs. A lot of people suggest moving to the suburbs and embracing a longer commute as the solution. The problem is, suburbs also control their own zoning laws, just like cities, and surprise - they also don't want their neighborhoods bulldozed for luxury apartments.

So the problem is essentially a power issue - who holds the power? Without the political power to make zoning changes, little new housing will be built. I don't see a solution here. So it seems that the local people embrace rent control as the best possible solution among alternatives. Viewed from that perspective, it's not so bad after all. The city's residents will feel the impacts, and if it's not working out, they will eventually repeal the law. Big deal.
I find the exact opposite for rust as it often encourages boxing random objects to satisfy odd lifetimes.

That being said of course in almost all of these case you can restructure your program so you don't need to box the values but if it's not performance critical why bother? Repeat a couple dozen times across a large codebase and you have the same pointer chasing issues.
LinkedIn started out seeming OK, IMHO, then got conspicuously creepy, and that was before the sale to MS.

I deleted LinkedIn as soon as it started seeming creepy, since I didn't need to hear from recruiters, at the time.

I'm currently resisting LinkedIn, and trying to skim angel.co, which doesn't seem too creepy. (Though many of the hiring startup blurbs on there are creepy, like "What Up is disrupting at the intersection of blockchain and marketing insights from intimate medical devices!".)
It's also going against the spirit of free speech to force people to promote speech they don't want to.

If the issue is that a few companies largely control the avenues of discourse, let's just fix the problem at the root and break up those companies. After all, even if they were principled defenders of free speech, we'd still be consigning ourselves to living under essentially benevolent dictators.
>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.

It's not as simplistic as good or bad for the country. If have a good job and you want to buy a lot of imports then it's good. If you want to be a factory worker it's bad because what you make is more expensive for other companies to buy.