skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like the salary differential of $33k listed in the article is gross earnings. After taxes this would just barely cover the rent differential of $1.5k/mo ($18k/year). Note that this is the best case scenario according to their estimates.

What troubles me is the use of median rent to compare housing costs. As rent increases, renters are likely to downsize offsetting some of the rent increase. I'd be willing to bet Seattle renters are able to get more space for the area's median rental. Accordingly, the salary increase probably doesn't cover the rent increase for a similar sized home.
> But I am specifically talking about companies with closed source apps and services open sourcing them

Ah, I see. I misunderstood. Yes, I think we are in agreement then, although I have my doubts most companies want their "secret sauce" or code-indiscretions flapping in the wild.
It is definitely production ready now.
Total compensation or base salary? LA base salaries are similar to the Bay Area, but very very behind when including stock (RSU/options) and bonuses.
In French "coq" is \kɔk\, compared in to "cock" and "coke" which are \ˈkɑːk\ and \koʊk\ in English.

It would be closer to "caught" \kɔːt\ with a short vowel and a \k\ sound at the end.
There is no silver bullet, govt is probably trying a multi thronged approach to address the problem. A Solar power plant is being built in Rajastan, Western India[0], one more in neighbouring Gujarat [1] & one more just got completed in South India [2], and there are nuclear power plants being built or in the initial design phase. These things take time, but there needs to be some interim solutions as well. Don't you think?

[0] - http://www.rrecl.com/PDF/Solar%20Park%20Bhadla%20Presentatio...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat_Solar_Park

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamuthi_Solar_Power_Project
Okay, so here's the deal:

Bannon shot his mouth off at some point and made some grandiose claims about his goals. There's no particular reason we should believe them, and no particular reason we should think he's capable of those goals even if he does actually hold them, rather than being something he said to sound cool at a party.

But, if we accept for the moment that Bannon really is going to destroy the state by manipulating the media, and that we should take seriously for just one second that he might be capable of that, we find immediate direct evidence that he is in fact not capable of directing a secret conspiracy to manipulate the media after all: because he told people he was going to do it, got quoted by the media, and ended up in the crosshairs of people like you, who are now presumably going to be watching his sinister schemes and warning other people.
The whole experience is just too real for me. Fuck up your password = death. I'd rather just have my thumbprint or something I can't screw up unlock it easily.
It takes about 2 years to save up $100K on a typical Bay Area engineer's salary, if you're fiscally prudent. Figure that $150K/year after taxes is about $110K/year, and live on $60K/year. That's eminently doable even in the Bay Area.

The problem is that $100K is a very low estimate for a down payment in the Bay Area these days. Most people I know are getting parental help to put down $500K down, because with housing prices running around $1.2M, that's what's necessary to get under the $700K jumbo mortgage threshold.
> That's well understood, the general area of study is called thermal physics.

I don't agree at all. Thermal (classical) physics may be consistent with quantum physics but this does not at all show how a classical world arises from the quantum.
> Everything is bundled in tamper evident seals, observed and signed by members of opposing parties, physically escorted by opposing members, etc.

I don't see why this level of security couldn't be used to randomly and deterministically assign crypto keys that are used for some kind of blockchain voting scheme. Put a thousand pre-known keys in a hat, one thousand people draw keys from a hat, the key is activated on the blockchain and points to a user-defined voting wallet. Now you have anonymous cryptographically verifiable voting with double spend protection. Am I missing something?
I don't really agree, though as someone who also walks everywhere I'd be glad if you were right. My guess is that as self-driving cars take off to the point of being generally accepted rather than a curiosity, there'll be less and less incentive to operate a car of your own - much as you can still in theory get around by horse but it's so much hassle to own one that hardly anyone bothers to do so.
> I do not understand the obsession the software industry has for locality.

For many types of problems, collaborating in person works far better than collaborating online. Lower friction, easier to have a conversation, easier to sit around a computer and experiment, and generally easier to handle things in a few minutes that would take longer otherwise.
> Your truth is not and has never been the same as someone else's truth.

Hopefully we can both agree that we are having this conversation. :) If so, we believe that truth is real and shared between individuals. Other common facts are sports, world events and books - at times we all look through the same lens. Science is like this too. Science happily ask for you to see for yourself.

Now look at another truth, cigarettes cause cancer. The tobacco industry denied these findings. But now we censor them and their advertising based on this truth. If we didn't censor the tobacco industry, we'd get cancer more often and die.

When we have a clear argument and damages, at least bump them down the page.

If you allow the disinformation campaign to continue, you corrupt the integrity of the system. This can manifest itself in a very ugly and damaging ways, cancer or worse.
Kudos for bring write on that one. I'm wouldnot have guessed it was mySQL.

I'm slightly less surprised because it apparently bypasses the SQL optimization engine and goes straight to InnoDB (per the other post). I have seen people write key-value stores based on MySQL+InnoDB before (sometimes bypassing SQL entirely).
This post appears to be the result of a recent Triplebyte hire for a writing position: https://medium.com/@ammon_b/become-a-writer-at-triplebyte-9f...

> Examples of topics we would like to cover include the salary differences between the SF Bay Area and other locations (does it make sense for engineers to move to SF?), the prevalence of remote work (is it harder or easier to get a remote job?), gender/age bias in hiring (How common is it?), and how credentials impact hiring decisions. We have insightful data on all these topics.
If your notes are not encrypted then obviously some employees will be able to read your notes. This just states when employees will be able to officially read your notes. Any potential problems come from what they might officially do with your information. The allowed uses listed in the privacy policy don't sound much different than those found in most privacy policies I have seen.
Reading the article, they analyze data they show on charts. You could make the same conclusions they're drawing by also looking at the charts. Sure it's a shameless plug, but it definitely doesn't discredit their analysis.
I signed up a while back. Still waiting for my credentials...
That may have changed with a recent update. I'm pretty sure I set it to "only when in use", but the app updated soon after. Now I went back to check, and it got set to "never".

Why does Apple even allow apps to remove the "only when in use" option?
It's pretty meaningless to say "this is rate limiting not lock-out" when the rate limit is a ~7 hour wait between attempts. Many lock-outs automatically unlock faster than that! The comment you are replying to is correct, this is a DoS vector.
I think it's the fear of eventual outsourcing that drives some of the 'remote workers need not apply'.

People think if they can keep jobs in the office then they can keep themselves in a job.
My understanding of the law is that an autonomous vehicle does not require control or monitoring. However, Uber's car has an operator monitoring the car's activity, although not actively controlling the car. Because of this, it is not considered autonomous by California law.
There's a stage-of-life effect. Bay Area is great for young people, where cost of living is a much lower proportion of income. All the excess goes straight into savings or discretionary consumer goods, where a Bay Area dollar is worth just as much as a Rust Belt dollar. It's much less great for a family, where you have additional food, housing, childcare, and health costs that rise along with cost of living.
>if a movement is built on irrational exuberance surely there's a cost to be paid sooner or later.

I worry about a Blockchain winter, then again AI has made fantastic progress despite the AI winters[0].

Would fusion as a power generating technology be further along or further behind if it had followed the AI model (progress -> hype -> winter -> progress)?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
I got just one extra spleen (small, one percent of the population or so have that. Edit: at least that was what the doctor told me; TFA said 20%).

I call myself "splenically superior" and argue that it obviously explains my mean personality. :-)
Yeah, I saw that after posting, looks like I got my historical periods mixed up. Thanks anyway!
> The reduction from QM to newtonian mechanics is very easy

This is just not true. For example when enanglement is involved all of this goes out the window. Indeed, the next few decades of quantum computing is going to be completely non-reducible to newtownian mechanics.

> QM is not acausal.

I disagree entirely. QM is exactly acausal. Also known as the measurement problem.
The iOS app looks like a treasure trove, I can't wait to download it and dissect it. It'll be interesting to see how they integrated playgrounds into their development cycle.

I just wish they had upgraded to Swift 3.0
For the following reason:

1. Bay area is extremely tolerant of immigrants and of different people.
2. Bay area is an excellent place for raising kids. The opportunities for your kids to learn are simply endless. There are excellent colleges near by and some of USA's best high schools.
3. Your experience as a programmer in bay area will always be valued more than your experience in Denver other things being same.
4. Job hopping is easier, finding another job when fired is even easier.
5. Skewed gender ratio means women might get more attention.
6. Networking opportunities are unparalleled in the world.

Disadvantages:
1. If you don't like racial, ethnic diversity then you might be uncomfortable in bay area.
2. If you are a single male finding a girl would be harder in bay area.
3. Competition is cut throat and sometimes it is stressful.
4. Job security is less as there are more people out there who can replace you.
5. California's tax policies and other government policies are very tyrannical and sometimes pure nonsensical. The Liberal state is far too liberal with your money.
6. Housing is bad.
7. Everything is expensive.
It's what I've been recommended, but it really seems like a terrible hack that shouldn't have to exist.
This article seems to assume you're single and not in a hurry to start a family. I'd be interested to read an article "Does it make sense for a programmer with a wife and kids to move to the bay area". I secretly suspect the answer will be "no", since no matter how you slice it, a 4-bedroom house in the Bay Area won't be reachable until you are well on your way to, say, 40 or so.
And actual tests for the Android app! It's a rarity, and especially annoying since the "sample" apps that Google provides pretends that testing doesn't exist.
I'm developing a solution to this problem.

Longer version:
Since I last posted about this on HN (check my comment history), I put the project on ice, and then started it again a year ago.

Follow @ZifraTech on Twitter for more information. Our website (zifra.tech) is not up yet.
Cars are already ubiquitous and really, really loud. We tend to forget this because we're all so used to it. From the first values I could find with decent sourcing, at a distance of 25 feet, a car driving by at reasonably high speed is 77 dB, while a drone is 65 dB. I live 500 feet from a freeway, with lots of buildings between here and there, and I can still hear clearly hear the traffic indoors with windows closed.
Or they can start delivering to the places where they already leave packages at the door w/o issues.
Up until the 1950s though it was thought that water vapor saturation of the IR absorption lines would nullify any effect of increasing CO2 concentrations.

It wasn't until the USAF started doing careful analysis of the upper atmosphere that it was discovered that the upper atmosphere is dry enough that increasing concentrations of CO2 there will act like throwing a warm blanket around the planet and that the sea-level saturation of H2O wouldn't matter.
"When you can steal market share from existing incumbents, oftentimes with a 10x better product value proposition, then currency, interest rates, and consumer credit are rounding error."

Tesla does not have a product that is fundamentally superior to anything.

Regular car companies releasing amazing electric cars that are now 'long range' and for 1/2 the price.

Tesla's nice display and 'danger modes' are a gimmick.

They are running out of competitive advantage very quickly.

And they are missing production milestones.
So you're saying that oil companies are against climate change policy not because it directly harms their industry, but because they genuinely believe the climate is not being harmed by their industry?

even if that (their belief that it isn't being harmed being genuine) were true, there is literally direct evidence to show this (climate is being harmed by industry) is not true. carbon emissions and the greenhouse effect - it's a fact that industry contributes heavily to carbon emissions. and it's a fact that carbon emissions create increasing temperature by allowing heat to bounce around inside the atmosphere.

What you're saying is, I don't believe in climate change because of these scientific facts (which, are relatively non-complex. we put stuff in air. stuff in air makes air warmer), I believe in it because I'm a bleeding heart liberal? come on.

How many people really need to have their minds changed for congress to create legislation around climate change? Around a hundred eh.. hmm. Self-interest is definitely not a part of this though. they just don't want to change anything because its what they genuinely believe is best!

christ, even arguing that they have this genuine belief is a crock of shit. there's not test for sincerity of belief.
> working on extracting subject-verb-object tuples, which is amazingly easy to do

Can you share any of your work or give examples?
How would a renter effectively downsize if the entire market is increasing? Is this the typical reaction from those who can afford it?
You can opt out by unchecking "Allow Evernote to use business data to improve my experience”. I love hypocritical euphemisms companies use to get to your data.
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تطبيق “إجرائاتي ” أطلقته الداخلية الجزائرية خدمة للشعب
Be aware that this study is about vitamin D deficiency. It's not start for some crazy health trend. You can go and check you vitamin D levels and if you don't get enough, use supplements to correct the situation.
Mixing median rent and average (mean) salary is confusing. Why not go with median salary?
I highly suggest you wait and see. I moved from LA--where I flew almost exclusively Virgin because they were fantastic--to Seattle--where I now fly exclusively Alaska and have an Alaska credit card.

The credit card is fantastic, their mileage program is generous, their partner network is wide, and in my experience, they've got really good customer service, both on the phone and in the air. They do a low-price guarantee so that you can call in and get refunds if the price of already-purchased tickets drop. Combine that w/ TripIt Pro, which gives you notifications when the price drops, and you can save a ton of money.

The downside? They're much lower tech than Virgin: typically no screens on the backs of seats (especially for shorter flights), less of the fancy check-in stuff, the app isn't SO slick. But I really think the value combined with a sense of "wow, that was actually a pleasant flight" more than makes up for it.

So I'm actually excited to see if we can get the best of both worlds: the technical innovation of Virgin with the no-nonsense customer experience of Alaska. :fingers crossed:

Either way, I'm stoked to have more places to earn/burn miles.
Writing from brain gain #4 - Ithaca NY - I can attest to the many reasons educated people would choose to live here, but one thing that cannot be left unsaid is that our economy is dominated by Cornell and Ithaca College, and most of the rest is the service industry for employees of the two. Our success didn't just appear out of nowhere. Aside from that, however, Ithaca has all the makings of a great place for professionals to live.

There are more restaurants per person here than NYC; the traffic is never bad except during 30-minute rush hour intervals; there is enough middle/upper-middle income here to support high-end retail and services (ex: even if there is only one very good spa and steakhouse, it is still a very good spa and steakhouse); the cost of living is...well it's ok. Housing is expensive in the City and the surrounding Town, but if you go a mere 5 minutes out of the Town of Ithaca in any direction you practically pay peanuts. Still, food and other necessities are Upstate-cheap if you don't shop at Wegmans.

But most importantly, Ithaca is a pleasant place filled with pleasant people. The average person on the street is friendly and helpful. Nobody is "too important." Maybe it's because we have a top public high school where rich and poor alike receive a quality education, but there isn't an economic "us vs them" one often finds in decrepit Rust Belt cities with wealthy suburbs or revitalized metro areas that sag professionals with "gentrifier guilt."

The point I'm trying to make is that if you want professionals (and thereby, businesses) to come and stay, you have to make your city a nice place to live. Tax breaks don't fix a lousy commute. Fancy new mixed-use high-rises don't diminish the sneers you get from service workers who see you as a disruptive yuppie who is destroying their hometown without even realizing it.

I know it's not terribly helpful to suggest "if you want to make your city attractive to professionals, it just has to have that spark," but I see it as akin to a doctor recommending the extremely difficult tasks of regular exercise and a healthy diet instead solving every problem with a pill.
"It's a smarter strategy than keeping quiet and assuming she is ok with it."

He should have made it clear before they were married.

Not brought something so important up a) after the fact and b) during their first dance at the wedding (!!).

Chump move.
This comes from Kerckhoffs' Principle: a system should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge.
Check this data set (http://mimic.mit.edu/about/mimic/) and extract relevant features as discussed in the paper.
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> > America was founded on the notion that the state is a bad actor.

> And it will fall on that notion too if it fails to adapt to a changing economy.

I agree with both statements.
Hi there! I work at a small radio station in Southeast Alaska (KCAW), which I see is on here, however it says station is unreachable. We just updated our stream url this week. Is that something I could give you to get us back up and running, or will it eventually find us again? Also, don't know if this is relevant, but in our update we changed from shoutcast to icecast. Thanks!
I want to work with my team in person. That has nothing to do "making sure they're working". It's just easier, for me, and presumably many others, to be able to collaborate in person.

Maybe there's a future where seamless video conferencing, Beam robots, and better text communication could replace in-person conversation, coffee and lunch chats, and other office-place experiences. I've tried, and I don't think we're there yet.
The problem is, that the average citizen does not understand what 'deterministic build' means. One aspect of an election is as a ritual to legitimize the government, and this legitimization currently rests on the argument that in principle every voter could verify the election process. (It is a ritual because no average voter does something like that.) So technology will not help, unless you can change the perception of the function of elections.
We have plenty of evidence that governing by asking a large, diverse population over and over about local issues just leads to exactly the sort of tragedy-of-the-commons that government is meant to reign in.

Having too many votes simply doesnt work, because the voters can't put in the required effort per vote to decide on a prudent course of action.

The only reason to switch off paper ballots is of you're running so many elections you're just influence laundering by pretending to be democratic when you're not.
However, there is a difference between explicit segregation (black people can't use this bathroom or school, redlining) and the type that arises naturally from interactions between people.
I'm seeing a lot of people talking about wanting to switch to something else, and that something else is usually "{name of another private corporation} Notes App". How much longer do we continue playing this game?

I'm working on an open protocol that standardizes the encryption and ownership of notes.

See https://standardnotes.org

Would love any feedback/help. If you'd like to contribute, send me a message.
Thanks. The implementation is very stable because WinFsp is tested regularly and rigorously.

Please read about the WinFsp Testing Strategy here:

https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/wiki/WinFsp-Testing
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A renter can get get roommates or landlords can subdivide properties further. Renters may also consider increasing their commute time.
If you don't talk to your kids about quantum mechanics, someone else will
There is correlation at least in Northern countries in Europe.
Pretty tough to get stuck behind a car for very long while on a bike, so I'm not too worried.
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The article says your chances of having an extra spleen are one in five.
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Bay Area tech is a gold rush, and Triplebyte sells shovels. Of course you'll strike it rich.
Wouldn't that make it 6th?
Would you be willing to sell the site/code to somebody who is willing to take the risk? A Fortune 100 in the US can't touch a Lithuanian Corporation. :)
EDIT

I incorrectly multiplied the tax rate to the salary difference, and said that this was a 5$ difference. This is totally wrong (as multiple people point out below). I'll leave my original embarrassing comment as a cation to not write stupid things :)

==

I just added in a mention of the tax difference. But the numbers are 13.3% in CA vs 0% in WA. That's significant, for sure. But 13% tax on $33k is about $5k. I don't think that changes the conclusion that the salary difference does (in many cases) cover the housing costs.

You're likely correct about the price for a similarly sized home. People who want large homes should probably not move to the Bay Area.