skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How’s the job market in Portland?
I’ve been visiting family here for Thanksgiving and I’m blown away at how nice the city is and how cheap the housing is compared to SF. Whats the current market like here? General salary numbers for a mid level web dev?
http://blog.woodpie.com/the-man-who-shared-his-books-and-mul...
> No amount of visa restrictions in the US is going to change those variables.

Hence the growing disdain for globalization, particularly in the parts of the country that _haven't_ been growing economically. Americans' wages have been stagnant or growing lower than inflation for decades. When that has been occurring, it doesn't make sense for workers to be pro-immigration or pro-globalization, because that would increase labor competition.

If we compete against developers in other countries that have subsidized education, free healthcare, and a lower standard of living, how is that fair to American workers?

Should we _lower_ American standards to compete with them, even though corporate profits are through the roof? Personally, I don't think so. At some point, quality of life needs to be prioritized over return on investment.

Before you say "but it increases the quality of life of that foreigner," we don't live in a global government. I feel that our economy should be controllable by our government, and our government has no control over the economy or laws of another country.
Dealing with waste has been an issue we've been dealing with since the dawn of the industrial revolution.
I don't know, I feel like many people started using Chrome because technical-minded folk recommended it to them (certainly, I told many family members to switch to it). So, maybe the same thing will happen with Firefox (I have just switched from Chrome to Firefox and am prepared to recommend it as someone's default browser).
There's nothing at all naive about self-censoring certain personal information and modulating your behavior. Guess what, the physical world is the same way.
Are you thinking of IBS?
ClojureCLR still exists, although it's not as popular as the JVM implementation. Perhaps that could give you a leg up on transitioning.
Brian Wong, VP at Alibaba, talks about developing Afrikan e-commerce startups
I believe they ought to reevaluate that reaction.
my takeaway: the western stereotype of chinese education is that there is herd mentality and groupthink, but the same thing exists on the western side, just with a different herd.

edit: this is highlighted by the conclusion, in which he points out the irony of the lesson from his western education (everything is luck) when the traditional message is "if you work hard you will succeed".

i thought it was a great read.
Long time Firefox user every since I left safari I tried Firefox and chrome and didn't like chrome at all. Now I only run some linux with Firefox but have chrome only as a back up to test or if YouTube has a glitchy anti Firefox day.
Attack on mosque in Egypt’s Sinai kills at least 235 in deadly militant strike
"Lifestyle choice" implies a frivolous or even capricious choice in many contexts.

Personally, the notion that we're taking a chicken raised in conditions "bad" for the chicken and for the quality of the product is just offensive and bad for everyone in the economic chain, save the big company. In a farming environment managed by a modern day tenant farmer, shipping it to China or some place in South Dakota to be butchered by exploited immigrants, and shipping it back in a cryovac to save $1.50/lb.

Or I can pay a little more, an amount that is negligible in my budget, for a bird raised, slaughtered and packed within 50 miles of my home, by farmers who are working for themselves, by a butcher whose work isn't going to debilitate him and leave him in poverty later, and a retailer in my city who is a part of my community.

This is one of these areas where I agree with the conservative ideal of markets picking winners and losers, which never works out in practice. When you consider how we destroyed regional vegetable industries by having the government spend billions to turn the California desert into an eden of industrial agriculture, or how we allowed nasty people to transform cattle ranching and butchering from solid middle class professions to a feudal/industrial nightmare with trillions of externalized costs, it's just awful. It's not how the market should work.
I’m not disagreeing with the trust of your comment, but despite popular belief, McDonalds does use real eggs.[1,2] Though there’s no doubt that an egg from a chicken who has walked around, eating bits of grass and bugs, will taste better and have a better nutritional profile.

[1] https://yourquestions.mcdonalds.ca/answer/does-your-egg-mcmu...
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2015/01/27/are-mcdonalds-eggs-real-fast...
Guinea is also an offensive derogatory term for italians in the US.
Slack Team Information Scrapper
People still use smartphones? LOL
I hate these deliberately obtuse articles about design patterns every time they bubble up each year. Patterns are about naming and communicating design choices. Just shouting 'function' over and over again isn't really relevant.

Like, it's true you can implement a Strategy with a function. And yet the majority of libraries on my current Clojure project don't let you supply a function as a strategy even when it'd make sense. Because none of the authors have made that design decision. Also your commands don't support undo. That'd take _two_ functions. And you know how you might communicate what those _two_ functions taken together do? You could use patterns! So somehow, just having a language feature doesn't MAGICALLY lead one to make one design decision over another. It didn't in the 90s, it didn't in the 00s, and it doesn't now.

Looking forward to 2025's version of this snarky article in Julia or whatever though.
I think quicksort is a fantastic illustration of the 'divide and conquer' principle and for that reason alone it deserves a spot in any kind of CS course. Besides that it is also a fairly good sorting algorithm with an interesting pathological case that is fortunately reasonably easy to test for. All in all, as a good first start when you need to sort stuff quicksort does just fine.
I don’t think obesity itself is contagious (unless you’re mucking about in an obese person’s fecal matter). My hunch is antibiotic usage disrupts your gut biome enough that it pushes your energy extraction balance off, causing obesity.

As a society, we abuse antibiotics in the aggregate (demanding it from health care providers and pouring it into factory farms). It can’t possibly not be disrupting our guy biome.

It also doesn’t help that the sugar lobby/industry is so powerful, and sugar/corn syrup is in everything.
Balderton Essentials: Guide to Employee Equity [pdf]
> These are all lifestyle choices. You make your purchase not just because of the product but because of your identity, feelings, and values.

I think it's the other way around. A product can have such good marketing that it gives the illusion of identity, feelings, and values - for example, fair trade coffee.
I did my dissertation on this very topic (coming soon to my website... at some point). I do not know what tactics or systems Amazon has that deal with fake reviews, or if they even really bother beyond the easy wins like tracking IPs. My dissertation was on textual analysis, which is the hard part - the other signals like IP and behavioral related ones (like # of reviews posted in one day) are more fruitful.

The heuristic you seem to be using is a logical one, but requires more data analysis than Amazon might be willing to put effort into. Looking at these reviews, they are... well, so many on the same day is suspicious. My first theory is that some fake review writing company got tasked with flooding Amazon, and so reviews got farmed out to writers. Or someone has invented a GAN that writes good reviews, or at least a good first draft. I'd have to analyze the data to have more of an opinion. But yeah, verified purchaser means little.

The real question is, how economical it is for Amazon to really care about fake reviews? Buyer beware etc and there are more than enough scams running on Amazon / EBay / etc that I'm sure they're just treading water all the time. They have sued review writing outfits, so they care somewhat, but only after the problem got written up in enough newspapers... It is a hard job, trying to analyze all the data coming into their systems each day. I'm not sure any company has really implemented a lot of the research I read about in my literature survey.

ReviewMeta is another site I'd trust:

https://reviewmeta.com/blog/faq/
No, Clostridium difficile (Kelly et al, 2016, as discussed in the comments above).
I own an original Pixel XL, it's an amazing phone. The Pixel line is just getting started.
The US atomic bombing of Japan used 64kg of Uranium (Little Boy and 6.2kg of Plutonium (Fat Man). Each nuclear reactor at Fukishima used tons of Uranium or Plutonium fuel. Each reactor generated tons of radioactive waste each year it was in operation.

The amount of radioactive material involved in the 1945 events is several orders of magnitude smaller than at Fukishima. Perhaps there are robust cross examined theories indicating that the events are comparable. I am skeptical that the events are similar enough in important ways (i.e. ways other than occurring in Japan) that a single anecdote is sufficient basis to claim support for the proposed policy.
Did you see this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15342362 ?
Google Inbox web app is laggy af in Chrome for me, honestly. I use it for work. I'm on Firefox Nightly and it's super fast everywhere except for the Google Web Apps (which aren't butter smooth on any browser, even Chrome).
Just because some people buy local produce for lifestyle reasons doesn't mean that's the reason everyone does.
Maybe you are right. I'm sure there are ways for people to put fake reviews on Amazon. Thanks for the heads up!
> Yet I had to do it every day. At the end-of-year exam, I scored second from the bottom of the class—the same place where I began in first grade. But this time it was much harder to accept, after the glory I had enjoyed just one year earlier and the huge amount of effort I had put into studying this year. Finally, I threw in the towel, and asked my parents to send me abroad. Anywhere else on this earth would surely be better.

Given his academic performance in his high school, it's unlikely he got a scholarship to a leading UK private high school (Hurtwood House checking his Linkedin). Parents who can afford to send their kid to an overseas high school that charges $40k/year are not modest by Developed country standards, much less Chinese, and even less so Hebeinese.
Firefox' path to market share growth has to go through mobile. How to get users to switch from preinstalled good-enough Chrome is the tough nut to crack, though.
Doesn’t the Clojure way of thinking/programming help you with writing better JavaScript though? I’m a JS Dev and I’ve been looking into Clojurescript to broaden my horizon but I’m also hoping to learn some FP techniques that I can use in my Node/React projects.
Imagine how great it would be if we lived in a society where our homes were easily hooked up with internet fast enough to run servers from home? Must be nice.
It seems to me that there's a small fraction of people who are into this stuff that are really doing this thoughtfully and for the right reasons, and that the majority really are either pursuing an aesthetic or using this or other social causes as sort of a prop or a distraction. I suppose this could vary based on where you're at, but I've met few people in the Midwest who were into this stuff that were not shallow and/or neurotic.

At the same time, that's an incredibly stupid argument to use to dismiss what is being done. The positive effects you mention happen regardless of the motivation of the individuals, and the people that start these trends seem to be the ones who really care.
NASA was involved in Herschel to an extent.
In terms of privacy and openness...someone is the worst.
If you think it will taste better, it will... (taste is based on more than your tongue).
We already have technology to control dissent. Why do you think every country has media sector, education system, etc?

But direct manipulation of the brain itself rather than through your senses via propaganda is on another level.

It introduces a whole slew of issues. A individual and his role in society. A citizen and their relation to government. And of course, an individual and his relation to his own identity and free will. If a chip can manipulate your brain to feel or think a certain way, then are you really you? Do you have free will?
Black Holes in Our Cosmic Backyard
I'm hoping that if the big ISPs start giving poor service, it will help local non-profit ISPs stay competitive because they're providing better service.
> It's all clean, except on http://www.spamrats.com (specifically the RATS-Dyna list, and I am not using a home connection.)

That particular list is very well known for doing this. Essentially no one uses them, but they get a bunch of free traffic by being listed on mxtoolbox.

Their removal requirements are fairly absurd anyway (must provide them with a full customer list of everyone using your IPs)
Black friday Sci-Fi stories
So what? That's irrelevant, it doesn't matter.

The purchase is still made at least partly because of the purchaser's identity, feelings, and values. It doesn't matter if the traits in question are all marketing or objective.
The privacy-conscious / anti-Google crowd isn't large enough to move the needle. For Firefox to regain market share, one of two things must happen:

1) Google makes a really poor decision (e.g. disabling ad blockers, charging $$)

2) Mozilla partners with existing web apps or they build their own web apps with extra value that is only available in Firefox (in the same way that Google sites generally perform better on Chrome than FF)
Like it or not - Singularity is fast approaching. So I wrote 7 Sci-Fi to celebrate this fact. How soon will it happen? Will Russians be involved? You can learn it yourself, just download e-book for free or pay whatever :)
P.S. Any feedback is much appreciated
[Day 1] Zero to MVP in 30 Days – Idea and Plan
Show HN: Vidpulse – realtime analytics for any video on your site
Which alternative can be used if the app is made only with electron?

No all apps have multitude of implementations.
We did this. My wife has a masters in microbio, and I worked at IBM on their C++ and for Fortran compilers for about 8 years (yay std::atomics). I still do remote contract work to help pay for upgrades to the farm. Would be nice to get one of my side-projects finished and start pumping out some income streams, but it's not a big rush anymore. I have a point of sale system built with React and Haskell that integrates with big payment processors, etc. that I sell to local businesses. Maybe one day i'll productize it and sell it as a package, but honestly my bills are paid and I don't feel the need to make more money than I do right now. Why take on the stress?

Why'd I switch to rural life? Quality of life. When we had kids and got a glimpse of what life would be like with daycare, two people commuting, etc, we got scared and made a plan. It's been 5 or 6 years and still enjoying selling expensive pasture fed eggs etc. I like working from home and having no childcare expenses. Everyone is happy and healthy and we have time to raise our kids.

I remember the limp office parties when we reached GA on some new release, and we'd eat cheap cake. Then I think of how we practically dance and shout at the sky in joy when we all finish digging up all the potatoes. The comparison is stark. Modern life is a dystopic hellscape from this perspective.
Any equivalent for BeOS?
What platform? Do you have an example url?
Hello everyone, I'm Alex the founder of Vidpulse. Our service provides users with realtime analytics and endscreen recommendations for any video on their site. With a single script, we automatically track self-hosted videos that use Video.js, Brightcove, Ooyala, and JW Player, as well as any embed from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, and Dailymotion.

As a quick intro to our service, we created a page scanner that finds all videos in your website (including embeds from YouTube and Facebook) and also lets you know if any of those are broken or deleted.

Looking forward to your feedback and happy to answer any questions that you may have.
And yet is still correct to point this.

We decide what to imposse on the user by the choices we make.
How long do you estimate it will take you to pay back the loan?
> The current main advantage(s) of gold over bitcoin is it's still a lot easier for the average person worldwide to acquire and sell it

I don't think this is true at all? All I have to do to acquire Bitcoin is sign up for an account at an exchange, link my bank account, and then hit the buy button. It's exactly as easy to acquire as stocks.

Contrast with physical gold, which I wouldn't know where to acquire.
The question isn't whether the new Firefox is better than older versions, but rather whether they can regain any serious market share. And for that to happen, it won't be enough for Firefox to be comparable or even slightly better than Chrome.
You're right I should preface this by limiting things to America. Making 7$ / day or 210$/month is a living wage in much of the world, but only adds up to ~2,500$/year. I am sure many of these farms provide a better standard of living than many of my ancestors had.
Inclusion or Illusion? A Look at Google's $1B Philanthropic Game Plann
Even putting aside malicious use, which sounds hard, bricking the toy with a bad firmware patch sounds doable.

“Mooooom! Jane killed my furbie with an exploit!”
The Profit Motive Behind Financial Complexity
I don't think imperfect information would be an insurmountable obstacle for this.

If people overestimate the damage caused by the contamination, they'll take the buyout. People who think the damage is less important will then be able to buy that property. The net effect will be a migration of people scared of contamination away from the contaminated areas, and of people who don't care about it toward the contaminated areas, which seems fine.

In the event that everyone is overly scared of it, then the region will depopulate and the owner of the nuclear plant will be on the hook. They'll owe much more than the damage they actually caused, but I don't see a problem with this. There's no inherent right to damage someone else's health without their consent and then insist that they're wrong about how much the damage is worth.

I'm all for objective scientific study into the actual dangers of this stuff. But the cited study goes well beyond that and makes a normative claim that relocation is bad policy.

By all means, let's educate everyone on the true dangers of this stuff. Then let's allow them to decide for themselves whether it's worth staying or going. If the argument is that the populace is too ignorant to correctly make that decision, then fix that.

I'm very much in favor of nuclear power, but stuff like this doesn't help at all. It's true that people are ignorant of the true dangers, but this isn't going to convince them. "Don't evacuate, it won't kill THAT many of you" doesn't sound like someone making decisions in your own best interests.
Maybe I don't understand atomic well enough. If all threads hit an atomic compare and swap on the same address at the same time, doesn't the CPU have to make sure that only one thread is updating the value at a time? Wouldn't this manifest as slightly increased instruction latency for the other threads?
It does, but only the McMuffin sandwiches really taste like it. The others use the folded egg that they get premade and frozen.
He’s talking about actual communist political systems, not theoretical communism. Look at how China censored mention of tienanmen square, or how Stalin disappeared people from books and photographs.
His opposition is largely against legislation forcing people to use people's preferred pronouns, which is a position any defender of free speech should agree with.
Most all US politicians are inherently captured by special interest groups. One of the few things that works as an accurate predictor of who wins an election is money. And that money comes in the form of "donations" which leaves politicians to do the bidding of those that donate to them. They need it to get into office and then literally the first day they get into office they begin fund raising for the next run.

Neither party really wants to do anything except further their own power. Maybe one of the most clear examples of this is the TPP. It was going to be one of the biggest corporate handouts in American history, and it was being spearheaded by a democratic president who ran on a platform of trying to remove k-street influence (special interest/big donors) from politics. And while the democratic party put token opposition up, when it came time to for congress to vote away their right to amendment or debate of the TPP - they lined up and made sure he got the votes. It's all a charade.

Finally, a functional government would actually be dysfunctional. Our entire political system is built on checks and balances that means even a small voice in congress has the ability to stop actions from being carried out. The problem is we don't actually have a dysfunctional government. They are doing exactly what they're intending to do - carry out corporate and special interests with 0 hesitation, and then mostly flub about the rest of the time.
Talk about “build something people want”
I meant the former, but I appreciate the answers to both.
To me it tastes better; maybe it's what i'm used to but I find pasteurized milk quite horrible. Maybe it's just taste and other people love the taste of pasteurized. Never met those people, but that says nothing either. Raw milk cheese is also a lot nicer in my opinion.
Thanks for the comment.
I'm a sysadmin albeit only recently changed into this role.
FreeNAS was my first choice when I thought about building this solution, however, instinctively, it feels over engineered for my needs.
Sure, if I want a NAS with GUI, Jails and running VMs etc, I'll run to FreeNAS.
But, I'd like a minimal core (FreeBSD + ZFS + NFS + rsync) which lowers the failure surface. I will write a few scripts to keep an eye on the health of the server, and that'll be it.

Good to know that your NAS survived a 2/5 disk failure.
Two things really.

Through my travels, I've met some insanely wealthy people (most were borderline billionaires, some were actual billionaires) and I've been told once you reach a certain income level, having something that is rare or something nobody else has is their way of standing out among their friends. If all your friends have more money than god, you need something especially expensive or rare that isn't acquirable from simply being able to buy it.

Secondly, wealthy art collectors are notorious for buying rare, stolen art. There's an entire underground for it. I've read several books on it and you'd be surprised at how many pieces float around in the underground market without anybody ever knowing about it. I've had friends who run in the art circles comment on a famous piece that was being displayed in a person's home and they ask about it and they brush it off and say, "Meh, it's a replication, I mean, it would be illegal to have the real thing, right?" with a wink and a nod to the person. Just the idea they have something no one else can have gives them plenty of enjoyment. Passing it off as a fake and the thought they're getting away with something also has something to do with it.