skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Having lived in both SOMA and the Mission, I wholeheartedly disagree.

No need to rely on anecdotes though. According to San Francisco’s Controller’s Office, a little over 6% of the population work in the tech industry[1]. That is an unquestionably small minority of the overall population.

If the people you have met predominantly worked in tech, it is likely due to a bubble you created yourself. Perhaps, for example, the majority of the population outside of tech cannot afford to spend time at those coffee shops and restaurants?

[1] https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/why-san-francisco-...
Russia hacked the Olympics and tried to make it look like North Korea did it
Especially in this case I think including the filename would have been nice; manually going through list of 2.8k domains and trying to guess if you ever have happened to have an account there is no fun. Having the filename might also help verify the veracity of the information.

I suppose the reason for omitting the filename is that Troy does not want to cast any unwarranted trust in the filenames, which is fair.
If you don’t care about being in the city, and do care about being close to nature, then that’s an obvious choice.

That being said, I don’t want to raise my kids out there. I want my kids surrounded by many cultures, and to have access to the arts that NYC provides.

It just is a no brainer for me.
This is like finding out McDonalds have been serving you Burger King.
You have different tax withholding procedures, differences in labor law and what sort of employment contracts are allowed, differences in mandated benefits (e.g. parental leave).

This is an issue even if you want to hire in more than one US state.

The question is whether all that adds up to "a lot", which is a value judgment.
The obviously unanswerable question would be: would Dropbox have been able to succeed as a startup while building their own data centers in-house?

I assume that answer is a no.
I have a daily shot of espresso at the office at 8am. It tastes good and helps me focus. Sometimes there's a happy hour on Friday. I don't drink, but some of my coworkers do in moderation.

I'm sure there is a drug/party/binge drinking culture in some companies in the Bay, but it's the mildest I've seen in any industry/geography so far.
npm - Critical Linux filesystem permissions are being changed by latest version
We are evaluating similar software for use during due diligence review in investment and M&A transactions at my firm. We have found that the software is good for identifying when contracts have certain troublesome clauses such as restrictions on assignments in an asset sale. These tools certainly save time and make document review faster and more accurate.

The biggest issue we have found is that this type of review does not identify when contracts are missing key terms. For that, we still need someone with experience in the relevant field thinking about the business context of the agreement and the potential risks.
Ah. That makes much more sense.

Thanks!
It's a pure commodity.

I recall when my wife was moved to the generic the out of pocket cost was like $8, which was under the copay. The pharmacist said that the placebo pill that is there for the last days of the cycle was more expensive than the actual drug!
Love these type of tools especially when using with github pages.

Anyone have any other tool recommendations that work well with github pages and other static sites?
Those "mom-and-dad shops" are the ones who have the most to lose by hiring the wrong person. A sufficiently poor performing person could cripple them.
That's an interesting way to teach, acting much like someone running a college level CS lab, except you also have the benefit of creating the material. I think this is one of the better ways I have read to teach this sort of stuff. No one will be left behind and those who are fast are not held back. The only problem I can see is class sizes but with a low enough size, this seems like an awesome teaching method.
I find statements like this both cringe and problematic. The heavy emphasis on industry defined identity is creepy, extremely impersonal, and backwards.

I've been a software developer in advertising, various startups and have friends in fashion and finance. While sure you can get some interesting insights into their industries, for example Gucci's new operating room spread is dope af, or the fact that hedge funds year over year make 20% on average using their "genius quants" (aka insider trading), I find that the actual people themselves are a relatively homogenous subculture across industries. That is a typically upper middle class white with a BS/BA in econ/finance/cs/communications who got "really drunk" in college, "loves" IPAs now and does sober February's as a challenge.

These are all various shades of yuppie identity non-diverse in thought, culture, or world perspective. They are boring.
I guess in microgravity all bets are off, but the box they show doesn't match my mental model for "how they make fiber". I'm thinking of these videos I've seen of 2-3 story tall fiber optic manufacturing machines where they drop the molten glass a dozen feet down the middle before touching it.

Somehow I'm more impressed by the fact that they can pull optically clear fiber in a box the size of a rackmount case than that they will do it in orbit.
I was replying to the second, just adding a "virtually" doesn't absolve you of real-world hardware concerns. If your SDR is getting overloaded because of bad pass-band filtering then no amount of software is going to save you.
Thanks @vibrolax, that does look ideal. I was going to muck around and design the circuit myself (hopefully based off a solid reference design), but the COTS setup you listed above looks just like what I need, so I think I'll go ahead and get it once funds allow :) Thanks again for the tip.
The Stratix 10 SX has an onboard AArch64 ARM core, correct. Previous systems used ARMv7. Most FPGAs with a built-in system-on-chip you'll see have ARM cores attached, as well, such as Xilinx boards. Intel isn't unfamiliar with selling ARM chips, but in this case -- Intel acquired Altera, who did this originally. You can find one-or-two FPGA SoCs from Intel with actual x86 chips instead, though.

But the idea is that the ARM cores normally just act as your "control plane" -- manage the FPGA, watch power usage, reload configurations, monitor & reporting metrics, etc etc. So they aren't the main attraction, of course.

In the long run, Intel will be moving to discrete PCIe FPGA cards for data center usage, as well as fusing the FPGAs directly on-chip, alongside the Xeon cores for extremely high-end stuff. That's where you'll find products like Stratix 10 (aside from a few other places.) So in datacenter-oriented offerings, you may not see the ARM cores floating around that much.
Guess you never got lost in the purple level!
You mean you do service to other people for no salary in your spare time and you are asking why do you need a job to pay bills? Seriously?
Over treatment incentivized by fee for service.

I advocate for the capitation model, rewarding wellness. Though it’s not a silver bullet (eg trauma, acute conditions).
Looks like a modified sliding dovetail.

Who knew that joinery techniques hundreds of years old could make furniture stronger?
I drink coffee. Up to three cups a day when working over 12 hours. Beyond that? No. I have an occasional glass of red wine at night, but have little desire to ever try any other drug. I am curious about the effects of micro-dosing LSD for creative productivity, but would only ever consider that in a medical research setting - I am more curious about the results of such a study. I don't know anyone who used/uses illegal drugs in my profession, and I am in my 4th job as a developer. Be careful about the comments here; not everyone uses drugs and you have no idea about sample size and representation in these comments. I am sorry about your loss, and wish you the best in your research and hope it can help others in the future.
Peace for Triple Piano by Vi Hart [video]
It would be odd to me to describe webpack as "shaping up against" Brunch. Brunch is basically niche by comparison – by # of installs, webpack is roughly 172X more popular. webpack not only has more features, but I wouldn't expect Brunch to be much faster even before webpack 4. Just a guess though.
While working at a local Datacenter in Austin Texas(2016), I was introduced to and regularly used these performance enhancing drugs:

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Armodafinil
Adderall
4-ACO-DMT
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Sleep is the foe that austinites try to vanquish; psychedelic interconnectivity its modus operandi. Community building is the endeavor of this weird little city of Austin, the future its dream.
The making of video is very interesting as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1zJoU6Luss
Review: Annals of the Former World (1998)
His only actionable solution solely applies to himself.
"Sorry if this is an naive question. If every large companies are doing it, why aren't there a standard open source abstraction library available?"

I think Tahoe LAFS is the open source solution for this.

https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoe-LAFS
The anger comes from, in personal experience, being taken out of society by things outside of your control, and whenever you ask for help being treated like a lazy beggar who has a lot of nerve even asking to survive. It comes from seeing the same "if I can help let me know" responses over and over that are really like "lets get lunch" statements and never result in actual help. Then when you get more depressed and upset that you can't get help people get defensive and dump their resentment or guilt on you more. It's a long spiral that is impossible to get out of often. Getting to the point you need help can happen to anyone...but most people need to pretend it can't and thus blame the victim and that victim's natural reactions to being crushed by life.
It's just an example of course. But even downtime from work is massively important for your mental health, why it should be interrupted by a constant treadmill on recruiter's rat race?
Are you familiar with CAFE? Or the EPA in general? You were the one who made that statement about New York being underwater. Find me a date and a quote and I'll tell you exactly how things changed afterward.

The point I'm trying to make is that we've already taken steps to limit impact which is why the apocalyptic scenarios of yesteryear haven't come to pass.
Lee Kuan Yew might be the best recent example of things done right. The trick is becoming responsibility-obsessed (though you might have to endure mischaracterizations of power-obsessed), so the real question is whether Xi is going to be responsible with power or not? The only metric I have as an outsider is overall country success. China's done very well over the past few decades, we'll see if it continues.
Yeah, I had hopes for FxOS too...

As far as Google's anti-competitive practices, I know people have been looking at them. I am not a lawyer; it's unclear to me how easy it is to bring private suits about that sort of thing (as opposed to governments bringing antitrust suits).

Fully agreed on the web standards bit. Part of the problem there is simply manpower. Google is throwing a _lot_ of people at standards bodies... :(
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> I'm trying to determine too if all of the drug use in tech is really aimed at enhancing performance/productivity or if it's also used to stave off depression, anxiety or just that feeling so many of us have and have had that we're not doing anything particularly meaningful in our professional work.

This is a fascinating possibility, and apparently there's at least one researcher working on exactly that. [1][2]

On a much lesser level, I know this is a common reason for the divide between focus tips ("listen to white noise, silence, or wordless music to avoid distraction") and people's self-report techniques ("listening to intense EDM helps me code"). The goal isn't to avoid distraction, it's to break through tedium and help code longer without losing focus. I'd hardly be surprised if more intense things like LSD microdosing had similar effects.

Anecdotally, I know at least one very skilled programmer who insisted she couldn't work without marijuana. She didn't think THC did anything to raise her core abilities, but rather said that it stopped her from getting impatient or bored and let her work more methodically for longer.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-...

[2] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21507740.2014.990...
Yep, you can only fly direct from Anchorage if you go in a box :).
Spain is mainly the responsible for that: ~30kg per capita/year (vs. <10kg in other European countries).
Apple can hire the engineers to build an object storage system, but to build one that can scale takes at least a couple years. If Dropbox can move away from S3 with much less capital, so can Apple. Apple doesn't want to invest in that effort at all.
Sooooo thankful your second sentence turned out the way it did.

Just enough time reading the first sentence for “WTF” to form in my mind in anticipation of the condescension to come, and then the second sentence and it was a nice bit of stress release.

Hurray for the hacker in Hacker News.
Manchego on the other hand, worth every penny and a great source of butyrate, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304454916_The_neuro...
how can you tell if someone is up? Just from years of using stimulants yourself or are there obvious, telltale signs? I missed a boatload of them with Peter.
If a spambot targets you specifically, that's another story of course.

Most of the spambots jsut search for forms to fill on the internet.
Ah, QZ: one of the only sites that on principle I won't click on anything that links there. Terrible click bait headlines, poorly constructed arguments, scroll hijacking. Nothing to see here, move along.
Not to sound like a judgmental jerk, but how is this cool? It's just a very vague landing page.
My fear would be that you wouldn't have a rigorous, well-tuned process for those folks, so there could be a lot of noise or randomness in their evaluations. And it could be very hard for you to compare them with the folks with extensive GitHub portfolios and resumes.
Journey into the machine, /proc
did the startup grind for a couple years getting out our MVP and wearing tons of hats. smoked weed on the daily. Still at the same company a few years later. Still chillin on the weeds (only on the weekends now) myself. A lot of my co-workers are pretty straight-edge, vegans, no drinking etc. We are in the midwest though so there is no west-coast fancy cars fast life cocaine shit going on. Its more about buying a 30 pack of cheap busch lite and gettin drunk in some corn fields
I've always felt that a well-written contract should "compile" without errors and warnings.

Instead, in dealing with even simple business contracts, I routinely see things that contradict each other, or are open to interpretation.

There needs to be a good validation process for contracts.
We just launched Moving Nomads for web today and the 2.0 version of the mobile app. Moving Nomads gives you user generated tips to help you find the best co-working spaces, Wifi cafes, sim cards, coliving spaces & Digital Nomads around you. We have data on over 300 cities with about 8000 Digital Nomads on the platform. The web version is a light version of the app that only provides you city information and tips. For advance filters, Nomad connect, Hop, tips map, profile, add tips you can get the mobile app. Looking forward to your feedback!
Yeah, same in government contracting with the coffee and alcohol. Older guys all just drink (obscene amounts of) coffee and us young guys go out and drink and smoke.

One thing I have seen quite a bit of in the Gov't contracting world is the smoking of all kinds of tobacco. I'm a pipe smoker but we have plenty of guys who enjoy regular and simi-regular cigar smoking. We also have a more cigarette smokers then I was used to seeing in the purely commercial sector. I don't know why this is. These are just some observations I have made.
Are you still working in the industry in Austin and do you still use this?
I do the same thing, although my data growth seems to be a bit higher. My kid is less than a year old and I'm on pace to generate about 2-2.5 TiB for the first year. (Mostly 4k video.)

At some point I might start thinking of re-encoding the originals, but so far storage is cheap to have locally, and I'm going to see how long I can keep this up.
> Because if you have in your CV verifiable statements that you worked on some super tough engineering challenges

If it takes longer to verify than it does to test your coding ability directly, why shouldn't I just ask you to do some coding? The challenges you took might be less impressive or well known than you think. The challenges you took might not say much about you if they were team challenges.

> including advanced snippets of code/projects on GitHub demonstrating your dominance in that area

That doesn't help me compare one candidate to another at all. Nor does your github demonstrate dominance in anything, unless your project is React or something like that. Github is a vast wasteland of barely used code.

> doing silly low-end coding quizzes seems like a total waste of time

It's going to take about as long to get through job interviews no matter how the interview is conducted. You can spend it programming, or you can spend it talking. The time spent is an investment in getting the job. If you don't actually want the job, then you're right, it's a waste of your time.

What's not going to happen, ever, is someone will take the initiative to read through all your work, verify the things on your CV, and offer you a great high paying job without going through the interview process.

> Can't you really see that?

To be very frank and honest, given all the reasoning and experience I've shared with you, this question gives me the impression that you might be very inexperienced.

> It's just super arrogant.

What, precisely, is arrogant? What are you talking about specifically? Using Hackerrank in an interview? Having an interview at all? Not noticing that you're a rockstar before talking to you?

Please take some time to articulate what the right interview process is, rather than spend any more time passing blanket judgements.
I was diagnosed with ADD in college and put on Dexedrine. It does an incredibly good job of helping you focus and help you get things done.

I feared the drug though and never took it as much as prescribed. I phased it out completely after a few years and later realized that there are other factors that can help just as much with your attention deficit. Sleep, diet, and exercise are insanely important. I believe a lot of people on drugs for ADD could just focus on these 3 things and effectively cure their ADD. Definitely not all people, I am sure there are plenty that need help, but a lot of the time I see it overprescribed (in my non-medical opinion). Just moving to a low carb diet helps a ton. Sleep helps a ton. Exercise helps you feel good and sleep well. On the flip side, bad sleep habits (like those you develop in college) lead to bad eating habits and bad exercise habits. It's a vicious circle. Stimulants help you avoid those healthy habits with some of the same positive outcomes (at the expense of health).

I think you are crazy though if you think prolonged exposure to these drugs is fairly low risk. You build up a tolerance, you need to take more, and it does have long term effects. It seems like you are in your early 30's so you may have been doing this routine for the past 10. If so, when do you think you will stop? Never? Please talk to a professional about it.
In your professional career, have you been in other industries and regions where it was far more prevalent?
"Ours goes up to eleven."
Demand is strong, certainly, but productivity has topped out (ie: we're overfishing/we can't find new fish). Do subsidies lower the price for the consumer or simply keep output high given the decreasing stocks (therefore decreasing the price)?
> Obviously there are reasons to use custom-designed hardware if you are a corporation and you are building a million identical devices, or if you have extreme bandwidth or latency needs that a modern CPU literally can’t keep up with, etc.

Or power, plenty of battery powered things in the hobby space where using discrete hardware optimized for low power usage is necessary. Discrete hardware doesn't have to be an ASIC, it's still possible to string together a opamps and other SMD parts pretty easily these days.
> That feels painfully wrong and is quite disgusting.

The problem is that German legislature, jurisdiction and the self-regulating body are... not exactly the definition of agile, more the contrary... it took multiple court jurisdictions to get a final clearance for a f...ing crossed out swastika because some public prosecutors were hellbent on convicting antifas for reproduction of nazi propaganda (yes, for real!).

The fact that most of these people are old white ... who never have played a computer game in their life doesn't exactly help gamers' rights in that area either.
Oh, I didn't realize he spent much time moderating. I figured most of his time on HN was spent on improving the systems like voting ring detection.
I worked in a very toxic post-series-A tech startup trying to get acquired. We where all expected to work 8am-10pm and the CEO would always tell us that if we wanted to move up in the company we needed to work weekends as well. Just a 15 minute break would get you a lecture on work ethic from one of the upper-management who really micromanaged engineers.

After about a year there I learned about half my team was taking Adderall to keep up. After a two week stint of working until 11am every day of the week I got called back into the office at 12:00 midnight by the CEO and the next day I had to call in sick because I was shivering and cold because of sleep depravation. I started putting out resumes that day.
"It doesn’t have heart. It doesn’t trust its own people. So it has no self-identity in the sense that it has never accepted human rights as common values. No freedom of speech, no independent judicial system."

All of this was true of the USSR and yet it was a global super-power for half a century.
This whole shtick of ignoring standards and pushing custom APIs is very becoming of Apple. Everything about them is custom, from the lightning connector to the graphics API.

Oh, and you apparently own the phone they sell you but THEY get to choose what apps you can and cannot run on them.

They need to revisit their 1984 inspired Superbowl ad, I feel stuck in their big-brother chokehold.