skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually a little more than 5% of the median house price ($515,000), but setting that quibble aside that's a median* - meaning half of the homes are below that price. I know a lot of us Bay Area folks tend to forget this, but there are a lot of people living in California where $515k would buy the biggest house in town, and new home prices are closer to the 250k. This legislation is clearly a regressive burden on the less wealthy home buyers.

[1] median list price from https://www.zillow.com/ca/home-values/
It is hard because it must be vitally accurate. Screw it up and you end up with collision hazards. The number of dimensions is not the problem. The safety is.
As a Ham I am certainly intrigued by this posting.

There are a number of obstacles I can see to effectively using shortwave for financial services. Propagation conditions vary by time of day, solar activity and other exogenous factors. Another post hypothesized a 100 Kw transmitter power but even without running the numbers it seems like the FCCs Maximum Permissible Exposure Limits (MPE) would dictate a larger exclusion zone than the author encountered, however proper antenna modeling would be needed to be completely accurate. Another confounding factor to potential efficacy of the site is the surrounding terrain. The photos show nearby structures and trees which are less conducive to effective take off angles and propagation associated with the Yagi type antennas depicted. Most hardcore Ham sites with big towers have well groomed earth (or even better, water) around them. Additionally, the data would obviously have be encrypted and transmitted with extremely robust error correction.

It would be fun to grab a couple of boxes from AOR and see what is coming off those antennas.
> I think React could benefit from a clearer breakdown of how JSX translates to actual JavaScript.

I think a key factor here is that JSX is JavaScript but it pretends to be HTML. Things like `className` vs. `class` aren't insurmountable but it seems to be a common source of confusion until people have internalized that divide.
Nope. Brains don't use layers or back propagation. CS NN's are really just a cool name for math that has almost nothing in common with how the brain functions.

There is a lot of misinformation about how the brain works.
For example you see a lot of drawings with different parts of the brain doing different things. However, if you look at an actual brain almost none of this is physically obvious. At best those diagrams show what stops working when that part is damaged, though again plenty of people have very different structures and it still mostly works.
The word you’re looking for is “chivalry”. An outmoded concept in these modern times, but alive and well back then.
Switching Off: Joseph Brodsky and the moral responsibility to be useless
> However, the only reason for bitcoin to exist is to avoid banks and payment processors.

Not true. If your purpose is holding inflation-resistant money, payment processors and bitcoin banks may be perfectly ok.
You can’t fool all the people all the time. With the wrong political structure you only have to fool about half of them.
RinSim: extensible logistics simulator
Up till the middle of the article the arguments could be made either way (if we were somehow in a parallel universe and 75% of the CS workforce were females).

The part that got me thinking was whether CS is less social compared to other industries and careers.

I think that is the perception and reality. If by social we mean interaction with other human beings than a lot of the interaction we do is between a human and a computer. Not human to human. Of course there are lots of exceptions but expectations are there as well. The expectation that you are solving a problem as a group or by yourself.

Even in a number of CS programs you can't work together on problems. We have programs that scan your homework to see if you "cheated". Other business classes I took though regularly focused on group projects early on. CS early on is about learning to code and interacting with computers.
There are people who are so task focused that they waste a lot of energy worrying that they're not working on the right task! If you're at all like me, then this is a foreign concept. The introduction to GTD hints that it is specifically targeted at people like this to reduce their anxieties. It also caused me to stop reading the book because, as I said, that concept is mostly foreign to me (I have observed it in others, but my empathy is insufficient to truly understand it).
Honestly, this is more like having invented solar cells and then saying that that's how trees work. Turning light into energy is just a small part of what trees do, and solar cells are only an approximation of the idea but the actual implementation is very very different from photosynthesis.
they probably have a lot of overhead for the following things:

office rental,
increasing cost of septic tank hardware itself
increased environmental regulations
increase cost of permitting (money and time) with local government
impact fees maybe
increased insurance costs

people are making money on this, I just doubt its your tank installer
MTA is doing this. It’s the basis of Communication Based Train Control.
I don't have an amazon link for you, but it doesn't seem that magical to me? Submarines have had inertial nav for decades. This is a simpler problem, because travel is restricted to rails and drift can be corrected as often as necessary. Every airbag in every automobile is equipped with a very accurate fairly inexpensive MEMS acceleration sensor, which would the only specialized component required for such a system. Hobbyist components like the ADXL345 are also cheap. It wouldn't surprise me if such a system already exists for e.g. tracking underground mining equipment, but if not it wouldn't be an impossible task for an organization with the budget of MTA. It's not as though the system would need to be incredibly precise; it's replacing one that at its best can only measure average speed over some huge distance.
Honestly, something like React/Vue has got to be as close as it gets to "The Final Paradigm". At this point, it's been a long time since I've seen a new paradigm that does anything vastly different or more productive and simple than JSX + React/Vue lifecycle & state hooks. Most of the new UI libs that come out (Glimmer, Marko, etc) seem to be heavily influenced by React and don't offer a giant leap in how UI is done.

I think there's plenty of more opportunities in state management, CSS management, application structure, tooling, and making those more simple, but generally I think the view layer is more or less solved.
Patreon does actually help very significantly - at the current rate it effectively funds one fulltime developer for the project. Or to think of it another way, it adds several months onto the total runway that the funding from Status gives us, and this is a massive boost given the scale and ambition of the project - we need all the time we can get. So: huge huge thanks both to everyone who supported us in the past (without whom it would have been impossible to justify raising larger funding from folks like Status) - and likewise to everyone who continues to support Matrix today, as it genuinely is helping us keep the lights on.
The orphan drug company sold for a reason. It's a false assumption to assume the product would've continued to be available at the same price indefinitely.
I'm surprised that Ive did an interview with such a bad writer (as evidenced by overuse of needless adjectives) and one who so obsessively namedrops designer brands as if it's the brand, not the substance, that matters.

Fortunately after the inane introduction, the questions were real questions and not just the interviewer taking the opportunity to make points. So still a good read.
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I don't think they would be weaker - where do you think I said I thought that?

But lots of men definitely do think women are likely to be weaker in computer science. I don't know why they think that - you'd have to ask them?
I keep it at scaled to max resolution, but I reverted to default and it made no difference.
Yes, those are job ads for YC companies.
Thanks! Sorry for terse tone... just responding quickly from a smartphone while travelling :-) Your concerns are definitely valid and we are working on improving the situation.

Dynimizer can detect a drastic workload change as you described and reoptimize in response. That’s the default operation which can be turned off. What has been observed is that if we optimized for say a write-heavy workload and then change it to read-only without reoptimizing (or vice versa), it will still show an improvement, just not as much. Hope that makes sense.
Awkwardly, StreamBright and ninkendo are both right. My best advice about threading the needle is to concentrate on processes rather than goals.

Don't worry about befriending anyone; but recognise that you have a little leeway to make small-talk to any human before it becomes odd. Use it (with everyone) for practice at getting funnier and more charming. Have fun practicing, let results take care of themselves.

Something similar goes for becoming less "unattractive". Don't worry about your body shape, but learn to enjoy exercise (perhaps you do this already). Or with fashion and personal grooming, figure out what you like and so develop your personal style as you bathe and dress each day.
I imagine if it were my job to perform maintenance inches from a train going 40mph, I would grow accustomed to it before long. While we're at it, feeling safe and being safe aren't the same thing.
Elements in v6 and Beyond – Rob Wormald
How America Broke Its Economy
Coming soon though!
> Most people in this career don't get much on-the-job socialization. Or what about accounting and book keeping; which is a professional, white collar career that also happens to employ more women than men?

Another question would be, why in the early days of computing, programming was predominantly seen as women's work? Does it mean its social factor changed somehow?

See: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/computer-programmi...
What does your comment have to do with mine? You seriously registered an account just to reply to me? What's going on?
Don't forget removing the mag-safe power connector. Having said all that, what company and what person designs better stuff? Most of the crap we buy is garbage.
Yep. For an ideology that seems extremely concerned about how words like "chairman" or "craftsmanship" are perpetuating harmful gender biases, feminists sure never seem to notice that "creep" and "coward" are implicitly male.
But they're not evenly distributed among the continental US, right? My grandma probably doesn't use them, but I'd expect my friends and coworkers to be their target demographic.
I’m not sure why you’d say that Hashicorp doesn’t like Google Cloud. I can think of recent partnerships between Hashicorp and Google on Vault and Terraform that are both substantial integrations. Google Cloud and Hashicorp both have people that work on the GCP Terraform Provider, and they do an excellent job keeping it up to date. By all external measures this looks like a great relationship.
I got mine around the time I was appointed as the DPO-equivalent for GDPR compliance in my company.

I still have it, but I consider it an aspirational purchase for a time when I can actually go to movies. I think I'm averaging about 2 movies for every 3 months.
Speaking from personal experience, this advice isn't as bad as the votes and replies are making it look.

I spent most of my time as a kid screwing around with computers and other whatsits, so I was really withdrawn and socially awkward after high school, and gave off the kind of accidental creeper aura that people here are talking about. (A mix of shyness, over-sharing, nonexistent small talk, and bad body language.)

Then I took a break from the tech industry for a while and ended up getting a job as a climbing instructor. It was an amazing change in a short period of time. I learned how to socialize quickly and easily with people I'd never met before, went out for beers, learned how to show people that they could trust me with their safety or their kid's safety really fast (because kids' birthday parties were a big revenue stream...).

Any kind of job or hobby that requires you to be social to do well at it should work just fine. (Retail and food service don't count.)

I'm sure there are people who are so naturally awkward that this is useless advice, but I suspect there are far more people who could benefit from spending more time around people than they do around electronics.
> In addition to these perceptions about people in tech, tech actually is less social for women than for men. It’s harder for women to make friends and fit in, both in university classes and at tech companies. Because it’s unnatural or might be taken the wrong way, young men are less likely to approach women and invite them to join a study group or happy hour, poker night, or whatever else they do with their male peers/coworkers. They don’t just sit next to women without a desk neighbor, ask them unsolicited questions, or offer to help. They’re less likely to joke with them, complement them, or even chat with them casually. The exclusion is unintentional, not malicious, but made worse by the fact that women are more socially aware than men at this age.

I wonder how much of that has to do with how young, male engineers are hammered with the social mores of creepy, harassing nerds pushed as one of the reasons for less women in tech. Maybe they're trying to take the safe route and just not interact.
Did you try container tabs instead of profiles? Could save you a few coh cycles.

The gmail/gdocs slowdowns are being tracked and worked on. It's a problem when websites actively optimize for competitive products though.
So, a non-economic, burdensome measure instead of a carbon tax, which directly addresses the problem. With SB827 failing, I'm feeling good about leaving California.
The argument for me around solar was more that I expect fossil fuels to become vastly more expensive in the lifetime of the panels.

I agree the risk profile is wrong, so I offloaded the risk to SolarCity for this iteration (25 years), but if I'm still in the house when those panels expire I will almost certianly need to re-roof, and I'm hoping solar tiles are a no-brainer by that point.

22 years from now? I expect fossil fuels to be crazy expensive. I expect solar tech and home storage options to be commoditized, and I haven't seen anything to make me thing I'm wrong about any of that.
It's not very well known but very surprisingly, it's the only legal place I found (for a US customer) to buy FLAC albums of obscure metal bands. Yes you read that right, we're not talking about current pop stars. For example, try finding a legal way to purchase FLAC versions in the US for the following:

Korova - A kiss in the charnel fields

Dissection - Storm of the light's bane

Bishop of Hexen - The nightmarish compositions

Things that I already considered before I found Tidal:

1. Buying the physical disc and ripping it to FLAC works except it's generally (for those albums above) significantly more expensive than getting the FLAC from Tidal. discogs.com market is the best place for obscure metal CDs but most ship from Europe and the shipping costs are considerable.

2. 7digital.com has all those albums (in FLAC) for customers in Canada or the UK, not on the US marketplace...

3. bandcamp, my favorite FLAC source, doesn't have any of that (it's mostly for recent indie artist releases and not a good resource for music released a few decades ago)
Anyone can make money on Spotify, and Tidal is owned by the "top, top artist"s. Spotify payouts are based on the number of streams, so obviously smaller artists will have less streams and thus get paid less. The same goes for any other music distribution platform including physical record sales. Also, artists are more likely to gain exposure on Spotify as their curated playlists and artist playlists allow bigger artists or Spotify's curators to give smaller artists exposure through their playlists. The discover algorithm does a great job of exposing me to small and new artists that I wouldn't have found without it.

I've tried Tidal, Apple Music, Google Music, Prime Music, Rdio (when that was a thing) and have always gone back to Spotify because the put a lot more effort into getting smaller/newer artists records in front of users.
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Debit cards aren't cash. They're credit cards that get instantly paid off from your bank account by direct debit. But you're right to laugh at the idea that cash is dead. In China, everyone who isn't using AliPay or WeChatPay (ie credit cards without the plastic card) is using cash. Yes, people use credit or debit cards a lot more often now, but paying with cash is very much still a thing.
Great article. Appreciate the point of view and I think all the advice is sound.
After having a mead go through the laundry, I switched to a rite-in-the-rain with a fisher. The notebook can survive 2-3 trips through the laundry before it becomes hard to read.
"why are so many women maids or professional housekeepers?"

Same reason so many men are janitors.
One killer feature from Safari missing still is 'Show tab overview' with thumbnails of all your tabs ... anyone know of a well maintained plugin that does something like this? I think it should be built into the browser.
You start career. If you already have been programming like in high school or something and finished CS university don't focus much on technical books. Learn how to work with people not computers and listen. I assume you know objects, ifs, for loops. It is enough for technical start. I don't expect more from junior. "The pragmatic programmer" is quite good start on it.

If you lack technical background and have problems with structure because you have not worked through university/school in structured way then "Code complete", "Clean code".
Pick also something in depth for your specific area you are going to start, for C# good would be "C# in depth" to get really details of tech you will be working on. Get details in one programming language really well then you can pick up some other tech.
Unlikely. FWIW, Firefox 60 is an ESR release :-)
The Beyonce and Kanye West exclusives were major selling points when Tidal launched, I think they also wanted other artists to do exclusives (Prince had an exclusive with them for a while).
For reasons that I suspect are now obvious, I pretty much hate all the tech coming out of the Google/Facebook/Twitter complex. If you need to ask why, I suggest asking them why they don't comply with GDPR.

However, there is one fantastic use case I can see for Google Duplex, the service that makes phone calls for you: dealing with health insurance companies.

If this AI is half as good as they claim.... does that mean it can call into your health insurance company, wait on hold for two hours, and then spend another hour arguing with the rep who is trying to deny your claim, including waiting on hold, and correcting them on incorrect details and making sure they don't lie to you about their policies? Because that would be amazing.
> $3k-$5k+ (profit) a week in septic installs

Did you factor in healthcare?
That's a good point. If this did actually reduce stress on the energy grid it may minimize solar savings for those who paid for it.
"women are more social" wait I thought conclusions about the capabilities of people by gender are verboten ??
Anyone who's been involved in hyper-growth startups knows that having a hobby is extremely difficult. The least one can do is squeeze in gym time at hotels during business trips, but otherwise, time is definitely an issue.

For a decently established startup with well-secured funding, this article is spot-on.
Do you mean multiple thousands per day per person? Or multiple thousands per day for multiple people?
I haven't found a JavaScript framework that truly makes things easy. I've been a developer for a long time, going back even before the web itself, and a lot of the older technology was pretty easy in comparison to what we have today for web development.

My impression of React is actually quite positive; it solves a real problem in a highly performant way and with a relatively good model. But it is still pretty low-level to me; even if you add in a dozen or so other libraries.

My needs are fairly different from Facebook or most startups -- I don't work on a single highly optimized application -- I build a new application every few months (and maintain all of the previous ones). The current set of JS frameworks don't do a lot to help me.
Where's the evidence that they didn't cherry-pick examples that are intentionally hard to tell apart? It's also dishonest for them not to emphasize how important speakers/amps/etc matter in the test. Of course someone with Apple earbuds or "Beats by Dre" won't be able to tell the difference.
It's bizarre to me that this is the red line for everybody.
>It's a nightmare.

Wow. A bit melodramatic here talking about your free new replacement device, and off topic.

Your touch problems are probably due to you pressing the screen, instead of tapping. Just do light taps, and it should work fine. Maybe you are used to a different type of device.

Wallpaper can be changed to anything you want. You can Google it and find out how to do it.
The data on staff engineer salaries at Google seems very off. The total comp for staff is $580K with a breakdown of total comp with being a 200K base, a 200K bonus, and 172K of stock. I would be surprised if the average staff engineer gets a bonus that is at 100% of their salary level. I guess this is the issue with user submitted data.

You could add h1 salary info (which is publicly available) to improve accuracy on the base compensation portion.
I don't think so...

<button class="MyButton" onclick="doSomeJsStuff()">...</button>
<script>function doSomeJsStuff() { ... }</script>

vs

function MyButton(props) {
return <button className="MyButton" onClick={this.props.onClick}>
{props.children}
</button>
}

The latter is a reusable component, the former is a one-off that has to be repeated over and over instead of re-used. Both wrap one syntax into another.
>Invest in social events: It can take a lot of time to set up opportunities for your team to hang out , but casual socializing is awesome for the extroverts on your team and crucial for retention... and go out of your way to include everyone.

Going through this at work. The extroverts took over my department and now our (mandatory) team meetings have (mandatory) fun events that give extroverts time to brag about what they have going outside of work and give the extroverts an audience who can't refuse (the introverts who do the work). And it's awful for people who dislike forced socialization at work. And these are like 11 am meetings on Tuesday so it's dry and interrupts concentration workers.

But this article didn't seem very interesting - these points have been discussed before and it struck me as the bleats of an attractive-enough women who's upset that she has to put in effort and other people aren't giving her the attention she feels entitled to.

Say what you will about traditional corporate cultures, but things seem to work better for everyone when the decorum is universal, clear/well-documented, and free from empathetic demands.
My cynical side would say that the California housing market is already so completely fucked, with only millionaires and Chinese expats able to buy new houses, that if there's no chance of getting it fixed (and with SB827 dead, that seems to be the case) one might as well do this to get something useful from the situation. It's like a tax on the 1% that funds renewable energy programs.

I'd rather have cheap housing, but if the NIMBY's are going to have their way, I can at least extract more money from them for useful purposes.