skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laugable claim. Here in DMV all job inquiries I get brag about 3 or more wfh. I grill or fry something up for dinner regularly. Only the SV bubble tries to get you to eat all meals with them and never leave the office because "passion" or similar hand wavy bullshit.
Likewise but to Sacramento. It's nice here.
I think the next step Trump takes is to offer to drop tariffs against Europe and Canada if they put tariffs on China.
I can consider living somewhere else; especially Wellington is a good option as you said. However currently I am happy with my job and living arrangements here, but definitely I will consider them when I want a change.

But honestly, I always thought that those cities had even less variety than Auckland.
It's interesting to hear Chinese academics take a pragmatic, realist view of potential impacts. A prolonged trade spat with a US strongman is hardly a desirable outcome. But even if China's export-oriented industries will suffer due to trade protection measures brewing in the US, EU, and Canada, Trump's domestic focus will likely allow many of China's global ambitions to continue unabated: in Africa, in Central Asia, and possibly in Oceania.

This approach mirrors what the US and Soviet Union pursued during the cold war by winning favors through a mix of economic assistance and direct foreign investment. It's a parallel game whose fruits will pay off in the long term, when China reaches its post-industrial stage, and has to use its network of connections to ensure continued prosperity for its people.
The original SystemV init was ugly and hairy. Systemd managed to replace it with something more counter-intuitive and obtuse. That took effort.

"systemctl list-units"

What's wrong with?

"systemctl list" or "systemctl units" or "systemctl ls" ?

Then there's the output, which is borderline unreadable. The entire systemd design is like this. It seems like it's designed by people who enjoy arcane hard to read and hard to type stuff.

I can never, ever remember the magic incantations required to get it to load a new unit file. I can also never recall where they go without Googling and it seems to vary across distributions. People always joke that the first step to doing anything with git is to Google it. Systemd is worse since its commands are bizarre and non-memorable.

Over the years I've grown to hate intentionally arcane software. It wastes your time to no benefit. I tolerate git because it's powerful and it does have rational reasons for how it does things, but systemd is just annoying.
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“Who would you trust on the flight deck: a pilot or a programmer?”
I would be surprised if there wasn't corporate speak about it.

Honestly, if you were running the corporation would you just boil it down to "We stopped building our Internet airplane thingy. Sorry y'all" ?
> I imagine one could do something with the indexed zero-page modes, but I'm not sure how well that works in practice.

That's it exactly. Page zero essentially becomes 128 16-bit registers. But of course a lot of things are hungry for page zero resources. And it isn't exactly speedy. So you could put a pointer in page zero, and reach 256 bytes off of it.
This is not unlike Peter Thiel’s Small-markets strategy. No one cares, you can monopolize it and then grow at the margin into new markets.
Sexual pleasure might help us learn – if rats are any guide
Salaries are low at VC-backed firms. Huge salaries are from companies with a lot of revenue.
Quality Engineering Services- White Paper – Application Performance Testing
Yes this is probably the problem, and I think the maintainers do everything they can.

I was not writing the post to criticise Alpine as I really like it, but people need to take the missing security updates into consideration before they start to depend on Alpine for important things.
3x in which dimension(s)?

The paper bag can be easily recycled, will biodegrade, and not cause issues in our ocean.

Clearly people bringing their own reusable bags is best, but we're talking about disposable alternatives here.
The Air Line Pilots Association is trying to block the study of single pilot aircraft by framing the law as resulting in the immediate removal of one pilot from the cockpit. Personally, I think future aircraft with one person onboard and one "super dispatcher" monitoring/controlling multiple aircraft on the ground would be much safer. Except for steering around weather, most interventions in A to B flights are caused by air traffic control. Why not just let ATC control the spacing of planes from the ground?
The Amiga 2000 series had ISA slots and IBM bridgecards to run DOS and Windows on the Amiga.

Commodore also had the PC Colt series PC compatible systems cheaper than IBM and Compaq etc.

The Commodore name and reputation of selling C64s in toy stores made businesses not see the Amiga seriously.

There also was that Amax Mac emulator for the Amiga as it used the same CPU as the Mac.

But all people could see was the AV part not the other parts.
Serious question: what’s a leetcode grinder?
>but it was a nightmare for a secretary or an executive who saw the computer only as an appliance. MS-DOS contrived to make everything more difficult through its sheer primitive minimalism

I don't know about that - people have adapted to the GUI because it's the most dominant thing. Microsoft shipped Solitaire to get people used to the mouse and I'm sure I've heard of people who were extremely reluctant to give up TUI or DOS programs that they were extremely efficient in.
with two teslas on the street parking spot and an apple device stuck in each orifice.

(probably more the case of a couple making $250k each and still buying above their lifestyle than the case this thread is about)
Yep. My view on trade wars is basically: let's all chop off an arm. Last one standing wins. Whoever wins may discover that they didn't really need that arm to survive, but is life really better without it?
What I did is sent them old password, and few days later they sent me the recover link in my recover email address.
For what it's worth, I moved here (in part) because of the large talent pool, but found it just as hard to hire here in the Bay Area as elsewhere. And maybe harder... Even though the talent pool is much larger, there is also much more venture capital fueling employment.

I'd be interested in an analysis of job seekers vs. job openings from someone like Hired - is the Bay Area better for developers or employers?
Serotonin enhances learning, not just mood
Can confirm, as a FOSS developer and advocate with zero tolerance for the kind of petulant disregard for the ethics of sharing and consent being displayed by op.
This is simply not true in when both countries can print currency, and the global markets are heavily reliant on the value of those currencies.
It’s correlation vs causation. The presence of income inequality makes the city more and more liberal. Politics is a dial between fairness and freedom. There are downsides to both, so elections tune the setting depending on your current conditions. CA is the state where the pursuit of happiness is most fruitful. There are 124 Billionaires in CA (only 400 something in the entire united states). Of those 70+ are in the Bay Area (most are locally grown in this tiny region of 7million people). All of Germany has 48 or something. Thus in the land of opportunity, you are either a billionaire, or act like you want to be in the future, or you push on the dial for fairness.
Can do bootstrap landing page.

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My analogy was based on means, not ends. GS split investment banking ops from consumer banking. Similarly something could separate the consumer data business from the telco/infrastructure business.

But sure, GDPR works just as well; even better perhaps. Although GOOD LUCK getting something like that to pass through US legislature. Especially when the legislative has already allowed ISPs to freely trade in consumer traffic (meta)data. You can find a preliminary coverage here https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/28/house-vote-sj-34-isp-regul...

But indeed, I do agree that a GDPR-clone is overdue in the US. While I hope it comes to fruition, I also hope it isn’t hopelessly bastardized and rendered toothless by the lobbyist lot.
SF to St. Louis here. I miss a lot of things about SF (weather, certain kinds of food, urban density) but I definitely would not move back. It's a very silly place in a lot of ways.
Wi-Fi Alliance issues WPA3 standard to improve wireless security
Google rebrands its ad lineup, with AdWords becoming Google Ads
As someone who used to work in tech in DC who relocated to the Bay Area, pay in the DMV is really bad for a tech hub. I got a near 100% raise just by leaving for the Valley, and at all but one of the companies I've worked for here, almost everyone is out the office before 6, if not before 5 (or even earlier - I'll sometimes leave the office between 2:30 and 3:30 & nobody blinks an eye). One of my own teammates works from home anywhere from 2 days a week to the whole week from home.

There's this myth that all companies here are 12+ hour a day grinders, but while there are some startups like that, there are a lot of companies here that advertise work-life balance being an important thing.
I like the approach for generality, but for something like the word count example, there's absolutely no way that parallelizing at the multi-core level would beat doing this in SIMD. None of those examples are topping at at more than a gigabyte per second, which is walking pace for this sort of problem.

Further, I suspect that the extremely regular pattern of the space boundaries is probably giving the branch predictor a leg up. It almost certainly would pick up the 'every 5' pattern if not the 'every 17' pattern. So a realistic example would be far more branch miss heavy.

This is still fine work, as the effort of writing a nice C++ function and getting some parallel help on it is tiny compared to writing SIMD code, and some problems don't play nice with SIMD at all.
You're assuming it's "just" a trade war. It's not.
I am no Trump supporter I will start with that. I disagree with almost the all of his policies/actions.

However, China has been playing behind the US back for too long. Tech espionage, hacking, trade to a certain extent as well. China is not a developing economy as most think. It is already a superpower.

This is actually pre-emptive war. No weapons, but at some point the US had to act while the odds were still in its favor.

IF you played Civilization, any strategy game - then you know what I am talking about (or history books).

>> Loans - But China has tons us US debt!?!?

-Yes they do - do you know the best part about an IOU? you guessed it I - O - U. its paper debt. So better not upset me.

-Both nations are interlocked in a dance. US spends China Makes. But China also has stolen tons of tech. Nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles. Hacking.

-Talk to anyone in the armed forces. The sentiment is bad. There is more going on in the background than we all know.

-Talk to anyone over beers in the armed forces. They will say its long over do.

What do I think? who cares what I think.

cheers.
Pffft, a major Canadian bank (they’re all big since we never had a crash), has only 6 numerical digit passwords.

You can have a 6 (not less or more) alphanumeric password, but any letters get mapped to numerical digits.
Iris retries the failed request
Those aren't probabilities, those are probability amplitudes. Why call something a probability, if it doesn't follow probability axioms?
I think you're asking me to interpret my comment. Apologies if not.

The link I pasted simply had a list of Instagram's financing rounds.

April 5th, 2012, Series B $50m

April 9th, 2012 Purchased by FB, $1b

Several days before being acquired by Facebook, Instagram raised a $50m Series B on a $500m premoney evaluation, which gave investors 10% of the company.

Typically in order to grant 10% worth of preferred stock for a raise, the company has to increase the number of shares. If there were 100 shares prior to the raise, and a had 1, I would have 1/100 or 1%. If there are now 110 shares, and I still have 1, it's now 1/110 or < 1%

A few days later, the company was sold for $1b.

1/100 * 1b = $10,000,000

1/110 * 1b = $9,090,000

In my contrived example about dilution, with my 1/110%, I lost out ~$1m, and for seemingly no benefit to the company.

Bringing it back to my original comment, employees as a collective, would have lost out significant money, for seemingly no benefit, while Sequoia benefited tremendously.

I should caveat my post:

--This is pure speculation on a number of fronts. Any number of scenarios could be true (even if unlikely)

* IG could have had 10% shares already allocated in reserve for a Series B, and never had to issue more. Employees would still in effect lose out on money, but not because of dilution.

* With that $50m in cash, IG could have paid out hefty bonuses to employees. IIRC at the time of acquisition IG had ~19 people.

* IG could have issued anti-dilution to everyone, keeping relative % near the same.

* The SeriesB may have had to happen in order for Sequoia to agree to the sale.
> Jo Maugham QC, our director, told ITV: “I’m suing Uber to understand whether HMRC treats these big US multinationals including Uber with kid gloves. Uber undoubtedly has arranged its business model to minimise its tax liability, to dodge taxes if you like, and to minimise the workers’ rights that it has to offer to its drivers.”

So, a lawsuit to explore. Interesting, I guess?
The US has played nicer than most countries were they to enjoy its economic might and pre-eminence[1]. Few countries would allow their workforce to endure economic self-inflicted hardship while maintaining an economic advantage in negotiating trade. But the US has, over the years, put up with unfair trade from Japan, SKorea, China, Some of Europe in the name of "free trade". I don't begrudge allowing some disadvantage with regard some developing nations --but not developed nations.
For fair trade to work, it has to be bi-lateral. If you unilaterally do fair trade but your partner doesn't, you may do your principle good, but you're selling out your worker for principle.

Since Reagan, maybe before, the blue collar worker of America has seen their government give in and cower in the face of unfair trade saying, "we'll make it up in services" or "your goods will be cheaper". But what good does cheap do you when you have no job and no money? They never saw their lot get better. People wonder why people are now "working poor".

When I was in middle and HS, my bus drivers and janitors (they were not "cleaning engineers" just yet), were able to raise a family with decency. No way that happens now.

As Michael Moore poignantly, albeit ironically, said, finally, someone stood up to the corporations and said, "no more". I'll stop the hemorrhaging. One AFL-CIO in PA, the other day, endorsed a Repub. As an atheist, I have to say, Good God, what happened to the Dems? They sold out the American worker in favor of the multinational, transnational capitalists. If they don't watch out, they will lose labor to Repubs.

[1]Just look at how China manages its advantage in Africa, LatAM, etc. Japan in SEAsia, Russia with Former SU repubs., etc.
What is here to know what the actual leadership of America thinks or doesn't think?
You are starting from a wrong assumption of 0 existing tarrifs and 0 international market barriers
In Tennessee for example you can achieve the American Dream, a beautiful house by working hard in the middle class. In fact some of the most beautiful houses I have ever seen are here in Tennessee and I've lived in Santa Barbara, San Diego, and San Francisco. This is just not possible in the bay area.
FYI to those like me:

> Integrated Lights-Out, or iLO, is a proprietary embedded server management technology by Hewlett-Packard which provides out-of-band management facilities. The physical connection is an Ethernet port that can be found on most Proliant servers and microservers[1] of the 300 and above series.
Gotta be careful with estimates, a random analyst says it's worth 100b and a research firm says it's going to reach so many users in a few years, but zero attention is paid to what assumptions underlie those estimates; publicly available investment research information is useless
How are they not saving anything? $160k, so your take home is roughly $110k? They're spending $9000 a month just to live in the Bay area?
Okay! Here it is: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sticky-contai...
I'd probably wait until the application deadline, but if you don't have a new cofounder by then, I'd just submit with what you have.

It's true we're a little less likely to accept single founders, but it's only one of many factors and the probability delta not that large. Particularly if you are a technical founder, which I see you are.
Children born with pain insensitivity gives you some sense for it’s evolutionary selection.

These kids can lose fingers from chronic injury and no signal that something is wrong.
Not the parent, but, I, too, have done the cost analysis, at much smaller scale.

And, yes, all-inclusive, AWS is 1.5x-10x more expensive than commodity hardware, depending on how poorly optimized AWS's hardware choices were for the particular workload and the commercial datacenter market at the time.

> What about the salary of the person

In general, I've found the need for the quantity of "person", bizarrely, exaggerated.

> The cost of spare parts?

Included, and it's low. Is this another aspect that's exaggerated?

> The cost of downtime when hardware breaks?

This is identical to the cost of downtime when AWS's hardware breaks.
I do think this is an interesting idea.
Why do we have ulimit and systemd?

When should I use which to control system resouces?
IMO the most insane part about SF is that something like 70% of SF rentals are rent-controlled. I've met plenty of young techies/finance types who pay well below market prices for nice apartments while making well above average salaries.
haha - right out of the Veridian Dynamics playbook :)

edit: see also - Jabberwocky http://www.veridian-dynamics.org/jabberwocky.php
That is how you reduce the deficit: americans consume a lot, so the US borrows, and the deficit is high.

Put another way: one way, the easiest for the US, to reduce the deficit is to reduce consumption. This will happen more or less automatically with increased prices.

Another way is for the dollar to tank, which will also reduce consumption and increase exports.

The ideal situation (for Trump I assume) is to keep a strong dollar, increase exports, keep consumtion high and get the financing the US wants. It is difficult to see how this can be achieved, or whether this is fair for 95% of the planet's population, most of which are poorer and work as hard or harder than americans.
We are dedicating significant resources toward solving this problem. I consider it one of the core bugs of the Internet. Stay tuned.
> It all wreaks of hypocrisy and downright poor fiscal judgement to me.

I'm curious how much of it is hypocrisy and poor fiscal judgement vs. simple naïveté. Has anyone studied where San Francisco's homeless population comes from? Is it mostly long-time residents who are down on their luck (whether due to economic hardship, drug addiction, or mental illness), or does San Francisco's extreme liberalness (tolerance for tent encampments, open drug usage, petty theft) attract people from elsewhere?
100b is insane. That should price a basically risk free security giving 1b profits/yr
Arch is another good option to consider that receives frequent updates. However, Alpine package contribution isn't that challenging; but I'd like to see more CI integrations to automate the heck out of package updates.
I helped them in some of their achievements mentioned there.

The amount of organizational ADD was staggering.

They could actually achieve things when they focused long enough to finish them, which was pretty rare.

They are kind of crazy people.

But they do have a lot of money to play with.
What's ironic about rich people wanting to live in a great city?

That's what gentrification is (for good or ill).

The liberals are the people complaining about the gentrification.
I’ve only used SSD’s since 2012.. and it’s not always the case but it’s noticeable on large files. For example sometimes I open a gigantic CSV file (at least tens of thousands of rows) or JSON file in Atom, and it really chokes. But at the same time other tools are probably better for handling such large data files so it’s not a deal breaker.
I'm surprised utah.edu is so far down the list, considering the early history of ARPANET. (Well, at least we beat byu.edu, if only barely.)
The title should be "python 3.0", not "python3". This links to the 'What's New in Python 3.0', dated February 14, 2009.

The relevant line is:

"The net result of the 3.0 generalizations is that Python 3.0 runs the pystone benchmark around 10% slower than Python 2.5. Most likely the biggest cause is the removal of special-casing for small integers. There’s room for improvement, but it will happen after 3.0 is released!"

Python 3 continues to be faster. https://speed.python.org/comparison/?exe=12%2BL%2Bmaster%2C1... shows (if I interpret it correctly) that the most recent Python is nearly always faster then 2.7.
QED is great, I think it really gets across one way of thinking about these things.

Agree with @ahelwer that Brian Greene isn't terribly useful. Have not read Zee & Smolin's popular books... but for what it's worth, Zee is a serious guy & writes great textbooks, Smolin is not.
Problem is, most of PA is single-family homes, with strict height limits. This makes density artificially low (i.e. the infamous American "sprawl")
Free lunch is over for me. For the past 4 releases, each delivered 3-5% performance boost to my Go application. Go 1.11beta1 marks the end of that, it is sadly 1-2% slower than Go 1.10.

Not complaining, just trying to hear numbers from other developers using their production software...
Isn't collapse what we observe? At least everything seems to behave like collapse is happening.
Here are several YC stories by individual, recent founders:

https://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/07/11/month-y-combi...

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/01/06/our-y-combinator-experie...

http://blog.yesgraph.com/changed-y-combinator-7-years/

https://80000hours.org/2015/08/why-is-80000-hours-in-y-combi...

https://medium.com/@mattangriffel/the-value-of-y-combinator-...
The perfect weather and the strong social services attract people from around the country.
Nice explanation!

I think you accidentally made a formatting typo: "each cell tower can provide 2043/2 120 Mbps", the 4 is probably surrounded by asterisks.
>Since President Trump took office, McKinsey has greatly expanded consulting for Immigration and Customs Enforcement through that agency’s office of “detention, compliance and removals.”

Now ICE need the consultants for that! I wonder whether McKinsey had anything to do with that risk assessment software update discussed today?
Modern nations fiat debt, meaning their currencies ultimate value is derived from many things, but ultimately hard power. A $10 trillion diff doesn't mean much if it comes to enforcement.
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I don't think this is to shake out bugs. This is just to have a more random pseudo-random number generator so that applications using the crypto package for encryption will be more secure.
I personally would like to see Arch support OpenRC equally, but I have grown accustomed to systemd.
It's not "flare", it's a huge paycheck.
Tweets, which people seem to find horrific, but they do seem to come directly from leadership.
In short, everything necessary for survival has a hidden negotiation/no listed fees and thus is expensive.
I often look at the wiki pages for Arch as they are really good, but I will not use systemd so Arch is not for me.
Sure, but what could they do? Threaten to call the loan early? And if the US says “no”, then what?