skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is grilling and frying regularly unique to DMV and better than having the option of a free grilled/fried meal provided?
Tinypng desktop application, upload compress image to server simply
To be fair, the also essentially non-existent enforcement of rules and laws and the fact that SF is a mecca for international tourist and panhandlers can make decent money (i.e. Union Square) plays a role. Let's not factor out the economics and lack of consequences for bad behavior.
I deployed my own Alpine Linux image on GCE that included preconfigured nginx+mariadb+zabbix for monitoring my various services. Works well.
Only if they're working for one of the big tech companies - they almost certainly won't be making that much at a startup out of college unless they happen to be uncommonly good at negotiating/have good experience from internships.

$160k is low for a true senior though. I have been making $160k base at a startup since 2.5 years into my career, and basically negotiations have been name-your-price for me.

I can confirm first hand that the big tech companies pay a lot for senior engineers though - if you're any good, you can hit $250k+ pretty fast (disclaimer: I work in a FAANG currently).
Californias government is almost as corrupt as Illinois and it affects everything. But the huge number of rich benefit from it too much to want any change
I think "systemd came and replaced sysvinit" is a winner-written history. There are/were other strong alternatives to sysvinit and eg in Debian it was a close race.
In order for the United States to remain united, its people must share basic elements of culture.

While immigrants are an integral part of American culture - something that is itself unique to America - successive waves of immigrants have over the past 200 years integrated into the broader American culture over the generations. Immigrants bring their cultures with them and enrich the broader culture but ultimately they become American.

Mass illegal immigration threatens this dynamic because in order for integration to happen, immigrants must be surrounded by people from outside of their culture. But if they continually pool into a few pockets of the country, they don't have an opportunity to integrate.

Persistant linguistic and cultural differences represent fault lines along which the country could fracture. It's a risk that's not worth taking.

Not only that, the current economic situation is one in which the gap between rich and poor is growing. If we let in massive amounts of poor illegal migrants, they will probably remain poor, unlike in the past when there were abundant factory jobs available to migrants that would have enabled them to join the middle class. Persistent poverty leads to unrest.

We need to let immigrants in slowly so they can be gradually integrated into the economy, especially because studies show that most migrants are on welfare, placing a large burden on an already stressed social safety net.

Not only that, open borders encourage drug smuggling, human trafficking and other criminal activity, and we cannot tolerate that.

You don't recognize the threat to stability mass immigration causes and the critical importance of stability to national unity.

The greatest threat to America is disunity from within, so we must do everything we can to encourage unity and unify the country.

Mass immigration will lead to an unstable and fractured nation.
Nicer yes, but not nice at all: fake wars, dollar bullying and rules ownership (global IP and trade laws are made by US for US) has given the US a tilted playing field. The US is still by far the richest country. If it has blue collar problems maybe it should rethink the way richness and costs are distributed.

Maybe the US led capitalism needs a rethink.

And blamimg the world for this ideology is quite astounding: the US has pushed for it for over 60 years.

And more: what do you have against 95% of the world"s blue collar workforce?
> insure the payout for a US$10 million premium.

wouldn't actually giving out the $11mi to the consumer, or picking 10 consumers, create more brand awareness than promising $1bi that nobody can get?
Agree on that, but all high speed interconnects I know use voltage signalling.
Sorry, McKinsey:

- Partnered with a local provider (Trillian) after minimal/token due diligence (despite ample reason to be extraordinarily suspicious, and in contravention of internal policy), to win an unprecedentedly lucrative contract;

- Even when the Gupta ownership connection to Trillian was revealed internally, refused to amend the terms of the engagement;

- Only dropped Trillian when forced by public scrutiny;

- And then tried to cover up the entire debacle, actively misleading investigators and journalists.

What part of this has "very little to do" with McKinsey, exactly? It's quite clear that ethical and/or legal scrutiny was lessened, no doubt given the size of the potential prize on the other side.
San Francisco has caught Nevada and New York sending people on buses to get rid of them. This is supposed to only be legal if the person has family in California they are meeting, but they just dump mentally ill people on Market Street and hope for the best. Nevada paid a large fine for this recently. Many of the people needed urgent help within hours of arriving. Truly horrific.
>And more: what do you have against 95% of the world"s blue collar workforce?

Nothing. But they are not mine. As they don't care about my blue collar sisters and brothers, nor do I care about theirs.

People think redundant blue collar workers should retrain, get new skills. That's nice. Usually the service jobs don't pay as well and it's naïve to think 50 and 60 yos have the bandwidth to retrain and achieve similar status in a new career.

EU and Japan enforce IP just as much as we do. They may be even be more stringent.

If Trump is successful in this, he has a decent chance at making it possible for blue collar whites and blacks to achieve the potential Bruce Springsteen saw in them.
It may be a large caveat,but at least it doesn't try to frame national debt as the same kind of debt as households deal with when they take out a loan. It is fundamentally different. Debtors can't print money to pay off a loan.

Also inflation does not just happen if you print money. The increased demand has to meet a lack of supply. Most historical cases of hyper inflation involved disruptions to supply capacity. America is not really in that position, and I suspect this is one of the reasons we see few signs of inflation these days in America.
> I recently replaced my ADSL connection with a LTE flatrate for 20 EUR a month that allows 20mbit down and 6mbit up

Jealous! Here in Australia I'm paying A$70/month (~44 EUR) for 12/1 4G home broadband service. Still better than the 3/0.5 service I was getting with ADSL for the same price...
What will this mean for all the Chinese purchased real-estate in America?
SF apartment price is a special kind of crazy. $5k for a 1 bedroom apartment per month.
I didn't mean to argue. Thank you for taking the time to explain that.
Both of these are largely myths.
It’s insane that some people only pay $2000-3000 for a small apartment? Most of the rent controlled prices aren’t cheap but compared to the rest of the country unless you’ve been in the same place for a looong time.
Maybe, but why would the EU do that? China is a reliable trading partner.
The rich people are the liberals too..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_San_Francisco
Now all it needs is a legend!

Reminds me of Talakadu (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talakadu), a deserty patch along the Kaveri riverbank, about 130km from Bangalore. It even comes with its own legend in which a queen cursed the ruler of Mysore. The curse:

ತಲಕಾಡು ಮರಳಾಗಿ;
ಮಾಲಿಂಗಿ ಮಡುವಾಗಿ,
ಮೈಸೂರು ದೊರೆಗೆ ಮಕ್ಕಳಾಗದೆ ಹೋಗಲಿ!

Let Talakadu be filled with sand;
Let Malangi turn into a whirlpool;
Let the King of Mysore never have kids.

Coincidentally, the Mysore royal family does not have heirs born into the family to this day. For the last several generations, they have adopted an heir - who might beget a kid - but a kid born into the family has not had heirs.

The temples in Talakadu have to be constantly cleared of sand. I remember visiting as a kid and there were whole temples buried underneath the sand. I'm not sure if that charm and mystery still exists, but it certainly was a fascinating place!
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Also, it seems tough to fight a trade war with China, while simultaneously picking trade fights with the EU, MX, and CA.
This is not an accurate price. A smart renter with a little patience would pay more like $2000-3000 unless they needed a brand new condo with a gym and a doorman.
A collapse involves imagining that the wave-function is a physical thing which resolves to having the properties of a particle when measured as such.

It might be real, but the problem is nobody knows what the physical mechanism for a collapse would be.
I've worked at places where people are "too busy" to help with anything, and where nobody asks me for help with anything. I can't imagine anybody prides themselves on that sort of culture, but it seems common. My first job after graduation, I was lucky to be in a place where giving and asking for help/advice was normalized. The more cocooned and protective of their job, and the more distrusting of the organization people are, the less I suppose they want to share information.
The daily journal at the end is a nice read.

git-annex is a tool to track large files in git without tracking their contents (like LFS I guess, though I've never used it).
Without kids, this is a bit ridiculous. They probably have poor financial planning.
Windows operating system.
I mean so many people are using that since a long time.
Still its performance is too glitchy and slow.
With huge cost of living to go along with it
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One of the major issues we've seen with our customers is that many of them (especially startups and SMBs/SMEs) don't have the ability to dedicate a team to just managing their RI capacity. We've also seen enterprise customers optimizing up to 70% of their EC2 usage, but many of them have trouble ensuring a level of utilization due to rapidly changing infrastructure.
I'd definitely argue that GCP has a better model for some use cases as it requires less active effort for optimizing billing, however if you manage your RIs on AWS effectively you can often get a better price. Looks like Azure has also gone down the same route as AWS, which is quite an interesting move on their part.

Disclosure: I head engineering/devOps at Engineer.ai - one of our products Cloudops.ai allows our customers to save up to 15% of their AWS bill without making RI purchases, as well as get discounted prices and additional flexibility (custom lock-in periods) for RIs they do wish to purchase. Feel free to reach out for information - my email address is in my about section.
Politics is a dial between fairness and freedom.

And sometimes you get neither. SF building restrictions are both unfair in that you have to have a very high income or win the rent control lottery to afford anything, and unfree in that they prohibit voluntary transactions between landowners and would-be buyers.
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I grew up on Ataris. When the platform died, I ended up on a Microsoft PC, and definitely felt like I had regressed.
Switching Arch over to OpenRC isn't overly difficult. [0] (A package and a kernel parameter).

Or there's the fork [1] where that is the default.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenRC

[1] https://artixlinux.org/faq.php
I worked for a company that has their office in SF. I got hired as their first Portland hire and built up a small office here. Turn over in SF was much higher and hiring was faster in Portland. So over time the center of gravity for engineering moved to Portland. Pretty small company though and everyone we hired in Portland were referrals, so take this with a grain of salt.

Edit: as an employee the SF job market can hardly be beat though.
I was curious (despite suspecting this isn't quite an apples/apples comparison) but Wikipedia puts worldwide coal consumption at ~7 Billion tons.
Google is killing off the DoubleClick branding
According to this 2013 study, the daytime population in Palo Alto is twice the residential population.

http://www.paloaltoparksplan.org/pdf/PTOSR-Demographic-Analy...

It's pretty clear if you look at 'typical traffic' in Google Maps, particularly on Page Mill or Sand Hill Roads at 280.
> But they are not mine

Well, trade war it is then. And it might not be so easy to win against 95% of the world. Specially seeing how unfairly the US has been acting internationally: trade disputes are minor issues compared to the military and monetary abuses done by the US.
Thank you, snowmaker, for the advice!
I've come to the conclusion that those are cover fire for distracting attention, or maybe just for staying in the news ("any news is good news"...). The press gets outraged over the tweets (justifiably so), but the point of them is to get people outraged. I'm not convinced they reflect anything Trump will actually do.
Thanks a lot! I will absolutely look into that. I will at some point need a web-equivalent, so that might be very useful.
Good luck with that after treating them all like shit to get in Putin's good graces.
Not quite - the outdated price issue certainly exists for standard AWS RIs, however if you purchase convertible RIs then price reductions are applied.

Also bear in mind that the savings you get from RIs will generally outweigh the reduction in price of the instance.
"makes such a ridiculous claim"

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/materialism-eliminative/

In another well-known article, “Quining Qualia” (1988), Dennett challenges not just our conception of pain, but all of our different notions of qualitative states. His argument focuses on the apparently essential features of qualia, including their inherent subjectivity and their private nature. Dennett discusses several cases—both actual and imaginary—to expose ways in which these ordinary intuitions about qualia pull apart. In so doing, Dennett suggests our qualia concepts are fundamentally confused and fail to correspond with the actual inner workings of our cognitive system.

X (qualia, what we don't know) does not correspond to Y (cognition, what we understand), so X does not exist.

Yes. It is this ridiculous. :)
The hardened kernel was more or less unusable on the desktop anyway. There was quite a bit of software that’s just completely incompatible with it.

It’s still better than selinux though haha.
In addition to licensing issues, Grsecurity's patches have been described by Linus as "garbage" (in terms of code quality).
If you want unfair monetary abuses, talk to the IMF/World Bank[1] and China's "loans" around Asia and Africa. I think we have retreated from military affairs compared to the Bush and Obama years (to the chagrin of Dem and Repub neo-cons).

In trade, we've acted too fairly with the other developed nations.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/09/the-world-b...
If you were the only entity/cartel bringing it back, you could trickle it onto the market.
Z80 C code looks mostly like what you'd expect -- being able to push/pop 16-bit registers helps a lot: http://8bitworkshop.com/v2.1.1/viz.html?platform=base_z80&fi...

On 6502 you are usually better off with bytecode (SWEET16, p-code) or threaded code (FORTH) to improve code density. There are even people making new languages (Cowgol, PLASMA) that are self-hosted on the 6502!
Brand new apartments actually often offer low rents to fill all the vacancies. E.g. the artsy new apartment in the Dogpatch was going for well under 3k for studios.
I'd love suggestions on how to find a job there - I was recently looking at relo from seattle to a lower cost market.
If only there had been some kind of trade agreement with a lot of pacific nations that would have given the US a lot more clout with other countries in the region and maybe a common front for some of the real problems that are out there - as opposed to the ones that exist purely in Trump's mind.

(TPP)
I have a gym and doorman and pay less than $5k. (Also not rent controlled building.)
Even assuming you pony up that much for a fancy apartment in a safe part of town, you should still be able to save substantial amounts of money on a $160k salary.
If cost of living scales linearly with salary the only situation where you prefer to be in cheapotown is if you're spending more than you earn.
I wonder how this is better than buying hardware. Some of the same problems but more flexibility than RI.
Running applications on Alpine feels like very deliberately building an environment, whether inside a container or directly on a host.

(Just be aware of the differences between glibc and musl... DNS resolution in particular will bite you if you don't understand the implementation)
Meat subsidy affects the national market as a whole, so it is not predatory pricing unless you consider the global market. In the global market, US and Australian meat is better quality and cheaper than local meat in many countries (true in Hong Kong). However, while it does undercut some competition, the reality is that meat exports is a bit risky due to shipping costs and time. It does substantially affect other meat producers in other countries, just not sure at what scale.

To clarify my original point:

As a competitive good, meat is priced a lot lower in the US than the rest of the world. The cost of producing meat shouldn't vary that much from country to country, so why is US (and Australian) meat so much cheaper?

Answer: they're both subsidized by the gov't. The effect of this is that Americans and Australians both enjoy cheap meat at a high consumption rate.
How cold are the winters? 50 degrees?
> Maintaining 40 racks of hardware takes a surprisingly trivial amount of time aside from regular OS management.

I think it's only surprising to people who have been listening to the "it's awful" mythology or believe in a much higher than reality hardware failure rate.

I think the worst I've ever seen was with spinning disks from the time of the Thailand flooding, and even those were only 10-15% AFR and only for certain models.

Absent that kind of black swan event, one can easily engineer around even disk failures, such that failed ones can just be spun down and left in place, and, of course, one can do the same with server-level redundancy.

If the labor burden were actually onerous, it would be easy enough to avoid it, but I think it's telling that such techniques are so rarely spoken of.
I'm frustrated that so much work is duplicated. Every new programming language seems like it requires another new universe of packages around it. Often there's not even an attempt at interoperation, except maybe for C.

But even just between projects I feel like I lose a lot, rewriting things that I've done before, but slightly different. It's maddening.
Yep! I had the asterisks, but HN converted it to italics.

It should be 20 * 4 * 3 / 2 = 120
Do you have a source for that? Sounds pretty egregious.
that's what capitalists do, what did you expect? lol
I'm also disappointed by Fournova's decision to go subscription, especially since they are choosing a pay-to-play subscription model.

According to Julian Rothkamp of Fournova, Git Tower is moving to "standard subscription: you’ll have access to Tower as long as your subscription is active. Access to Tower ends when a subscription expires", [0] which in my opinion is not an appropriate model for software that leverages open source technology such as Git.

I think a more reasonable model would be what Drew McCormack calls the "cash cow" subscription model where users pay for a 12-month subscription and will

> get new features and bug fixes for one year, but after that you are on your own again until you make a new purchase. You won’t get any new features, or even bug fixes, but you can keep using the last copy of the app that you downloaded. [1]

With the "cash cow" model users pay only after they've decided from themselves that the developer has provided enough value to justify the cost of another yearly subscription. Instead, Fournova has chosen a pay-to-play subscription model which means that after the first year, users simply have to trust that another year's subscription fee will be worth it.

Additionally, pay-to-play turns Git Tower's users' workflow familiarity into a financial dependency/liability and this seems ill-advised in a world where software and platforms can shift with little to no predictability.

For my part, I am going to wait 12-18 months before even trying Git Tower 3 because I don't want to become dependent on the new features with no recourse except to pony up US $69 in 12 short months. As a side-note, I think this would not be as much an issue if Git Tower's annual pay-to-play price was closer to US $30.

[0] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/tower-3-0

[1] https://medium.com/@drewmccormack/a-cash-cow-is-on-the-agend...

EDIT: Remove first sentence. Add comma to second sentence. Move first citation marker.
No, I prefer to talk US bullying to anybody willing to swap the dollar for euros for example (Iranian Oil Bourse).

And it is quite rich to say "we have reduced military affairs": the EU is suffering a massive migration crisis caused by the lie-based military intervention in Irak over 15 years ago, while the US refuses to take any of those migrants.
Sometimes these huge companies have offices in some not-so-huge areas with excellent cost of living. (e.g. Lehi, UT)
I'm from India.

This is one of the most asinine steps the Govt has taken. If plastic is banned, the need will be replaced by another substance (perhaps with similar properties; also demand for a need doesn't evaporate) which will overflow in our landfills. A wiser step would've been to figure out a way to recycle plastic, which has already been figured out by other countries ([1],[2],[3]). Instead, we're setting ourselves up to blame another substance a few years down the line.

We're inconveniencing people, ruining existing businesses and capabilities for a non-solution or at the very least pushing the problem to another substance another day. Completely asinine indeed. Deeds of the government as usual.

[1] https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/scandinavian-plastic-re...

[2] https://sweden.se/nature/the-swedish-recycling-revolution/

[3] https://guce.oath.com/collectConsent?brandType=eu&.done=http...

Edit 1: Comment about demand

Edit 2: formatting

Edit 3: added "...some years down the line..."
What do you mean by “call the loan” ? Treasury bonds have a fixed payback schedule.
This mostly. Shipping also uses a public good (roads) which you can claim that companies using these public goods are not paying their fair share for them.
We have no other choice probably. But I have no idea what the point of saying it's going to be easy when nothing even remotely close has happened in the history of humanity, and we can't even deal with infrastructure problems for a few thousand people at a time due to the incredible greed inherent to human society. It is rather a humanity breaking event that approaches, and its weight is heartbreaking.
Most of those migrants are from North and Sub-Sharan Africa, You can thank Obama (and Bush). Most blame goes to the ill-conceived "Arab Spring" Obama and Hillary sprung.
You don't really care that much about modulation when you have gigahertz of spectrum to work with, and the cost to add another wire (or fiber) is marginal.
Sandboxing would be nice, but I don't think it's practical. Do you know of any secure plugin systems that can replace WordPress?
Thanks for that! I think I might check out the Elektor kit :)
beautiful houses there!
Recently discovered RANCOR cyber #espionage group behind attacks in  Asia
Winters? It's 56 in SF right now. As to the 'come from all over the country for the excellent social services', there are lots of studies and surveys on this a google away. Statistically, nobody does that.