skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I looked into it there were a couple of issues:

Visas they will be different for wach person but for most people but if you're not under 30 and not from a western country it is a hassle

Jobs : a lot of jobs require German and the ones that don't you'd face more fierce competition which drives down the wages considerably.

Wages: on average is lower by 20-30 percent than Toronto, 50-60 percent than sf again taking these numbers out of my ass but you get the gist. Higher end more senior jobs pay even less.

Benefits and holidays: significantly better than NA you get like 30 holidays in Bavaria last time I checked

Overall if you don't have a big friend group/ family it's worth the move in my opinion the lifestyle is much more sustainable.
Honestly, I think Cambridge MA may give you that environment.
Last time I looked at this, the code in general and code you needed to use it was overly complicated for what it does.
I was having dinner with Jason Kottke (or Kottke blog fame) and he recommended the site to me.

I was travelling solo through South/North America back in 2009 and the last leg of my journey was in NYC. I wanted to eat at Momofuko and managed to snag a booking for two. I emailed Jason and asked if he wanted to join me for dinner (I had never met or spoken to Jason prior to this) and he agreed. We naturally chatted about technology, the Internet etc and Hacker News ended up in our conversation.
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James O'Keefe is a notable offender. Incidentally, he is not part of the news media, although segments of it will often push his doctored videos as a source of truth.
It depends on where one is at in life. I would move to such a place to retire, but not just starting out.

Prague is relatively cheap.

Also, some of the college towns in the US if they're not nestled within major metros.

Tokyo, SF, NYC, London, Moscow, etc. are where the action is at: for people whom can compete and afford a lifestyle unsustainable for anyone else.
Lenovo X1, because it's tiny, dependable, powerful enough and not a mac. Mine runs ArchLinux.
Yes this is all true, but it makes it really hard to know what the carbon footprint actually is.
Russel's approach is more epistemological and academic, whereas Rand's is more psychological and individual. Both seem valid to me at their level.
"But the thing is, if you're making a large application, for Gnome for example, then you can't by default be confident that your application can work very well on other desktop environments like KDE or XFCE."

This just isn't true. There are literally 40 different graphical environments available that can run X applications. If your target desktop has the required libraries for your app to work OR you have packaged them with your app it will work regardless of users desktop.
A good start would be Hit Refresh [1] written by Satya Nadella.

In this book he explain the issues he found in the company long before he was a CEO (basically, by the time he became the CEO, he knew what was not right).

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Hit-Refresh-Rediscover-Microsofts-Eve...
Not local, but I try and keep up from time to time, and I have seen a lot of hand-wringing on the Internet about how low Berlin tech wages are.
If you feel adventurous you can consider moving to Poland. I would recommend Krakow. Most young people will speak English, there are couple of top Universities there (PK and AGH for technical schools, UJ for humanities, medicine and some tech too and UE for economics). The tech scene seems to be constantly growing, with lots of international companies having their offices there. As a senior dev in Poland you can earn somewhere between 12-20k PLN a month. Renting a flat will be between 1.5-3k PLN(~400-800USD) depending on thr standard. Additional perks you can enjoy is free(as you pay it on your taxes) healthcare, amazing food, great nightlife and proximity of other European countries (the flights are super cheap).
patrickg_zill - this place, since the election, has become a hotbed of downvotes for any rebuttal discussion around climate change and any new thing the US Democratic party suggests (i.e 'forced' time off for men during womens pregnancy - see my comments history for more).

Don't feel bad man...
By dependable I mean really well built, serviceable and with on-site warranty, that is great..
Feeding climate change deniers is the ultimate in “don’t feed the trolls” mistakes but just for funsies, what evidence would it take to convince you that temps are in fact rising?
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No. The gyros are more accurate. If it were to use reference stars, through the big camera, any detected motion would be at least one pixel. So every image would be blurry. It has to react before any drift results in movement more than a pixel.
>anyone ever tried to increase performance for a react site (and realizing that precompiling templates was not exactly a bad idea years ago)

I'm not sure I'm parsing this sentence correctly. Are you saying that precompiling templates and rehydrating them doesn't cut it anymore? If so, why not? I haven't used React much, but I've done some work in a framework with similar principles and I felt like proper precompiling, with basic HTML fallbacks cooked in where possible, provided all the performance of server rendered sites with the added bells and whistles of SPAs (including that most subsequent requests can load quicker than a full rerender, provided JS is present).
Actually it does have a dedicated star tracker, and (the system)[https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hubble-space-telescope-...] is designed to combine gyro measurements with star tracker measurements. Both the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are dealing with or expecting gyro issues and are currently coming up with and testing control paradigms that only use the star trackers. I think part of the problem with the star trackers is that if you "lose your place" then it's very difficult to get back on track and this could lead to serious problems.
"why are the estimated GDP numbers not coming in much worse?"

A guess: Because the hardest hit areas do not contribute as much to GDP. Most of world GDP is created outside of the tropics.

The gruesome prediction from this report is that the poor areas next to tropics will come refugess camps unlike anything seen before (think Blade Runner or Judge Dread with the skycrapers replaced by an ocean of tents and shacks). And the rich world will invest in border controls and barbed wire.
As you say, places near academic institutions should be pretty good for you. Oxford or Cambridge in England may not be too expensive. Edinburgh or Glasgow would be cheaper even.

In any case you may consider enrolling in some kind of academic research program. Pursuing your own intellectual thing by yourself will be incredibly tough and lonely.
BTW: of course another great option in Germany is Munich, my favorite city. But: rents are higher, salaries too though. The range of employers is larger. You can go for companies like BMW if you like but also startups. Shoot me a mail if you’re interested to get more insights
Sub 1k/mo bedroom...! Times do change, and fast. I lived there for seven years. I travel very extensively throughout the world for (research) work and Somerville offers by far the best social environment for hacker and intellectual types that I've ever found. I would be happy to return.

If the OP is into anarchism, art, and culture I would recommend Napoli. An apartment in the best location imaginable would never be more than €700. Airport is a few minutes from the city center. The food, from restaurant to Farmers markets, is unbelievably good and costs little. The intellectual life, well...
Surprised I’ve never heard of this. An OS still maintained by a single developer. It sounds like it’s missing a ton of modern features but is still a beautiful labor of love. https://visopsys.org/about/
> I assume with one gyro the satellite still has pointing function because one gyro senses in 3 axis,

Each of the Hubble's gyroscopes only measures rotation around a single axis.

> But... it’s a telescope. Couldn’t it determine direction from images received from a spotting or wide angle lens? Does it not have one?

Hubble does have imaging sensors to allow it to track the stars and orient itself. But the orientation needs to be not only measured very accurately (to within a few millionths of a degree), but also kept stable over long periods of time, in order to avoid motion blur. So the attitude control system needs to have low latency.

In principle it would probably be possible to do this using only image sensors, but it would have been very challenging when that Hubble was designed in the 1980s. It has a number of CPUs, the fastest of which is an 80486 running at 25 MHz.
Again, ARM did it, not Apple.

ARM designed that JS-optimized instruction. Apple just follows (and it has to) ARM specification in Apple’s own way.

Don’t confuse between ISA design and its chip implementation design.
Median home price in Cambridge is $800k. Certainly cheaper than the bay, but I wouldn’t consider that cheap by any stretch.
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That's not entirely true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE#Contributors

Some core devs are employed or have been employed by companies such as Novell, Nokia and Blue Systems.
Sure, you can use sql that way. But it's not designed for it. Git is, and so are blockchains.
I think it's the French version of MB

MO or Mo = Mega Octet (French)
MB = Mega Byte (English)
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It was originally asserted that the telescope required three working gyros. Later a method was devised to operate using two. [1]

Background information describing Hubble's Pointing Control System.

https://www.spacetelescope.org/about/general/gyroscopes/

[1] 2005 article: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7051-gyro-sacrifice-m...
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> focus on my own intellectual pursuits

If you plan on commercializing those pursuits, talk to a lawyer before signing a contract. Most states/companies will give full ownership of all your work even on your own time to the company. States like California are more protecting of employee off time work but they still lean towards employers if your work "relates" towards your employer which for the top paying companies like Google/Apple/Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft is practically everything so you can still be screwed.
I want the system to manage my supply chain end to end - right from Procurement to Delivery.
As an extension to the common advice here (move where the academics are), check what research you enjoy and find out which universities produce that research. Then, secondly see if there is a meetup scene where the people doing this research at the graduate level hang out. That should get you into some network or another once you filter the alternative by living cost threshold.
It _sounds_ like he plans on quitting his job and trying to "get by" for a while, hence needing the cheaper cost of living. While Cambridge would definitely scratch the intellectual itch I wouldn't exactly call it "cheap"...
Just off top of my head...Vancouver, Seattle, Austin, Denver, Toronto, and Waterloo. Cheaper than the Bay Area and still with an intellectually high community.
Git absolutely does solve that problem. That was one of the major issues with SVN and CVS. The problem that git solved was "how do we collaborate if we don't want a hierarchy / owner?" which is exactly the same problem a blockchain solves.
Poor analogy, and typical of the deferred-update paranoia crowd, thinking the worst and feeling exposed because Microsoft says you are in "critical danger".

A better analogy: You should keep your bicycle helmet on in the shower due to the slippery tiles and statistics of shower-related head injuries.

Or this...

Believe it or not, when you leave home without your umbrella, it may not rain. You know this, but you take your umbrella anyway. I choose not to.
If management roles aren't your thing (yet), why not try to get into an architecture role? Software Architecture, Solution Architecture, ...
Scalability is what microservices give you, at the expense of nearly everything else.
Solid is how we evolve the web in order to restore balance
I could not find anywhere an explanation of what HP nonstop is actually doing.
The fact you say its like VMWare make me think you mean VMware vLockstep. Documentation say : "While both the primary and secondary VMs receive the same inputs, only the primary VM produces output such as disk writes and network transmits."

The part I don't understand is how can the primary wait for the secondary to execute the same cpu instruction before
producing output? this would be extremely slow even with very good network latency.

Also it seem in vsphere6 VMware have rewritten how FT is handled, dropping the old “lock-step” approach in favour of a new “fast check-pointing” type method.

If the memory content on the secondary is not exactly the same as what was on the primary before the crash. Then there is some kind of small dataloss.

This is the kind of thing I assumed could only be solved by having the primary run a consensus protocol like Raft or Paxos for each network request it receive before producing response to the request.
Cryptocurrencies are just git + proof of work. Git, on its own, is a blockchain. Adding proof of work to a blockchain solves the timestamping problem, which allows you to use that blockchain as a currency (i.e. prevent double spends). Many times that property is useful (more than just in currencies, e.g. trading stocks), but not always, and it is not an essential property of a 'blockchain'.
(Dissapointed you used your junk account but I can't blame you...) I was wrong here kasey.

A chart showing we have exceeded routinely previous highs over human existing history would be pretty convincing. And not on a human recorded scale (300 years), nor a geolgical scale (earth is around 4 billion years), but a homo sapien scale (2 million years).

You could use rocks, plant life, animal life as evidence and anything else that would logically chart it.
> This, in the end, could cause a big loss to some user of the exchange

Not really. If someone is worried about a double spend attack, all they have to do is require a larger number of confirmations, until they are satisfied with the amount of security, for the given value of the transaction that they are accepting.

For example, if a big exchange is accepting a million dollars worth of crypto, they might want to wait a very long time, in order to be absolutely sure.

If someone is instead accepting payment for coffee, they could be perfectly happy to accept more risk.
I imagine they weren't allowed to talk about their problems...
I just moved to Hobart, Australia from SF. It's quite affordable. I pay A$400 /mo rent in a share house, and walk 20 mins to a downtown co-working space every day (also A$400 /mo). Lifestyle is pretty incredible. It's small, but still a state capital city, so there's plenty going on. Hobart is also the home port for the Australian and French Antarctic programs, so a lot of smart folks come through. Plus it was a trial zone for the National Broadband Network, so everyone has cheap fiber to the home.

edit: also the exchange rate is favorable, so if you have savings in USD they will go a long way.
I have a software engineer friend who moved to Budapest, and she swears by it. It's a beautiful city with several universities, and it's incredibly affordable.
I successfully tricked my mind to not use Facebook by destroying / making my feed non-personal.

How?

I became member of all sorts of group: Buy-N-Sell in my local area, technology groups, 10+ DevOps groups and so on. The quality of posts on these is poor and is irrelevant for me for the most part. So every time I used to open the app out of habit, I would see all non-personal crappy posts and I would close the app in under 10 seconds. Over time my mind hated using FB and clicking on that app went away from my muscle memory without me trying to force any habit changes.

Why not just delete the account?
FB is still great to find old friends, ex-colleagues who I might have lost contact with. I also use it as my public mic to post stuff that I want to share as widely as I can.

It's fun to take on the PMs who design addictive products that influence us at psychological level and beat them at their own game. Bring it on!
+1 for Poland. I am not living there but very time we visit my fiancée family we literally see how the economy is thriving. Exciting times for Poland.
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The idea behind Goalee is that all the annoyances, conflicts or so-called problems we face in our everyday lives pale in comparison with our true goals in life.

The issue I faced, as many others, is that I tend to lose track of what I desire most, exactly because of problems here and there. I started by writing down my goals on a sheet of paper, but that wasn’t quite enough. I eventually started overlooking them.

I then tried using to-do apps, or habit tracking apps for this. But this isn’t something to be checked off, something to record progress of, nor a habit to build; it’s a mindset change, if you will. So I ended up building Goalee to add long/mid-term goals and remind myself about them on a daily/weekly basis.

Don’t lose focus; don’t forget what you desire most; or it will end up forgotten in the sea of daily struggles.

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Curious. They had mentioned 30 companies. Where are the other 28? Has anything been said about them?
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What's it got to do with Europe?
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I just don't understand why the majority of them look so terrible, Xfce has weirdly become one of the better looking DE's now and it was designed to use minimal resources.
"your app had to be either a) stateless or b) cluster-aware" could you elaborate on what your app had to do to be cluster-aware ?
There is a IPCC report out today about climate change and how it would destroy the world as we know it.

Yet, people are more worried about Facebook! Amazing!!!
I’d love to make a dumb social network which could import friends/photos/videos from a Facebook export.

Which just shows photos videos and comments/posts.

Ditched the shares, likes, and all the other crap. And was just a place where we can keep in touch with people. And leave it at that.
Depends where you're comparing them to in the US but in general most European tech wages are lower than the US. If comparing to SF perhaps even shockingly lower.

It can be hard to swallow at first, but when you account for lower rent, much cheaper health insurance, and far more vacation days (~20-24 by law - and no one actually expects you to be available) along with safer cities with generally higher quality of life, in my opinion it ends up being a very, very good trade off.

I moved to Amsterdam some years back (and have worked for a Berlin based company) and don't know if I could ever move back to the states.
Interesting, but how is this different from just issuing treasury bonds? I guess my question is, how does it relate to climate specifically? Is the difference just that we issue a crap ton of them now and only use the money to pay for climate related things?

I guess the bigger question too is what do we spend them on? Is anyone aware of a feasible, “go to market” plan that could actually “fix” climate change if we had, say, 1 trillion dollars to spend on it? (Or whatever the number is)
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(For anyone unaware like me)
Making nutritious food that tastes good on a budget just requires compromise. Fatty meats are cheap and tasty, but they're not great for you. Legumes are cheap and healthy, but most people don't find them very exciting. If you use both, you get something better.

America seems to have gone all in on the the "lean meat" route, which results in many meals which are barely cheap and not good. Of course, my culinary opinion is based on my personal taste preferences. But I mean, like, burritos.
I didn't even mention the game it was similar to. Incredible mistake.

The games were of Neptune's Pride.
Comes down on what you want to get. It is easy to find jobs at startups because there is a shortage of developers here but on the other side it is hard to find entry level jobs overall. But I guess this is true for most of the major cities.

Mentioning here that startups are not really obsessed by technology, at least most of them. There is this a weird mindset going around I think that technology is a 2nd class citizen. But it is depending on the startup I guess.

To get into one of the bigger companies like Zalando, contentful, N26, GetYourGuide, Klarna, Auto1, GoEuro, DeliveryHero, HelloFresh or SumUp takes more work and experience but it's completely doable. I am now at one of the companies above after 1.5 years of company experience.
This is an amazing mind hack. Truly out of the box :D :)
Ask HN: Do tax authorities have right to your client list?
I suspect they'll sell off our client list to third party.

Do you've any right to your customer list? Should they be asking permission from a court for this? Or they already have this right.
The nice thing about KL is that it's the home base for Air Asia, so there are dirt-cheap flights to anywhere in Asia, most of which (Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, southern China) can be reached in under 4 hours by plane.
Wish I knew why that is the ultimate mistake - are those people really viewed that negatively - to be the ultimate trolls? You'll never get anywhere convincing people you think of like that I would estimate.
So the good news is that after SV/SF, everything is cheap! Well, mostly....

I would personally suggest Cape Town, South Africa, if you're a bit adventurous. Lovely weather, good people, cheap, excellent food. It's a bit out of the way (10h flying to Europe, more to US), but same timezone as Europe. English is the main language. Moved here 8 years ago and no regrets
I think this is the point where it starts being hard to argue that ARM is RISC anymore. x86 has BCD support and special facilities to handle NUL-terminated strings (i.e. C-strings) but now ARM has instructions with "javascript" in the name. At least Jazelle was a separate extensions.

I mean I suppose it makes sense for them to do that, especially if the performance benefits are as huge as outlined in this tweet, but damn it feels dirty.

I assume the reason for this is that in JS, as far as I know, all numbers are stored as floats right? So you keep casting everywhere when you need an integer? I assumed that JS implementations where a bit more clever and kept them as ints whenever possible but maybe it's not as simple as I had imagined.
Cult Driven Development. That’s where we are now. I think it’s one of the things that puts me off the job most these days.
Nice, places, but I don't think they count as "affordable" by most standards.
Chiang Mai, Thailand. It's super cheap and has a ton of 'digital nomads' there. I didn't spend too much time doing that there but there were a few co-working spaces, at least a couple years ago.
> I successfully tricked my mind to not use Facebook by destroying my feed.

I did the same thing, but using a different technique.

Steps:

1) Taper off - Unfollow everyone who isn't a close friend or family

2) Destroy feed - Unfollow everyone

x) Optional step - Delete all your posts and untag all photos. It took me an hour or two but I deleted everything, one by one. A greasemonkey script managed to clear some of it, but the rest I did by hand.

I still keep my account, just with nothing on it.
+1 for South Africa