skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't imagine much fun in Constanta outside the hot summer season. And I wonder how did they deduce the safety score for Romanian places (relative to, for example, Polish ones)?
Mental illness, just like drug use, is no excuse for poor behavior unless someone is subject to actual delusions. I'm not blaming him for having a substance abuse problem or wasting his life, I fel plenty of empathy for those issues. It's the violent aggression toward other people that I take issue with.
I don't think it's the primary reason.

The Canadian tech sector doesn't make nearly as much money as their US counterpart does. The country has very few dedicated software companies, and none the caliber of the FAAMGs. For comparison, the largest software company in Canada by revenue earns $1.7B, Google is in the neighborhood of $120B a year.

Google/Microsoft/Facebook/Apple/etc are each individually orders of magnitude larger than the entire Canadian software industry combined. Chances are, that most metro areas in the US have a technology company larger than the biggest Canadian tech companies.

If Canada went from having a billion dollar tech sector to having a trillion dollar one, then salaries for engineers would explode.
You can’t just barge into a system that’s being used to safely transport human beings in a high-risk environment and expect to be allowed to do whatever you want with no forethought, planning, or coordination with other users. The system as it exists protects people from violent and catastrophic death. It would be patently insane to start making big changes to it without thinking very hard about the impact of those changes.

Is it strictly necessary to protect airspace around major airports all the way to the surface for five miles? Probably not. But we have designed a hugely complex, life-critical system around that and many other assumptions, and we can’t just go changing things willy-nilly. This is aviation, not computing. We do not “move fast and break things.” The consequences of
getting this wrong aren’t just tweaking some syntax and trying again. The consequences are destruction, death and bereavement.

I’m sure we’ll eventually get to a point where drones are more readily integrated into the system. For now, humans have the priority. And if that means you have to fill out a little web form while the people charged with maintaining the system work through all the implications, I don’t think that’s too much to ask.
As someone in the big 4 I can tell you 200k TC in SV is nowhere near 200k annually starting out. That would involve 70-80k in RSU that vest over 4 years, and in companies like Amazon(whose stock has been going up like crazy) that is divested 5%, 15%, 40% and 40% annually, so you get the bulk of it only later on.\

It wasn't long ago that Google was offering 100k base in the valley(where <80k salary is considered below poverty line) and many Google and Facebook engineers still share an apartment with roommates.

If you want to maximise disposable income, you'll end up with much more at Seattle or Austin than in the bay or New York.
Sadly the strategy is working. not seeing much mention of breach on HN
Here is what has already changed :

1. All extensions are treated as fresh applications. This means you might be at same job for 15 years but if denied you are fcuked. Sell your home, pull your kids out of school and go back to India. (Affects only Indian people)

2. H4-EAD might be rescinded. Hence not one employs them or has plans to fire existing employees.

3. RFEs. Almost 70% applications for both fresh and extensions are getting Requests for Additional Information. This is like pissing on yourself to keep yourself warm and has been the main cause of why USCIS has suspended premium processing.

(Rumours are that Premium Processing concept will be done away with in Decemeber completely.)
For what it's worth, I see many posts at https://plus.google.com/+MichelPollet

(Disclosure: I work at Google, on other things)
but none of those are the techcrunch article.
What happens to the old content?

(Also, small thin sans-serif grey body font means you hate your readers' eyes.)
When I started my first coding job, I once made the joke that "testing is hard. I'll just push the code to production and see what happens." An old, crusty engineer just looked at me and said, "you're the kind of person that gets people killed."

I feel like 99% of the engineers who comment on HN don't work in fields where their technology could kill someone if it messes up. If an error meant someone's death, you'd probably think a little harder for committing. That's why I'm not taking anyone who calls this "draconian" or derisively "risk averse" seriously.

Being a safety-first industry is not a punch line. Life is stochastic, not deterministic, and the FAA exists to add as many 9s to the likelihood of success as possible. Sorry your fun is ruined, but when I fly in a plane I don't want to be worrying if some hobbyist with more money than accountability will put my life at risk because they wanted to make a cool video to put on YouTube.
It's very likely that pay in Canada is a lot higher than many people's home countries (e.g. India). So it's more a calculation of "high pay + security + life benefits" in Canada and "even higher pay but nothing else" in the US.

Canada makes a lot of sense. A lot of these people aren't just economic migrants, they are looking to settle down and start new lives. No immigrant in their right mind would do that in the US right now (if they have a viable alternative).
I feel like the number of tech people who legitimately worry about their spouse being deported is extremely small. And it's only two years until the next election anyways.
Interesting, our student residences had fully equipped kitchens. Just larger ones if there were more people sharing the same space.
My wife ruled out a US PhD precisely because of the negative signals about getting a work visa for her or for me. Canada is welcoming her with open arms
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> Are the countries these workers coming from so much more unsafe than the US or Canada?

Perhaps - but other than gun violence, if I went back home several things would be unsafe.

Money can buy a lot of things, but it takes more money to buy a first world lifestyle in India than it takes to do it in Canada (or even the US, as surprising as it sounds).

Buying clean smoke free air and water you can drink out of the tap might not feel like luxuries, but that's priced in here (& even there, this is by no means perfect - see Flint).

And at least, I've yet to be stopped by a cop who wanted a bribe.
I am not trolling. I love portugal. But it is not a tech hub and I don't see it being one. IT? Maybe. But for high-tech you need the supply chains. If I call a random B2B supplier and ask "Can you do X?" they often answer: "X? we can do better!" And this is where opportunities open.

Portugal is a nice place. Nice people. But too little high tech, too much debt, demography problems etc.

" destruction created by more than 50 years of fascist dictatorship." Not aware how much damage this created. The Portuguese empire was not important before the dictatorship anymore, so not sure how much time you really lost.

But PT has many good things. I wish RE was cheaper in Lisbon and I would buy immediately.
TIL about Google Sites. TBH I'd prefer Google link tracking everywhere over popups every time I visit a la Medium.
this is the same company that threatens other companies that if they don’t patch a vulnerability fast enough, the time will release it to the public. class act
One thing that pisses me off as excuse making is "training/ lack of training to blame" for travesties as a complete abdication of responsibility. I mean if your babysitter got frustrated and beat your kid with an electric cord you wouldn't accept lack of training as an excuse! It seems to be gussied up "Just following orders."

Making matters worse is the farcical double standards where ignorance of the law and operating based on feelings is the standard for them and perfect knowledge of the law and situation regardless of circumstances for everyone else. Shooting someone breaking into their house after being flashbanged - both disoriented and threatened leaves one liable for murder because they should have known the intruding guy in black who never announced his presence while deafened and half blind was a cop. Meanwhile if the police empty multiple magazines into someone who is reaching for a wallet because they didn't know for sure jt wasn't a weapon and felt threatened and never get so much as a grand jury indictment attempt. If we all operated on the fear for life standard it would be a bloody paranoid anarchy of preemptive assassinations - proving how fucking stupid it is for anyone. Feelings are always an absolutely terrible basis for laws.
I don't know people here noticed but they are already doing so by bringing "confidential email", etc to all users which explicitly require WEB VERSION or Gmail app.
I wish so badly I could trade places, as a conservative man stuck in a 'progressive' country with lower wages. Give me a great salary and Blumpffss 'regressive' US any day.
I'd say also the stability and non-stupidity of their immigration laws is an advantage too. I am always correcting myself when I work with USCIS: they are not stupid and slow, they are deliberately malevolent.
Are there good statistics on the percentage of technical people on salary or hourly, versus equity-only or piecework?

I've read a number of times that the general trend in creative work is that salaries take a far lesser morale toll than bonuses or piecework. Anecdotally, open source seems to have accepted contributors on salary far more often than piecework, like patch bounties.
>> seemingly socially regressive and anti-science policies

Both dems and repubs are anti-science. They are just anti science on different topics. So, don't feel bad about this administration.

Topics Repubs Hate/haven't articulated their position well:

* Evolution (have given up on the battle)

* Abortion (have a valid position but haven't explained it well)

* Stem cell research

* Marijuana and other drugs (Trump is ok with legalization though)

Anti-science dem positions:

* Support for Paris accord even though experts said it was useless

* People can change who they are on a whim but can't change who they like (Trans vs gays)

* Abortion (Yes, they ignore science on this too)
The reason the switch is called that...

"A new proposal has been made to the WebAssembly specification committee a few months ago: to add reference types to the type system. Reference types are a new way to represent a reference to any host values. In a Web environment, this means being capable of playing with JavaScript values within WebAssembly. This is a huge difference with the existing type system, which only contains primitive types: integers represented on 32 or 64 bits, IEEE754 floating-point numbers represented on 32 or 64 bits. This is also a first step for implementing garbage collection (GC) integration within WebAssembly: since these reference values have been allocated on the GC heap in JavaScript, they need to be traced during wasm execution."

https://blog.benj.me/2018/07/04/mozilla-2018-faster-calls-an...
There is a huge difference between “keeping yourself alive” by not going into a burning building that there is a huge risk that you won’t come out alive and you won’t help anyone and shooting an unarmed person just in case they might be carrying a weapon.

As a police officer, they signed up for an increased risk of death (even though statistically it’s not that dangerous). I as an African American, didn’t sign up to be shot just because I “look suspicious” for living in a predominantly White neighborhood.
They are comparing salaries in USD. Using one currency for all comparisons.
> The new desktop processors include protections for the security vulnerabilities commonly referred to as "Spectre", "Meltdown" and "L1TF". These protections include a combination of the hardware design changes we announced earlier this year as well as software and microcode updates.

> * Speculative side channel variant Spectre V2 (Branch Target Injection) = Microcode + Software

> * Speculative side channel variant Meltdown V3 (Rogue Data Cache Load) = Hardware

> * Speculative side channel variant Meltdown V3a (Rogue System Register Read) = Microcode

> * Speculative side channel variant V4 (Speculative Store Bypass) = Microcode + Software

> * Speculative side channel variant L1 Terminal Fault = Hardware

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/spectre-and-m...
By the way, maybe you are the troll. Read up how SV became SV
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> And it's only two years until the next election anyways.

At this point with 50% approval rating, I doubt you'll see an incumbent lose 2020
They're niche, often private, but they do exist.

Their only advantage to Facebook groups was more natural (temporal, not recommended) sorting of data.
> Don't forget that they will need geo-redundancy built in to prevent data loss

This is already factoring in 2x storage, so you just put each half in a different location.

> and they likely have some kind of offline archive too.

Okay so 2 million.

> Then there is the running cost to power all those drives.

Yes, that's one of many things that adds on top of the raw drive cost.

> Also, when you have that many drives, you're going to be constantly replacing dead ones.

It's not actually that bad! If you cram ten thousand drives into a few racks, your drive failures per week will be in the single digits. You could have someone come in once a month.

> I have a feeling this is an expensive operation!

It is, but my core point is that it would be expensive even if the drives were free. You need a certain amount of server horsepower and the physical resources to support it. This implies that you're not getting to stick 60 drives in a single chassis, so you need more labor as well.

There was an estimate last year of $1500 for IA to store and serve a terabyte of data indefinitely. I'd love to see a breakdown of that number, how much goes to day 1 hardware, how much goes to year 1 hosting, how long that hardware is expected to last. But even the day 1 cost is definitely a lot more than $50 for 2TB worth of hard drive.
Added sorting, thanks for suggesting it.
Photography. Always lots of nice photos.

Some Linux kernel devs IIRC (I do not hang there).

Some local people.

One user I followed who was very into clean energy solutions.

Gardening (vegetables, chilies, general).

Ham radio.

The thing I never saw on Google+ was politics (I guess it is there but I never looked for it and never found it : )
It doesn't sound great for the individual, though. Standard of life in the US and Canada is higher than in India, and they'll likely want their kids to grow up in better circumstances than they did, if that's possible.

Besides, you're not going to make a million dollars in a few years. New grad salaries take a while to turn into experienced developer salaries, and the money you make from 20-30 is unlikely to last you all the way to retirement, even if you return to India.
Afaik taxes are rather more than in the US. If I enter the 110000 CAD into https://simpletax.ca/calculator I get a 30% tax rate. It will also get more at a higher income. Washington/US has less income tax overall, even with higher salaries.

Overall if you earn 30-40% less, you might also have that much less after taxes.

Regarding cost of living: I found the minor expenses (e.g. restaurants) to be quite a bit cheaper than in the US. However the already expensive things are expensive here too. Especially housing/rent, which is currently pretty crazy here in Vancouver. I would expect being able to buy a condo or house a lot faster in the US than here.
Outside of the last and current tech bubble programming was never that valuable. And even then and now it's constrained to a few places and a few kinds of "programmers".

Nowadays crypto seems like the a space that could produce hypergrowth while being obvious and underappreciated at the same time.
While Montreal does have very cheap(or at least non-insane) housing, jobs are harder to get and French is still a big thing as far as I understand: you need to know French well to fit in. Also the weather is more extreme. I think if you can land a good gig in Montreal and are good at learning a new language it would be the ideal place in Canada, but finding a good job is hard.
If you move to another country and you still hold a Green Card, you must file US income tax returns as well - it's not just for citizens.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/freq...

"if you are a U.S. citizen or a resident alien living outside the United States, your worldwide income is subject to U.S. income tax, regardless of where you live"
I mean, I get the term "sunsetting" - that isn't the problem. I don't know what "consumer Google+" means. I can guess that it might refer to the use of Google+ by ordinary people as a social network, but I'm far from certain of that interpretation.
That's true. Stateless apps are a lot easier.
I have myself had to put a stateful service in K8s even before they had StatefulSets and it wasn't a walk in the park.

However doing what you described is hard... anywhere.

Even if you do it all by hand it's going to be hard and most likely brittle. It might take a bit more time/effort to do that on Kubernetes but I would say you would end up being a better solution that can actually sustain change.

As stated before by many, Kubernetes is not a magic wand. But it does force you to build things in a way that can sustain change without a big overhead.

We all know that different tools have different purposes and I'm not advocating it's perfect by any means. All I'm trying to say is that this idea - that a lot of people have - that Kubernetes is 10x more complex than doing X by hand is an illusion.
This was my first thought as well, since Apple is coming out with (supposedly) "pro-focused" new Minis very shortly.
That study is faulty. The intern who did that study didn't know that Google would buy DRAM chips that failed manufacturers QA, but them on DIMMs themselves, and retest them at lower frequencies and with ECC turned on. When they already have to be tolerant of any node failing because of their scale, they can start playing fast and loose with this sort of thing if it makes financial sense.

EDIT: At -3 so far, does anyone want to explain the downvotes? I saw the google slides first hand, and there are comments from 2009 in that article saying the same thing.
11% of ~325 million vs 7% of ~65 million = ~31 million more people using antidepressants in the US than the UK. Also I'd hardly say >10% is reasonably small, but that's a judgement call.
The scheme I propose doesn't actually pay per hour. There's no built-in method for time tracking or reconciliation. Rather, hours are used to roughly estimate the amount of time a developer can put in, over the funded period.

Essentially, an hours-available estimate would proxy for "full time", "half time", or "a few a week". Perhaps I should revise to give developers precisely that choice, directly.
I know multiple people who've even started turning down invites to visit the US (for conferences) because of the current administration... I think part of is fear of what _could_ happen under Trump even more so than what's happened so far.
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It's a lot lower in Canada, but simply the uncertainties of and anxieties caused by living in the US (for many of us) is unbearable.
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I believe CIF raises money first, and then takes applications for projects on which to spend it. My proposal went the other way: developers propose their projects, and money comes together to meet it.
I liked Google+, but this is one of the reasons why I stopped using it. I think it was around the time they cancelled Google Reader. By randomly cancelling products that are still used by lots of people, they're dooming other products before they even launched.
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They have a unit for stripping people's citizenship now.
Explain to me how my flying a 4 pound drone at a height of 100 ft to take a photo of my home is putting someones life in danger to the point where the FAA should require me to register my activity and pass a license program?

Edit:

"my kid are playing in our backyard. Do I have the right of privacy?": No you do not have a Right to privacy, I can put a camera on my roof or pole and record your backyard if I wanted and there is nothing legally you could do about it

Drones falling from the sky: General liability laws would apply no different than if I am mowing my lawn and a rock flys out and hits you, or if I am play yard Darts and I toss one over your fence which injures you.

I can not prove it is safe: That is not how a free society works, the burden is not on me to prove my actions are safe, the burden is on YOU to prove that my actions have a more likely than not probability of causing physical harm to others or their property

Other Air Traffic Hitting a Wing: Why are they below 400ft, or the less than 100 ft I would fly but still be under the FAA Regulations, My entire point is that under 100ft should not be under the FAA at all,
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The UK is an amazing place as well if you are looking for tech jobs outside of Asia.

Almost all major companies have offices her plus a decent startup scene.
People flocked to google because they wanted to get rich.

I'm pretty skeptical of objective-sounding claims about people's motivations.
This is why I don't trust my own videos/photos/documents/notes/etc. to "the cloud". How many examples like this have there been where peoples stuff just disappears one day with no way to bring it back? More than I can count.

Though, saying I don't trust my files to the cloud is not the same as saying I don't use the cloud. I keep two copies of all of my files in 2 physical location. However, both of those physical location are within 10 miles of each other, so I also mirror everything to the cloud. That is, I always have 3 copies of all of my files, 2 in physical location and 1 in the cloud.

I know so many people that have all of their important videos and photos in one location (their phone, the cloud, a hard drive in a drawer, etc.) I can't imagine how they sleep at night knowing everything could go poof at any time. I've tried explaining this to some of them, but they think I'm paranoid.
Seattle/Austin/Colorado are better than Canada in almost every aspect.

But, you could make an argument that with the higher tax rates, renting/house prices and living expenses of California and NYC, Canada could be a viable alternative, especially if you want to go freelance/part-time and need the healthcare, or are a non-US citizen.
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Game engines are multi-threaded, but there is still a critical path. And passed a certain amount of cores (typically 4 in modern games), you won't get any improvement by adding more.

That's because once you are down the critical path, the only way to go faster is by improving single core performance.

There is a reason reason why Core i5 are so popular with gamers. They have just enough cores not to limit a game engine, excellent single-thread performance, and they are affordable.
Oberon was one of the inspirations for acme[0], one of the text editors / text "environments" for plan 9.

0: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/
Another dupe?
It also increases the reporting regulations for most international banks. So it's very possible that you'll be prevented from being able to bank in the country you move to.
Honestly I cannot refute that!

Haven't had the experience myself outside of GKE so I can only imagine the complexity of it.

It is a young project still. My guess is that with some more time this will improve.