skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not voluntary, this is publicly accessible information. A friend of mine looked it up for Georgia and iirc its $50 for a CD full of CSV files with this info. Someone built an app around that.
I was responding to the parent poster who claimed that Long Island prices would be strongly impacted. And when people say Long Island, 99.9% of the time they mean Nassau and Suffolk County, not the physical island.
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NYC is surprisingly affordable if you can make the mental gymnastics that NYC != Manhattan.

You can get single family homes within city limits for $450-$750k. If you can't figure out how to afford a home like that on a six figure salary (let alone with 2 income earners in family situations), what you probably really need is a financial adviser. If you don't want to live in the city, Jersey City is swimming in sub-million dollars single family homes.

The D.C. area is actually more expensive in many cases, but you can haul out to a suburb 30 miles away and get more affordable housing on an engineer's salary and metro/commuter train in. It's not the end of the world.

Your commute may not be a 10 minute walk door-to-door, but...well...welcome to living in a large U.S. city where the jobs are.

The problem these companies are facing is availability of qualified staff. It'll take years to build out the facilities, and cheap places just will never attract the talent pool.
The contrast on the text is waaaaaaaay too low, making it very hard to read :(
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I actually enjoy digging through plugin code. I was using brackets for a while and found some minor bug where the git plugin wasn't hiding folders correctly. Raised a bug, then downloaded the code and dug through it for a while and figure out a way to fix it, got merged. Made me feel super happy.

https://github.com/brackets-userland/brackets-git/pull/1039

If people are wanting to contribute to OSS i highly recommend finding plugins in your favourite editor to contribute to.
Not just friends and family but employers, coworkers etc.

Apparently if you pay for premium (beta) you can even see their previous ballots and detailed voting histories!

/s
NYC should never negotiate. If you want to be in NYC then pay full price. There’s no shortage of demand here. The benefits of being here are manifold in and of itself.
>> No, it's the chemical reaction that the oil plants use, not the owners of the said plants

> poor attempt, try again.

I like how you deleted the "See how silly that sounds?" part, which is what I'm getting at. Anyway, who to blame is philosophical question and has no absolute truth, we might as well blame God for making humans greedy and shortsighted. I think we have to agree to disagree here. The fact remains though that in today's world if BTC switched over to PoS, we'd save about 1% energy usage today and the corresponding co2 production to go along with it. If BTC continues to grow, this number will go up correspondingly. Are you denying this?

> stake grinding, long range and other attacks are widely known. all complexities that deviate from trivial PoS system exist solely to address these attacks. are you really pretending they don't exist?

I'm saying they've been solved. You can see their justifications against the attacks you talk about in the white papers. If you have a specific attack against a specific coin, then we have something to talk about. Otherwise, just repeating over and over, "But there are attacks!" doesn't disprove anything they are saying.

> the only centralizing factor is energy subsidies. it's still a far cry from issues with PoS systems.

Again, economies of scale. Please at least try to address my arguments.
I don't speak for all young folks, but at least for me I just want to be in a big city where there's a lot going on - people from all over, interesting events and new experiences. Oh and also good public transportation, most young people aren't super into owning cars. It's hard to say if people would move to the middle of nowhere for the big names, I'm sure a lot of people would but I definitely would not, and I believe many of my friends feel similarly.
Do you need to have the remote job first? If so, the remote salary would probably have already been calibrated.
Still interesting though.
Your solar collectors will still be pulling in 1/3 of summer sun in the middle of winter (rough estimate, varies by latitude and weather, void above arctic circle). At the edges of winter you’d even be gaining energy still, so let’s say 40,000kg. That fits in an underground tank typically used by gasoline stations and could be filled by two tank trucks. Sounds doable in the scheme of new house construction, subject to the cost of the chemical of course.

But, I have to think that if space is available, increasing the collector area to gather more winter energy and reducing the inventory of chemical and energy would make more sense.

In the summer you could sell your saturated chemical to industry and have them replace it with unsaturated to offset your panel cost.

Of course now that I have introduced shipping… who wants to live in a shiny reflector farm? Cover industrial buildings and car parks with reflectors, ship or pipe the chemical to houses and have a nicer domestic landscape.

I wonder if there are degradation issues? They make a point of being able to store for 18 years which probably only interests survivalists, but make no mention of cycle limits.
Because a conventional war is still a better outcome than any size of nuclear exchange. Do you really want no middle ground between zero and global nuclear fallout? Everyone knows this and will avoid nuclear way, which is why your assertion that it will come to nukes anyway is overly pessimistic. No one wants a nuclear war.
Dear amazon ; stay the hell out of all of nyc . Go find literally any other city in the country. It will be better for everyone.
Thanks for this. I also have HHV-6 outbreaks on occasion. I will definitely investigate further. I have reached out to my rheumatologist for an infectious disease specialist referral. I'm curious how did you find yours? Are their specific terms I should google apart from infectious disease specialist?
> Surely you do not mean on an absolute basis!

Not sure what you mean by this.

> Do you not have a dictionary?

I asked what you meant by colonialism, so enlighten me. Explain why you think outsourcing is "colonialism".

> But what you may not be considering is - what do you think would happen if 8 billion people had a first-world carbon footprint?

That's a discussion for another day. But you would have to reframe your argument as "Free trade is bad because the world's poor escaping poverty would be a bad thing for the environment."

> So what's the rush to get new labor pools into the global economy?

Simply put, extreme poverty.

> Call me cynical but I think it is almost completely self interest on the part of the first world economies with only lip service paid to the well being of the poor Laotians.

Of course it's self-interest. That's how economies work. Whether it's self-interest or not doesn't determine whether it's good or bad.
I'm a little mystified how you could have read the article and made this comment. Choosing to register with a party and choosing to vote are choices, but they've never been private ones. Your actual vote is a private matter.

> Whom Americans vote for is private. But other information in their state voter files is public information; depending on the state, it can include details like their name, address, phone number and party affiliation and when they voted.
some good eli5s here, just adding for the grandparent post to remember that light bounces so the calculations get rather iterative and expensive.
That's pedantic nonsense. If I took that argument to its logical conclusion, I'd point out that I also don't want to be in my garage or the city car park.
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Hahah ; actually living here and no ; it’s not cheep .
It does not say how you vote. Other than the fact that in a primary you pulled a republican or democratic ballot. But the people you actually vote for are a secret.
I’m not sure. I think they have a set number of grants and you have to come as a new Vermont resident. First come first serve.

I think the idea is to attract folks from major Eastern cities that lust for the country side. It is a gorgeous state....but winter.
Brooklyn, Queens and even Jersey, are all fine, affordable, decent and nearby.
It can. If that's what the people want.

Unless the definition of free has changed.

Which, in this world, it seems to have.
^thanks for sharing!
When you search for certain pieces of free software to download on Google search, their own ads on those pages often direct you to malware-laden or otherwise unofficial sources for those downloads. One wonders whether these scams will be blocked by Google's new approach to ad-blocking.
Did you used to frequent r/weightlifting?

Moving on..

Bezos has basically no income from Amazon. He owns a bunch of shares, some of which he sells for a capital gain. Amazon doesn't pay dividends. He may have some income from other investments.

In his case, the tax man can only come when he sells stock, of which he only sells a ~1 billion USD per year.
>“I don’t want this to come off like we’re shaming our friends into voting,” said Naseem Makiya, the chief executive of OutVote, a start-up in Boston. But, he said, “I think a lot of people might vote just because they’re frankly worried that their friends will find out if they didn’t.” That's like, dictionary definition of shaming.

Waiiiiittttt, back that train right up!

What exactly does this person think "shaming friends into voting" is if it's not "vot[ing] just because they’re worried that their friends will find out if they didn’t?"

I don't really care about these apps either way, just... how does anyone have such a lack of self awareness?
Because lots of types of work that aren't development don't fit well with the remote team model. And HQ2- just like HQ1 and plenty of other Amazon offices- won't be just developers.

When I worked in the Seattle office, the floor below me was some kind of fashion department. I don't know what specifically they did, but the ones I met weren't writing code. In the Toronto office today, there's an entire floor that are AWS Sales Evangelists (or something like that). Business teams like that can't always work in a purely remote environment.
Funny, if I think of my favorite books I'd probably say the Three Body Problem trilogy, A Deepness In The Sky, and The Stand...maybe because I haven't read 11/22/63 yet. I better read Altered Carbon since you seem to have exactly the same taste as me.

I'd add that reading the whole Three Body Problem trilogy is highly recommended since it gets higher concept every book. And personally I enjoyed A Fire Upon The Deep just as much as A Deepness In The Sky.
Agreed on the regulatory risk. But the biggest defense against that isn't lobbying. It's putting the business's interests in alignment with the governments. Amazon will take a page out of ATT's playback and become the technological arm of the government. THAT is how you avoid being broken up. When the military top brass tells Congress that Amazon can't be broken up because the company is critical to national security.
There are a lot of places in the United States that are well between "middle of nowhere" and current high housing cost markets like San Francisco and NYC.

Technology wise I have heard of decent activity (including in a few of these cities some startup ventures) in places like Austin, the North Carolina research triangle, Miami, Boulder, Phoenix, Portland, Boston, etc. (Internationally, I'm sure there's some other markets people can add.) I have heard of housing costs creeping up in a few of these locations, but as far as I know, most of these still have pretty affordable housing compared to the Silicon Valley as a whole currently. Yes, the culture varies considerably between all these cities, but none of them I would describe as "middle of nowhere".
I wouldn't wish this on anyone but I lost someone I loved dearly and discovered that I had spent so much time concerned about money instead of spending time with her and that I would give up everything I possibly could just to get a few minutes with her again. I realized that I wasn't the only person who felt that way and that I wasn't ever going to make that mistake again.
Tourism for the tourist is a luxury, shelter for the resident is a necessity. If you’ve been homeless you would probably agree not having a home is quite a bit worse than having to pay more for a hotel when on holiday.
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> On a person-kilometre-minute basis, cars are absurdly inefficient. Stupendously so.

The problem is the subway comes maybe once every 11 minutes when it's working properly, and if someone tries to kill themselves by jumping in front of a train in south Brooklyn (or trips or gets pushed) then trains stop working all the way up through The Bronx. And potentially on both the east and west sides of both Manhattan and The Bronx if it happens at one of the stations where the 2/3 and 4/5 overlap. And this isn't an unusual occurrence, it happens once or twice per week during rush hour alone. Every time some minor thing goes wrong ('sick passenger', signal malfunction, track fire, etc.) then the entire city's transportation basically gets shut down. I agree that cars are absurdly inefficient, but at least they're somewhat more resilient. If we could use self-driving technology to at the very least increase the bus coverage then that would be a pretty good outcome.
TL;DR: a twenty minute discussion of the permissive vs copyleft dichotomy and why it puts a division between activist- and business-developers. Food for thought rather than answers or questions.

From the article:

Ask people affiliated with the Open Source Initiative about free software, and many will tell you that it isn’t really any different from open source. Free software just preached too much fire and brimstone, missed the rebrand, and lost mindshare.

Ask folks affiliated with the Free Software Foundation about open source, and many will jump to tell just how different it is. Open source strips free software of its values, pandering to the nonfree industry with promises of better, cheaper code, which doesn’t happen without unifying community spirit.
A lot? Depends on the city.
The point isn't losing merely Uber; the point is losing trust. Granted this is a competitor talking, here is Satya a few days ago: "No customer wants to be dependent on a provider that sells them technology on one end and competes with them on the other." Uber and Lyft is one of the great tech rival stories of our time. If Amazon comes in and crushes Uber, will any startup trying to make it big want to use AWS?
How did you get past the existential crisis that reading a book does nothing but while way time on a task that accomplished little when viewed over a period greater than a month? For example, rather than reading a book, you could have made something. You could have learned a new skill. Gone somewhere and improved someone’s life like taking trash out at the soup kitchen. All the while you know that there is a high likelihood you’ll forget key plot points within that same month.
Could they consider the money they save on new office space and feeding and pampering the employees as the subsidization?
You can get on the train at NYC at 3:30AM and be in DC at 7:00AM. (That's the slow train). Or you can get on the 6:00 Acela and be in DC at 9:00. There's more or less a "slow" train and a "fast" train between the two cities every hour from the wee hours of the morning to late night, and it is very possible to travel to the other city for a day's work, particularly if the other office is easily accessible by transit (as Crystal City very much is). With true HSR, such a day's travel wouldn't even be inconvenient.
same in firefox nightly
Why is the market any better? Our reasoning is based on the needs of human life, not who has more money.
an interesting chirality story: The navy contracted John Frost [0] to make rocket fuel biologically. The normal route to butanetriol (the precursor to butanetrioltrinitrate, BTTN, the rocket fuel in sidewinder missiles) is via reduction of malic acid. In order to do this one must consume large quantities of boron, not terribly hard to obtain in the southwestern US, but the problem is that the partially oxidized borate salts are a bitch to clean up and quite toxic - I guess the Navy wanted a greener way to kill people. A biological route would make the entire process cleaner, and less costly.

The big problem, is of course, that 1,2,4 butanetriol is very much chiral. You might think that because it's gonna basically be burned who cares anyways, but actually since BTTN is a solid rocket propellant, having a different crystal symmetry can cause potentially undesired propellant effects in the bulk. We can't have a rocket that doesn't work, or perhaps worse, occasionally blows up, on the tarmac because of a teeny tiny difference in solid packing geometries.

So Frost had to build two biochemical pathways to the compound. Which he did (btw that is no small feat). The plan was to then combine them 1:1 before subjecting the product to nitration.

Then, just for S&G, they took one enantiomer and nitrated it. Turns out the nitration reaction is harsh enough to quantitatively racemize the compound.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US7923226B2/en

In general, if I were doing biosynthesis for profit, I would probably not want to make anything that didn't have a value-add due to the chiral selectivity.
For people in this thread that are alarmed by the fact that voting records contain information about your party affiliation- note that this is not true in every state!

The fact that many states keep records of party affiliation is neither a necessary part of the democratic process nor is it an immutable fact of nature. It may be possible to change how voting records are kept or handled with ballot initiatives.
One reason why "decline to state/independent" is a rising popularity... especially where your primary vote doesn't matter or where you feel your registration will shun you.
I can’t tell if you’re being facetious. Of course desktop apps haven’t disappear entirely, and they won’t anytime soon. But entire classes of apps have largely disappeared, especially internal corporate apps.
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Is that quote your definition? I did not find the quote mentioned in either linked article when I used ctrl+f "transportation desert"
Fair enough and a good point, but by the time a body is interred that's irrelevant. There's obviously a fair bit of viruses and bacteria that will thrive (or just survive if a virus) in a corpse but stuff like HIV, Hepatitis, Syphilis, etc are going to die with the body. If it's human specific, it's going to be too specific to survive much longer than the human did. There's stuff like MRSA (or any staph infection for that matter) to worry about but that's no different than the carcass of a cow.
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To get a good result, yes. Here's an example that would be very easy to build with some coat hangers and a little coax - https://www.rtl-sdr.com/simple-noaameteor-weather-satellite-...

That said, if it's flying overhead you could probably pick something up with a basic telescoping antenna.
I hope you're joking about that last point.
I'm French and when I hear about this kind of things in the USA, I wonder why this data even exists? Why do people register as Democrat or Republican in the first place and why do the laws even allow it? I understand that it facilitates the organisation by the state of the primary elections. But it so obviously goes against basic principles of confidentiality of vote that it far outweighs the purposed benefits. And why don't the parties organize their own primaries?
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> I can't speak for other areas of the country, but NYC native Asian Americans are notoriously obsessed with and very adept at purchasing property.

I can speak for other areas. To a first and second approximation, all Chinese, regardless of what country they live in, believe very strongly in owning property and will go to what you might consider ridiculous lengths to do so.

There's a reason the rhetorical enemy of Maoism was the "landlord".
Perhaps you're stuck on a BART train, and there's nothing much better to do?
For societies that crumble, the data is always retrospective. Organisations and societies are entities where people tend to pretend (believe, even) that everything is okay or at least everything is manageable during catastrophic events, until the day that illusion can't be maintained anymore.
Yes! It's super lame here, please move away or don't move here - I'd like to bring the orchards back to my hometown.
Netflix is one of AWS's most important customers, and Amazon competes directly with them, Netflix is probably one of the best advertisements for AWS too. Similarly, Apple is one of Samsung's biggest customers (2.6% of sales), and they're fierce competitors, being competitors doesn't necessarily mean that companies can't be customers of each other.
This, I don't understand why Apple hasn't brought SNE as well. In the pre Apple TV original production era it makes less sense, now literally everything SNE has could argument AAPL. I wonder if Steve Jobs were alive would he have bought it, he loves SNE!
I'm not so sure.

In the world of large enterprise which is just now waking up and jumping all-in with "digital transformation" projects and "cloud strategies" Microsoft appears to be winning the battle. I work for a company that services large enterprises and anecdotally I'm seeing the majority of them choosing Azure over AWS. I believe this is in large part because Microsoft knows how to sell to enterprises, they have great tie-ins with existing on-prem core infrastructure like Active Directory which is a big deal to large companies. When large enterprises start jumping on board they will move the needle pretty significantly as they ramp-up. I anticipate Azure closing the gap on AWS pretty significantly over the next 2 years.
You can't make this stuff up.

> Google’s search functions allow users to employ advanced operators — like “AND,” “OR,” and other, much more sophisticated ones — that weed out and isolate websites and online data with extreme specificity.

> once the Iranian double agent showed Iranian intelligence the website used to communicate with his or her CIA handlers, they began to scour the internet for websites with similar digital signifiers or components — eventually hitting on the right string of advanced search terms to locate other secret CIA websites.

So it was complete security by obscurity, all indexed and on Google.

These are the people managing the greatest mass surveillance apparatus the world has ever known.
I'm somewhat playing devil's advocate here, but isn't it better to drop new FAANG campuses in already large, expensive cities where housing will only get a couple percentage points more expensive than in, say, an affordable mid-sized city where their presence could totally destabilize the local housing market for decades?

This is what I always thought was problematic about putting a Google campus in a place like Boulder, a smallish college town with geographic constraints to new housing. Adding over 1,000 Googlers with $200-$500K total comp might as well be a tsunami for a town that size.
We have primaries in the US as opposed to the French "all candidates primary election + (almost guaranteed) runoff 2nd election"

In many jurisdictions can't vote in a party's primary unless you belong to that party.
Given the rapid rise of politicaly motivated violence, I think it’s likely best to keep my vote to myself.