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> It seems that tech workers in the valley have found their own analog to blaming immigrants for downward wage pressure, their particular boogeyman seems to be the robots.

While you'll no doubt continue telling the deplorables that they're racist and xenophobic for failing to welcome their currency and cost-of-living arbitraging foreign-replacements with open arms, could you at least refrain from pretending that the basic laws of economics (i.e supply and demand) no longer exist?

Immigrants increase the supply of labor, and thus lower wages. That's not a boogieman. It's a fact.
> Consider this, does an electric vehicle have ANY emissions reducing equipment at all that one must maintain?

Yes, you need to keep it clean, drag affects all things equally, and dirty anything means more drag.
Have you tried Toptal?
I feel like technically Fieldbook had pretty much everything that they needed to compete with Airtable.

Airtable probably does a better job of attracting customers with their extensive collection of premade content though.

But I cannot get over the ‘candy’ look in airtable.
This is bad advice because each and every pro listed when you're married is also a pro when not married. So I guess I don't get it. Also, there are a million ways to meet people and from my experience meeting people through work is really one of the worst ways to go about it (if you're looking for a relationship). Go join a singles club or something.
I guess it says something that my drawing is so bad it doesn't recognize it as anything? The tool seems oddly non-functional.
Not to mention that less wealthy people often rely on extended family for support such as childcare. For many people, leaving family behind is a risk not worth taking.
Yeah, but a simple templating system is tedious when you need interactivity or certain types of DOM manipulation based on data.

For example, right now I'm working on a form with dropdowns that filter the next dropdown and with Vue I can do that with very concise code which is simple and easy to reason about.

With Mustache or jQuery it would be tedious. I'd need functions for every little change of the DOM and multiple event listeners and its handlers.

Data-binding is great for this kind of data driven stuff. Not so great for other use cases. Last week I was working on a drag and drop solution with React and it was a pain to figure out how to do it.
The "new paternoster" is quite a different beast. Tom Scott did a video on it:

https://youtu.be/kdTsbFS4xmI

I live close to the tower and was really positively surprised how it turned out. Often, an architect's "vision" is far from what it ends up looking, but since this tower got its cladding, it looks spectacular - especially when the sun is low in the early morning or evening hours.
> As the article points out, the huge influx of capital in the area is being returned only to the tech sector, who merrily spend it and drive up the cost of living.

Most of the cost of living increase is due to bone-headed housing polices happily voted in by existing residents, the vast majority of which do not work in tech. I personally find it very sad that we've prioritized rewarding a tiny, vocal minority at the expense of literally everyone else, but it seems a large number of people would rather point fingers at the villian-of-the-day than change anything.
Misleading clickbait title - pretends to be against remote work, actually promotes a different form of remote work.
I have when the news writes an entire article around a single report, but then fails to link to that report. You had one job ...

Anyway, here's the report in question: http://www.everettprogram.org/main/wp-content/uploads/TIGHTR...

Reading the fine details of the report, you see that the top-line metric is real income, adjusted for inflation and local cost of living. And the #1 factor that's proved ruinous to local cost of living in the Bay Area these past two decades is of course housing prices. If zoning restrictions were relaxed and more housing was allowed to be built, costs would be reduced and a lot of these problems would be solved. The Bay Area has a critical lack of housing, which is driving all these prices up and causing most of the decline in CoL-adjusted non-tech wages.
The same reason that so many of them continue working for companies that blatantly violate principles they claim are important to them (privacy, open-source, anti-advertising, etc.):

It's easy to be vocal about principles, but when it comes down to it, very few people are actually willing to impact their own comfort or convenience to truly follow them. It's simpler to just come up with a reasonable-seeming justification for why you're not really supporting things you claim to be opposed to.
Anybody got a gauge on reason? Does it have the potential to change the current paradigm on client side browser development?
Homicide rates in the US and EU
California is NOT the "#1 poverty state".

- California is #10 when it comes median income (which is really remarkable as the 9 other states are tiny and CA has 40mn people) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...]
- California is #16 by per capita income
- California is #1 by total GDP
- California is #8 by per capita GDP
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per...]
- California is #35 in poverty rate by household income
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...]

The only measure where California is "#1 poverty state" is by supplemental income measure. And the reason is due to high housing costs in coastal California. And this also is an incorrect measure, as poverty in CA is not entrenched in coastal areas.

So, I guess, the Democrats can gloat for stupendously high GDP, median income, per capita income. And blame themselves for high housing costs.

Reasons for high housing costs have been well documented and researched and it includes a combination of factors such as income, demand, NIMBY, regulations, traffic, crowding etc. There is definite movement towards building more housing now and I think the next decade will definitely see more housing being built.
Supposedly it works, as described a section below: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/configuration.html#chan...

But yeah, the entire point of my comments in this thread is that the database should be telling me exactly what my options are at any situation if there are any. Judging by your comments it seems that you have also encountered a silent "deadlock" and the database gave no indication of what the hell was going on. That's the key here: The database silently stopped working, right? For something as critical as a database with possibly very important data, this just isn't acceptable to me. I want to be told as if I'm a complete noobie user what I have to do and why and what is going on with my data. The database is not a place where I feel the need to put on my smartypants hat, it's where I want to be taken care of completely.
An area it's being spent on is rent at properties largely owned by property firms.

In the case of the building I live in (in "downtown" Sunnyvale), the three front office workers and two maintenance persons come nowhere near making a dent in the $4.5 million in income this one property earns yearly. Can't speak to the wages of the staff in the other >12 buildings in the portfolio, but the folks keeping this place running aren't driving Teslas.
I think you are referring to the stationary blades that take the swirling air coming off the fan and direct it straight backwards. In doing so, additional thrust is generated.
> Even CEOs and other execs at companies using our products reach out routinely over Facebook.

I find this hard to believe. FB doesn’t strike me as a formal business communications channel.

> Leads that we have been chasing for a long time over regular channels such as email, phone, Linkedin, etc. - became closed deals due to short Facebook messenger exchanges with decision makers.

Again, hard to believe.

> From a consumer point of view - if you don't have presence on Facebook, you simply do not exist.

Bullshit. There’s more ways to market besides dumping everything into FB.
If faces are that important to your design process, you can use video chat. There is nothing that can be communicated in the same room but not over video chat. I don't know what the problem you're encountering is — whether you're the problem or your work has implemented remote work poorly or your coworkers are just weird and pathological — but it really seems like you're misidentifying it.
Ask HN: Why isn't Hacker News open source?
This seems like a great model, and your a kind person to burn through all your savings and 401k to build a nonprofit that helps some of the most disadvantaged among us. Hopefully more than a few of us will support your efforts!
Photography is generally really popular with programmers. So is homebrewing. Gun collecting, also.
You should post this as a Show HN. That’s a wonderful idea. I’m sure many people would gladly donate.
No. They’re spending it all on housing.

To be clear the flow is: tech companies make enormous revenue but require high skill workers. To make this work they pay whatever it costs to get workers and no more - in this case that means just enough to offset the enormous cost of housing.

Since the baby boomers practically banned all housing development in the bay once their little burns were built, this result in a little see-saw battle where landlords raise the rent until tech companies are forced to raise wages, back and forth. Employees are left with an equation that looks basically like: enormous salary - obscene rent = just a bit more cash flow than you’d earn in software anywhere else.

Thus the flow of capital is from tech companies to landlords, in an arms race that will only end when the landlords have taken so much of the capital out of tech that the industry sputters and moves away.
Agreed. I was just offering my perspective that the numbers have increased substantially over the last few years (not that I'm mad about at all hah)
Lightbulbs aren't magically more efficient at heating. The other 8 months of the year wasting a ton of power on inefficient bulbs just wastes your money when you could have just used more efficient bulbs and a dedicated heater.
Likewise, it's a great series, very well written, sad to see it so unknown and underrated...
Upvoted not because I agree (I'm a happy capitalist who happens to hate corporate welfare) but because many, many people on HN have views like this. Don't know why parent should be downvoted for them. Why single this person out?
https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc
> You can wait to fire them until commit time though.

Not in a way that truly solves the problem. Any time you are coordinating multiple actions that are irreversible and may fail, you'll need some contract other than "either your transaction exceeds or everything is rolled back."
Silicon Valley has a multi-fold problem.

1. Housing is expensive because of the influx of people immigrating to the state from out of state and also out of country. (I'm one of them.) This causes a housing shortage which will naturally drive up price of housing.

2. The housing prices don't come down because California in general has very restrictive zoning laws, especially in the most expensive areas, that prevent building of sufficient housing density to cover demand. This in turn drives housing development further outside of the bay area forcing long commute times and highway usage.

3. Because of the high cost of living (primarily from housing, food/etc is not significantly more expensive) from the above problems the solution proposed is to greatly raise the minimum wage, now hitting $15 in many areas. This causes a drive to automate away simpler jobs (also providing an entry for further tech startups to automate these things) or more commonly, move the jobs out of the state via company acquisition followed by moving the administrative jobs to company headquarters located out of state or sometimes out of country. A high minimum wage reduces the available job market by putting an artificial job supply limit in place thus causing unemployment for these simpler jobs.

4. On top of this there's a loophole for illegal immigrants where companies abuse them by paying them below minimum wage because they are here illegally. (Another reason that giving a path to legal immigration for illegal immigrants would help things.)

The first thing and most important thing that needs to happen is for the state to overrule local zoning laws (as opposed by the NIMBYs) and force generic zoning, allowing unrestricted housing development. Just look at the south bay area. The zoning is obvious even looking at satellite maps. Industrial areas are kept separate from housing which are kept separate from retail. This prevents natural intermixing of these causing a lot of need for road development to allow people to travel between these blocks rather than walking down the street.
Sticking up for my ideological opposite crankylinuxuser again. HN is constantly used for political and ideological battle. Why is crankylinuxuser's different?
Thank you! I had no idea what they were talking about in that article. Not only did they not link the report, they didn't even explain how they were measuring real income. Which matters a lot.

My #1 issue is housing. We have got to build more in the Bay Area. It's a social justice issue.
Libdweb
Removal of copyright notice from material that's not actually under copyright?

I'm sorry if I'm not understanding something simple, I tried a quick google search and came up with this [0], but that seems to apply to cases where you remove copyright notice from copyrighted work.

[0] - http://www.photolaw.net/did-someone-remove-the-copyright-not...
> Plenty of countries get around this with independent but government funded media

Yeah, that's kinda what I was getting at. I don't recall the conversation advancing in that direction very often.

> The only problem I've ever had with the ABC is that it's crap at local news.

I honestly think local news is the main problem. I'm not super pessimistic about the NYT, the WSJ, or the Washington Post. They have the prestige and the reach to attract lots of subscribers and/or patrons, and they're big enough to invest heavily in technology. It's the small local and regional papers that worry me. The staff per eyeball to cover all their beats is probably a lot less favorable, and they don't have much prestige to draw on to attract other support.
I'm 72 and nothing in my life has ever touched me like the music of that era. It breaks my heart that I'll never experience anything like that again.
...which IBM just bought for $34B.
There was a study which I cannot locate right now which discussed that one of the substantial impacts of a Walmart moving into a town was that all the "community leadership" type jobs left. Things like accountants and office admins and other business professionals. This was because the small businesses Walmart replaced were the ones that used these services locally. Walmart did these things at it's corporate office far away from the community.

So those who did mid-level things like accounting or office administrative work could no longer find work locally and either had to move or take a lower paying service worker position at Walmart.

Essentially what that reveals is that most of these mid-level jobs are susceptible to the Balassa-Samuelson (BS) effect [1]

Which means that most jobs that do not require physical labor onsite are either being rapidly outsourced to cheaper markets or automated if possible. This ends up being that group in the middle of the pay range and likely accounts for the reduction in overall wages for that group.

[1] http://www.bankpedia.org/index.php/en/87-english/b/23137-bal...
"If those lousy liberals weren't raisin' our taxes, we wouldn't be in this mess" is no better an argument than "If those meanie conservatives weren't cuttin' our social nets, we wouldn't be in this mess." They're both facile stereotyping. Would you like to present a coherent argument for how you think the Bay Area would have followed a wildly better trajectory in the last decade if Republicans had been in charge? I'm going to go out on a limb and say they would not have raised the minimum wage faster, or advocated more strongly for rent control, or pushed stricter business regulations on giant tech firms in order to protect small businesses, or advocated for strengthening labor unions for low-wage workers, or been better at confronting the moneyed NIMBY interests that make constructing housing so difficult in some areas, or looked at reforming Proposition 13. So what would it have been?

There basically aren't any Republicans left in the State

Other than the third of Californians who voted for the Republican or Libertarian candidates in the 2016 election, sure. Unless you're suggesting they all left in the last two years.
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Our Hexadecimal codes go to Q - bonus points if any one gets the Traveller SF RPG in joke.

Traveller is where of course Elite ripped off the initial space combat system from.
Glad to see someone mention the "temporary" cessation of the dollar's convertibility to gold. From my perspective that would mark the most important event for this topic but it is hardly discussed.
Same thing.

“Works best on chrome” I guess.

:(
Can Decentralization Impact and Enhance Geo-Location Data Privacy?
Meh. I’m mostly a frontender today. I learned about state machines in uny 20 years ago. I wrote a sophisticated state machine in C# 15 years ago (a back end) that drove all logic for everything happening from highway to the stacks at a major shipping terminal. Assuming that frontenders are only “just discovering” anything is quite an assumption, and comes off as ignorant and condescending.
> The idea is you get a re­quest, you val­i­date it, maybe you do some com­pu­ta­tion on it, then you drop it on a queue and for­get about it.

> The next stage of re­quest han­dling is im­ple­ment­ed by ser­vices that read the queue and ei­ther route an an­swer back to the orig­i­nal re­quester or pass­es it on to an­oth­er ser­vice stage.

In this scenario, what are the mechanisms by which a service could route an answer back to the original requester?
It seems to me the conditions are completely different.

There’s nothing racial or political about this.

It’s certainly ethically dubious. And I’m not certain it actually has any effect.
First thanks for what you're doing. I think it's definitely part of the solution. My worry though is that I don't think everyone is equipped to be a programer. The thing I keep coming back to is my younger brother. He's got mental disabilities which mean he can't read or do math at more than a very basic level (first grade maybe) and for what ever it's worth he also scored pretty low on IQ tests. Despite a bit of a falling out he's working in construction and doing fine, but he could never go into a highly skilled occupation. There's plenty of people like him some not nearly on such an extreme who would have been perfectly capable of working in management or similar, but as we require more and more training for simple jobs I worry that we loose places for people who can't keep up
> without determining, for example, that pictures of a Boston terrier and a Chihuahua both represent dogs.

I wonder if that is an artifact of how the training occurs. If you look at how humans generally learn, they learn what a dog is first. For many years they don't learn about breed (possibly ever). Cats and dogs eventually earn the shared labels "pet" and "animal".

However, at least in a heterosexual unit, we learn "mama" and "dada" before "woman", "man" and "person." However, we eventually learn to apply many labels to people: "name", "gender", "species" and other, possibly horrible, things.

In order for networks to share representation about hierarchical labels, assuming that humans are doing nothing novel in this problem space, they would either have to:

* Learn general labels first.

* Provide hierarchical labels as output.

* Provide multiple labels as output ("Labrador", "dog", "animal").

As a guess.
That depends MASH was broadcast without the laugh track in the UK.
At large companies, sure. The proliferation of startups really skew this on average. I know of many people who were "Senior Devs" at startups within the 1-5 years range.
> You are making some wild assumptions that require evidence. Specifically, you need to prove that the reason rich people are rich is because they "have proven themselves capable of efficiently allocating capital", as opposed to (or at least independent of) other factors, such as luck, inheritance, etc.

I'm not making any assumptions. In aggregate, by definition, wealthy people are better at allocating capital than non-wealthy people. Yes, not all wealthy people are good at it. But in general, they are. That's why they're wealthy. The fact that exceptions exist is irrelevant to my point.

> You also need to prove that the way the rich allocate resources, even when "efficient" (i.e. provides the most return) is actually good for society as a whole, and not just the rich.

Do you have evidence that the way the poor allocate additional capital is more socially useful?
All apartment complexes around here are owned by Californian corporations. So yes, they're local.

For example, Essex: https://www.essexapartmenthomes.com/about

They're even publicly listed: NYSE:ESS

Or the Irvine company, after which Irvine, California is named after because they designed the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine_Company
Not the world-wide-web that was first dreamed of, eh?

That collaborative one.

That sharing one.

That innocent one.

But thank the universe we still have it.
I really like the historical/tech story lines but the soap-opera interpersonal relationships wrecked it for me. The whole "broken imperfection" thing often goes to far and really detracts from the story.
Consider something so completely different that it would allow your mind to refresh itself.
They look really skinny compared to a New York bagel.
You are aware this is exactly what happens under DMCA?
Microsoft Azure, Office 365 users hit by multi-factor authentication issue
Reminds me of this talk by a reporter turned startup employee turned author: https://youtube.com/watch?v=G7vrCpWbmDw

One of the funniest things I’ve seen, while also being sad, because it’s so true.
Answer to the same question in a recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17933179
I'm currently just focused on helping students with their learning. I don't plan to do a Show HN until the remaining students get a job because I think the attention might be distracting. I plan to do a writeup after the remaining 6 students gets a job and while I take a breather, hope you get a chance to see it next year!
Ah, I feel a bit dumb for not realizing what kind of applications these would be, because I really should know better: back in 2002, when I still tried studying physics, I was part of a committee that organized a student symposium on biomedical technology. One of the speakers was Eva Stoffels, who had recently invented a low-energy plasma needle. Believe it or not, she claimed her motivation was ridding the world of the dental drill.

It's actually really interesting what you can do with plasma's in a biomedical context: bacteria are killed off really quickly by them because they lack a cell wall, without destroying human cells. At higher intensities, the plasma first breaks down the proteins connecting cells without killing them. At even higher intensities, they trigger apoptosis: programmed cell death without inflammations. Oh, and cancer cells are less resilient against them.

In the case of Stoffels' plasma needle, the idea was that it would destroy the infection while leaving healthy tissue intact. Not only that, her team found that the plasma's ionized the teeth in such a way that enamel production was increased. It sounded amazing at the time, but I guess it's hard to get this stuff out of the lab into the medical market though, since it has been over fifteen years now.