skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think for many people it comes down to go exactly where and do exactly what there. Once lived in Bay Area for while, you have certain expectations on compensation, services, things to do, career growth etc.

If you are used to a city like SF and enjoy the level of things in there, in the world and US there only few cities similar. Like nyc, la, London, Tokyo etc. Portland, Seattle, Austin, Berlin are all good but not the same.

Most of these places are almost as expensive or in similar category as SF but all of them have lower tech salaries than SF, by little or by a lot.

In addition, if you live decently and your salary doesn’t only go to rent, then any decrease in rent is always less than decrease in your salary. Say your rent is $3000 in sf and you make $300k+ per year in total comp. Say moving to Austin your rent would be $1500 but your salary would be $200k. You are only saving $18k year in rent but your salary dropped $100k. Go to Berlin and you maybe pay $1000 for apartment but your salary is $60k.

Lastly, as messed up lot of startups and companies are in Bay Area, there is still a lot of experience and drive to build succesful companies. Go anywhere else in the world and you will encounter more clueless people with absolutely no networks, who have no ambition, and are just trying to do some local play of a global company. I know it sounds harsh but I think for many people thinking about moving to London and working in some consultancy or bank doesn’t sound very exciting or a growth opportunity.

So I think lot of people want to move, but cannot find good or exciting reasons to do that financially, growth or general job happiness. Quality of living and housing yes for sure.

I think options are:
1) start your company and build the culture and company you want whenever or in a distributed way

2) Decide to retire to the countryside and work on your own projects

3) Find a fulfilling, not exactly high tech job or position, but more like a foundation / helping governments with socially responsible software etc. Essentially financially retire, but work on meaningful things

I think Bay Area is still great for singles or couples without kids, that you can get dual high income and share housing costs. Also the career and company options in tech are unparaller.

Starting companies needing massive engineering force, less so.
i would have picked today or maybe front.

more could be confused with the more link at the bottom and it doesn't really tell the whole story.

i discovered front by accident when the above announcement came up in a search, and i have been using it ever since to keep up with the top hits of the day. it actually helps me to read less and limit my time on hackernews.
> Thank you "Modern Labor" for being yet another force that is determined to make software development go the way of Woodworking, Welding, Automotive Manufacturing, etc.

Would this actually be bad for society?
Quite a few people hate working in traditional office environments too but remote only options are still relatively rare. There's room for both approaches and probably some hybrids too. For now it still seems to me that the demand for remote work from people who prefer it outstrips the supply of good remote friendly positions.
Oh get a grip, Big Business loves to be advertised everywhere, just on these dumbfuck channels that are an insult to intelligence
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Wooooow. U guys at the wolfram cult are soooooooooooo cooooool. I envy you.
How it feels to be a cult gang member ?
I don't think that's true with the current MSFT under Smith and Nadella.
I completely agree Right now, it is simply not worth it to work for smaller companies.
Ask HN: Interview Question?
When was the last time you asked an algorithmic puzzle as an interview question, that you really solved as part of your job ?
Maybe... Because his publisher is just reprinting material? Publishing the same thing over and over again seems to work pretty well for them, why shouldn't Orr give it a try?

Dude's been dead since 1994. There's only so much you can say.
If only there are deflector shields in reality. Current technologies fail to afford a clear distinction between offensive and defensive potentials, which inevitably leads to controversies and trust issues. Forgive my imaginativeness, if there are effective yet distinctly defensive potentials like deflector shields in reality, I guess most controversies and trust issues will magically resolve by investing most of the resources in this domain to develop such technologies, even though technologies that are not distinctly defensive will still be needed.
Thank you for the inputs and course reference
They can get in the market for $450M...
personally I use a script I developed a while ago for doing iptables directly, using awk to parse some txt files to apply the firewall config and then adding a script to execute the iptables script on boot:

https://github.com/benkillin/linux-firewall

the ip6 section needs some further development though - I have no need for it in my scenario at the moment.
Thanks for putting that post together - that is very informative.
I really enjoyed the writing style of this article. The art of story telling has a huge impact on being able to communicate information.

> 86 billion neurons and their 100 trillion interconnections, not just the varying strengths with which they are connected, and not just the states of more than 1,000 proteins that exist at each connection point

It's quite amazing how much information the brain could seemingly represent, and there is probably some sort of "compression" and reorganization that keeps only important pieces of information and discards the rest, which could explain the memory version of the 1 dollar bill being only what that person's brain found important to remember
how can one imagine at a higher level, it will just magically get better then?
And immediately after releasing the specimen, the scientists ran like hell.
In addition, we can ask some more serious questions.

Freedom was the ideal behind the advent of personal computing and Internet. Quote John Barlow,

> "We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity."

And people believed, once you have the Internet, it will be an inherently platform of democracy and equality, which empowered the individuals to be free from the social and political establishment. However, this narrative from the 80s has been proven to be partially correct, partially wishful thinking.

It appeared to be true, because it coincided with the economic boom of 80s neoliberalism until ~2010. When middle east politics started to become destabilized, people celebrated because the revolution was liberal, there was even the "cute cat theory of digital activism", which says when there are funny memes involved, people are more likely to join the political protest of Internet freedom. And it was seen as a good thing - a faceless dictatorial government was overthrown by lolcat. Isn't it the miracle of the postmodern Internet?

But it has been clear that ANY idea, can by popularized and supported by a free Internet. Now in the current age of deglobalization and political and economic failure, naturally, conservative, nationalistic, or even racist and fascist ideas are getting more and more support. Suddenly, the same medium (Like the social media, or the political memes) are being called hate symbols and should be banned by major platforms. It has been clear that the Internet can surely empowers "individuals to be free from the establishment", it is very true, but unfortunately, any ideas, not only ideas of "democracy and equality", as long as long as it has support, can be empowered by the Internet. Not even needed to be popular support, support from a portion of people with shared identity is enough.

When we've realizing an free and open Internet does not necessarily support liberalism, or democracy, or equality, the next question naturally arises - when the central argument for Internet freedom, that it brings democracy and equality, no longer works, should the Internet be free and open? And should we even have the right to free speech anymore, at all? I believe the answer must be yes, including those unpopular ones.

But the media, as I see it, just blindly discredit the trolls, and only solution they purposed was "don't feed the trolls", or Twitter and Facebook should ban "hate speech" and "fake news". If the mainstream cannot actually to study and understand its mechanism, and the underlying social-economical basis this conflict, of this new online anti-establishment trends and trolls, and to provide a social solution, I don't think the problem is going to be solved at anytime, and the answer to free speech, and a free, open Internet is going to be "No" soon.
> We once envisioned the internet as a place of revolutionarily open discourse, where any idea under the sun could get posted somewhere and read, no matter how crazy or bad it seemed, with the worst ridiculed and dismissed, but still able to be read, and the best rising to the top.
I'd like to know more about the vision:

* what was the idea for combating Sybil if hundreds of thousands, millions, or billions of people arrived?

* what was the idea for combating disinformation campaigns?

* if you thought it best to maximize for globally readable and reachable ideas, what was the idea for dealing with garden variety abuse and viral content of a defamatory nature?
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The dinner table, the subway, and debate club each have distinct social norms around which opinions one may state and what sort of appeals may be used in their support. Why shouldn't internet communities have their own?

SSC is basically hosting a grown-up, text based debate club. Even the version that 16-year-olds encounter will ask questions like affirmative action, immigration, abortion, church & state. Kids are required not only to listen quietly through, but to competently articulate opposing views on such topics.

The social norm proposed for the internet in campaigns like this is a narrower range of acceptable opinion than in officially sanctioned activities of regional federations of public high schools. There is more going on here than "sorry, no techno-anarchist utopia for you."
The brief timespan of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event does not get a "-cene", let's maybe wait a few million years and see what/who's left before branding ourselves anything but an extinction trigger.
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> It was foolish the way I felt in the 90ies thinking that Software and computing would be a net benefit.

I'm so friggin' sick of looking at glowing rectangles (he wrote, looking at a glowing rectangle). Watching all the faffing about with software-enabled workflow insanity and other time-wasters across various industries (including dev itself) I'm even pretty skeptical of the benefits of all this crap.

I have a wholly unverified suspicion that computers and the Internet are very very beneficial in a tiny set of (often very important!) applications, and only potentially but not actually in practice beneficial in the vast majority of cases—and in fact often harmful—such that they're technically a big boon to the economy as a whole but in any particular instance you're likely to encounter are... usually not.
The synagogue shooter was a leftist who hated Trump and pretty much quotes Farrakhan.
Oh, this is great! Well Russia has such content moderator - Roskomnadzor. It is a great tool for state censorship. I don't see why UK, for example, should't follow the well trodden path of totalitarian censorship and surveilance. For the sake of teens, you see. They are, after all, mostly children. Please, think about the children.
Why don't you take responsibility for your own health instead of expecting others to risk their lives so you can be lazy?

I was vaccine injured. I battled crippling physical pain and brain damage for over a decade. Do I not have a right to try and survive? Or are you willing to sacrifice people like me so you can be safe with minimal effort?
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8 servers fixed capex is not comparable to the opex of 8 peak servers.

If bandwidth is your highest cost, that's a completely separate problem that likely requires CDN. Neither x86 or ARM is going to reduce that cost.
Lots of good advice, thanks a lot.
As they are a rather small company and they posted the position a few months ago I think they might spend a bit more than 60 seconds but gifs are still more telling than still images.

There will be a CV, list of languages/tech I am experienced with and cover letter as well, so I omitted that here, might add it to the work projects for clarity.

Improving the styling - not my strong point but I should definitely do it.
The Bay Area has less than 1/30th the US population and yet the majority of US unicorns and decacorns have hailed from here. It's wildly disproportionate.
Nobody gets to just "do away with software patents," because that'd be a legislative procedure, and an uphill battle in a snowstorm even understand the best of circumstances.

Take a quick glance at what the US legislative process is up to at the moment, and will be up to at least through 2020. There will be no progress. On anything.
Good riddance. [spits]
Sometimes building a solid successful business is preferable to playing the lottery and shooting for the moon.
>Residential proximity to HV transmission lines increases risk of leukaemia

"Everything is correlated." The land next to HV lines is cheaper, poorer people have higher mutational load, therefore a higher cancer rate. You get a real, authentic correlation between power lines and cancer, without power lines actually directly causing cancer.
CEOs of publicly traded companies don’t set their comp, the board does.
If true, this makes power rather pointless.
I'd probably go the opposite direction of East Wind: not require people to buy into a philosophy or make any community commitments. My biggest goal would be to use group buying power to buy good land and put in a sizeable well, some very minimal facilities (shower/ restrooms/septic), etc. Maybe a few RV pads.

I've actually got some land in the desert and spent some time working out of a camper. If anyone's ever interested in chatting about future plans, I'm always down to collaborate. Kind of a long term thing that's always on my mind.
For how long, on what scale, and how much energy it can create? A lot of problems
I was vaccine injured and it destroyed my life. I battled physically crippling pain and brain damage for over a decade.

I arrived at this conclusion after studying biochemistry for over a decade.

You think your "cursory" search is adequate to evaluate this problem? You think you can quickly Google complex problems and completely figure them out? That's weird. You seem to be the illogical superficial one.

I used to be a professional environmental engineer. There are real logical concerns with vaccines. Hardly any one will even listen to my logic, because most people are like you, who think it's logical to ignore logical arguments because you don't like it.

Pathetic. You're full of hate based on a "cursory" Google search.
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CEO's dont set their own comp unless it's a small private company, and those are unlikely to be paying millions.
Larger companies have an inherent sales and marketing advantage due to brand size. If 20 engineers at a small startup develop a product and 20 engineers at some big co develop a similar product the latter will generally outsell the former. The big can consequently also pay its engineers more since it is able to make more money from the fruits of their labor.
Because not everything is dollars and cents in the end to everyone?

Some people value the autonomy a small business gives you along with the work life balance.
I think this applies to families too, explaining why many well-organized and cautious people end up missing out on children. There may never be a time when you feel ready. There is always something more -- a dept paid off, a larger house, an education completed -- and that just never ends. Meanwhile, the opportunity slips away.
> by dealing with all kinds of things that shouldn’t matter.

Can you give some examples?
Well... They CAN be voted out... Its a vote that's not regularly held, you have to be personally nominated for being voted out, and you need a 2/3 majority of the Senate to vote against you...
Yes but don't too readily dismiss the notion that he who is tabulating will eventually tabulate into his own favor. Of course, this notion holds no water when looked at from a bureaucratic point of person but if we look at how BANKS are doing we might start wondering if this "overdraft fee" is really a beneficial thing for all or some. To use one concrete example for this camp.
"I was working 16 hour days and struggling to get the team on board, while instead just going overboard."

I think this is the key takeaway. The author was leading by a BAD example.

More time on task can lead to more productivity... but at the cost of your sanity. I think it's a common tactic in younger developers because they haven't really obtained that level of "ideal worker" they're striving for.
Power is happening naturally, it is our ability to harness it that is deft or dull.
You can lead by example without crowding others out. Set the example, then make room for others to execute on that. This is often the role of a coach.
He's talking specifically about startups.
2007-02-18 seems to be the day it started.

Out of curiosity : Under a particular day's story, why do we see stories from the next day too ?

Eg : https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-02-21
This shows some post from 02-22 too.
"He" used to serve that purpose and subsumed people with all pronoun preferences.
> knowing your CEO gave $28m back to the workers at his or her own expense? I'd argue that kind of thing is great for retention.

If Tim Cook gave his entire comp back to the company, it wouldn’t be barely a blip on the paycheck. Cook leads over 130k employees and indirectly is responsible for several million more employees of suppliers; his comp has nothing to do with what people get paid. His salary is not even a rounding error compared to Apple and supplier revenues and the value of the company. They could double his pay and it wouldn’t even show up on the radar. Interesting, he doesn’t even have the top compensation at the company.
Definitely not trying to be bossy or wanting you to feel bad. Just trying to keep peace.
Here is recent a talk/lecture by Oliver Cameron, CEO of voyage, explaining in detail why they chose retirement communities and how they built their company.

https://youtu.be/-j0tc0Y1CIE
This conversation seems to take place toward the end of every "wave of innovation" I've seen in the bay area and I'm sure it took place long before I got here in '97. There's nothing to suggest to me that things are any different this time around. I'll be looking forward to the next one.
I feel that the top navigation "more" link could be renamed into "popular by date" or "yesterday's popular".
Those labels appear more accurate to me and better convey the functionality of the current top "more" link.
Moreover having two links with the same name on the same page which behave differently seems misleading.
"They/them" are also preferred pronouns for some non-binary people, in which case they are being used as gendered pronouns.
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IF we say that its troubling in these days, then we are missing the many other signs that people have been yelling about for years now.

We were mistaken about humanity and the internet.

The process you describe is not necessarily how it happens either, simple error can recreate this scenario.

It is clear that the only tool moderators have at hand are variants of censorship - and thats because not all ideas are equal, and some ideas are better evolved to travel through the currents and dark gyres of the sea of human thoughts.
FYI the word "test" is in your footer
> but if my heat goes off when it's 2°F I would likely die within a day or two.

In your own home you should be able to survive those conditions same as 102 — unhappy but safe. I slept outdoors last week end at about 5 F — with more extreme gear but then again no house.

I do believe you shouldn’t have to but If you run out of heating oil (most common in NE) a Combination of blankets, jackets, hat plus soup or other warm food should at least keep you alive.
If the VCs are that lazy, and assuming they still seek for the most profit, wouldn't VCs move to the bay area to find the unicorns? Wouldn't it create a virtuous (or vicious depending on the perspective) cycle of formibg a cluster of the companies and VCs in the area?

Eventually too much of such cycle would give way to the increased cost of living. But I see a tendency of more moderation in employee compensation by big companies, which would favor small startups again around the area.
I worked for a bank, and did my small part to help bring about 2007-2008.

Later, I worked in advertising, helping increase consumption and creation of various plastic trash, sugar-rich concoctions, and other such stuff.

I worked for a company that helped pharmaceutical companies target advertising to people on Facebook and other social networks who were sharing their health issues.

In between, I worked on other stuff, which was not as unsavory, but most of the time it still felt like pushing lots of little squares into square holes, and so on.

Lately, I've decided to just work on my own projects, and not contribute my brainpower to destroying my own habitat.

I am much happier now.
> But evolving wings loses the ability to climb

I think you are skipping steps as you try to imagine the process. Wings are at the extreme, there are intermediate features. Checkout a video of "flying squirrels", you will notice that they are more like "gliding squirrels".
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This rule would entail "run away from HN" (along with most of the rest of the internet)
I too think it would be neat to see how it plays out.

I'd also like to propose in this scenario that the ownership of such companies could also apportioned out to staff, and that the government should create an environment where access to startup capital is cheaply available in all regions.

Consider how much more tax and local spending might occur. The problem with a lot of those economies of scale is that the companies and extremely wealthy individuals get quite good at reducing their tax burdens in inventive ways, especially once large enough to leverage international org structures.

And as you rightly point out upper management, are good at taking small cuts of profit from a much larger number of people, and the political leverage imbalance that this creates also really affects things (surely not one person believes an honest billionaire who gives frequent large donations to a party expects nothing in return).

Also a good chunk of that efficiency turns into lobbying and marketing budget.

I'm sure that there will still be companies that find a way to make extreme profit without large staff, and there would likely be other problems. But it's hard to believe it would be dramatically worse than the current state of extreme wealth imbalance.
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