skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a similar situation - year 5 of remote, now living in a small town still working for big tech. It does get lonely and you have to manage this yourself.

Volunteering with an organization you care about is a great way to combat this. They're locals, you get to know the community you're living in, and you probably share a common interest. Also feels great to give back.
Wait for Boeing to announce new pilot UX - no more that stupid screens, just chat bot.
Oh you'll make that money back easy.

I wonder of Hack-Venture-Capital is a thing yet.
> which I politely explain is effectively less money than I make now, due to costs of living

a rule of thumb I hear from a financial adviser: "Why work in a huge first tier city for 10% more money when you can move to a second or third tier city where housing prices are 50% lower?"
No iphones?

These kids are a little young, but with a sample size like this I'd expect at least a couple to pose with electronics. When I was that age there were no cellphones, but I did have some toys with batteries. The only electronic "toys" I see in this are musical instruments. Baseball bats in Japan? I think this is less what the kids value and what the adults dream that their kids value. It's nostalgia.
As a counterpoint, New York deli/bodega/sandwich cart culture is still extremely strong, and unless you‘re eating a premium sandwich like a lox and cream cheese bagel, can definitely be had for $5 or under
I could be wrong, but I think Modi came across as a lot more compassionate leader after the failure.
And, to be honest, what is wrong with chest thumping if you have a success.

Regarding Nehru, one good deed doesn't get rid of his other sins and royal screw ups.
I wonder if this reflects the interests of electrical engineers, since they talk about weighting their results for the typical IEEE Spectrum reader.
I feel like if you're doing anything statistical beyond the basics, R is still a better option than anything else out there. Also, ggplot2 is best in class for producing static data visualizations, and it's R-only.
The author makes some claims about team efficiency and I suspect hand-waves away issues that pop up when implementing micro frontends - "if you ran into that problem, you're just not doing it right!"

There's a lot of naivety in a statement like this:

> I fully agree with Federico here, being able to choose whatever technology we want could be a recipe for disaster… what if we use only the best part of it?

Like wow why didn't anybody else think of that? When making an engineering decision that'll have long-term impacts on the productivity of a company, why not just exercise all the good aspects and don't fall into the traps of the bad parts?

The author makes some claims about how micro services keep bundle size reasonable, but this is still difficult to solve once your "micro" service begins to grow in size (and it will grow in size!). This is what code-splitting solves and it's entirely compatible with a unified frontend. In fact, unified frontend makes managing bundle size easier, because sufficiently large companies can build custom infrastructure to automatically split up their bit homogeneous frontend.

There's other dubious claims about scale as well - he claims 100s of engineers are "at scale", but that's still enough to be working on a number of separate projects that they can all be understood at the "macro level". Wait until you get to 1000s of engineers.

Then coordination between teams becomes worth its weight in gold, and you can only use it sparingly. But microservices force a separation that leads to effectively factions of engineers solving similar infrastructure problems but in incompatible ways, which is not only inefficient, but also means there is no canonical set of "best practices" to fall back on.

Microservices also make the mistake of thinking that code will be owned by one business unit forever, and that the shape of the team will remain static, and if it is transferred to another team, the entire service will transition. This is not true, real-life teams are much more flexible than that, and the reasoning about the ownership of a service eventually degrades into madness.

I've been observing a company transition to a micro-frontend architecture from a Rails app, and it's been probably the worst engineering decision I've seen so far (aside from the move to service oriented architecture in general). A good portion of this is because not enough engineering resources were put into the foundational - which is a failing of both management and senior engineering. There is a basic framework for doing sort-of a frontend microservice, but it's brittle, comes ultra-configurable, and already there's 10s of copies of various common components which are visually and behaviorally identical (but have different APIs). It's a productivity and documentation nightmare.
The AO does not have to be a UK citizen, no. If such a requirement were in place, it would be made clear. They do need to be based in the UK, though, as well as meet all other criteria outlined by UKVI.

The AO should be the most senior person involved in all recruitment of migrant workers. In this case, it is usually a manager, yes.

Where are the transparency concerns coming from? What information would you NOT want an AO to access?

It’s impossible to say whether Brexit would impact this. In theory, no, but if the UK leaves without a deal, EU migration would be affected. Non-EU migration would remain the same.

Let me know if you have any other questions.
I was really bored one night, curious if I could hack into my cable modem. After finding some gaping security holes in the UI, i ended up down a rabbit whole reading about people who had broken in to their cable modems, DOCSIS versions, etc. and was shocked to find that a prominent hacker in the area had caught federal charges for it
> Non-profits and banks are subject to money-laundering and anti-terrorism-financing laws that explicitly dictate "know your customer" (or donor in this case). You should never ever, deal with people that you're not comfortable being publicly associated with.

Huh? KYC only requires you to check that the money is legal (on both ends - incoming (money laundering) and outgoing (financing terrorism)). Nothing else.

Personally, I'd prefer to take money from someone like Epstein. I'm 99.99% certain I can direct the money to a better goal than he can (I'm only about 40% certain about Gates' money and about 2% certain about Musk's money).
How the United States Is Developing Post-Quantum Cryptography
Just in case any Exim users are reading here, you might want to be aware that Exim also does not check TLS certificates reliably, so any authentication credentials (as well as message contents, of course) that you might be transmitting via TLS to a remote server, using Exim as the client, can be intercepted by a MitM if the remote host is specified as a DNS name:

https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20181228.202226.22d1c4...

I just tested version 4.92, which is still affected, and it doesn't seem like there is any interest in fixing this vulnerability.
Arch on a Kindle
Yeah because AWS is free and we don't have any right to complain.
in my residential area most of the social activity is dog walking and neighborhood meetings where people discuss whose car or place of living was broken into and how to get the police to actually show up
Where? Would love to see a write-up or blog.
Yay India’s great at trashing even the moon
I'd bet Matlab has more use than you think.

Most engineering students use it, as well as some in math and physics. It is also popular in various aspects of industry (Ex: automotive and aerospace) for prototyping and simulations.
I wouldn't be so defeatist! I used Goodreads manually for a bit. Adding books only takes seconds which seems inconsequential compared to how long it takes to read them.

I didn't continue with it because there just wasn't any real value. I don't want a trophy shelf of read books or get automated recommendations by "people who have read similar books" because those titles are very predictable.

I'd need something different e.g. something facillitating deep discussion and Q&A organised by chapter or something. Get authors participating and I'm there 100%.
In my experience, those guys end up as IT workers at highschool, hospitals,offices in non tech companies, etc.
Your California value excludes local sales tax, in SF it's 8.5%, though restaurants usually add another "Healthy SF" charge to cover the various mandates around providing health insurance to workers, often bringing it over 10%.

Sticker prices are only loosely related to the out the door price in the US.
That was my thought as well, especially since the carbon fiber wings flex so much more. That flex might induce more stress on the wing mounts which in turn deform the cylinder. The good thing is that these test fixtures are fitted with lots of sensors that record all of the stress.
I agree, at 2.4M/year, i'm surprised you don't get more. we spend about 150k/month on Azure services, and it seems like we get a lot more service and roadmap influence....
Is liable? AFAIK strict liability only applies in specific cases, in general cases negligence applies. The claimant would have to prove that there was a breach of duty and a reasonable person would have done something to prevent the damage.
I also grew up on the US east coast and now live in Silicon Valley.

I have not noticed a difference in bread that you seem to have experienced. I buy the same brands of bread at the Safeway down the street as I bought at Stop & Shop in New England and whatever the grocery store I frequented near Seattle, WA. I never noticed a difference, but I also wasn't looking for one.

What am I missing that I have not noticed this stark difference in sandwich culture between the coasts?
R could make some sense for data science stuff (the more traditional kind, not deep learning), where it's a firm number 1. Think of business analytics or epidemiology, or the medical field where everyone uses R for their statistics.
SNIA KV stack gets rid of the filesystem, and the disk is directly accessible by applications through the API. Hence, it won't be generally useful. The target is a very specific segment of the SSD market.
I agree that from purely economical standpoint NASA research has paid for itself.

But I must note how none of the benefits came from any of the lofty predictions coming true: colonizing other worlds, etc.

If anything we found out that we cannot colonize anything, NASA research gave us cheap flying, globalization of commerce that we now use to negatively impact the Earth ... in the end, instead of giving us a new world, it is making us lose the one we have.
I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever in my entire life used a paper clip for actually clipping paper. I suppose I must have done at some point, but it’s rare enough that I can’t remember a single incident.

Meanwhile I’ve used them for a whole lot of things that require un-bending them first.
So generous of Apple to allow the sale of physical goods, despite having no involvement in the sale or production process. We all need to take a moment to count the blessings our benevolent smartphone overlords have bestowed on us.
Of course they are, those shark foundations and companies are really pushing micro-loans as both life changing and charity, when it’s been a long time since we’ve known it has really bad effects and is the new cool way to prey on the poor.

They would helicopter money at people if they really wanted to help them.
But changing the password every month doesn’t make it any more secure.

Passwords don’t really have an expiration date if they are secure (as in long enough and not reused) in the first place.
Apple has already publicly said in court filings, and under threat of perjury, that they don't make any exceptions for China.

From Apple's filing [1]:

>Finally, the government attempts to disclaim the obvious international implications of its demand, asserting that any pressure to hand over the same software to foreign agents “flows from [Apple’s] decision to do business in foreign countries . . . .” Opp. 26. Contrary to the government’s misleading statistics (Opp. 26), which had to do with lawful process and did not compel the creation of software that undermines the security of its users, Apple has never built a back door of any kind into iOS, or otherwise made data stored on the iPhone or in iCloud more technically accessible to any country’s government. See Dkt. 16-28 [Apple Inc., Privacy, Gov’t Info. Requests]; Federighi Decl. ¶¶ 6–7. The government is wrong in asserting that Apple made “special accommodations” for China (Opp. 26), as Apple uses the same security protocols everywhere in the world and follows the same standards for responding to law enforcement requests. See Federighi Decl. ¶ 5.

and a declaration from Craig Federighi personally [2]:

>Apple uses the same security protocols everywhere in the world.

>Apple has never made user data, whether stored on the iPhone or in iCloud, more technologically accessible to any country's government. We believe any such access is too dangerous to allow. Apple has also not provided any government with its proprietary iOS source code. While governmental agencies in various countries, including the United States, perform regulatory reviews of new iPhone releases, all that Apple provides in those circumstances is an unmodified iPhone device.

>It is my understanding that Apple has never worked with any government agency from any country to create a "backdoor" in any of our products and services.

>I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the foregoing is true and correct.

When China wants something from iCloud they do it the same way that law enforcement does it everywhere in the world, which is through Apple.

I've seen a number of bad faith claims about this over the years, especially from Alex Stamos on Twitter.

[1] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2762131/C-D-Cal-1...

[2] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2762118-Federighi-De...
This is cool, based on the title I was expecting http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
Lungs were made for air, not smoke or atomized vapor (aside from drugs meant to be administered as a vapor).

Is this really that hard for people to figure out?
I dont think I could ever move back to the midwest. Spent a couple years in columbus and that city gets old pretty fast. Either you pay 1.3k a month to drink in a 4 story apartment complex with thin walls and a pool closed for 8 months of the year, or you live out in white bread suburban hell until you are in hospice care. Not for me.

Where I’m at now is probably the most multicultural city in the americas. You see signs in all kinds of languages on a daily bases. Neighborhoods actually have striking character. There are interests I have here that I could never pursue in any other city. There’s also the weed, the weather, the fact that ambitious transit is actively being built, and, my god, the FOOD. My ashes will be scattered across the santa monica mountains.
My first is on the way in about 10 weeks!
I wonder if there's a way to split the difference, for instance get a job at the new locale, but gradually switch to working from home. This would at least be "less remote" from the employer's standpoint because you could bop into the office for meetings when needed.
The Stellarium authors are combing research papers and continuously improving the physical realism of lighting. It's a true work of craftsmanship.
My guess would be too many terpenes (or extra added terpenes). A recent trend has been adding massive amounts of these volatiles to the mix (purchased in bulk from places like trueterpenes[0] - which has warnings all over it) to create "flavor profiles" or to more closely mimic the effects of smoking flower. These are the same as the toxic essential oils that people overdo. Some are far more potent than others and definitely can cause reactions (even in non-asthmatics).

Stick to unflavored distillates.

[0] https://trueterpenes.com/
>"My point is that seven degrees of separation from Jeff Epstein seems like a distraction from the real issues here."

Except that its not seven degrees of separation its exactly one degree:

"Mr. Ito said during the meeting that he had visited Mr. Epstein’s Caribbean island twice to raise money, which he has pledged to return or donate to causes that support sex-trafficking victims."[1]

And just to be clear that Ito was in fact aware:

">Nicholas Negroponte, a prominent architect who helped found the lab in 1985, told the crowd that he had met Mr. Epstein at least once since Mr. Epstein’s 2008 guilty plea in Florida for soliciting a minor for prostitution, and had advised Mr. Ito about the donations.
I told Joi to take the money,” he said, “and I would do it again.”

>"Also consider that Epstein's plea deal probably gave people like Ito and Gates some source of comfort."

Wait, what? Why should anyone consider that? What kind of people take comfort in a wealthy person using their connections to bargain down a federal sax trafficking charge down to two felony "prostitution with a minor" charges?

[1]]2]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/business/media/mit-media-...
Yep. Mine, too. Weird. Also, I'd have to use a magnifying glass to be able to read anything on the site (Chrome on iPad)
Yeah I know, now they got me searching google for tiny teeth cleaning robots.

Here! https://curiosity.com/topics/scientists-have-designed-tiny-r...

> Scientists Have Designed Tiny Robots That Can Clean Your Teeth
> some of it will likely be obsolete because last week the interface changed again, etc...) which is bad.

One of the problems with the Azure documentation is that the API endpoints are versioned (?api-version=yyyy-mm-dd) but the documentation doesn't make it easy to find the relevant version or see the differences between versions.

The interfaces don't change if you pin to a version.

I've been deep diving on Azure for awhile (and have worked extensively with AWS and GCP in the past) and in general I find both Amazon and Azure's docs to have the plentiful but confusing problem. Google's documentation is slightly different... I can never seem to find what I'm looking for but when I do it's comprehensive and complete, but then I can't find it again the next time I need it.

The big pain point with Azure is wrapping your head around Active Directory and AD IAM if you come from a non-AD world. I still vastly prefer Amazon's IAM system to Azure's (Google's is just a confusing mess and needs to be redesigned.)
I hear Houston doesn't have zoning!
I thought I was the only one who experienced this - I always have this mild feeling of bewilderment at people who are upset/angry/worried at everyone, and I'm always glad I dont feel the need to do the same.
I jokingly use the term FOMO when a close friend of mine is doing something that I could have participated in. Like the author, I also live in a city where are so many things happening all the time that there will always be another cool thing to do very soon. Additionally, I've lived here close to 20 years of my adult life so i've done a million things already so I actually don't mind missing out on things because i've done similar things before. So maybe FOMO reduces with age and experience?

Also, I heard the term JOMO for the first time in a TV show last night and I thought it was a joke that the show made up. Was surprised to see the term mentioned on HN this very next morning.
They probably did, but I doubt it'd be more than a rounding error for this ranking. Matlab's toolboxes are still way ahead of anything available for Octave.
>> "This is the big issue around this status / pride stuff. There's never going to be people admitting how they're sensitive about superficial things and there's this awkward silence to not break the fourth wall and talk about it."

I keep seeing this, but how often is it true? I always answer these questionnaires honestly. The person who made it just wants some good data for their science. I've never felt a need to lie to them.
I do this as well, but it only works if I don't think about it. If I start thinking about it, I begin second guessing myself on whether I got it right and end up having to look it up.
Math Under My Feet (2017)
Also control of your life and certainty in your Costs. Landlords can kick tenants out via renovictions etc, raise rents as much as they can, and never improve the space. If you are renting are you sure you can stay there for 5 years, 10 years, 25 years?

I think if your time horizons are longer than 5 years the certainty of owning would also provide some value. I have been a tenant, am a landlord for 4 units, and a home owner.

All properties are partnerships which makes it easier to deal with operations and maintenance.
nope, libraries are cool, so is the arxiv. there are also a lot of abandonded items about, i mentioned earlier, that old CDdrives and disc players often have a disc in them.
and radio stations are just fine, espescially if you stock up on some of the late night airings
Yeah I think so. I was shocked to discover that over a 1/3rd of the computer science classes I TA'd as a grad student were cheating, repeatedly, on homework assignments and tests. I had come from a culture as an undergrad (and graduate student at another university) where cheating even once was a potential expellable offense. At the very least you would fail the class. In the comp sci classes I TA'd the professor would fail the students for the assignments but no more, even after multiple offenses.
honest question: why so much difference ?
Agree whole-heartedly. Used to be ok as an aggregator, but now with their repeated force attempts to make you sign in, I just avoid it.
Apple wants to earn more money by taking a cut from your transactions. Few people are ready to share their profits unless forced to do so. It's not monopolistic behavior, because Apple does not hold a monopoly in any market.
Creating Plugin Components with React and Asp.net Core
While this is true, trying to figure out ahead of time if they’ll cost more than they contribute is the path to madness. (And even trying to figure it out after the fact is pretty ridiculous for the vast majority.)

A person who eats poorly and doesn’t exercise can easily rack up millions of dollars in treatments for heart attacks and strokes. Yet they don’t seem to get anything like the same derision. Why?
There are definitely some API-only things. Mostly edge cases. For example, last week I ran into the fact that it's only possible to associate a Route 53 Hosted Zone with a VPC from a different account via the API.
I agree. When I need a particular screwdriver or cable for a weekend project, I don't want to have to wait till next Saturday when I'm free.
It is accessible directly to applications through the SNIA KVS API (and Samsung has it's own API as well). There is no filesystem in the middle, if you are using the KV-controller.
Use librarything. That is an actual project by book lovers, for book lovers.
How Quickly Can You Fill Up a Circle?
I wonder if people posting on Medium realize that for many of us the articles are inaccessible ("Sign up for a free Medium account, and you’ll get one more story in your member preview this month"). It seems that people missed the change in Medium's business model and still think that it's a site for posting publicly accessible articles.
Canadian datapoint here. I used to expend every cent living in whatever crappy rental I could find in Vancouver. Moved to a tiny island community six years ago and now work remote one of two days a week to cut the commute down.

I have deer walking in my yard and 20 square miles of untouched forest to hike in directly where I live. Our internet provider recently upgraded service to 1Gbps, so video conferencing is snappy and glitch-free.

Many of my employees are making similar moves. One moved to a mountain town about an hour outside of the city. Another moved to a seaside village.

This is clearly the future, brought to us by the vast improvements in remote work infrastructure such as Slack and Zoom.