skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even 10 years after college I distinctly remember the look of Flagstaff at night. Namely because the city was effectively grayscale and it was beautiful.

San Jose used to look that way too. There are still pockets of LPS lights here and there, but since most makes are not commercially available anymore as of this year you can expect they'll vanish fairly quickly.

Such a loss, LPS streelighting was very good. I hope the narrowband amber LEDs are a commercial success.

Anyone know where there are fixtures with them available in small quantity? ... I stocked up on LPS bulbs before they went unavailble, but they won't last forever.
Intentionally limited how?
I don't think that's the reason. MS wouldn't want to maintain the equivalent of PS and users would hate it.
This is... insightful.

It brings to mind a larger question of how we (as an industry) should be measuring developer and team productivity, though. “Story points” are largely designed to solve this issue, but in my experience they are quickly co-opted to mean something different to each stakeholder.

At a past employer, I experienced their trying to measure productivity by “net lines of code”. That didn’t work well, either. I prefer refactoring and simplifying to pretty much any other type of task, and it isn’t at all uncommon for me to end a day - or a sprint - with a negative NLOC. I see at a positive, as each LOC carries with it an ongoing cognitive and maintenance burden. Thankfully, that scheme didn’t last long :)
To be fair, people might not know about the roosters when they move in. Maybe it's more like people buying a house next to an airport that's been there for 50 years, and then complaining about all the airplane noise.
If you use a blanket rule like that, then the most likely outcome is that you'll stick to your guns for a while, but once the benefit gets large enough, you'll give up and stop thinking about it at all. Which, in the long run, results in the worst outcome.

It's much more effective to do a lightweight risk analysis and set some sort of standard for what you're ok with given different levels of benefit. For example, if you're generally ok with a privacy policy, maybe you're fine sending your image to random experimental sites that don't have any obvious motive to profit from abusing your data. (Which is actually not quite the case here -- the site in question is specifically thinking about privacy risks, and so probably ought to be given a better prior than a random site.)

Then again, I'm a total hypocrite. If I were to do my own analysis, I would not be ok with having a live mic potentially sending any audio it picks up to a company I already distrust. Especially when their privacy policy is not at all reassuring. And yet, I can see the Echo from where I'm sitting...
Norsepower Confirms Rotor Sails Fuel Savings
I've got it pinned in the taskbar next to N++
There are other points the OP raised as well. If you disagree, provide a counter argument to all points vs. selectively paraphrasing to your benefit.
Does this even work in suburban areas, where Orion and the major stars are all pretty clear, but the sea of dimmer ones are blown out?
I prefer txt files for config and notes. I don’t care about formatting so word or word pad are too much.

I also use notepad as my goto “paste without formatting” as it’s typically faster to wash the clipboard through notepad than use whatever “paste special” ui an app has.
Calculus by Michael Spivak
> This kind of attitude towards children baffles me. It was always very clear where the authority lay in my family, and it certainly was not in my childish hands.

The author here wasn’t talking about authority, she’s saying that the goal of parenting is ultimately to raise another human being. You can try to be the best parent you can be, but in the end, it’s not about you.
Bay Area companies are actively trying to do this. Stripe's Remote HQ is an example, but so are the emerging second HQs in Seattle. But the fact remains that there is a huge glut of talent in the Bay Area, and if you want to recruit from the FB/Apple/GOOG HQs, you need a strong Bay Area presence.
If you search for articles and studies on blue light and sleep the overwhelming majority (that I was able to find) say that there is an effect. I posted a number of sources in another comment
wow, just realized some of us have been using shortcuts for so long that we don't know when things get moved.

also the "windows" key argument was kinda moot because most keyboard have a key that isn't a "windows" key but works similar...
Why not print all that data out and give it to someone you trust or keep it in a deposit box which can be legally passed to your family?
I can’t picture a single tech company I would be attached to enough to follow through any geographic move, unless I were a founder of that company. There are plenty of opportunities in the ocean for the average software engineer and company loyalty rightfully doesn’t exist.

California has too much going for it for engineers to abandon it over a company that can’t event afford to keep an office open there, and I’m saying that as an outsider, I much prefer the east coast or Colorado.
They'll probably just start running shuttle buses, like every other big company with offices outside the city. It will be a bigger problem for employees who live in the East Bay, but not near the ferry terminals.
71. What are the primary causes of homelessness?

The answers given are just what triggered the transition from bad to worse.

My anecdotal explanation (besides substance abuse and mental illness) is that people who "failed to launch" in the sense that they were not cut out for professional careers (or who couldn't afford to go to college) ended up living on the cheap with their parents. When their parents passed away they weren't even in a position to work at a fast-food job.

That's a scenario I imagine, but perhaps it doesn't correspond to reality...
ReactConf 2019 Livestream
Based on the prices people are willing to pay to live there, it’s obviously highly desirable among those who are on the higher end of the wealth distribution.
I feel like there is an insight here about working by yourself, too, that I cannot quite put my finger on.

Even if there is no team, you don't want to self-interrupt your own work. Well, we know that hence we invest in internet blockers etc.

However, if you are interrupted, it is best if you recover quickly. That is to say, if you can set up your own work so that it is planned in bite size components, and you know exactly where to pick up, you are better off.

This is like making an outline, and keeping track of where you are in the outline, except at the level of detail you need (say 5 min increments). Or perhaps you have a short hand of tracking where you are during an interruption.

So, if someone says excuse me, you take 12 seconds to quickly note what you were about to do, and if you are about to self interrupt, you do something similar.
I agree that user advocates are our lifeblood and we're risking alienating them. There were many more concerns than we expected. We’re going to process the feedback and rethink our plan. We will not activate product usage tracking on GitLab.com or GitLab self-managed before we address the feedback and re-evaluate our plan. We will make sure to communicate our proposed changes prior to any changes to GitLab.com or self-managed instances, and give sufficient time for people to provide feedback for a new proposal. We'll work in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5672
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Not if you live in Sunset or the Richmond.
No? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3575093/
> Obesity isn't caused by abundance. On the contrary, poverty is strongly correlated with obesity in the US[1]--which indeed points to an inequality link.

Yep. You can see this in my state (Texas) simply by driving from a metroplex a couple of hours out into the country. Obesity visibly skyrockets.

Part of it is cultural, but part of it is economic. Healthy food is simply more expensive, especially if you want it to taste good.
Isn't South San Francisco just 10 miles from San Francisco?

For some cities this would equate to moving to another part of the same city.
There's this https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/dom.html
> The work involving sex doesn't make it significantly more exploitative than [...] driving for Uber

How many uber drivers were assaulted or killed in the last month? How many are coerced into driving for uber, and have their gains captured by third party? In which cities are there rings traficking slaves to drive uber cabs? What is the mean age of death for uber drivers?

I mean, please... do yourself a favour and research a bit before you make such ignorant claims.
Thank you for breaking it down and the reference link.

I have a couple of setups where an application has a single sign-on for root and subdomains. The shared cookie has the Domain attribute set to the root domain, but (so far) they have no explicit SameSite attribute.

I searched around and came to the conclusion that the above setup will behave the same way with new default SameSite=Lax. However, there wasn't a canonical reference that I could point to, to prove this works as I expect.
“Taxes don’t have a lot of impact on business decisions. It’s something that has been exaggerated for years”

If I'm paying 50% in taxes as opposed to 10%, I will be making different business decisions.

Most SF startups incorporate in Delaware because of the low corporate taxes.
100% agreed with you here - no denying it - and no different from any service that we use where it's up to our trust that they will do the right thing. That said, I can for sure revisit my encryption strategy.

Overall that's one uphill challenge I've seen emerge as I've chatted with folks about the product: inspiring trust.
I feel like the author had the right idea to try to form smaller subcommunities first, but there's something predatory about targeting people battling cancer.
Spoiler alert: you can do anything with LGPL as long as you don't modify Qt.
I prefer to divide climates into two categories.

1. Places where during certain times of year, sitting on a bench for a few hours will cause you to die from exposure to the elements.

2. Other places where you can sit on a bench all day on any day of the year and walk away from it.

The Bay area is definitely in category 2 and that is a nice thing.
It’s difficult for some of us that host 20+ Repos and use all the related tools. I’m going to try the ad blocker route first.
There are many people who work in tech who highly value location and quality of life. I've lived in the Midwest, the South, and now Seattle. If you enjoy the outdoors, hiking, skiing/riding, sailing, mountain biking, kayaking, etc., but you want to earn strong compensation with the security of having many employment options there are relatively few good options.

There are other chicken and egg dynamics such as a large city is likely top have a large airport with lots of direct flights which is helpful for business and leisure travel.

Employers, especially startups and growth companies, want to hire top talent (and poach top talent from similar firms). That means they want to be located where there is a baseline of other similar firms.

Remote work is slowly changing that dynamic but the gravity of the city is strong.
I believe this would work, and is one of the weak points of the ecosystem. I wonder what the impact of spinning up 6K relays in AWS across the globe would be like. I would say that spinning up 6K instances would be affordable for even small companies.
It's one of those situations where it's inconvenient to listen to the people affected, because they tend to say things politicians don't want to hear.

E.g. when Norway criminalized buying sex, the prostitutes own organizations were against it and argued it'd push a lot of the sex trade underground and make the women less safe. They were totally ignored, and they continue to be ignored when they repeatedly warn that they're unable to report violence and crimes safely, in part because it makes police aware that they're prostitutes, and by extension that there will be people visiting them that are likely to break the law, and that their landlords are potentially breaking the law (if they're aware of the prostitution; which they will be soon enough if the police takes an interest).

If they were listening and disagreeing, that would be one thing, but there's a staggering amount of moralising from politicians that do not even try to talk to the people they claim they want to protect. And that makes me think that their motives are more to do with getting activities they don't like out of sight than about helping the people involved to get out of it.
Wow. This hits way too close to home. Thanks for sharing!
From the unscrollable article:

" While they were comparing and affirming baby-care choices, my eye was on the babies, and I couldn’t help but notice that one of them was chubbier, calmer and more beautiful than the others. My baby alone had the brilliant promise of profound intelligence shining out of his eyes. He was much better than any of the others. Why wasn’t anyone remarking on this?"

"More good mail days. Join our newsletter."

I think some kind of paywall was squelched by tracker blocking. But it's not worth figuring it out to read more of that.
The engineering manager of the react core team talked about accessibility efforts, which was cool! Apparently they're working on:

* Primitives for focus management without dealing directly with the DOM. Maybe related to https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/16009?

* Handling multiple input methods (touch, pointer events, mouse, etc) better in a cross-platform way.

Cool stuff.
You are correct: Alert and Eureka are both further north. However, I believe that they are both research or defense installations. While I believe that they are both occupied year round, I don't believe that they qualify as "community" because people are assigned there; nobody is "from" there.
The number of daily sign ups for sourcehut.

This is billed as a competitor to GitLab.

GitLab announced something about allowing some sort of telemetry on its site -- I didn't look into the details but its all over HN -- and people have complained that this might imply privacy violations.

So this alternative to GitLab got a bump in signups.
There is nothing like a moonless winter night (<20 below) in far rural Minnesota. Either you get a vast number of stars or you get the Northern Lights. Eastern North Dakota is probably a good choice as well.
Adam Neumann’s billion-dollar exit a lesson in giving founders too much control
This looks pretty cool! I am actually shopping for a GUI framework for a new project and WebAssembly support is a potential critical feature.

Does someone know if WebAssembly support is available on the open-source Qt?

Also: is it one of those features that is a pain in the ass to set up from CMake instead of QMake?
Thanks, we're pumping the breaks on this change completely, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...
When Binary Code Won’t Accommodate Nonbinary People
>Step 1:

> Go to Start menu.

> Type notepad and press Enter.

>I tried Step 1 prior to posting here. It doesn't work!

Works for me on the latest windows. Granted, there's no textbox to type into, but it appears when you start typing.
> Pain killers were not even an option...Here’s some Ibuprofen.

Hmm...isn't Ibuprofen a pain killer?

https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/ibuprofen-for-adults/

"Ibuprofen is an everyday painkiller for a range of aches and pains, ..."

When I had a broken elbow, Ibu 600 was what I got a prescription for (Germany). In the hospital after the operation I got something stronger.
> I dislocated a shoulder and was never offered anything for pain, just physical therapy. This may sound harsh, but isn't setting someone up with an addiction that could lead to death pretty bad?

Amazing what can happen when private profits aren't tied up in the healthcare system.
It took me a while to even mention death in my copy but I know I have to embrace it - it's part of life!
Literally Stripe wrote a blog post on this on how Prop C will really hurt companies like them which have high gross receipts but very thin margin. But at the time, half the people accused them of being intolerant to homelessness and the city that supports them. Marc Benioff, the sponsor of Prop C, can do this given he has a SaaS company with high margins and the fact that he has political ambitions.

This is an expected outcome given that. What this means is more cars on streets as South San Francisco has pretty bad infra and driving/taking shuttles is the only way to get to the new Stripe office.
If you downvote, can you at least provide signal why? It's unclear if you're angry at the facts I'm presenting, or disagreeing with my facts (or opinions).
Interesting this was down voted. Presumably HN readers don't think this is accurate? From what I know of the BBC I would say this is a fair comment and that TOR might be needed for people who want to get the UK gov viewpoint in places hostile to their policies, views and positions
Thanks for the head's up!
Here is my idea to fight The Great Firewall: Embed banned content in "normal" https websites like this one.

The content can either be static like mirrors of banned sites (wikipedia, BBC and the tor website). It would be at secret locations.

The site should randomly pick a few of it's Chinese users. When they visit public pages, they will be redirected to the secret locations. (With a welcome message).

It will appeal to apolitical Chinese, because they will feel they are unraveling secrets.

It will be hard for the Chinese government to clamp down: They will struggle to identify these websites and when they shut them down, they will hurt their own industries.
Thank you for providing context.
Isn't it in most uis shift key +paste?
Prelude to Mathematics by W.W. Sawyer was written to give students an overview of modern math concepts beyond algebra. Topics include non-euclidian geometry, linear algebra, projective geometry and group theory. Again, for someone with an understanding of algebra. I enjoyed it and think it's in the spirit of what you're looking for.

Edit: Introduction to Graph Theory by Trudeau is another that I really liked. Very little was applicable to graphs as programmers think of them. Pure math that is easy to grasp and enjoy.
Did we get a reversion to the older ToS with this?
Right, inlines are hard to beat, and they are not part of the C standard (which is kind of mind boggling, I mean . . . honestly, what year is it?).

Still, the benefit of inlines diminishes as the size of the inlined functions increases (you start paying penalties for extra cache lines full of code, and the percentage of time in function call overhead gets small in a hurry).

The linker can get into the inlining game, too, by the way, if the win is sufficiently big. I have scars to prove it. :-)
I think you need to brush up on "modern internet speak."
I think it is also the lack of sick leave for many Americans so they take a quick pill to recover. Sometimes your body can recover by itself if only given time and physical therapy.

I had some excruciating peroneal tendonitis that made it hard for me to walk on rough surfaces. Foot doctor said the best treatment was a walking cast, rest and daily exercise. Fortunately my employer allows me to work from home as needed so I could give my foot a rest for a few weeks. But not everyone has access to that. Imagine if you are a server at a restaurant on your foot all day.
The one who caused the failure gets $1+b, those working (almost) nothing
Animoca Brands Acquires Leade.rs (May 2019)
GeckoView is a wrapper around Gecko to make it easy to embed it into applications. I heard it's API is similar to WebView, but it's not a complete drop-in replacement.
>Beyond saving anything bigger than a sentence it really has no use.

It has a use for READING text-files
Can somebody give me some context? OP is just a Mastodon post showing signup numbers (for Sourcehut?).
Funny, I read the name immediately as "messy fjord" (to make a mess is "å grise" in Norwegian).
80% is propulsive efficiency from the shaft to useful thrust, there's a lot more energy lost between the fuel input and shaft output (thermodynamic efficiency). The thermodynamic efficiency is where most energy is wasted. For small turboprop engines, this is only 25-30%.

There are a lot of advantages to a fuel cell commuter plane:
-lower exterior noise: important for accessing smaller, less congested airports
-lower interior noise: noise is a big reason airlines use regional jets instead of more efficient turboprops
-potentially lower operating costs: a small turboprop might cost $300/hour in fuel and $150/hour in engine maintenance. A fuel cell could potentially be lower cost overall.
-redundancy: can still generate thrust on battery or fuel cell power
Visual cues matter. Lots of people will never realize that typing is an option if they don't see a big visual indicator that says "you can type here."
I teach a class in a small high school about building websites. Right now I'm teaching CSS. For HTML and CSS I have the students use notepad or textedit.

It's really nice to have a plain text editor that doesn't help them in any way, produces files that will work in the browser and they get to learn better I think. Maybe a small use case but one that makes me glad the tools exist.
It's a national issue. That many states solved by shipping their homeless to California (like Texas, Oklahoma, and most of the Midwest do) or to their own local private prisons (like Mississippi and the rest of the South do).
> They could surely lure talent from the bay area by moving to a lower cost of living area where mid-level employees can afford to buy an actual house relatively close to work?

Nobody wants to take a huge paycut regardless of house prices - there are lots of other things in the world you can use money for (including saving for retirement, if you're practical) that aren't particularly regionally inflated.

The people who've been at successful companies for longest also tend to have been pretty well compensated overall, so ownership of something nearby isn't always so out of reach for them. So your most important contributors are the least motivated for this move. Doesn't seem like a good recipe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346456
Yes, the question is fairly stupid. The homeless are largely addicts and
recidivists capitalizing on what's become a statewide industry of administering
homelessness. They are not by and large employable people who merely need a
lower cost of living.

This well-researched article
https://www.city-journal.org/san-francisco-homelessness cites $47,500 in
spending per homeless. That figure is presumably grossly distorted to make a
point, but if I ever become homeless, I know where I'm headed!
what is the context?
Definitely but with more of a focus on the assigning/sharing of data primarily than being a pw manager.
Are you sure you want to keep valuables in a safe deposit box? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...
> I mean this in as polite a way as possible, but why wouldn't established companies like Stripe just fuck off to another city entirely?

People have mentioned the dual-income problem, but even without that, people have friends, and schools, and communities, and lives that they've built up where they live. When I moved cross country, it took two years after we arrived to develop our first close friends, and probably five years before we felt that we were as connected to our new home as we were to the one we left.

Moving across town doesn't disrupt these connections and communities for your employees, but moving across the state or country does.