skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>their revealed preferences show them wanting to remain part of the federation

All of them? 20% of California is still 4.5 million people.

>America would by now be a few dozen independent, competing, conflicting countries

1. that is not proven. alternatives could have been chosen.
2. just because the Senate made sense among several mostly equal population states does not mean it makes sense today.

>Canada (where Quebec is massively overrepresented in the federal parliament)

And they have their own party. You cannot honestly believe that is an ideal situation.

>UK (where England is the only constituent entity without its own legislature)

The Scottish National Party exists, as do unionist and separatist terrorists in Northern Ireland.

>Bosnia (whose three main ethnic groups split the Presidency equally despite having 50%/30%/15% of the population)

Just because that makes sense for a young democracy does not mean it makes sense in California, a state with high cultural value given to equal voice and representation.

>this superficially “unfair” deal ended the bloodiest war in European history since WW2

Are you threatening war if California asserts its natural rights to self-governance? Unionization under threat of violence is not unionization. It is slavery.
Sure, but that just changes it to "someone up the chain of command is hopelessly out of touch". Still doesn't bode well.
We’ve never given our baby formula (made it almost 11 months so far) and the thing that really frustrates me, as a new father, is to watch my wife struggle to feed our kid and work full time because she’s been told she needs to breast feed. I’m not arguing the health benefits, but if I were, here’s one for you:

It’s better for the long term health of the baby if the mom doesn’t jump off the fucking roof because you put too much pressure on fucking breast feeding!

It’s probably fine to supplement once in a while to ensure the mother has a lower stress level. All things in moderation I think...

Do I sound panicked?
> How worthy is it /really/ for a psychologist to read up on quasars?

That's a question for that particular psychologist to ask and answer for themselves. And not you nor anyone else.

People have different levels of curiosity. The benefit of their curiosity isn't something that can quantified and might very well amount to nothing of any utility. That's OK. Not everything has to have an explicit ROI or "worthiness".

But if you require "worthiness" consider that the psychologist might have a kid at home who has a question about quasars. What could a well-stated and intriguing answer to such a child lead to? It's impossible to say, but whatever he says it will be better than what an incurious psychologist might respond with-- "I don't know. Finish your homework and brush your teeth before going to bed".
Working asynchronously
Enough, considering that group shots of CS departments, programming conferences, hackathons, etc, are always like 50% or more Mac or so (at least in the west)

SXSW hackathon:
https://www.sxsw.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019-Hackath...

TC hackathon:
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/tcdisrupt_...

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2747820553...

Haskell (!) conference:
https://miro.medium.com/max/1200/1*D8GHt8dceOWwQp0HljYqXg.jp...

MIT student startup program:
https://www.3daystartup.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/3dsmi...
In the thread somebody mentioned that they used Siri to get the name of the owner.

I asked my Android phone and it replied that technically I am a Homo Sapiens...
"And it’s also mostly lots of people that need he money. "

Are you implying that people is working for the money and not just for the sake of it?
Well if you use proper old school Metal Shells, shrink wrap the connections and screw them down DB25 can be robust.
> The company just won't pay their fair share to the city to offset their impact.

I'm not sure what you mean by "offset their impact", but regardless, employees living in SF will still pay local taxes.

[I'm a Stripe employee, but I'm remote from NC and speaking entirely for myself.]
Huh. This is a relevant and topical comment, with a link to a story that's still incorrect in a ridiculous way, exactly illustrating the original article's point about Newsweek's lowered standards as they rush to publish and hire low paid writers on contract.

Is there some sort of auto-flag for using the T-word? Does HN have reading comprehension issues? Am I shadow banned or something?
Sounds like gentrification to me.
I'm sorry you're getting blasted for your opinion, especially since it's one I share.

I LIKE seasons. I LIKE snow. I LIKE watching leaves fall in the autumn and rebirth in the spring. I LIKE sweaterweather falls and, cold winters, and hot summers.

San Francisco's climate has "mild," going for it. It seems to be permanently pants and tee shirt weather (but don't forget your jacket). The summers (sept/oct) are nice, but limited for what you expect in California. It's frequently windy when the sun is shining, and the fog is constantly sitting nearby, threateningly.

The best you can say is SF's weather is different, but I certainly do not understand the hype.
> I was ready to drop Gitlab like a hot rock.

I am dropping Gitlab like a hot rock. The way they did this initially, and the responses that I've been reading here and on Gitlab, don't reassure me at all.
The Oxidized Cholesterol Strategy Review, Work or a Scam?
Looking at email or passwords is rare. Reading some quick news, opening maps, listening to music and so forth - I don't want to use a pin to access all of those things.

Someone installing an app to catch pins that I typed in and then giving me back my phone...then waiting until I typed a pin and stealing my phone again seems like a bit of a hassle. Out of curiosity though - what app in the app store allows you to do this? Or, do they have to jail break my phone to do it?

I'm not really trying to argue that my way is better. I'm just giving my personal point of view. It works for me. I just don't worry about things and shit seems to work out. I leave my house unlocked all the time. Same with my car. I leave the keys in the car when I go into stores.

It's just stuff. Perhaps if someone stole everything from me, I'd be even more free than I am now.
I think the Brave Browser has this capability. It at least will allow you to create Private + Tor windows.
Money Stuff: We Had Been Hoping to Get Paid
Some employees would be afraid to live in a non-California state where non-compete agreements can be enforced. Even if Stripe eschewed them, their next employer might not.
I wish Seattle had a Red-Light district, so that I could avoid it. Instead, there are homeless and drug-addicted people everywhere, in need of help.
Downvoted! Incredible!
> on purpose

It's worth explaining why. So far as I understand the situation, dependencies may assume and depend on the absence of ffast-math. Enabling it globally for a compilation is generally considered to be a footgun for this reason.
Why not planes?

The food bowl was a legitimate military target; it provided nutrients that the cats used to build better claws.
Assuming you are accessing the distributed resource from multiple threads instead of multiple distributed processes, which is quite common in distributed architectures.

Borrow checker doesn't help at all with process IPC.

Plus all ML derived languages have good enough type systems to model network states, while enjoying the productivity of automatic memory management.
Thanks for this! I'll go to the Apple store and test it.
Ever do shift work?

Later: Seriously. Shift work is terrible for sleep and has been a fact of industrialized life for a lot longer than the gig economy.
I am almost certain that this is 100% alcohol-related. The book headstrong opened my eyes to the problems of alcohol even in moderation.
Sad to say, life is full of positive feedback loops.

"Positive feedback" in popular usage has to do, say, with getting kudos from your boss. But from a systems perspective, positive feedback is more in line with the proverb, "The rich get richer" and its corollary (which I am coining right now): The unfortunate get more unfortunate.
Maybe its just me being disgruntled / fondly remembering the XUL days (pre multi-process in 2008ish was when I was messing around with it) were it felt like addons could anything. The possibilities seem way more restrictive now that there only seems to be a specific list of white-listed api's. Scaling that back even more for performance and (somewhat justified) security reasons seemed like the next natural step.

Anyway, I'm thankful for leaving a comment.

At the same time, all Addons I've installed right now require "Access your data for all websites", making absolute trust in the developer / reviewer necessary.
I tend to think of it this way: "can I get the same or better compensation if I lost this job after the move?" If the answer is no then I'm probably not moving.

Also, there are reasons why people would prefer the bay area over Denver for non cost related stuff. (And vice versa)
You’re reading an English translation of a spanish paraphrase of something he possibly only read in Spanish translation to begin woth. Here’s the Carlyle quote.

> The English Johnson longed, all his life, to see one; but could not, though he went to Cock Lane, and thence to the church-vaults, and tapped on coffins. Foolish Doctor! Did he never, with the mind's eye as well as with the body's, look round him into that full tide of human Life he so loved; did he never so much as look into Himself? The good Doctor was a Ghost, as actual and authentic as heart could wish; well-nigh a million of Ghosts were travelling the streets by his side. Once more I say, sweep away the illusion of Time; compress the threescore years into three minutes: what else was he, what else are we? Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? This is no metaphor, it is a simple scientific fact: we start out of Nothingness, take figure, and are Apparitions; round us, as round the veriest spectre, is Eternity; and to Eternity minutes are as years and aeons. Come there not tones of Love and Faith, as from celestial harp-strings, like the Song of beatified Souls? And again, do not we squeak and gibber (in our discordant, screech-owlish debatings and recriminatings); and glide bodeful, and feeble, and fearful; or uproar (poltern), and revel in our mad Dance of the Dead,—till the scent of the morning air summons us to our still Home; and dreamy Night becomes awake and Day? Where now is Alexander of Macedon: does the steel Host, that yelled in fierce battle-shouts at Issus and Arbela, remain behind him; or have they all vanished utterly, even as perturbed Goblins must? Napoleon too, and his Moscow Retreats and Austerlitz Campaigns! Was it all other than the veriest Spectre-hunt; which has now, with its howling tumult that made Night hideous, flitted away?—Ghosts! There are nigh a thousand million walking the Earth openly at noontide; some half-hundred have vanished from it, some half-hundred have arisen in it, ere thy watch ticks once.
Suicide, liver disease and drug overdoses (recent large increases in these three are identified the source of the lower life expectancy overall) all stem from the same root cause: depression, despair and hopelessness.
you're making the case for Los Angeles then, not San Francisco.

Local weather is something you experience every day, not something you travel to. Same goes for snow and tahoe.
I'm on your side here, but throwing around baseless acquisitions isn't helpful.
They did put "dark web" in scare quotes to soften the blow a little.
A few people I know immediately go to their phones to check facts during hangouts and conversations. I find it pretty off-putting, that those close to me value a trivial fact over staying fully connected with the conversation. There is some dopaminergic itch that must be scratched here, and I find like most itching, it doesn't end up paying off for more than a second.
Yeah that, or school real beats curiosity out of you. By the time you are done, you are a husk of the once curious human being you used to be?
Honestly, if what you want to do is delete your account, I don't see a problem with going ahead and accepting the new terms. Then they'll have telemetry covering what you did during the account deletion process. Once your account is deleted, that consent becomes a total nonissue.
I feel like Boeing has far more of a monopoly on hiring the kind of talent they need than Stripe. They also seem like a place that has more "lifers".

Stripe engineers can just say "no thanks" and go work for SF company n+1 down the road. Does Boeing have competition in the same city that could reasonably hire Boeing knowledge workers? Honest question.
Why not just

#define MY_ASSERT(expr) ((void)(false && (expr)))

The problem the do-while idiom is that the macro result is not an expression, so it can’t be used in certain cases.
I liked BlackBerry10 picture passwords [0][1]. Unlocking was a bit slower than drawing few lines but good enough to unlock device fast - I'd say even if you were weakened by some disease/illness/exhausting workout moving slowly a number to target is easier than drawing few crossed lines.

[0]: https://helpblog.blackberry.com/2014/02/how-to-use-picture-p...

[1]: https://youtu.be/WmBhvn9Q9SE?t=151
A few things to think about. Having been a founder and currently a CTO, I find most software people are actually not that hard to keep happy, but it is easy to piss them off or create problems unnecessarily.

1. Be transparent with them. The day will come you have to override a technical decision for a business reason, tell them the truth be direct, honest & transparent.

2. Provide them with feedback regularly. It should be honest feedback but recognize that even when things are broken it takes a lot of energy so show them that respect.

3. Highlight & publicly praise people for doing things above and beyond. Don't expect it, and even people that say they don't like it, appreciate it in the end. This is because a lot of times it isn't for them, it is so the rest of the team sees it and appreciates them and sees they can get the same.

4. Don't micromanage their tasks. Set goals and hold them accountable, but don't be the PHB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy-haired_Boss).

5. Pay a good wage and provide solid benefits for people. You don't need to supply crazy benefits, give good pay with fair benefits.

There are a ton more things I could add, but these are common things I see people make lots of preventable mistakes and cause culture and team problems.
1. San Francisco is really nice. It's 87 degrees today at the end of October. There is good food, decent public transportation, culture, ocean, forests, etc. It doesn't snow here or get blistering hot, so productivity is very steady year round.

2. Because San Francisco is very nice (perhaps) and we have good schools around here. A lot of hires come from UCB, Stanford, UCLA, USC, and other UCs. Those account for several of the top engineering schools in the country/world.

3. Silicon Valley has hit an inflection point where we're now the best place in the world to find TOP talent in tech. It's not a great place for mid and junior level talent, but if you need top talent for an opportunity that is high growth and high per employee leverage, there is no place better in the world.

Ultimately, the main issue is that everything is too nice and worked too well so the cost of living has sky rocketed. And that is driving out everyone that isn't a top tier talent (engineering and opts). It's really sad, to be honest, I love San Francisco and Silicon Valley, and I wish we could find a way to solve the living cost issue and continue to grow as a hub for innovation.
Here is one I know and have practiced that has helped me:

https://thecompletionprocess.com/

I worked with a practitioner I found on the site.

Here is a another that seems similar: https://www.human20.co/the-art-of-conscious-change - I haven't tried it though.
Plant native flora, as well as trees and other deep root flora to keep salt levels down and retain water. Targeted fertilizer and pesticide use (reduce wastage).

We can also quadruple cattle, and rotate grazing land, to simulate the vast herds we wiped out.
Additional information...

I use almost exclusively plain text files. If I need formatting to produce things like HTML, PDF, ... I use Markdown or LaTeX.

For images/audio, I use lossless file formats (ex: TIFF, FLAC, WAV, SVG). If I need smaller formats for a web site, for sharing or to bring it with me on my phone, I convert it to smaller formats like MP3, JPG, ... Those files are disposable when not required anymore.

During my research if I found a web page I want to refer to later on, I save it in PDF format. Why? Because PDF is fairly future-proof (ISO standard) and it's so widely used that it will not disappear anytime soon. I don't save it in HTML format because I will probably not be able to reopen it in the future because HTML spec changed too much. I don't want to have a folder full of images/css/js for each page. Also, there is no garantee I will be able to read it in the future to way I read it initially. PDF have this garantee.

For anything else (like speadsheets), I use LibreOffice the most I can. LibreOffice is based on OpenDocument open format. Open format fit in my definition of future-proof formats. And no, Microsoft OOXML format doesn't fit in my definition of future-proof format because it's driven by Microsoft (same for any big business like this). They can decide tomorrow to stop keeping the standard updated and start adding proprietary "features" in the "OOXML-NG" format (which will make Microsoft Office files unreadable in other Office suites).

For future-proof information/knowledge management, stay away from closed/proprietary softwares as much you can do.
Yes but let’s assume we built free or nearly free housing. We can’t even do that in SF with any speed.
On a similar note, there was this video from the Verge on collecting roof-top micro-meteorites that was quite interesting to follow:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/5/18211112/meteorites-space-...
To be more specific: the X is build on the S platform; the Y is built on the 3 platform.
What then do you mean that American cars/houses are unsustainable? I don't think big houses/cars is a good thing, but I think it probably is sustainable for quite a while (less climate concerns, in which case everything is unsustainable, depending on who you talk to) because we don't have the same density as Europe. I haven't thought much about this, but that's my hunch. I'd be really interested to hear counterarguments.
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I believe you can choose to be an exit relay or a middle relay. A middle relay only connects to other relays, it does not allow "outgoing" connections, i.e. you won't appear to be browsing child porn from the outside if that's what you mean.

If you mean that you don't want to relay traffic that carries child porn, than you can't do that, since you can't see what you are relaying (and even if you did, you'd need to automatically recognize it which is not easy afaik).
They get free services in San Francisco that they wouldn't in other cities. Also, many of the folks on the street during the day are actually housed, in public housing, and leave to do drugs since they will loose their housing if they do drugs at home.
> Right - because say, there's obviously no nuance required between "rough sleepers are still people" and "let's add spikes to the building entrance so we don't have to look at rough sleepers in the morning".

Every single person, without exception, you included, would be really pissed off with and do everything to get rid of a rough sleeper sleeping on under their window.

Instead of adding spikes, they will call the police. They would add spikes, but the police are free.

I know this, you know this, I know that you know this, and you know that I know that you know this.

But because it is "others" getting rid of bums, people get to scoff online.

Like I said, it is one of the most deliciously hypocritical things about the internet. It causes my heart to race from excitement whenever I see someone do it.
scratch buffer in Emacs, which I configured to open in Markdown mode. Some notes I publish on my microblog [0][1], which consists of a single file with Markdown entries. Other more private stuff, like my computer's configuration in Markdown files.

[0] http://plurrrr.com/

[1] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
How's the language barrier? I've seen the dirt cheap flights there and a slightly more impulsive me would have just flown out and winged it.
Might shock you but some prostitutes do enjoy their work. I guess it's the higher paid, non-streetwalkers though.

edit: "[...] she stated that she enjoyed her job as a prostitute [...]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Coghlan#After_the_trial
> We are carefully considering the appropriate opt-out functionality for telemetry

There's your problem. This should be entirely opt-in.
This woman agrees with you.

>I beg to differ [that there is no reason for a healthy well-fed mother not to breast feed her baby]. There are a lot of healthy well-fed mothers who have found what they think are valid reasons not to breastfeed. I chose not to breastfeed my babies because it was inconvenient, time-consuming, interfered with my sleep, and was incompatible with my job as a doctor working 24 hour shifts in the emergency room and as a flight surgeon on call. I suppose I could have pumped milk and planned ahead and found a way to do it, but it would have required heroic measures. I can imagine leaking breast milk all over my flight suit when I was on an emergency helicopter mission and simply couldn’t stop to pump. Moreover, I tried breastfeeding briefly with my first baby and frankly, I didn’t like it. All in all, I thought my babies were better off with a happy mother and a bottle.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/breastfeeding-is-good-but-m...
I explain my kids that using stuffs in an unexpected way will generate unexpected damages.

Clapping doors, dropping phones, pulling wires not on the plastic plug, continuously switching on/off the lights...

This applies to everything, and ears in particular: I’m a drummer with tinnitus and hyperacusis.

Can’t recommend enough to protect your ears!
Also not the OP, also have an older phone.

I am of an older tech generation who sees this type of security as antithetical to anonymity.
I'd like to hear viewpoints that represent sex workers as having agency, rather than pets or wards to be told what they need.

Why don't we listen to sex workers themselves, when they tell us what policy changes they want? If sex workers say sex work should be criminalized, that would hold some weight for me. If they're exploited, I'd like to hear what they think would actually help them.
FTA: The job cut will amount to just under a third of WeWork’s global workforce
I used to live in Chicago and it’s huge problem there too. It’s national.
84º days are brutal once you're acclimatized to 68º summers, especially in a city built for a cold windy climate.
Boris Johnson says he will try for 12 December election
Format of APNS messages is just a payload. The information about APNS being based on XMPP was widely available on developer.apple.com and was often mentioned in developer sessions in 2010..12 when I was actively following it.

The current absence of direct XMPP mentions on Apple Deveoper website might mean that they consider their internal technology not important for developers, or it might mean that Apple had changed the protocol for some reason (they could have opted to use some binary protocol, for example), but claiming that push notifications work on iOS devices by polling servers is beyond ridiculous. VoIP pushes arrive in ~1 second. Such response times would require 40000 poll requests/day or more
/feedbackhn It really sucks when an active discussion on the front page is nuked in favor of a dead discussion on an article that's ready to fall off the second page.