skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They are moving there, because the talent that can live anywhere it wants to is living in these cities."

Why are the talent moving to those cities? Because they want to pay $4000/mo rent? Or because that's where the jobs are?

All of the other advantages you describe are side-effects. California has historically been a fairly conservative state (Remember Ronald Reagan?), and I suspect it still is if you get away from the coast.

"I don't want my kids growing up in a place where the war on drugs isn't just a failed experiment."

Didn't SF recently ban vaping?
I focus on myself. Am I better than I was yesterday? Three years ago? Good. Keep going.

We're not like doctors. There is no capital-P professional guild setting the bar for practitioners of software engineering. There are engineering guilds that recognize software development as a discipline that will accredit you if you meet their requirements and pay their dues. However it's often not mandatory for you to be accredited in order to practice software engineering. And it's not required that a company developing software employ a professional software engineer in order to conduct business. So hardly anyone seeks out accreditation.

In a free market you get companies like Google that need a large volume of people trained with vocational skills to churn out code in the various frameworks and tools. Doesn't bother me any.

I like to work on problems that are interesting and make the world a better place. You can't always do that at a Google or Netflix.
And how exactly do you plan to objectively dispute what the truth is?

Your sources are not going to be any more trustworthy than the hearsay you want to "fact check."

I really don't understand any of this, it sounds Orwellian to me.
>> "free time projects" to get hired

these are the companies to avoid in my experience
I think they meant squaring the fraction of good macros: 0.1^2 = 0.01, so 99% are crap. As someone who likes and uses cpp quite a bit, I think, if that isn't true anymore, it's only because most of the people who would have written crap macros have moved to writing python or javascript or whatever instead of C or C++.
She was doing activism, not work. She knew damn well that she could not push without a code review, so she basically threw two colleagues under the bus (they were reprimanded).

She will get work somewhere else, but, to me, it does not look good to be fired for abusing internal security tooling, with the huge responsibility that security engineers have. Burning bridges and making a stink about it was her own choice, and this should have consequences, like crying about any other unrelated protected status (I did this very bad thing, but my employer fired me for racism, unionizing, being a (trans) woman, being old, etc.). You poison the well for everyone with that crap. Your group identity becomes so important to you, that you start to label individuals as "old white men" and anything negative happening to you must be related to your group identity. I don't play that game, so don't handicap me with your stereotypical groupthink.

The only one being tarred and feathered here is Google, for union-busting and retaliatory firing (as if... some even argue these firings target transgenders). Your example misrepresents my argument: advocating increased security against management is harmless and part of your job. Trying to be cute and score brownie points with activist pals is a risk she thought worth taking. Good on her.
I don't think its that, I think its more when it happens to someone who has the money to easily deal with it, you don't hear about it.

About 6 months ago I had to get a new alternator and brakes, total cost was ~2,800 as my car was past warranty. I just paid it, got the dealership rental car for a day ($50 per day) and went about my life. If I did not have the money, they same thing would have happened but I would not have been able to get it fixed and would have had to desperately reach out to people hoping to borrow money. If I happened to have just enough to fix the alternator, I would have had to drive around on very worn brakes potentially leading to an accident in the future, putting me back at square one. I would have had no choice though as I would not be able to afford not going to work.

Not to mention I would not have been able to afford the rental meaning I would have had to spend the whole day at the dealership, missing a day of work and probably that pay.

It is very expensive to be poor.
Is hubris becoming prevalent among business leaders?
so far what seems to capture people's imagination is news about automation taking work of IT workers/developers as well as jobs belonging to service industry and manual/labor intensive jobs.

However, the game changer will be when automation starts to replace legions of lawyers, insurance Professionals, underwriters, traders, Capital Partners, Accountants, etc. To the point the judges and doctors would be relying completely on automation to simply operate/serve as human checkpoint.
> until the antibiotic washes out.

while I don't want surprise antibiotics in my food, I'm probably more concerned about the antibiotic resistance that antibiotic exposure generates. The flora of those animals _will_ have drug resistance genes that doesn't just "wash out". That resistnce can be passed to other animals or human by direct contact, environment or otherwise.
Maybe? AFAIK having more walls will result in less intrusions... Like, I imagine that you can delete/encrypt all the files simply by having a local username / network filesystem accesss. Doesn't necessarily mean you also managed to hack usernames/passwords/databases/source code... Each wall is another barrier to pass/hack!
Prime account? I have Prime and haven't ever had a problem returning things or getting refunds, which I haven't had to do much of anyway.

I'm wondering if there isn't a significant difference between the shopping experience of Prime and non-Prime users.
Gradle, granted they're fixing it.

https://blog.gradle.org/decommissioning-http
> Water vapor has a habit of coming down as rain.

Not sure what you mean by this. Are you saying water vapor is not a significant greenhouse gas? https://climate.nasa.gov/causes lists it as the most abundant greenhouse gas.
Interesting, I wasn't aware of Mozilla's Trusted Recursive Resolver program (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/DOH-resolver-policy).

> The following providers have contractually agreed to abide by these policy requirements: [Cloudflare, NextDNS]

Are these agreements made public?
> so it's only participation is in increasing the effects of the other gasses we emit directly

This is the falsehood perpetuated by the CO2-based warming position. The earth was already warming. The earth has continue to warm since the end of the last ice age. This created increased water vapor, the most impactful greenhouse gas. If there is a positive feedback cycle due to greenhouse gases, it's assuredly due to water vapor.
Is there going to be an option in FF to select which “trusted partner” to use? And an option to use a provider not in their list?
After seeing how amazingly much better Facebook properties targets ads I won't even trust Google to do that.

Lately I've been using Instagram multiple times a month and the ads I get there are relvant, sometimes even useful (I once actually bought a product from one such ad that I actually like and wouldn't have been aware of without, and I am a typical HNer that have always said ads are wasted on me, because they have been for 10 years).

Contrast this to Google who has way more datapoints on me yet end up showing ads asking if I have old mens problems or suggest I join a dating site for elderly. And that is just the icing on the cake: they've been pushing dating sites ever since I got engaged over 5 years ago.

My account might be a fluke but I guess I am not allne.
"So we have a little house in a big city with a little garden..."

Does that make you one of the NIMBYs?
I’m referring to unionization, since this is the topic of the post, but also the broader idea of top-down market regulation that includes provisions for workers rights and taxation of externalities, driven by generally left-leaning, anti-capitalist sentiment. In general, it seems Europeans expect more of their government than Americans do. Historically, Americans have tended to be more distrustful of their government, believing that the less it gets involved in their affairs, the better.

This distrust of government pushed the US toward a generally laissez-faire approach to regulation, while most European countries have gone the opposite direction. The approaches differ in terms of workers rights, labor laws, and taxation. Specifically, as a simple example, in the US, you can fire somebody whenever you want. Generally speaking, taxes are lower, it’s easier to start a company, and the regulatory environment is friendlier to business models driven by venture capital.

I’m arguing that it shouldn’t be a surprise, then, that the US has produced more innovation and economic capital than European countries, partially because the regulatory environment is friendlier and more encouraging of risk.
> FWIW, I also happen to harbor this suspicion. How might one actually know whether there is an element of truth to it?

I do not harbor this same suspicion, however, I'm determined to learn whatever is necessary to understand it. Not because I can argue a point to completion for someone who doesn't share epistemological solidarity with me, but because it might allow me to aid in whatever needs posterity has in solving the problems we are creating today. In that interest, I will eventually complete the following course:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-warming

Or something like it, especially some atmospheric chemistry courses. I feel as if you should do so as well, as it's the only way to understand the scientific position, if all you are going to do otherwise is attack them with conspiracy theory (which should be easily provable - there will be documented cases of people lying to get their data published... just look at Andrew Wakefield) or using ad-hominem ('they are just trying to make money').

> I will confess, referring to climate models that are literally estimated projections of future temperatures as "facts", very much rubs me the wrong way.

There are also classes that teach you how to climate model and the science behind them. In order to do most statistics classes, they recommend completing multivariable calculus. All of these courses are available for free.

Further, you want to disabuse others of speculation, but you haven't taken the work to do so yourself.

Now, you could go ahead and do all the work above for every scientific point of view that you want to challenge. I myself am currently taking several classes to understand this and the challenges in ML/AI at a deeper level.... OR you can note that 95%+ (and probably well higher than that) of climate scientists recognize that human cause climate science is fact, and appeal to expertise, which is distinct from appeal to authority.

Climate change is real, it's going to be awful, it's changing our ocean chemistry already, and there are more pollution related ecological events to come that will reduce the carrying capacity of our home drastically. If you disagree, do the science, but definitely realize that _you_ are the one speculating.
When I checked mattermost a year ago, the mattermost opensource edition had no basic permissions/access control. Any user could archive any channel. I have seen many teams fall into this "trap" only to find this basic restriction later. We since moved to Rocket.Chat. Is this still the case?
> There are music venues

I just moved from what was effectively a state capital/ college town to a largish town without much going on and man having a music venue that plays various local and touring underground artists from all sorts of genres is something I miss. I'm closer to two cities that get large headliner concerts now, but it's still to rare someone I enjoy enough to take the trip is coming.
Part of Google's problem is that Amazon will give you a refund on a shirt you ordered and then have customer support walk you through setting up AWS services to run your website.

Amazon is obsessively focused on keeping customers happy and will bend over backward to do so. Google does not have a similar reputation or history.
On a related note, we have built an E2E-verified, tamper-evident CI/CD pipeline for the Datadog Agent integrations [1]: the Agent will trust and install only integrations that correspond to source code that have signed by our developers. If there is an attack anywhere between our developers and end-users, it will be caught.

Unlike Binary Authorization for Borg, our security guarantees are publicly verifiable.

[1] https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/secure-publicatio...
What does that have to do with obtaining HIPPA/DNA data the way they did?

What does big pharma reinvesting more of its revenue back into R&D have anything to do with obtaining peoples DNA through any means but directly from the owners of the DNA?

Big Pharma also spends more in lobbying efforts than any other industry...in fact double the next industry (tech)...in fact they spend in lobbying what the #2 and #3 industries (tech and insurance) spend together. Were you aware big pharma lobbying goes towards R&D tax credits for themselves?
alza.cz is a prague-based company that offers miles better shopping experience than amazon does. You can sort and filter by technical characteristics, like number of CPU cores, screen diagonal, weight, whatever you want. They deliver across most of EU.
I applaud this as a recycling effort
To be clear, courses such as "category theory" and abstract algebra are not required to be a good engineer.
This seems so easy to me to fix... just have a decently-sized QA department and add in reputation score variations for sellers... if a seller gets caught selling anything counterfeit, their reputation takes a huge hit for 6 months or so and they barely show up on search results.

Trusted sellers would be folks who have managed to go several years without this happening..

I swear I could implement a whole solution for around ~$2M + $1M a year for ongoing QA staff / call center employees... basically nothing for a retailer the size of Amazon.

It makes me think they've done the CBA on it and somehow determined they would rather have all retailers selling on Amazon for some reason, even the shady ones, despite some damage to their reputation. I don't understand why though.
Yeah, I'm pushing back hard on algorithms and ranking here. Not sure if that's what you mean. I like that it is a dumb tool that isn't doing any concealed magic. It's absolutely apparent how it ranks things. It's then up to the human to explore and curate and shape from there.

However, I do see a place for search. I would love to add search terms like 'Nicholas Cage' and any time his name comes up (or perhaps even a related topic) I can track that.
I don't think it's just the capacity but the power efficiency.
G700s has a really low run time, something like a week per charge as a heavy user.
The MX 2S can go about 2 months between chargers and the 3 should have an even better run time.
> Formally, the goal might be to minimise the maximum pairwise difference between the number of items in the rows, subject to not using more rows than the existing flexbox behaviour and keeping any longer rows earlier in the order.

I've not looked at your comments elsewhere in this discussion, but this makes sense as a specification.
Fascinating, the part we may get the most out of is "Adopting similar controls in your organization" - not just Google For Everyone Else.
My solution may or may not work for you, but here's what I do. I work down this list, in this order, until I find one that will sell me what I need:

1) A local, physical store.

2) Directly from the manufacturer's website.

3) An online retailer that I have found trustworthy and reliable in the past.

4) eBay

5) Amazon, if I'm desperate enough.
there is no argument. there's also no law that demands you to report all crimes.

and this law does give an incentive to cover up, as long as the ransom is < fines .
How to make a page editable in the browser
Krebs has a better measured reply to the "Nuke 'em all!" comments.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/ransomware-gangs-now-out...

What needs to become the norm for the US Govt response to these gangsters is for them to get in the habit of doing what they did in the Evil Corp case: Once the offenders are positively identified, get the Treasury to issue financial sanctions on them that prevent the crooks from transacting with people and businesses outside their home country.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/inside-evil-corp-a-100m-...

This is perhaps the most effective tool in law enforcement’s hands to combat cybercrime — short of apprehending the bad guys. None of these dudes want to be stuck in Russia, and they sure as hell don’t want all their money kept their either. Rather, they tend to launder it by investing in properties and other businesses outside their own country. Making it a crime for others to accept their money is an extremely effective way of frustrating these criminals.
I'm surprised that the overall sentiment of the comments indicates that gcloud's offerings are inferior to aws / azure. I've worked with all of the clouds and have found Google to have the best product. Their GKE with built in Istio support is a killer feature. Spanner is best in class. Competitors do not provide a useable alternative to Firestore realtime database. Pizza Hut is the most popular pizza in the USA, doesn't mean it's the best.
This gets at the heart of this. This isn't t part of some consistent political philosophy or legal framework. This is policy based on angry people wanting to get revenge on a specific topic.

Unfortunately I think the tide is moving in the direction of this being an acceptable way to govern and while people may get individual things they want out of it I think the end result is a net loss for everyone.
>Precluding companies from coming up with cures for diseases based on researching this data seems to defeat one of the major points of medical research.

Since when is privacy violations a major point of medical research? Did these pharma companies get your DNA through a 3rd party without your knowledge?
“Gears are often referred to as ‘pocket watches’” is not a correct statement, even though gears are sometimes used in the implementation of pocket watches.

Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaballs
There already is in advanced network options I think?
It's less than half as many syllables. That's just how people are.
> Our trusted recursive resolver program aims to standardize requirements for three areas: limiting data collection and retention from the resolver, ensuring transparency for any data retention that does occur, and limiting any potential use of the resolver to block access or modify content.

This seems like a win overall, and I'm glad that they're pushing to build a list of trusted resolvers. It sounds like they've got some sort of contract ensuring they don't use the data, so that's a positive.

That said, given that Windows 10 is going to going to start supporting DoH natively, I'm not sure I understand the reasoning to use Mozilla's chosen DNS providers, rather than the system default.

It seems a bit like enabling a proxy or VPN by default-
Even if Mozilla trusts the proxy provider, routing traffic to unneeded third parties seems somewhat user-hostile.
Sure, for now. We would all be naiive to believe that insurance companies wouldn't lobby to be able to use other such information continually if they had it until they can use it to charge you more.
This is what I suspected and thanks for confirming this. The fact that she wrote that her job is to notify the employees "of employee guidelines and company policies" and chose to withhold the critical bit that it was specifically security policies she was responsible for looks like a deliberate attempt to mislead.

I totally support googlers' right to unionize but it seems that some employees are in an all-out war with the company and think that all is fair in that war. I can't say I support that.
>We are firing up our IBM cloud presence now.

I'm curious as to how this will change with the acquisition of Red Hat. It's still too recent to see any kind of impact yet.
Ask: How to change technology you work in?
Hi,

I need to change technology to avoid burn-out. 7 years in messy mobile world is more than enough. It feels like all my effort to get M.Sc, solving complex math & CS problems, everything was for nothing - in the end I write apps that display list of elements on the screen. Moreover demand on Android developers in my city is decreasing, right now there is no offers at all.

I think natural candidate for my next core tech is backend Java. I have about 7,5 years of commercial experience as an Android Developer and 3,5 years of experience in tutoring - I created Java, Kotlin and Android courses for one of the biggest IT companies in my country. I know Spring and Hibernate.

Now the funny part. I don't know how to change my job and I am scared. I am scared that recruiters will ignore my CV or I will fail on interviews due to lack of commercial experience in Spring/Hibernate or that I will get much smaller compensation than I have now - due to morgage I would like to avoid this if possible.

I want to write some project and publish it on GitHub just to show interviewers that I am skilled enough and I can use these tools. But I have no ideas. If I need to write code then I want to write something useful, not another "pet store" that solves no problems.

What are your recommendations?
It's more a defense against getting NSA'd (via the specific threat model of an attacker secretly replacing a security service with an implementation that looks very similar but is much easier to crack).
I’d rather pay extra for certainty, and I feel like I’ve lost that with Amazon.
This is what happens when regulators don't promote a fair marketplace. With no competition, companies like Amazon stop caring and start to optimize to get the last few pennies out of each sale... which results in a drop in quality of the overall service and eventually either a long, slow death or a corporate sale.

Because Amazon has out priced or out delivered many local stores, we don't have those choices any more.

There's a place for companies like this, but they have so many advantages due to size that they have to be watched to ensure they don't step on smaller players just because they can.
"Evaluating the performance of past climate model projections"

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019...

"We found that climate models – even those published back in the 1970s – did remarkably well, with 14 out of the 17 projections statistically indistinguishable from what actually occurred."
Damn bloomberg publishing an article about how they themselves got fined? They really milking everything they can from this
The point is that if you want to "own the means of production", as was discussed somewhere above, buying stocks as a middle class investor is not going to get you there.
Or an option to randomize it per request with the ability to remove / blacklist specific partners. Now that would be great.
As with previous articles, The Information has unlocked this one for HN readers. Thanks!

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Does the 3rd version fix the polling issues these mice have over Bluetooth? Using the receiver works fine, but over Bluetooth it feels very laggy and jerky to use. They don't offer a USB-C receiver yet.

Here is what it looks like to draw a circle using each protocol: https://imgur.com/a/RP2oLcn