skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First in vitro Puerto Rico crested toad gives scientists hope
I think the article was more nuanced than that.
I've been called a tech bro, late 20 something 1m in net assets. Me and my group of friends are absolutely the geeks of yore. Ffs my last pitch had a wh40k reference in it and the guy financing it spend more time talking about warhammer lore than about the actual startup.
Agree, seems much more complex than it should need to be, but I’m guessing there’s edge cases (but even then it seems more complex than needed).
The USA is such a vast country, there are so many nice areas. We don't need to cram all of one industry into a single city.

I vote Denver, Seattle, or Pittsburgh.
Where is my flying car? Clicking on ads is not revolutionizing society.
> Not quite. If you buy something without knowing what you're getting, that's not free trade.

As a matter of language, I disagree. If I want to bet that the man offering me a lottery ticket is accurately conveying the odds, and you don't want to let me make that decision because you just overheard him discussing the fraud he was about to commit against me, physically stopping us from making that exchange by use of force is a restriction of my freedom to make that bad decision. We can agree or disagree about the desirability of that, but linguistically it seems pretty clear to me that this is a restriction of free exchange. Even when I supported such a use of government force I could recognise that.
I think that’s a separate concern from what this post is describing though, which (in this framing) is whether tech continues to exist as a geek driven is consumed by sociopaths and made into something instrumental and without any real ethos. Geeks (your spending 4-8 hours a day coding) and sociopaths both exist a priori in this argument. It’s about which faction is the dominant one and the consequences of their being dominant.
> "Off-time" is not an adversary to great work life, productivity and innovation. Some would even claim the opposite was true.

I don't disagree, we're not talking about absolutes here. But it's reasonable to consider that, all other things being equal, someone who loves their job may be less inclined to take as many vacation days compared to someone who hates their job.

Advocating for longer vacations, leisure time, and simply being disconnected so folks can develop their interests outside of work are important. However, most people spend most of their non-sleeping life at work. Accordingly, making work itself more fulfilling can often have a far greater impact than simply requiring less of it.
Apple Confirms iPhone Bug Bounty of Up to $1.5MM
>Tech Bros is a dirty class stereotype which totally ignores the passion and skill of the people who are revolutionizing society, for better or worse.

[Emphasis added] Well, this is certainly true. It's worth thinking for a moment about why "tech bro" has become a pejorative phase. Perhaps it has something to do with the "tech", which, for the most part, is really just online-ad-tech, UI/UX optimization, and a couple other things. Non-technical people don't really understand what most of this stuff is that "tech bros" work on, even though it really does affect them. And so it seems reasonable that they are a little confused as to how the "tech bros" got so rich working on "tech", which, again, is allegedly going to make us all better off. At least that's what we were all told growing up.

To be frank I think the hubris comes more for the other side of this equation that you do, and I don't think it's a uniquely leftist viewpoint to be skeptical of all of this (as I am not a leftist). When I visit SF (which is probably a dozen times a year) I'll see plenty of new billboards and ads for new startups working on the "hottest new stuff". I'm a technical person and can actually grasp what they're working on. Some of it is great. But working people who can't afford to live there now don't get what any of this is, and they're right to be skeptical about it. Who cares how passionate you are about revolutionizing an algorithm to better serve adds on social media. Long term, that's probably going to hurt society. Not help it. And if criticism of this is now "bullying" then, well, I'm Biff Tannen.
Yeap. That's where I sent my roommate from college to learn performance driving; a Korean dude with a CS degree from an UC turned California highway patrol (CHP) officer. (How many cops has anyone ever run into understood Big-O notation?)

Disclaimer: I learned a thing or a thing and half sliding around the back roads of the Sacramento levee system with water hazards on both sides. }:]
So the pizza tracker doesn't show actual progress, but moves along according to expected progress. Sounds just like USPS:

https://immortalephemera.com/8970/usps-delivery-confirmation...
Hacker who blackmailed Apple in 2017 gets no prison time
So you're saying the value of housing stock should not appreciate? That's going to be a tough sell to its owners.

If we want housing to be an investment, we have to acknowledge it's going to rise in value faster than inflation (otherwise it's a crap investment), which means it won't be affordable.

Conversely, if we want housing to be affordable, it cannot rise in value faster than inflation, which means it can't be a good investment.

As Charles Marohn says, it's not even a "problem", in that problems have solutions. It's a predicament.
Now that reminds me of Kuttner's Fury. Though his 'immortal' elites were simply having 200+ years lifespans, but for peasants that felt as good as actually being immortal.
> But these companies keep succeeding doing it this way, so I’m not sure what to make of it.

That doesn't necessarily mean anything. The fact that a system might be working, doesn't mean it's anywhere near optimal. I think these companies are successful in spite of these types of policies, not because of them.
As a manager I do not accept that team members skip PTO. We're not paying for it to be nice, we expect ROI. Happy, healthy people are generally productive, highly cooperative and inventive.
Does he realize that Joseph and Mary would not be allowed to enter Palestinian-controlled Bethlehem today? The security was put up to prevent Christian pilgrims from being murdered.
Hey thanks for reaching out, that's very nice of you :), I have no specific concerns atm but will reach out I do need help.

Issues with thunks are maybe(?) due to our implementation again, but we have way too many dispatches being called (100s of lines of dispatch calls for one action sometimes). It becomes quite hard to trace what happens when a certain business logic is executed because of this.

For example, say we have an action to delete a domain level entity, lets say this is a book, well books can have paragraphs, paragraphs can have sentences and sentences can have words (normalized state, terrible example I know, but all I could think of atm). Well the action to delete a book, has dispatches to delete all children entities as well. These dispatches actually may have other dispatches as well for ui stuff etc. Doing redux this way really didn't scale well for us, but I suppose we have very very unique, complex business logic compared to other projects.

The style guide looks excellent, I think this would have made the codebase easier to follow. I will defs be following this for my personal projects.

Thanks
San Francisco has been a boom/bust town since the gold rush. San Francisco's economic focal point, which has lasted there for a century or so, is tourism.

Have you heard about that sinking luxury condo skyscraper in S.F.? The terrain is formable in San Francisco, the geographic location treacherous. San Francisco's urban plan does not work well enough to fit nearly a million people. NYC has less than half the square mile footage, yet double the population. NYC works primarily better mainly because of location and geography. "...It turns out that Manhattan has a bedrock unusually suited to the construction of very tall buildings, in many cases just a few meters below the surface."

https://observer.com/2012/01/uncanny-valley-the-real-reason-...
That's incredible footage just on its own :)
Go might be useful since Terraform uses Go.

Try to focus on what your shop has already. Solve their problems first.

I'm joining a shop in the new year that was impressed by my use of the Serverless framework. Impress them.
Feynman lectures are the SICP of physics. And I don't mean that as a compliment.

People say these are the best resources on the respective subjects, however the people who say this have likely not read many other books, especially modern books.

Bill Gates is kinda cool I guess but I'm not going to take physics advice from him.
I don't disagree, but you're talking about right/wrong from a moral standpoint, one that many people probably agree with, but it's not an absolute.

The right and wrong I was talking about was with respect to the existing rules, policies, and ethics. And if you do believe these rules are morally wrong, then you change them from within the system.

The upside is there are multiple opportunities to do this without also getting fired. There are also opportunities to do as much union organizing as you like without getting fired. The Thanksgiving four played a very dangerous game, as did this individual, and they got the expected result.

Unfortunately, the other result is that if you want to find examples of blatantly illegal union busting, I'm sure they are out there but these are not them. This smacks of agitation and activism for it's own sake.
San Francisco added 13 jobs for every home over the past decade, making it by far the worst housing actor. The suburbs of SF are the whole western half of the city.
In Smalltalk it is called nil. nil is an instance of the class UndefinedObject. In principle you could subclass UndefinedObject. But what is interesting is that you can add more instance methods to the class UndefinedObject so you could define the method #isNil for instance which could be defined also for all objects, but differently
I somewhat look forward to SF's gamergate moment, where the mainstream left decides that it would rather convert the things that SF built into pure(r) SocJus, rather than just have SF as an ally:

"codebros are basement-dwelling cryptonazi freaks!"
"coders are dead!"
"the word 'coder' is outdated and carries a baggage of racism and sexism! what's coding anyway? Aren't we all working with computers in some way? This means we're all coders!"
The question of who "deserves" to live in a city, and who gets to decide that, is as old as cities themselves, and nobody's found a good answer yet.

Remember that every current resident who isn't evicted means one person who wants to move in to the city isn't able to.
49 square miles used improperly. We could house millions with the ancient technology of the apartment building.
I feel like I'm being very negative today, but it feels like this post gets more attention because Bill Gates has become somewhat of a celebrity and he wrote it. I'm not saying I dislike Gates, I'm not saying his celebrity status hasn't been earned, etc. Just saying the content itself is kind of...unremarkable? I feel like every friend I have from highschool absolutely loves Feynman, we all read and discussed his "Six Easy Pieces", he's regularly the subject of submissions and comments on HN, etc. Like, Feynman isn't some hidden gem - thankfully many have come to know and love his work.

Apologize if I'm being unreasonably negative, but something about this post and it being top on HN kind of bothers me (maybe because it feels a little bit like hero worship?). Like, are we marvelling that Bill Gates' admiration of Feynman? Is this the best tribute to Feynman ever written? There's so much written about Feynman on/offline.
What a mistake.

Not only going from a monolith to microservices but also changing the language? This is a mistake that rookies make. This will be one of those post-Mortems where they will sheepishly admit they bit more than they could chew, and it wasted years of productivity.

There’s no reason to move to Go. Stick with Python for now. Migrate safely to python 3. Once everything is stable, start breaking things up into thrift or protobuf services. They don’t even need to be microservices but you need the contract. Once that is stable migrate to whatever language you want. But at this point you will have the well-defined api and test cases. Trying to do too much all at once is a no-brained disaster.
> If I want to bet that the man offering me a lottery ticket is accurately conveying the odds, and you don't want to let me make that decision because you just overheard him discussing the fraud he was about to commit against me, physically stopping us from making that exchange by use of force is a restriction of my freedom to make that bad decision.

If someone wants to sell your friend a lottery ticket, and you know with certainty that the seller has no intention of paying out a winner, this is not free exchange. It's just a lie and simple fraud. Furthermore, as a friend, you should probably at least try to intervene. The same is true of government (or any authority).

Making a fraudulent trade is not "free exchange", legally, morally, or linguistically.
They claim to be able to do it economically.
It's also why we can detect muons on Earth, a particle that would have decayed by the time it reaches us if its age depended on our frame of reference.
In the US, a new DeLorean isn't all that expensive compared to typical "jelly-bean" vehicles that are the most common. Back in 2005, I narrowed down a vehicle purchase decision to a new DeLorean, an used Lotus Elise or a new G coupe. I went with a bone-stock manual G that I kept for a few years before I got into Cold War-era West German and French vehicles. I'm not a rich person, far from it.
LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual (1962) [pdf]
The second (institutional harassment).
Where do you find information like this?
I get the part about managing expectations, but to go to the detail that they do for each step of progress but not actually do any of it feels rather fraudulent and pathetic.

Just give a ping when it's en route and call it a day.
lol fair enough (and I, too, take issue with the post as I explained in another comment), but I do think Feynman was special in his love and pursuit of knowledge. I'm sure you're right that there are way better books, but I don't see Feynman the personality/educator/teacher as easily swappable with others as maybe his books are.
Internet shutdowns, once rare, are becoming the norm in much of the world
What is incorrect about my statement? In case you don’t know or want to be reminded, the name of the ruling party in China is called ‘China Communist Party’.
I’m surprised at the negativity in this reply. Can you offer some more explanation as to what you mean by the non-compliment SICP ref?
Heck, some go into MBB then do startups. Look at the Plaid cofounders - both super broey-looking Bain guys. I would be shocked if neither went to fancy elite private schools before heading to their elite colleges for undergrad.
It's the same argument you here from the armchair critic of modern art, 'My child could do this.' And while it's right that a child could probably commit to the brush strokes, it's certain that if you gave the same tools to the child, they wouldn't produce anything like it.

And here, it's easy to say that you could easily produce this in CG using Blender and the like, if the artist knew what the final image would look like. But the final image is the product of the experimental process, which invited different possibilities to playing around with digital tools. An art teacher once told me, 'There's no right and wrong in art, just good and shit.' And 'good works of art', by my definition, tend to have a development process behind them, and not just whims of fraudulent genius, as some might believe.
> If we want housing to be an investment

That seems to be the problem at its core.
i did a track day up there years ago who was chp and was trying to explain you had to take trigonometry to me for taking the radar speed of a vehicle at an angle...
What's fucked up is that the people evicting get no blame, the people deciding that the city is full and should not accept more people get no blame.
If a browser doesn't implement the standards to guard against MITM attacks, what makes you think it implements the standards to guard against user-agent manipulation during the MITM attack?

You've misunderstood what I'm getting at here. It's not the user that's going to purposefully change their agent -- it's that a browser that is insecure to the point that you can't trust it to log in is also insecure to the point that you can't trust its user agent to be reported correctly.

The entire security exercise is pointless because compromised browsers lie. They don't respect user preferences. An attacker who intercepts and modifies a request isn't going to suddenly start being honest with you when you ask what browser that request came from.
I mean that most people who talk about SICP and Feynman lectures don't read too ma y other books on the topic. Saying you like either is Ike saying you like Beatles or Top 40.
That's what happened to San Jose in the '50s-'60s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._Hamann
Not OP, but clinical practice and research are indeed very different.
This kind of decisions is usually always taken when the monetary cost is not measured.

Apparently not mapping developer hours to real money keeps not being a thing outside consulting shops.
I'm not sure. Having been born, it's natural for us to want to live longer. That's the impetus for all this. Okay fine.

But if you to try to objectively answer a more abstract question, "Is it better for humans to live to 150 years of age rather than 75 years of age?", I don't think there is objectively a right answer.

It's not very different from the question of whether having more people living on earth is a better or worse thing. Is having 5 billion people living on earth better than having 1 billion? Or 100 million? Or 1 million? Or 50,000? Why?

You might end up making an argument that "more progress is possible" if we have more people, or if people can live longer lives. But the idea of "progress" for the sake of "progress" is not necessarily one that enhances the human lives being lived.

There is a current strain of thought that the pinnacle of happy lives for humans was during the hunter-gatherer stage tens of thousands of years ago, and that the switch to agriculturally based societies did not enhance human lives, although once it happened it was not possible to reverse the change. For one example of this, refer to Noah Harari's first book, _Sapiens_, an excerpt here: https://www.ynharari.com/topic/ecology/

Something very similar may have happened with the industrial revolution, and be happening now with, e.g., the digital revolution. IN the realm of medicine/health there are many areas of "progress" that have the potential to make our lives worse. E.g., cloning. On another note, there is little doubt in my mind that merely inventing new ways to prolong human lives is by no means necessarily a good thing. You can see that in current medical world, where many people are kept alive in an undignified state and with extremely low quality of life, while at the same time voluntary euthanasia is illegal.

At the very least, more careful thought should be put into what impact major "progress" is likely to have on human life. Unfortunately, in our world things are driven by corporations, profit, and a mostly unquestioned assumption that "progress is good". As it is, technological progress continues at a pace we can't really grasp, and we're left to try to make sense of it after the technology is here. Not a good scenario, it's like unleashing the genie in the bottle, opening pandora's box.
As far as animosity towards tech workers and rising housing costs go, Seattle is second only to San Francisco and Austin.
> "...there would seem to be no reason for a well-functioning person to choose to die..."

-Plain old ennui. Don't underestimate this.

-Depression from alienation because society and culture has evolved over centuries beyond their capacity to accept change or has evolved to a point that society no longer accepts them.

-Grief at the death of loved ones, either accidentally or through their own choice to check out.

-Grief at the estrangement of loved ones as their personality and beliefs change over time.

-Loss of one's accumulated wealth and privilege, whether by accident, incompetence, or malice of others

I'm sure that many more are possible.
There's a great answer: everybody who wants to live there. Any other answer or non-answer is fundamentally unjust and wrong.
> As a manager I do not accept that team members skip PTO.

Sure, but as a manager, you should probably know that giving people engaging work, with meaningful impact, and significant personal growth opportunities is often a greater motivator than providing additional days off.
Dating in SF is not great for dudes.
Dzhanibekov Effect on Earth
"May you live in interesting times!"
Is that a text-to-speech voice?
> Who cares how passionate you are about revolutionizing an algorithm to better serve adds on social media. Long term, that's probably going to hurt society. Not help it. And if criticism of this is now "bullying" then, well, I'm Biff Tannen.

Most of Silicon Valley isn't working on ad-tech (although a large chunk of it is). To dismiss everyone working in SV as working in optimizing ads doesn't make much sense.

There are other sectors of the economy completely wrecking the Environment (Energy, Global Warming), Global Economy (Finance, 2008 crisis) etc. While those sectors get their fair amount of attention, it seems like its cool to pick on those in tech now.

/shrug
The reality is that incredible returns could've been had by anyone investing in public tech stocks over the last decade. You didn't need to be employee #10 at a unicorn.

Apple 25x'd over the last 10 years and is at all time highs.
Microsoft is at all time highs.
Tesla is at all time highs.
Amazon, Netflix, Salesforce, Google, FB are close.
Hey, that's rad that you gave this a try!

Temperature hasn't been a problem for me. My computer works fine in 35C.

There's a section in my post about dealing with rain. I used tarps. Power was provided via a weather proof extension cable.

Insects can be troublesome, I had a lot of wasps die in my coffee. Only two stings in the whole summer of working out side! As long as you don't swat them they are pretty benign. I think this is really a regional thing, there are not many bugs where I am in Colorado, nor in Eastern Washington.

I haven't had a problem with environmental noise, but I also often listen to music while I work.

The first few days I experimented with outdoor computing I was a bit distracted by the novelty of it. Takes a while to ease into it, but that starting overhead is well worth it imho
I didn't even realize the conference was happening until my gf complained about the attendants of some ai conf downtown. Didn't quite realize how big it was.
btc?
This will go down on your permanent record
Instead of interference and preferential treatment, think of it as curation.

There are many times that interesting stories are submitted but never happen to hit the right window on /new to get upvoted onto the front page.

One of the things the mods look for is interesting articles that have been submitted by multiple people and still never made it to the front page. That is a sign that there may be community interest. My guess is that they have a script to find these articles, and then review them manually. Then they email the first person to have submitted it and ask them to re-submit.

Daniel (dang) explained this in more detail on another "second chance" article earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21852627
You misunderstand. Off-time provides benefits that are almost impossible to achieve in even the best work environment.

* PTO is not about motivation - it's about quality of work output.