skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the cliche transplants from SF to NYC: The lack of concrete jungle, and that desire from people both who predated the tech deluge and those who arrived because of it (like you are planning to be) is precisely why it has become as bad as the blogs make it to be.

I think some things are not as bad as the blogs make it be, and many things a lot worse. In the latter category:

- there is now a "fire season". Yes, those precious outdoors, swathes of it gets burned and the beautiful CA air gets filled with smoke from burnt forests, houses and people

- the city is politically paralyzed. Everyone now treats their SF stay as even more temporary (moreso than the natives already complained about before, because now it's crappy to live in for everyone, not just the poor people) = limited investment in political future

- diversity shrinks every year. It gets more white/asian, more male, more single/childless, more tech, and more techie-centric entertainment, and less everything else everyday

- offline businesses are narrowing operation. Not merely "local" and "small" businesses dying, but even chain stores are not able to find staff or attract enough foot traffic because...the city simply doesn't have that many people out and about anymore. Business hours are shrinking, stores are receding to the downtown center streets, and service staff is disappearing. There are hardly 50 stores left in all of SF that are open 24 hours, even my podunk hometown in Oman, Middle East has more.

- the tourist industry is dying. People used to visit and fall in love with SF. Now, they get embarrassed about the state of the city (the more obvious stuff like homelessness, cost of living, filth) and leave trying to forget about this city.

I still love SF, and would love to move back if they can turn the ship around. As a non-US citizen I cannot even vote, and felt utterly helpless in the face of rampant NIMBYism preventing any development, upzoning, housing reform, transit reform, tax reform, homelessness relief, police retraining, non-tech subsidies, etc. But over the course of the 6-7 years I lived there, it went from a "this city is wonderful" love to the kind of love you have for a drug-addled suicidal family member.

It is incredibly relieving to see NYC being run extremely competently in contrast, and while I vaguely miss the weather, imo the summers here are better, the winters perfectly tolerable, seasons are a nice way to keep track of the passage of time, and I can enjoy nature more every time I go out of town.
videos or it never happened
Let's be realistic. Do you think even 1% of health care expenditures are paid by Go Fund Me appeals?
Italy has something like that too. Since 1989 one of the major TV networks broadcasts Trading Places on Christmas Eve night.
Russia backed Assad in Syria, who attacked his own citizens with chemical weapons. Their main strategy was to target the moderate anti government factions, so the longer the war went on, the less attractive options were available for backing anti government groups.

And let's not forget about Russian meddling in Ukraine, and annexing Crimea.

Probably not the only stuff they've done, but it's what comes to mind.
Java JIT vs. Java AOT vs. Go for Small, Short-Lived Processes
They were partially successful, which is a realistic goal. Few things work flawlessly the first or second go, even rocket science. I'm not sure why you're being so binary here. It's also why it wasn't manned, they have to test to work out the kinks. Overall Starliner was a bigger success than not.
France to Impose $22,240 Pollution Tax on SUVs and Trucks
> but a sad fact of life and just the way supply and demand works

It's only hubris that makes us discount the importance and difficulty of, say, web client design and implementation.

How many developers on HN poo-poo "UX" yet don't even have a single fleshed out README on any of their products because it's "not important"?

Turns out raw low-level tech skills aren't the be-all of software and business.
Nice to know Internet comments can have a positive effect on people's lives once in a while.
Perhaps they only interview roles below a certain salary threshhold?
For the average european citizen?Yeah, maybe, if you consider most of western & central europe.

Then again, as an european, i am not delusional to the fact that our healthcare is not free at all.There are a lot of differences, i guess it matters depending on one's way of living.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21861764
I agree with you science nowadays is mostly junk. On the other hand if we can choose to ignore any study that links X to something bad, then this is a conversation not worth having.

Myself I like to err on the side of caution, since my country has free healthcare which means I have to pay for the mistakes of others, so I don't want them making mistakes in the first place. They should feel free to smoke all the weed they want and become psychotic drones in the fucking Congo
I'm convinced she's right about our brains overfitting to the first belief that has persistent feedback even in complete absence of reason.

Because I'm doing it right now.

This seems to explain a lot regarding news feeds and their cause of so much outrage and odd beliefs. The fact that I can't even verify said outrage and odd beliefs in the real world is the real punch to the gut, and a good reason to get out more. And maybe unplug permanently.
Benchmark Java Applications Using JMH
Cool journey.

I also got into software dev without a degree though I did it differently.

I did side work for years until eventually someone offered me a full time job, did that for a couple of years then moved on, kept moving every couple of years until eventually I was a tech lead/senior at a major company.

Took longer but I never expected the career I ended up with either.

Turns out what I'd done as a hobby since the 80s as a kid paid off better than I expected.

My one piece of advice to anyone taking the same route is that you are better than you think (impostor syndrome is real and particularly if you are self taught) and never stop learning.

It's a vast field and there is always something new and interesting to look at.
I'm not sure why python is called out as being better here. The PSF came calling for a rename pretty quickly when tauthon (https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon) was launched as it was initially describing itself as python 2.8
You get this with any kind of health-related opinion, on any forum. Just look at anything diet-related, and watch the people spouting vegetarian and vegan propaganda come out of the woodwork.

Health cults have taken over. My theory is that so many people feel powerless in many aspects of their lives, and they fall back on diet and exercise and snake-oil supplements as one corner of life they can over-compensate on.
These can be heard out to a few 100 km:

http://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm
Why have a year there at all, if it's not the actual production date of the content?
Did you hear the story about the primates and the stair?

https://wiki.c2.com/?TheFiveMonkeys
* Better googling. Time-restricted, url restricted, site restricted searches. Search with the variant parts of error messages removed.

* Read the source of upstream dependencies. Fix or fork them if needed.

* They're better at finding forks with solutions and gleaning hints from semi-related issues.

* Formulate more creative hypothesis when obvious lines of investigation run out. The best don't give up.

* Dig in to problems with more angles of investigation.

* Have more tools in their toolbelt for debugging like adding logging, monkey-patching, swapping parts out, crippling areas to rule things out, binary search of affected code areas.

* Consider the business.

* Consider user-behavior.

* Assume hostile users (security-wise).

* Understand that the UI is not a security layer. Anything you can do with PostMan your backend should handle.

* Whitelist style-security over blacklist style.

* See eventual problems implied by various solutions.

* "The Math."
They are highly attractive to molds when plumbing leaks all over. Otherwise they are dry as a bone and sag in places. They're also built like shit so floors are wobbly and uneven and bowled in spots. A ball in the living room will roll to the center from any point in the room.

My mother's house was built in 1927 here in Queens NYC and the place is a shit box. After redoing the living room and fixing up the kitchen I can safely say that once that house is sold it will be knocked over. They're just a cheap rickety mess thrown up by the dozens.
Look, everyone who’s happy (like me) with their loving conditions in SF isn’t going to write a blog post about how their apartment is fine.
If Airbus wants to hire 300 software engineers, good luck finding them in reasonable time periods in Germany or France. Local small niche firms can survive. The larger you get the longer it takes to hit hiring goal.

You will understand that only after you spend time actually hiring people. Telling the boss well I can't do this locally in 3 months, I need 6 plus a budget to relocate people from other EU locations will just get you laughed out of the room for the simple reason someone else in the org has already done it through outsourcing and importing people.

> Companies stay in the west because of the ecosystem comprised of stable government, financing and skilled workforce

This is probably 10-15 year old rhetoric that isnt true anymore. There are now dozens of hubs worldwide that make it simple to hire large number of people fast. Just make a trip and look at the scale at which they function.

The EU is doing the right thing by trying to pull more people in.
Wait. I don’t understand. If you have the opening balance and have all the transaction logs, what are you missing?

I don’t see why it shouldn’t be possible to feed data to both the new system and the old system for a while...
Why Privacy Matters Even If “You Have Nothing to Hide”
It's hard to square these articles with the reality I see on the ground: our baseline memory usage for common types of Java service is 1 GB, vs 50 MB for Go. We do have a few mammoth servers at the top end in both languages though (e.g. 75 GB heaps)

The deploy JARs have 100+ MB of class files, so perhaps it's a function of all the dependencies that you "need" for an enterprise Java program and not something more fundamental.

These blog posts also present AOT as if its just another option you can toggle, while my impression is that it's incompatible with common Java libraries and requires swapping / maintaining a parallel compiler in the build toolchain, configuring separate rules to build it AOT, etc. I don't have actual experience with it though so I could be missing something.
This article is literally nonsense, it’s at the same level of medical rigor as an anti-vax rant, and appears to be crafted intentionally to get people susceptible to this kind of narrative to give them money.

I can’t believe it’s being taken seriously here.
If alcohol were not legal your comment would make sense. As it is, we reserve the most dangerous (as in, causes most harm both personally and socially) for those least able to cope. Prohibition makes recreational soft drug use less common among those with fewer resources than it otherwise would be, despite the fact that this would be safer than abusing alcohol.
Conclusions are why reports are written.
Never seen this in the Haight, Mission, Noe, really anything west of van ness. You can also not get a car :)
For me what works the best is the board I use since several years - http://kanbantool.com . IMHO it's one of the most user-friendly boards I've ever met with.
Given the cyber offensive capabilities of modern major nation states it’s unlikely to help much in protecting against deliberate attacks (see stuxnet). So I wonder what the true purpose of this is.
Yes. It's very unfortunate. Millions and millions of people are walking around with treatable problems in the USA. We have a severe public health crisis, but the billionaires have a strangehold on our media and politics.
If you have a system with ROCm installed, support for compiling PyTorch on AMD has already been upstreamed. The PyTorch source code ships with a script for building a version using HIP (basically the script converts PyTorch's CUDA code to HIP and adjusts some build settings). So, if you're running a system with ROCm installed and are willing to compile PyTorch from source you can run PyTorch on AMD (admittedly that's several caveats and you're also limited to Linux in order to use ROCm).
Adam Smithin in Beijing, Giovanni Arrighi [pdf]
Reverse Engineering Go, Part I
I did a module in "philosophy of probability" and we covered this. At the beginning, I thought it was all people arguing about nothing in a lot of words, but after 3 weeks I realised that my assumptions that probability is a fairly 'rigid' field were way too strong and there is still so much that is not understood or controversial.

This is a really interesting field and I would encourage anyone to make the effort to dive into it beyond the surface
Where's the mystery? Someone looks at what this guy did for his business card and, to paraphrase, says "Wow, look at this guy's skills. He must charge a very, very non-average amount of money for them."

Your response to this is "But actually, according to payscale.com, an average embedded software engineer only makes X."

1. Nobody likes but-actually posts.

2. Quoting average salary when someone is commenting on how non-average a guy's skillset is isn't really relevant.
Reducing Friction in Software Development [pdf]
Competing in the Gray Zone: Russian Tactics and Western Responses
> We were paying $3,657.60 per month for an apartment built in 1908 that got us and our dog severely sick

Why did you not move ? $3600 will get you a nice 1bd in San Francisco...
Tuesday: Courage and Empowerment
I don't get this lead-free hatred on internet forums. People say they can't solder with lead-free, and that it is terrible, and that joints look dull. So much hatred that I actually tried it out. And I found the process is basically just the same and there is nothing to be afraid of. Just set the solder iron temperature a bit higher and that's it. Works like a charm.
https://www.gq.com/story/gofundme-how-to-raise-cancer-money
The domain name is quite adequate, this is hyperbola indeed. Since when do the 4 freedoms include the right to fork under the same name? This is a rude thing to do anyway (hostile, even).
> Where did you get the idea from that you or anybody else should get to make people’s decisions for them?

Where did you get the idea that I made anyone else's decision? I am literally just asking for the option of vaping without nicotine to exist.

My theory is only that many people (especially kids without a history of smoking) would choose vaping without nicotine on their own if they had the option. Juul et al know that would drastically shrink their revenue, so they, the profit seeking company they are, made sure their product had an addictive substance in it, and then marketed it to people not already exposed to the addiction. Requiring them to make an equal product without nicotine is at worst market regulation that basically all consumable products go through and at best a public safety mandate.
I honestly find it highly unlikely that a startup is going to address climate change in any meaningful way.
> Allow people to pay for the items to be stored until their return?

I've had knives confiscated that I was allowed to fill out a form and pay ~$20 to mail back to myself. Doesn't work if you're already late for your flight, but I've done it at least twice.
> But we felt it was unfair, it's very very hard in a job interview to say "hey, I think your tests are wrong" so we dropped it.

I wouldn't say that it's 'hard' as such, but it is selecting for a specific type of person; one which you may or may not be more interested in...
>If these are the expectations for tech salaries then how about the rest of the (middle-class) workforce?

The expectation seems to be we will go back to a sharp division between property owners and eternal tenants, like it was when my 95 year old grandparents were kids.

The Old World still likes its Feudalism it seems.
You're joking, right? Personal experiences with the other neighborhoods you've mentioned aside, the Haight has been a mecca for drug use and homeless youth for more than fifty years now.
it's been really sad to see the trend of downvoting things that hurt people's feelings carry over to hacker news.
From the article:

> They do prohibit abuse of their trademarks, e.g. you cannot create a company called “Python”, but this does not effect your ability to modify their free software and/or apply patches.
Thanks, nice to see a map. But all those lines which stop at the mediterranean coast... those satellites surely cross north africa at almost the same time of day, it's just not marked because they are turned off? As you say, perhaps limited by daily bandwidth (or perhaps power?)... but that sounds like a commercial consideration.
I'm Doing Pretty Okay in San Francisco: A Manifesto
Consequently, startups that have this property are effectively un-investable because there is not enough capital available in the early stages to achieve technical viability

Well, this is the class system in action. Investors would rather sit on capital and moan about how they’re unable to spend it, than spend it in a way that would benefit engineers. They will endlessly try to keep that money circulating amongst their own class.

Note: I am not a Corbynista by any means, but there’s no other way to explain all this money with nowhere to go yet wages stagnating.
Top Technical Writing Skills for 2020
The investigation into ToTok
This... seems reasonable? If you want to modify and distribute Rust/Cargo then you have to call your distribution something else. Call it Oxide/Freight and you’re set.
I thought the insect decline was from theirs of neonicotinoids for pest control not herbicides like glyphosate.
This is a bit hyperbolic but there is an underlying issue here. The Rust project wants to keep control of the Rust name. They're more than happy for, e.g. Debian to fork it for inclusion into their repositories or for other forks to exist.

However, if a company creates a hard fork of Rust but still insists on calling it Rust, they want the ability to say "don't use our name".

The problem is, what's the best license to express that intent? Reusing the Firefox one makes sense in some ways (it's been well studied) but perhaps Rust would benefit from a custom license?
Is 5 years not a lot? Imagine everything that you accomplished in the past 5 years didn't happen and that you are now an ex-con. I doubt that you would say that that was not a low punishment. Now you could ask, why do other criminals receive such hight sentences? That would be a better question. But 5 years for robbery (I assume he forfeited all of the money he took) sounds harsh but fair
Awair Glow doesn't measure CO2, it infers it based on other readings. The results of doing this way are never accurate.
Your healthcare system also treats people who have got into a vehicle accident or a sporting incident - should buses and cycling also be banned? How about alcohol?

Everything has some risk, and the anecdotal evidence is that weed does not affect the vast majority of adults in a way that would result in additional healthcare needs.
SF has problems like most major cities but your exaggeration is obviously ridiculous. Have you not traveled to 3rd world countries?
If they don't then why does anybody use AWS?
Ginger is actually considered as a medicinal herb and is an active ingredient in many traditional medicines across Asia. I think in South Asia ginger tea is considered a very good beverage for relief if you have common cold.
Show evidence it’s not safe.

DDT was destroying bird populations.
That assumes being the best software engineer is a trait you're born with rather than something you learn. That's unlikely.

It's much more likely that the best software engineers are concentrated in places where everyone receives a very high level of education. As education varies massively across the world, the best software engineers probably aren't distributed based on population sizes.
There's not much point to this algorithm now. It is faster to produce the correctly-rounded result of the exact sum (at least if you are summing more than a few terms), rather than use Kahan summation to produce a still-not-entirely-accurate result. The wikipedia page mentions the python fsum function that does this, but my method at https://gitlab.com/radfordneal/xsum is faster.
Data Science Books you should read in 2021
Germany is the poster child for controlled rent working well for everybody, to the point where it is more of hassle to buy.
Because outsourcing fails and is abandoned after two or three years, when the real costs have become apparent. The bastards that thought it up have moved up and out on the strengths of the initial cost savings by the time those chickens come home to roost.

You don't have to see this kind of cycle too many times before you get a little cynical.
Tracing Neighborhoods in the Sky: Pirate Radio in New York City
> We eventually discovered the apartment building we were living in was built in 1908.

Come to England, we have houses built in 1600. Growing up in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the entire country, living in SF and having to wait for a few fixes (fix your own damn doorbell?) to your apartment is not Victorian level penury.

But man if I’m not enjoying the juxtaposition of Mr Crypto Blockchain Free Thinker with ‘why won’t someone fix my doorbell for me’: https://trentlapinski.com/
That's like saying Mississippi's republican policies have made it the poorest state in the country.
If they are our direct ancestors, then we are surrounded by artifacts built by their descendants, are we not? That's like being confused that no one builds antique vases anymore.
It's nowhere near as common today as it was just a couple of years ago. Nobody I know watches it anymore, but everyone used to d it. Of course, it may just be our social circle.
RSA, Randomness and IoT
For the purpose of Africa vs Europe, they can't really be positioned to have a better view of Europe than of Africa.
Apache Maven Source Plugin 3.2.1 Released
Hungry and unhappy – its a perfect time to gamble
The John Pilger documentary "The Coming War with China" has a big section on the Marshall Islands, I was ignorant of the situation there and found it interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDl9ecICIYg
IntelliJ Platform Roadmap for 2020
I agree, but still think it might be considered reasonable not to want to rebrand in some cases—like patching Cargo to try and check with the package manager first when installing packages. It obviously won’t (and shouldn’t) get accepted mainstream, but it doesn’t also seem confusing enough to warrant a necessarily different name.
Tech companies cluster in big cities, which are expensive. 50k in a small town is lots, 50k in London or Amsterdam is pocket money.
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Ruined whose lives? Some accountants in Facebook and Google probably got fired. But, then it was likely their job to not fall for such a scam. I’ve been told that this is a common technique, just typically not at this scale.
I think more of an issue with who they hire it should be more about the minimum amount they are allowed to pay. That will tilt the scale in favor of home players since they already know the language, local customs, work culture, etc.