skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internal migration is much more common within the US than within the EU, and societal norms are much more accepting of intra-US relocation.

Based on the data I can gather from a brief search, it looks like in 2017, 58% of Americans live in the state of their birth [1]. Because many people move states and then move back (for college or a temporary job or something) then it's reasonable to think that perhaps 50% of Americans move states at least once in their lives.

In 2016, 93% of EU residents were living in the nation if their birth; 4% were from outside the EU and 3% from another EU member nation [2]. (In the US, 14.4% of the population are immigrants, and this is ~20% of the total global immigrant population [3].)

Furthermore (and in the absence of any supporting data), I think that the assimilation process is for the most part easier for Americans moving between states, especially those who are at least second generation American. While there are definitely strong cultural differences between US regions, we generally all regard each other as American (although this is surely different for those from American territories such as Puerto Rico, Guam or American Samoa). Relocation may also be quite challenging for minorities, especially those moving to whiter states. But for the typical white American moving states, it is probably easier to relocate than for an Italian moving from Calabria or Napoli to Lombardia.

I've lived in 8 states and I think that some half-hearted jokes about dating cousins or eating possum are about the most trouble I've gotten by hailing from the Ozarks. In my experience there are also larger biases against neighboring states (sports rivals) than far-away states. Freud's narcissism of small difference and all that.

That being said, since at least the Reconstruction era following the Civil War, there has been some local to regional resistance to internal migration. Interestingly, today much of the resistance is put forth by residents of less economically developed regions against those from more well-off places moving in, pricing the locals out, and changing the culture. These changes are a sort of Californication, the gentrification of mountain towns by richer and more liberal whites, rather than poorer immigrants bringing down property values or taking manual labor jobs. While there is little by way of legislation against this, there is talk of some [3].

[1]: https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/03/mobile-stuck-us-geograp...

[2]: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_Stat...

[4]: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-10/go-back-...
Just to back you up on this, the savings should more than triple. 3x the compensation probably more than offsets the 3x in costs, so your savings may be more like 5x or more compared to low COL areas.
In a lot of respects, I find modern business tactics skewing ever further towards being more and more harmful to society at large for the sake of business capital owners. Let's not forget the social contract and that we, as a society, allow businesses to operate while they remain beneficial to society.

I'm not saying remove capitalism but some modifications of our current state of capitalism are certainly in order. Perhaps this is tighter or different regulatory constraints, changes to some core principles (e.g. Citizen's United, business rights as "people", etc.). I'm not saying I have the answers or the quick examples mentionrd are the core issues, just that the future doesn't look great if current trends continue. We need to start a productive conversation and elect representatives willing to be a voice in that conversation to explore and try improvement options.
You don't need a membership to enter. Specifically, the Costco near me has a liquor store inside but can't legally have it be part of the store. It's a separate store within Costco, and they won't stop you from walking in, buying liquor, and leaving. You can even grab a cheap hot dog on the way
I tried to do this with Zig about 13 months ago. It was not where it needed to be at that time; the biggest impediments were its rudimentary handling of C pointers to one vs pointers to many (which has long since been fixed), and its meta programming issues (lack of a macro language or pre-processor) that made OS development tedious. I have not revisited it as much as I would have liked simply because I chose to step back a bit on implementation and focus on theory.

I'm pulling for Andrew. He busts his rear-end, livestreams, and is generally a good dude. Zig has a TON of potential.
Scientists diagnose skin diseases with tiny zaps of electricity into your skin
60+ is ridiculously high. Isn't the upper end of European countries only like 30 days (6 weeks)?

For what it's worth, the company I just started at is "flexible", but the average is around 25 days per year.
Same for many other languages... as far as memory safety goes because there are performance tradeoffs in a kernel.
That's just the device temperature right? If it's operating device temperature and not device storage temperature I think it's fine.

-4f (-20c) is cold, the cabin of the car is heated to well above that. Just heat the lidar as well.
This is exactly the situation I'm in at my job and I'm the only developer left from the MVP team, which was headed by a consultant whose scope was supposed to be smaller but convinced management, when they would not budge or listen at all to their in-house leads (I was a junior at the time) on the same issues, that they'd get results if they gave him the project (and a helluva paycheck). To his credit, he helped us put out a decent MVP, but he booked it when the company wouldn't give him an even more insane pay raise to stay on full-time and it turned out the MVP was not scalable and was designed for a different case than the one our company had and so suffered perf issues the moment things got serious. But management was okay with all this cause they got the MVP they wanted to show off to potential acquirers and-lo-behold the company got sold, that management disappeared, and I'm stuck behind walls of intervening actors from addressing fundamental issues in the design
A friend of mine had an Amstrad PC, which had some special graphics modes "better" than CGA that maybe four games supported. That was a blast!

At least with VGA everything converged, and you got the VESA standards, and by then it was just a matter of adding more and more VRAM to increase resolution and colour space.

But it's insane to think about how far we've come. Those old video cards had kilobytes of VRAM, VGA started going into megabytes, and my current graphics card has gigabytes.
Came back and realized I should have worded that second sentence better.

Field didn't fail to defend his copyright. He put the files up in January, filed copyrights with the Copyright office, waited for them to be indexed and cached, and sued Google in April. He protected his copyright about as vigorously as you can with the available legal tools.

The question of implied license in this case is whether putting something on the internet without taking steps to stop search engines from indexing+caching it constitutes an implied license. The court ruled it did, but it relied in part on Field taking specific actions to allow it (such as the robots.txt file), so it's not entirely clear that in a different case they would rule the same way. If someone put up a site with just a plain text file without HTML tags and no robots.txt file maybe the court would rule that there was not an implied license there, I don't know. They also took into consideration that there are well-known industry standard ways of preventing Google and others from indexing and caching your site, so maybe they would consider that alone sufficient to rule that there's an implied license if you don't follow the industry standards.

In any case, Field v. Google has little-to-nothing to do with failing to defend a copyright.
I own already, that’d be great for my retirement. ;)

And to be honest, my ability to walk was dumb luck. If I change jobs, I’m just as likely to have to drive/Metro into Tyson’s as walk locally. But walking is a big incentive to stay put.

That was one fear with HQ2 coming to DC. With it on the other side of Fairfax, it’ll be a while before it impacts housing out here. But if Google expands its footprint, and with the Metro opening soon, we might see another bump soon.
I live on the edge of the woods. Tons of deer, rabbits, etc. The only thing that 1) works reliably for me and 2) is safe and ethical (so not poison or the like) has been an enclosed wire mesh fence. I resisted this solution for a long time even though my neighbors warned me that a fence was the only workable solution, but it's the only thing I've found that really works in my situation and I wish I had done it sooner.

Other things I tried that did not work:

Repellents, both natural and synthetic including but not limited to deer blood, other animal blood, predator urines (tried multiple types and brands), soaps and bitter and/or spicy repent sprays and gels.

Fake snakes, fake predator models and even real predators (not uncommon for foxes and coyotes are to be seen in our neighborhood).

Noisemakers and motion activated lights.

Lots more.

I wasted a ton of time and money trying the above, not to mention all the time spent gardening only to have it eaten by our woodland friends. A fence just works and does not harm animals. It can look very attractive too and can be relatively inexpensive if you keep an open mind w/r/t materials and look out for good deals/craigslist.
DNA barcodes help identify fish eggs and inform conservation
seriously - do any of you people know who Qasem Soleimani is and what he has done? What exactly is this newspeak symposium about
Except there is absolutely no problem with loyalty programs. There is only a problem with collecting data for loyalty programs. Loyalty programs used to be done with stamps on paper cards, if you had a card full of stamps, you could get a rebate or whatever.

Also, I don't hate them (the ones that collect data, that is) because they push inefficiency onto the customer, but because I have to pay more so other people get paid for helping corporations manipulate me more effectively.
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It's more like a $800 difference in ticket price. People forget just how expensive it was to fly back before deregulation. A ticket that cost $600 in 1980 dollars goes for $300 today.
When you read the press there is this constant celebration of companies hitting ever higher market values or billionaires weighing on on issues. It seems the bigger and richer the more respect companies and people get.
I went to school and grew up in Iran. Chanting death to America and Israel and even to poor (already) dead Shah was part of an official ritual every morning in the school.

As a teenager, you don't grasp what you're saying. You're just part of the crowd. In an environment that there's almost no other forms of entertainment at reach; you feel powerful in these rallies. It's like being in a rock concert and singing the songs.

I imagine most people that show up in the rallies these days have nothing else to do. It's a recreational event for most.

Actually I think this is exactly what makes this culture most dangerous. There are big crowds of mostly low or unemployed people blindly following their leaders. And they enjoy it the same way that you enjoy a sport event or a concert.

I speak Farsi and 'death to America', well means death to America. I even didn't know about the historical reference mentioned in the post. But I doubt that the big majority of the individuals that are shouting death to something truly mean it.
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Looking on Amazon, I think it was probably one of Edward O. Wilson's books. Probably "Sociobiology: The New Synthesis".

I was particularly struck by the typical behaviors of mates in primitive societies, and especially patterns that indicated a partner was unhappy in a relationship and/or trying to get rid of their mate.

We're not so far away from those that came before.
Yeah, now that you mention it of course he was stopped by the people in front of him :)
I wholeheartedly agree with this. I bought a house with a front porch, and for three seasons of the year my wife and I sit out there almost every day. It's mind-blowing to me how few of our neighbors sit in front of their houses. They're all nice. They say hello as they walk their dogs and strollers. But then they go back inside and hide from the world.

Not many packages get taken on my block, though they seem to on others. I'm not saying it's because of us, but I assume being outside and neighborly helps. It seems we've collectively lost that sense somehow.
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> Is there something I'm missing here? If you record video of your front yard, and the police want to see it, they have a right to, subject to the normal judicial review.

The issue is that Ring's terms specifically allow them to circumvent "normal judicial review" if the request is "reasonable". From the same WaPo article:

> Ring users consent to the company giving recorded video to “law enforcement authorities, government officials and/or third parties” if the company believes it's necessary to comply with “legal process or reasonable government request,” its terms of service state.

I'm fine with the police having access to video after obtaining a warrant or subpoena, even if it's not a particularly high bar to clear. But that should still be the bar. We shouldn't expect Ring to refuse police requests even after being served, but we should expect them to hold out until that point — and unfortunately, we can't trust them to do that.
U.S.: 'Hague Invasion Act' Becomes Law (2002)
Can modern Text to Speech voices replace professional voice over actors?
Back in 1980 (during the hostage crisis) somebody put up a bullseye target with a picture of Ayatollah Khomeini in the gym at the Y.M.C.A.

Death threats are common in political speech of that kind.
The single thing that keeps me from sticking with KeePassX is simply because it doesn't have the auto-type feature. I love that it's open source and works on all OS, but that is such a convenient hotkey that it's hard to give up.
I abandoned the project because I couldn't find a reasonable solution using standard Go libs that worked in a reasonable timeframe. The bottleneck is this function.

math/big.addMulVVW

There was some work on it recently.

https://go-review.googlesource.com/q/addMulVVW

But I feel like this issue might have been ignored.

https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/164966

It might be addressed in Go 1.14 (although it's been marked as Backlog since I last looked at that issue).

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32492

Point being Go, like OP of this thread suggests, has some issues. This is, to me, a critical flaw preventing my teams from using Go as a primary web language. It is both consistently faster and consistently timed to make an external call to, say, gpg2 to generate a key than it is to use the opengpg lib that relies on math/big. That's nuts.
> Given that this phrase was used during the storming of the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979, and is often accompanied by flag burning, probably a significant part of the crowds chanting that slogan do actually want death to come to individual Americans.

That is one stupid inference- a complete non sequitur.
Free markets work. What doesn't work is absolving individual liability via corporations.
That’s another effect of income inequality. Some players can pay so much money that people are willing to compromise some values. I am pretty sure I could overlook some things if I suddenly got paid ten times as money as before.
I am not an expert in these but isn't' tracking IP address also part of fingerprinting ? If thats the case, other than using something like TOR, can you really hide that ?
Living in first world country it's easy to be biased against race to the bottom - it hurts previously very well paid jobs and breaks established status quo.

But that race to the bottom made cost of flying at least order of magnitude more affordable, and as a result likely saved and improved countless numbers lives (lifting out of poverty, ability to travel for treatments, ability to see your loved ones, ability to travel for work, etc).

And to put things in perspective - air travel is still safest form of travel, even accounting for MAX, and during this whole race to the bottom it was constantly improving, by orders of magnitude.
> systematic eradication of soul and character around each and every human residence?
Why would you trade the vibrancy of your young urban block or the sense of trust and community in your suburb against prevention of low-impact black-swan events like serial packet thiefs?

Why would the “soul” and “vibrancy” of a neighborhood die with some kind of digital neighborhood watch? Seems like a flawed premise.

There’s also something to be said about the hypocrisy of accusing others of having abnormal levels of fear of crimes that occur every day, while assuming that your neighbors installing a security camera on their porch will inevitably lead to a surveillance state dystopia on par with 1984.
I assume any VC getting into a business with that requires lots of human labor is just trying to find a bigger fool. I don’t see what the play is if a business can’t drive down marginal costs, which surely nursing home labor can’t unless they’ve developed a machine to change bedpans.
> Could you explain more how the Slack browser token would work?

Hi Anders — see my comment above for how do to this.
Except the _website_ doesn't have to know the IP address? It is perfectly sufficient for your IP stack to know it while the connection is established, and then immediately forget it.
Flash player update scam. I'm outta there.
Stamps on paper cards are more prone to fraud, require more physical product be printed, and are less convenient for users than online solutions.

I don't anticipate most stores going back to them (or staying that way as they grow; small stores will always do whatever).
as a developer for only the last 4ish years I never even put together that the X in Xcode had anything to do with the X in OSX
None of the graduates I talked to could handle CS grad level questions, especially the typical ones you get at any given tech startup large or small (sorting, binary search, etc), and I never approached my interviews with them that way.

Here is a real-world way I would try to asses somebody's capabilities fairly given their experience. Each candidate generally has a capstone project. Some kinda small app like a todo list or something written in Rails. I would have them walk me through the app they built, explaining some things that they did and asking why they made decisions a certain way. This was an incredibly soft test just to make sure THEY actually wrote it, as frequently code would be shared or TA's would help a lot. I wanted to know that they knew why they did something. If that went well, which it often didn't, I would give them a small feature to add. Something like "how would you expand your authentication to have a password reset", then hold their hand while we walked through adding this feature.

I'm all for non-traditional educations especially when it comes to SWE, but at the end of the day you are applying to a 6-figure job in a competitive market. The failure here is on the Bootcamps that convinced these people that 3 months of study can qualify your for ANY 6 figure job. Compare this to a traditional vocational school. I get the spirit of the parent comment, trust me I really do. But I can sign up for a 28-week metal fabrication course and be guaranteed that I will learn how to weld and get a $60k/year job as a welder. Startup bootcamps are marketing to the same people, with the same vocational messaging. It just is not the same, and it's bad for everybody.
> Rust, BTW, doesn't entirely guarantee memory-safety, either

> We always make some compromises on soundness; the question is where the sweet-spots are.

Excellent point. There are complex tradeoffs and the "rust is safe" slogan is just a slogan.
My apologies for reacting this late: the holidays had me not looking as precisely at my feeds as normal.

Sorry if I seem to be just doing PR. I'm doing a lot more than that. I'm one of the core developers of Raku (née Perl 6). And I publish the Rakudo Weekly blog (https://rakudoweekly.blog )

FWIW, I do think I'm adding material to HN that is interesting to at least some visitors of HN, especially the ones interested in programming, with an emphasis on Raku. The reason I'm triggered by "Perl 6" is that I think it is important that visitors of HN know that it is no longer called that. Once everybody is using Raku instead of Perl 6, there won't be any of these comments.

Whenever there's a new issue of the Rakudo Weekly, I post this on HN. Are you saying that that is not of interest of HN visitors?

I'd therefore like to know what point of the guidelines I'm exactly in violation of.
The article is not about ASML getting sold, but about ASML selling (or rather, not selling) their product to customers in China.
12 years of experience, 9 in iOS (what this role is for), all self-employed. More detail littered across comments in my history.
The economics of unused gift cards
My recommendation for people interested in bootcamps is to focus on one that offers a skillset in a particular area like Wordpress, that doesn't require education on formal CS concepts. You can still get exposure to databases, security, UI/UX design etc doing Wordpress, without bankrupting yourself paying 5-figure bootcamp fees.

Best of all, you can get a real job building marketing websites/some basic apps, as opposed to pie-in-the-sky dreams of working at Netflix's Data Science department.

BTW, my bootcamp (I took a JS course), paid me $500 to post about my experience on Quora. I wrote a 1,000 word article about what I learned and how I applied in a project. To the bootcamp's credit, at no point was I asked to embellish my experience or attribute getting a job solely due to the bootcamp.
I am curious, what is his chair he talks about?
> Because Russians want to move their borders to Carpathians

Russians will move their border as far as you allow them to. I know their mentality, for I am one, and I grew up in a town full of army and fleet people.

I saw many types like that, before I got out of the country. Those will keep bully you more and more to see where you set the line, and punch them back.

In their calculus, being punched back is not bad at all, if before that they were able to punch you "for free"
Not really, it would be an argument that when Americans say "Death to Iran," it would be reasonable to take it at face-value. I don't really hear many people saying that, so maybe more accurately when politicians say (on Twitter, or otherwise) that they're going to attack a retaliate against a country, it's not some turn of phrase, they mean it literally.
This admin is not doing any clever calculations besides distracting from impeachment.
Email addresses ought to be handled with care. I'm sorry but I hope few would trust any third party service with their customers/users email addresses just like that.
If something is members-only and you have to pay a fee to be a member is it, legally, public?
Which cultures? And what specific attributes of their governing systems made them "good"?
Are you aware of any low-cost, consumer-oriented products for that?

Perhaps my Google-Fu is weak today, but I'm only finding research / military projects.
Yeah, this post could have been titled "Why Materialized Views are Awesome"