skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problems are amplified multifold in conservative and centrist cities throughout the US south and Midwest. Perhaps with less homelessness but of course you don’t fucking freeze or melt to death in San Francisco because the weather is so mild.

Go hang out on the east side of Kansas City and tell me SF has real problems. Forget Havana, these places look like Baghdad. I once got locked out of my house and my wife couldn’t get me my keys because some teenagers shot a bunch of holes in the library she worked at. Add on to this that you might make about 70k year there tops and the charm starts to free fall.

It’s actually pretty funny because there’s no way you would ever spend any time in a truly violent neighborhood. San Francisco(sans Oakland) pales in comparison to an actual scary place.

Even if you chose a nicer conservative town such as Omaha, find me more than a handful of educated engineers who would be willing to relocate there. They don’t exist, by in large, because Omaha is devoid of culture, interest, or beauty. I’d take SF any day, even with the needles and human shit.

But of course I’m not brainwashed by political hit pieces- regardless of whatever Nanci(sp?) Pelosi or whatever Peter Thiele thinks.
"Cost of Living" adjustments are a red herring, what they really are is really "competition density".

There are plenty of tech companies paying great salaries in the bay because they have to, otherwise they would just go work for someone else. On the other hand, if you lived in Oklahoma you aren't going to say no to $LOCAL_OFFER+10k just because bay area salaries are $LOCAL_OFFER+90k.

As long as this disparity exists, I forsee bay area salaries and CoL still being high. Until companies move headquarters out of the bay, the trend will continue.
Reading this, it honestly looks like you don't know how to write Golang and wish you could write more Java.

That's fine but pretending you're an SME and throwing off false equivalencies is really dishonest.
This is somewhat true. However, unlike a regional coffee/fruit cutting business software still has fewer geographic barriers. This means winners will take (relatively) more of the market compared to more traditional businesses (and thus small software business is somewhat less stable).
C. ljungdahlii bacteria can ferment ethanol from synthesis gas (2010)
Because this is the Business Operations tech stack.
I could have been more clear. My point is that aggressively reopening might still be dangerous, but it'll take a while for the public to convince themselves it's safe enough to start going out, even though it isn't. I'd imagine this would be driven by both consumers not wanting to get sick _and_ businesses trying to avoid liability for employees and customers.
Huge companies, yes. They'd still prefer to spend less money/resource/time if they have the option to though, hence why some large companies actively explore cross platform technology. Adobe did that with phonegap a long time ago.

You're talking about Electron there, which like phonegap is a browser wrapper and a different thing to RN. I don't believe RN is known to be a battery drain in general.
It's easy to see if something flies or not. How would you know if your simulation is conscious?
Super 30
Because google finally realized it's impossible and so they're selling this turd to the greater fool.
Flutter on the web is absolutely insane. For those who don't know, it basically strips away everything and wraps it in a big terrifyingly complex mess of code and renders everything in a canvas. Flutter advocates like to claim that that's "only a fallback" for when things get complex but as far as I can tell the vast majority of things (including the simplest examples from Flutter itself) force the entire thing into canvas: it's basically Flash 2.0, but worse.

I seriously hope that Flutter fades. It's very dangerous in many ways. Even ignoring the huge downsides of basically having a new Flash, consider this: the massive Flutter layer is, surprise surprise, yet another Google project that is magically _significantly_ slower in Firefox. I don't mean a small difference here, I mean that on a brand new fancy flagship I tested on, Flutter in Chrome is buttery smooth and Flutter in Firefox is a miserable, laggy experience. If it gets popular, this will become yet another reason pushing people off Firefox and cementing Google's dominance of the web.

Flutter is a very, very dangerous thing.
Aka tax evasion? Your local government probably wouldn’t be thrilled about that.

https://www.postbulletin.com/more-northwest-pilots-accused-o...
I think personally I like it when things go in "layers". Start with a shallow pass, and then do one or more passes of increasing depth
Free, 3 week course on product design
A couple of friends and I open sourced our 3 week course on product design. We're hoping this can serve as a resource to those looking to up-skill or find accessible resources to learn design. Just sign up for the newsletter and get the course straight to your inbox.

We have (combined) design experience from companies like Instagram, Dropbox, Figma, Spotify, Apple, and more. We also taught this course when we were students in college :)
Real sorry to hear that, and surprised. I’ll look into this. If you wouldn’t mind emailing me more details, that would help.
I agree with your statements when applied to situations that extend beyond the short-term. I was referring to the immediate threat of deaths resulting from present or nearly-present economic circumstances.

My point was simply that we have more than enough resources, even at our worst, to keep people's basic needs met. I'm not saying that keeping people alive will prevent economic devastation, just that preventing economic devastation is not a necessary precondition for keeping people alive.
If you are interested in an alternate legal / law view I can't recommend this book enough:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Aboriginal-Peoples-Colonialism-Int...

The author is aboriginal; reading it completely changed my view on colonialism and the rule of law in Australia (speaking as a white person born in Australia to one immigrant and one 'local' parent).
> Yes, it's commonly referred to as "cost of living adjustment."

I think you missed the point I was making. Have you seen two employees living in the same city, with one paid more because he decided to buy a more expensive house?

I'm aware that there are regional differences, but they can be explained by factors like different productivity levels. This discussion is different - it's about the same employee living in two different locations.
Getting getting getting, every time I head about how Golang is spanking other languages I see the "BUT MUH JAVA IS GETTING X IN Y $MONTHS".

If you really can predict the future please tell me lotto numbers rather than being abrasive.
I've done a few client projects in the past using React Native. I get the appeal of having a "single" codebase for iOS and Android, but I absolutely detested using it.

I'm quite sure and aware of people that love it, but just from my personal development background, it just never really seemed appealing to me. Definitely not a fan of how state is handled. I've rolled my own system, Redux, and a host of other solutions as well. It just all seemed unnecessarily complex.

As you said, to me it just felt like hacks on top of hacks. I'll take vanilla iOS and Android development any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.

With that said, and from what I've seen of Dart/Flutter, I really hope it takes off.
Don't know how I missed that, I've updated my link!
Very interesting. I don't understand why a teaching system cannot incorporate both a conceptual understanding as well as hands-on applied knowledge. Is it a matter of the time available?
Google files 6.5k H1-B applications per yr which includes transfers (https://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2019-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.asp...). To assume all of this goes to new employees is misleading since Google has attrition too. So assuming 10% attrition, Google needs to fill in that 10% and add more employees. Your argument conveniently assumes that H1s are only going to net new employees vs. those that fill the gap too.
The odd thing about that video is that Tom claims he uses Windows because 1) it is cheaper, and 2) it allows him to "bodge" (aka create quick hacks). And he explicitly dismissed Linux.

But his example, creating an emoji keyboard, would be far easier with Linux. And Linux is cheaper (in terms of money, not necessarily time). Someone in the YouTube comments actually posted how to do it in Linux, which is basically:

xinput list
xkbcomp $DISPLAY mapping.xkb
vim mapping.xkb
xkbcomp -i <id from xinput> mapping.xkb $DISPLAY
Datto to reduce number of employees by 10%
This does not just apply to software..., tons of small and medium sized businesses and opportunities out there. For engineers you will most likely never notice them if you're caught up in the Silicon Valley / VC thing.

Of course it requires getting out of your comfort zone... a lot of dev's just want to exchange labor for cash and grind out code because it is comfortable and cozy (right now).

There are tons of small towns and cities with their own economies. And a lot of these places it means a lot if the people purchasing your product or service can get on a phone and talk with someone 20 or 30 minutes away max.
Thanks for writing this. I intend to pick up a physical copy of Strang's book as it's been repeatedly mentioned in a positive light on HN.

So does LA get substantially more involved than just lots of multiplications and additions or is it always at the end of the day still just bags of floats getting multiplied and summed? Is it just a fantastic rabbit hole describing what values you put where in those bags of numbers?
The American version of "bodge" is the similar "kludge". And yes, AHK is a kludge that makes kludges. Kludges are wonderful.
SF did this as well.
That would depend on if you're willing to accept the risk of a malicious hacker taking 50+ over. That would be a "nope" from me.
> getting around websites that block pasting.

This one really drives me mad. Is there really any legit reason to this?

By the way my hack is I paste it in the address bar, then just drag-drop into the field. Works 50% of the time or more (fails when a lot of these stupid websites don't use placeholder attribute but rather use some sort of Javascript for the placeholder text)
The Meet of Tears: U.S. Olympic Trials
Carta plans private share trading platform to rival Nasdaq
Ha I was given one of those when I graduated and interviewed for some random firm (in US), I don't know if it's Aspiring Minds but it was clearly from India. They really go to an extreme length to monitor the tested and I felt very uncomfortable during the whole thing.

The camera's on, Document.hasFocus() is obviously also on, I use multiple screen and you can't move your mouse out of that screen. The test questions are repetitive recital garbage that ask you to recite java syntax and concepts. All in all I would judge it as a complete failure in selecting for technical talent.

All you need to prepare for this is to recite some book about locks or thread and names. And have the coding ability to write hello world level programs in Java without a linter or autocomplete, god forbid you forgot how to use Scanner interface.

I might sound salty, but I didn't need that job and I'm in a much better position today. My opinion is that those filtering tests are loads of crap.
Well, here's a few examples of people saying that the New Deal either had no major effect on the Great Depression or even extended it:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123353276749137485

https://fee.org/articles/fdrs-folly-how-roosevelt-and-his-ne...

https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/ask_a_scholar_did_the_new_...

(I basically googled "did the new deal extend the great depression" to find these)

Now, you could say that these are all "conservative" sources, and thus invalid. (Of course, you'd then have to throw out support for the New Deal from "progressive" sources, which might also be painful) But either way, it does show that "The New Deal didn't help" is a position held by people.
Agreed, though continuously monitoring the propagation of the signals in vivo would allow us to at least start forming models on temporal or context specific modulation of connection strengths (which in the end is what decides the algorithms of the nervous system I presume)
In some programs, yes. I've found it works horribly in Notepad++.
I've made my own Gopher client[0] some time ago, but TBH after the novelty of making it, eventually i abandoned it because i couldn't find anything interesting in there. The most interesting stuff were either gateways from the web or blogs which also had a web version.

On the other hand it was fun making it with how ridiculously simple the Gopher protocol is. Sadly it seems that "Gemini" requires TLS that kills that simplicity - Gopher can implemented by anyone, TLS... i think it is a bit harder.

[0] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/gopher/
If you consider a 2x area increase going from a 3.5->5.25, and another 4x going from a 3.5" HH to a 5.25 FH, your talking a 8x capacity increase. That is ballpark over 100TB in a 5.25" drive bay. 5 of those standing vertical would fit in a 19" rack for ~600TB in the front panel. Of course a 3U is exactly 5.25", so you would have to modify the original form factor a bit to make it fit or use 4U and waste a half inch.

Bottom line, assuming 20T 3.5" drives, you have doubled the front capacity of a 3U case.

OTOH, if you really wanted to play games consider how much capacity could be stored on a 19" platter like the old IBM mainframe disk units.
> It is a federal and state public health order.

There has been no federal public health order (there's been a federal national defense order to keep meat plans open to promote the spread of the virus, but that's the opposite of a public health order), there are, relevant to the case at hand, state and county orders.

> They've since changed those orders.

Yes, both the state and county orders have been updated over time. What's your point?

> The county has even less authority, especially by a single individual and in contrast to the state.

No, actually, state law makes county public health officers the main authority to issue orders for the control of communicable disease.

> Also laws only work as long as the citizens believe in them and civil obedience is a thing.

Shutdown orders have overwhelming majority support; there is a very loud (predominantly elite) but small minority opposed.
I’m guessing you’re being downvoted by those who think your comment is encouraging unethical behavior.

While I certainly don’t think it’s ethical to do so, I did wonder the same thing - would companies start putting measures in place to verify you’re working from the same general area as your initially provided address? Eg, sifting through VPN log files to geo locate IP addresses etc.
Many-Worlds Interpretation
I've replayed Skyrim on PS3, PS4 and now Switch and I'm still finding corners of the world that I missed (I try not to fast travel now).
Ex-Green Beret pitched Venezuela coup plot to Colorado investors last year
I expect we will see gradual conversion of roads to be more amenable to autonomous driving - barriers for pedestrians, special markings, etc - and autonomous zones will become more and more commonplace.

On the other hand I think with the collapse of the economy and skyrocketing unemployment, the price for a human driver may plummet. Remains to be seen if the increased demand in deliveries is enough to offset the voids left in the rest of the economy.
> So while you can cry about injustices and rationality

Strange reply. I'm not talking about injustices. I'm saying a company would be pretty dumb to pay someone more just because of where they chose to live. Profit maximization and all that.
The most glaring is the ability to measure things (including text) in order to lay them out, rather than adding stuff to the tree and waiting a while for somebody else to lay them out in order to measure them. Followed closely by absolutely everything about the way overflow "works". After that I'd add the absolutely batshit insane hoops through which one still must jump to build any sort of text editing component without throwing away all the good things about HTML like accessibility; the things going on inside Visual Studio Code required to produce even an experience as good as that must haunt the team that builds it. The disconnect in process between "building something out of built-in components" against "build and using a new component", the list goes on.

And just about all of these things are made worse by both the cascade rules and complicated precedence system of CSS.
headline police-- 'We protect and serve people who don't read articles'
At bigger companies it's almost needed. Harder to desk stalk someone who has been dodging you when they're remote.
Companies do not pay based on CoL. The 400k guy is going to be looking at competing offers in that range. If Google decided they would only pay based on Kansas salaries, and Apple only hired local, why would you ever consider a Google offer when Apple pays 3x as much?
Get a handy audio recorder (the one detectives use)
Data Recovery, Causes of Data Loss, and the Best Way to Recover
I feel your pain, currently taking care of both parents I'm fortunate to still have around in mid 70's, one had a bad hemorrhagic stroke and is still recovering and can't walk, other has cancer and is completing chemo with a positive outlook after radiation. We have aides but with Covid-19, I am beyond paranoid they will infect my parents and send them to an early grave so I run this place like a high security compound and check temp and have a scrub in protocol I'm enforcing. I'm in my late 20's, no kids, no siblings. I feel blessed to have my parents around who had their mobility and independence snatched away from illness in the span of a year and I will never put them in a nursing home to die.
I study this area, so I'll try to do a brief overview of what was reported.

The US is in ideological wars with China (CCP) and Islam. Those may not be wars the US chose, but it is what it is, because there is no common ground in disparate ideologies.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) relies on the US to buy oil and act as military mercenaries when threatened by local countries.

In the short term, KSA is an ally of the US, but in the long term, there are too many ideological and religious differences.

So at some level, KSA did cause 9/11, although likely in a circuitous way (some funding here, some operational support there, etc.) It's unlikely there was formal military support in any way, because that's counter-productive to the ruling family's goals, but KSA has strong internal security and they know what's happening.

Iraq is a different story, or rather, their leader, Hussein. He invaded Kuwait, threatened to invade KSA, etc.

The US govt. was paid to defend KSA. Bush 2 felt he owed Bush 1 the removal of Hussein. And German and French ambassadors massaging arms sales told Hussein he was untouchable by the US. The US sent an envoy to negotiate a peaceful standdown, but was perceived as belligerent. So war it was.

The "fig leaves" for invading Iraq were that a man who wanted to become the Iraqi President said bad things about Hussein, and that "aluminum tubes" were found in Iraq, supposedly useful in building a nuclear bomb. So the Whitehouse pretended those were adequate justifications, and that Hussein was tied to 9/11, despite knowing immediately that most of the participants were on Saudi passports.

Ironically, Hussein was the only leader capable of uniting Iraq, despite being from a minority ethnic group. Even better, he was a US ally long before the Iraq war.

Hussein's desire to become "the modern-day Suleiman" and rule all of the Middle East led to a large part of its destruction.

But the US could have been more on top of the situation there - maintaining better relations with Hussein, having better intelligence, training and equipping the Kuwaiti armed forces better, etc.

So there's a long backstory to the invasion of Iraq, and the US had reasons, but it wasn't what was told to the American people (I remember the absurd sound bites on TV at the time. I was like, "I can buy aluminum tubes down the street.")
I sometimes -- well, I used to, heh -- share an office with a labor rep (i.e. someone who works for a union). I sometimes over hear their calls, and one of the last conversations I overheard before the pandemic really stuck with me.

In reference to some kind of changing circumstance that was going to compel their rank and file to spend more time doing some work-related task, the labor rep said, "They're entitled to their time" with a kind of finality I envy.

Absolutely no wiggle room around the question of, "should they be paid for every minute they spend on the clock for someone else's business." The ubiquity of salaried work really gets me sometimes.
The thing is that British grocers got regularly fined (and talked to sternly) for these kinds of practiced. But they kept finding ways around the regulations or just ignoring them.

What really helped in the end to rein the practice in was new competition from abroad.

British retail banking is similarly customer unfriendly. For example a few years ago (no clue whether that's still the case), you could NOT not have an overdraft. They called it an 'unarranged overdraft'. Instead of just letting you tell the bank to refuse to let you got even a penny below zero, they still gave you the money (to an extent) but with a hefty fee.

They also ordered your outgoing bills or standing orders for the day in decreasing size: that's the order that maximizes that number of items that hit your account when its below zero.

They regularly got dinged by their regulators. Nothing much changed.

This time the new competition didn't come from overseas, but from upstarts like Monzo.

I don't know whether the incumbent British retail banks have gotten their act together yet. But last time I checked they were at least afraid and scrambling.
I think it's a simple fact that these are localized infections. The reason meat processing facilities have been hot spots has to do with close quarters combined with cold temperatures. When the employees leave those buildings they're not interacting with the general public in refrigerated facilities.

The point I'm making is that if this was a dispersed infection that was spreading through normal community interactions it would be much worse and harder to contain than if it's at a few facilities..

It's almost like depending on where you are and what the data says you should have a different action to optimize the outcome... And that's the point. This one size fits all everybody act like we live in Wuhan isn't working well.
Not for iOS and for the public, but Google had been talking about and demoing for a long time before that.
Technology changes, but human nature doesn't.

The temptation to slack off is ever present at home, I doubt will there ever be any technology that can solve this problem.
> hard to believe

Check the data. It's readily available from various government agencies. As you say, companies invariably locate in cities.

What facts from your experience formed your belief?
The question was rhetorical. It was supposed to help you realize that the way something is created doesn't give the final object any special properties.
Another common problem on Windows seems to be antivirus. Many of the available options seems to insist on checking every file on every invocation even if I have compiled it from my own sources (I see this can be hard to judge) and even if it last checked it a few seconds ago.