skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> wealth transfer from metro areas to rural areas

I live in the Rust Belt, and when I visited San Francisco, it was like visiting a different planet.

I find it hard to believe that wealth transfer from metro to rural is larger than wealth transfer in the opposite direction.

Why does $HOT_TECHBRO_STARTUP invariably choose to locate its offices in the ultra-tight real estate and labor markets of SF, NYC or Austin when there are plenty of small cities who desperately need an employer like them, since they're full of factory ruins, empty storefronts, hordes of unemployed workers, and all the most promising young people leave as soon as they finish high school or college?
My understanding is MicroSD “hardware” switch triggers a software based switch that not enforced by the hardware; that is, it is not designed security.

Even a “read only” CD-ROM if not verified on boot for tampering — might contain an attack, including: to just disable the disk from booting, among other things.
Sounds crazy to say this, and I've had mostly positive experiences working with React Native, but sure hope everyone keeps using Electron.
Ahh, the good ol days. I lost count of how many Xaml-based UI Frameworks got released. In 2011 I started learning web development for UI, almost immediately after Microsoft announced Windows 8 and WinRT at build. This graphic [0] was the writing on the wall.

[0] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1555...
Air filters do not remove CO2. They remove only dust.

Some so-called "air purifiers" produce ozone, which burns the lungs, nose, and eyes. I hope you're not using one of those.

"Consider a high-quality air purifier that can capture and destroy harmful particles. Make sure the device does not produce ozone, another harmful air pollutant." -- American Lung Association
https://www.lung.org/blog/air-in-your-home

https://www.lung.org/clean-air/outdoors/what-makes-air-unhea...
While it's not that new (has been public for over a year), this is a different, newer implementation of RNW (written in C++ instead of C#)
I miss my full-height Micropolis drives (said nobody, ever)
Just left Ubuntu for Chrome OS on a Pixelbook Go. Pretty happy so far, just can't get my nerd fonts working for vim.

Battery life seems way better and I can do all the Dev stuff I normally do with kubernetes and containers. Touch and UI is far superior
Sounded solid. On the one hand I’m sure that it can be nonsense, but having been through organizations without that kind of direction I appreciate it.
Security and privacy are different things; both important. Also, lots of information that is not so dangerous on an individual or neighbor level can be exploited at scale.
> In fact, if you asked them to make something that builds from the command line, and runs, they would probably be scratching their head for a while.

As someone who learnt to program using linux/Mac OS, when I got a job somewhere that used windows and VS exclusively, trying to get my head around the (to me) needlessly confusing and convoluted way in which windows-dotnet devs seemed to do things was a painful experience.

Watching some of them try and debug docker files was amusing because that was a total role reversal.
Does anyone know if using AHK increases input latency at all?
Well, if we take $2k payments and make them monthly, in a decade or so we'll reach a meaningful percentage of the direct costs of the Iraq/Afghan wars.
> Aperture, Shake and Motion come to mind.

Motion has had continuous updates nearly every time FCP has. They updated it a few months ago. [0]

[0] https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/motion/
Which provider is best often comes down to your use case. Do you need tons of memory? Lots of disk I/O? Network bandwidth? Huge amounts of CPU? GPU cores? Pricing can vary a fair bit depending on the details of your workload.
When the algorithm dominates all content
Here's the official policy: https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/dol/rulesandr...

More from Chicago Tribune: https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-food-coronavir...
> And now pay is higher than ever.

I think this is, as usual, specific to the Bay Area and maybe NYC, and also limited to the top 10% of developers at tech companies.

I don't think tech salaries are all that great even in other big cities like DC or Denver, especially as home prices have also passed their 2007 highs, while salaries were stagnant and bonuses or equity are nothing like in FAANG companies. This is especially true when non-managers salary cap at about 40, which is when many professionals in other industries are just getting started making good money.

A lot of small cities might have no real tech companies and only a few large Fortune 500 companies that employ half the software engineers in the whole city. All it takes is one or two of them to decide to offshore half the IT department to Bangalore while signing a big deal with Cognizant or Infosys for the other half in house (i.e. H1Bs brought in from India). If you're stuck in that city, you're looking at wage stagnation for a long while.

It's still okay if you're a good developer - top 25% - at age 27 making $90K in a low COL city, while most of your peers are barely out of grad school. But it's not when you're 40 making $120K and all your peers - nurses, government workers, sales, lawyers, entrepreneurs - have caught up, often with far more stability and better working conditions. I think software engineering has gotten to be a dead-end career for a lot of us not working at tech companies in big cities, and globalization and H1Bs have continued eating away at the industry for the majority of us working as contractors and at big corps.
Do you think all there is to consciousness is biology? That's where the "accuracy" comes from, so if the respondent disagrees with that as a fundament, then it's a reasonable answer.
Which you can bridge to your slack rooms to keep the existing conversation going!
> Losing those serendipitous meetings

In a remote-first culture, those meetings still happen, even though it needs some more effort to facilitate those situations. It's when the team is split between onsite and remote that remote contributors have a disadvantage and might even miss out on important things going on.
Almost everyone you know needs to rethink their careers if they are so terrible at them. Assuming the people in your example actually exist, of course.
For other noobish windows users like myself, you can simply dump the following into a bat file. When run, it'll look for a file called "scanThis.pdf" and apply the conversion with ImageMagick.

IF EXIST scanThis.pdf (magick convert -density 100 scanThis.pdf -colorspace gray +noise Gaussian -rotate 0.5 -depth 2 SCANNED.pdf) ELSE (ECHO File scanThis.pdf not found & PAUSE)
Ok, cool. Good luck with that
Baudrillard’s point was beyond this - that Capitalist media technologies create a hyperreal blanket over everything such that these institutions are fully consumed by movement within its symbolic exchange that they lose what we would commonly think of as their “use value.”
I've seen both uses of the term "native"; it's an overloaded term. Some use it to mean "native UI", and others use it to mean "natively compiled". I meant it in the latter case. I actually prefer wholly custom UI, as most apps do these days that are cross-platform, because it allows for very interesting user experiences. Of course, some people disagree, wanting everything to be native-looking and feeling to their platform, such as Linux apps all using GTK or macOS all using Cocoa.
If I might offer a more neutral and IMO significantly more informative source on Senate FISA amendments;

https://www.lawfareblog.com/senate-proposes-five-amendments-...

It’s quite extensive and talks about each of five amendments including the various side-by-sides that McConnell has put forward.

Here’s the part just about web browsing content vs metadata;

> Courts have struggled with the line between what constitutes the “content” of communications and what does not. For example, most courts have ruled that a first-level web domain, like www.amazon.com, is considered to be dialing-routing-addressing-signaling, not “content,” and as such could be collected without a warrant. But a domain name that results from a search of “anarchist cookbook”—a 1971 book that contains instructions for manufacturing explosives—would be considered “content.” The Wyden-Daines amendment is designed to clarify that all Americans’ internet website browsing and internet search history information would be off-limits without a warrant.

> McConnell has authored a side-by-side to this amendment that would seem, on its face, to similarly limit an application under Section 215 to exclude an order authorizing or requiring the production of internet website browsing information or internet search history information. But the side-by-side would limit such an application only “to the extent such information constitutes contents of a communication, as defined in section 2510 of title 18, United States Code.” This qualification is key to understanding the McConnell alternative amendment: Rather than requiring a warrant for collection of Americans’ internet website browsing and internet search history information, it essentially restates and reifies the existing, somewhat confusing, state of affairs. In essence, the McConnell amendment maintains the current status quo regarding treatment of internet website browsing and internet search history information.
TCHAR is a Win9x relic hasn't really been something to be concerned with for well over a decade now. It took a while for MSDN to acknowledge that, but these days it even documents the A/W versions of each struct and function explicitly, and doesn't mention the generic aliases.

But wchar_t is still 16-bit, yes - it's baked into the ABI for good now. It's not even a "default", since you can't change it.
Navidrome is a recent in the scene of alternatives. I had been running Airsonic on a Pi for about 2yrs now, and recently started to test Navidrome. It is lighter on my Pi than Airsonic and also has a refreshing UI. Since Navidrome uses Subsonic apis, any app that supports Subsonic/Airsonic will support Navidrome too.
The solution IMHO is to perform your own test. It is hard to scale unless you have some superior filter or are a magnet of some sort (back channel references or your company is really hot).
They do get labeling too. Their current beta requires user confirmation for every vehicle change in motion.
Flutter on desktop has been "right around the corner" for about 5 years now.
> "Stop believing you are supporting your community by ordering from a 3rd party delivery company," Badalamenti wrote. "Out of almost $1,100 of orders. Your Restaurant you are trying to support receives not even $400. It is almost enough to pay for the food."

Then why even have your restaurant on the app?

More and more, it seems like "restaurant" is not a viable business. They already don't pay their employees, offloading that on to customers via tips. Where does all the money go? Rent, I guess.
I think the micropackage system is great in theory; it just falls down with bloat and security. Security could at least in theory be mitigated by something like pledge. Right now every developer on the (transitive!) deps authors list effectively has full access to our production systems, and that's ridiculous.

Bloat though ... I mean, if every npm module was simply a directory with a package.json file and a couple js files I'd be happy. But thats almost never true, and usually for bad reasons. I'm not sure how to fix the problem. A few years ago I worked with a guy who maintained a popular little 200 line react image component on npm. The project website was great - with example images and whatnot. Some software we worked on used his library. Our node_modules was huge, and one day I took a look to try and figure out why. It turned out his tiny module was bundling all ~10mb of example images in the package itself.

He was shocked and embarrassed when I pointed it out to him. The library had thousands of stars on github at the time. Lots of people were using it but nobody had noticed and mentioned it to him.

10mb isn't that big, but this is the sort of sloppiness that really adds up over time & thousands of transitive dependancies. Would tooling fix the problem? Maybe a little, but I suspect the problem its partially cultural. A lot of the web development community suffers from a lack of ... thoroughness. Like, the expectation is if the website works and looks pretty, you've done a good job. And invisible bugs and issues get overlooked consistently. Like app bundles which silently include multiple copies of the (200k) moment timezone database. Or obvious security issues that web devs just don't know to look for. I suppose this is how juniors learn - but it feels like a very lonely place sometimes when you have skills and experience.
I had almost used up all combinations of Ctrl, Alt, Shift, Win and letters at one point, and still never thought of making my own hyper key. It's genius.

At my new job I'm afraid to download AHK at all :(
Not my experience. At scale, once you go down the 'cloud native' (kubernetes) path, the infrastructure part becomes relatively straight-forward, but PHP's weaknesses become very apparent.

Doesn't work very well with message queues. Sure, pushing messages is not a problem, but consuming? Something has to do it? But it won't be written in PHP. It doesn't work very well with SQL databases, and with that I mean not the querying etc, but connection pooling, so the database server doesn't suddenly gets flooded by thousands of connections because a service is autoscaled due to heavier load (and sadly, that's a real-world example that brought down a database cluster). Tracing is doable, but not ideal, metrics are hacky due to the need of weird extensions to support shared memory, or rely on an external database such as Redis, which kinda defeats the point of metrics being lightweight. And tuning the PHP runtime almost rivals the JRE...
I remember reading this in Parade Magazine when Marilyn Vos Savant published her column. And then was completely blown away by the landslide of scathing letters written by adult professors at colleges belittling her for being so dumb. And they were wrong. Truly amazing demonstration of how bias (and the limbic system) work against rational thought.

Here is a link with some hilarious quotes from livid professors saying dumb shit:

https://priceonomics.com/the-time-everyone-corrected-the-wor...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/01/aws_s3_outage/
Show HN: A daily email that contains cheap stocks with high option premiums
I don’t think that this is due to the caste system. I have seen it first hand - used to work in a restaurant flipping burgers with the other guys and as soon as somebody was promoted to shift manager - his demeanor towards other employees would change drastically .
This is a graph entry tool I built, which sought to make it easy to enter, link, and display many pieces of data.

One design goal was to make the tool easy to use and share even on fairly restricted corporate networks. A save file contains the data and a copy of the tool, and is simply an HTML file with JS and CSS bundled. No external resources, so it's easy to trust with sensitive data, and easy to move onto even an "air-gapped" development network.
The email from today https://fancyoptions.substack.com/p/the-stock-list-and-strat...
It's interesting because the sarcasm came through for me and only because you said "they do say" rather than "they say" - a subtle difference that is probably odd to convey to non-English speakers.
Missed to add link: https://www.navidrome.org/
Because you already use it for Office 365, for example.
The truck simulators are relaxing as long as you're not trying to park!
thanks for the resource, I'll pass it on.
"Echopraxia" is the followup that takes it even further.
Very dark, but also very thought-provoking.
I want to emphasize one thing: all the graduates from IITs I've worked with are truly top notch.
Wrong question. What is the being conscious?
What a blatantly self-centered outlook.
I use a lot of Windows machines in the cloud as build machines for video games.
I think that crying "fake news" and theorizing about conspiracies are a desperate attempt to call out and see past the simulacra. An example of simulacra would be Keeping up With the Kardashians - a representation of someone else's life that is not their actual life (there is no possible way that it could be their actual life, even if it was a 24 hour livestream, simply because of the fact that it is being delivered through a screen), same thing with social media. A conspiracy theory about the show could be "this is only being shown to me to make me want to buy makeup". The conspiracy theory is just an attempt to discover some aspect - however small - of the simulation that is based in reality, rather than just buying into the simulation at face value. Of course, conspiracy theories are usually spread through the same medium (a screen) so they are just as simulated as the other simulated content.

I don't think we should be discouraging people from trying to unveil the simulacra regardless. Imagine a world where everyone believed every piece of news as absolutely true. We'd still have a geocentric model of our solar system. As long as I can hear vocal disagreement about what is true, I can sleep at night knowing that some progress is being made.
Why not RedHat? That's where the enterprise Linux server market seemingly is.
What a perfect example of the modern status page meme.

App is completely fucking not working and it's only showing a slight problem with "connections to slack". Something's not quite right. Is this valley casualspeak or actually an attempt to minimize the fact that their shit is down?

Ok bro, you're not fooling anyone though.
Patio11's Law
The unrepresentativeness is irrelevant. It's quite conceivable that young fit men can take 20% more CO2 than the typical person before showing symptoms. 1000% is not, because it would have been noticed before and publicised as incredible. People have been on submarines for decades. You're telling me that, not only is there a hitherto unknown biological mechanism that renders young fit men practically immune to a toxic gas that debilitates the typical person at 0.1 times the dose and 0.01 times the exposure period, which is in itself a fantastic claim, but you're also telling me that this has not been noticed by any submariner in any country in decades! That nobody brought a fat politician aboard and noticed them keel over! That no old rich guy (perhaps... a famed movie director?) wanted to see the depths of the ocean! If you have priors on anything, it should be that this study is almost certainly wrong at a fundamental level. Quibbling about sample representativeness is a rounding error, which is why many people in this thread are well aware but completely uninterested in it.
This is one of the reasons why, in my somewhat radical opinion, all taxes should be some form of sales tax. No income tax, etc. If you live in a country, you spend money in that country, and so you pay taxes in that country. No workarounds, no loopholes, no tax returns, no cognitive load, just extremely simple tax law.

(I know it's not quite that simple, but I think it's interesting to think about.)
Have you ever actually had to hire someone to do something nontrivial?

Statistically speaking, hiring good help is difficult. Hiring good help repeatedly is a skill. Building an entire business in an unfamiliar domain is certainly easier with inherited money, but still requires rare talent. Which is why as another poster pointed out, the 1% has a 50% generational turnover.
Thank you for articulating this so well. This is indeed how I'm beginning to see the divides shape up, and I tend to include myself in the 3rd group as well.
Anti-Vaxxers Have a Dangerous Theory Called “Natural Immunity.”
I suppose Flutter is Dart's killer app, since you're comparing frameworks and languages. Rails is to Ruby as Flutter is to Dart, as it were. I suggest you give it a try. Personally, this felt like the "killer" feature to me, fully advanced animations that I'm not sure are possible on native widget based frameworks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCyoHclCqc8
While broadly true, other countries regulators need to be active and keep the American regulators in check.

The entire episode with FAA and Boeing 737-MAX makes it clear that while Ethiopian regulator can not do airworthiness certification of such a complex plane they can definitely ground the fleet faster than FAA wanted to do.

It is unlikely that FAA would have grounded the fleet until all other major bodies had done so and put it under a lot of pressure to also do so.
I’m the team lead and I’m on the phone with my team members at least half a day every day. We definitely chit chat and talk socially as a matter of course throughout the day.
Language and time zone barriers still may be a problem though.
This is pretty cool! I think being in quarantine made a lot of (tech) companies are starting to realize that they can support WFH efficiently.

Hopefully other companies will follow.
No this doesn't record DOM structure changes.

Instead this captures network traffic (bytes) into a .warc file. Then you can replay it later (from the website) or you can download the .warc file to your computer & play it offline using the desktop app (Webrecorder player app) see the bottom of the page or [1]

The downside is that the desktop app is slow (5 seconds to loads a page on my laptop). I've created a fast player app that loads pages instantly, but I haven't open sourced it yet ;)

[1] https://github.com/webrecorder/webrecorder-player/releases
hooray supply chain transparency

consumers are starting to care
Ian M Banks. The Culture series is the most splendid collection of books I’ve ever read. Some are better than others but collectively they build an insight into a galaxy spanning civilization.
I'm truly amazed to still encounter "omg React is so new and unproven how can we possibly keep up with stuff like this?" posts. Next up: is no-sql just another fad or will it catch on?
The most interesting part (to me) is not touched on in the article - if expensive jobs can be done remotely from Gary, Indiana, they're not going to go to Gary natives who are currently underemployed, but to the same small crowd of well-off people who are just going to move to Gary, driving prices there up. I think this is the inequality that is interesting and matters.
Seems like this article is reading too much into noise in the data. The “hot prowls” are up since March, but down since February. That doesn’t really make sense as an explanation for “why there is noticeably more X since the pandemic”.
ICANN Paid 197 People over $100k Last Year
You can read the details here:
https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/05/unred...

including (on page 15) quotes from emails that state "We store the whole body of all non-encrypted frames" and discussed an analysis of HTTP URLs extracted from sniffed wifi data.
While white people do think that having to stay inside is the same/worse as decades of oppression by the police, thankfully we don't have to worry about them actually putting their money where their mouth is and doing anything about it.
It uses a combination of both JS and native code. That JS that RN calls ultimately makes calls out to native Andriod and iOS (and Windows, and macOS) APIs that are compiled to Java and ObjC/Swift (and, I assume, C#?). All of RN's targeted platforms leverage scripting bridges for JS, but only a portion of the actual running code is JS, the part that's native is (usually, but not exclusively) generalized.