skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost of a new Tesla, toilet paper, or chicken is not twice as much in Seattle. This is basically true for housing only
> I don't get why a full year's worth of background radiation is always compared to an acute 5-sec (or less) exposure from an x-ray machine.

Usually because we don't have as much data on acute exposures. The best are from Chernobyl and the atomic bombs (tests and weapons). The issue with these is that we're talking about dosages that are MUCH higher. You'll also find plenty of studies with pilots (and even mechanics), medical staff, and dentists but if you read into the reports you'll see that there are a lot of factors involved that make it difficult to call radiation the culprit, specifically because these groups are exposed to a lot of other known carcinogens and are likely to be tested more frequently (pilots get frequent medicals and doctors are.... well... you know... doctors). So pretty much no matter what you do, there aren't great comparisons and noway to completely isolate just radiation.

Edit: it is hard to get this data because it is unethical to just expose people to radiation and see at what levels they die at. Plus, such a study would take decades
Often because there is little practical choice. For example, Dell seems to have done the same type of thing after the Superfish incident:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/superfish-20-now-dell-...

Personally, I try to avoid Dell because they set up their laptops such that the display doesn't work if the backup battery is dead, a move that seems entirely designed to make customers think that something more serious is wrong. Relatedly, they make the battery hard to reach (or at least made in two previous models I've seen).

The trick is finding companies that are minimally decent.
Setting solid background is... Super niche. Good idea to just not bother.
Yes, that’s what you need to do if you want to approach the theoretical durability of any storage system. If you’ve got durability ‘budget’ elsewhere in your design, you might not have to do this.
Yes,
Cloud kitchens. Guess who has the most high profile one?
Why do you think this is NOT a massive, vitally important tragedy? ~2k americans died in 9/11 and american life was never the same. ~100k americans have died (so far) from this and you think it's not a big deal?
That is true, but considering how terrible the AMD APUs were before ryzen, I’m still impressed by the performance leap (current dual-core APUs with HT perform better in multicore workloads than the previous ones with four). I’m still waiting for them to release something that has a low enough thermal envelope to go into a NUC-like while keeping decent performance.
So there are going to be 20,000 engineers with their home in Malibu through a dead drop address and living almost anywhere else.
The fact that government agencies compete in some senses has nothing to do with the fact that governments have monopolies on the use of force.
Generally advertising regulations require you to disclose any relationship with the company.

That's why youtuber put #ad on their videos
In all fairness, you're making the assumption that the people you're meeting with are normally in the same location. Very few people I meet with are in the same office and/or they're often traveling or otherwise not physically present. So even if I came into the office every day, I would have a few serendipitous encounters but most meetings would still be over video link.
Salary drops won't happen based solely off the cost of living. For example, based purely off the cost of living, you could move to a rural city in Iowa and only have a cost of living change in the $30 - $40k range (average SF rent being $3,700, high end Iowa rent being around $1k range). But your actual salary change will be in the $50-$100k range (based off stated numbers in similar articles).
Most patents are worthless for learning anything, but Texas Instruments has some remarkably useful patents. That one, in particular, is a 61-page complete description of the calculator hardware with detailed schematics, as well as the software in flowchart and assembly form and the chip's instruction set. The patent has enough information to completely simulate the calculator (which I did: http://righto.com/ti). This patent was clearly written by the engineers and not the lawyers.

The funny thing is that what the patent actually claims is an obscure technique for connecting the ground lines in the calculator's ROM. In other words, almost all the detailed text in the patent is irrelevant to what is actually patented.
SonicBOOM: The 3rd Generation Berkeley Out-of-Order Machine [pdf]
There aren't a lot of CMS/Ecommerce vendors that sit on MongoDB, so maybe we were in a meeting together!

Even if we weren't - as a sales engineer on a large CMS/ECommerce platform with merchants running $150M+ in annual revenue, with an average client retention of seven years, and two decades of agency experience behind the decisions around building that platform, if you instantly said no just because of MongoDB, maybe you don't know as much about MongoDB as you think you do.

I came from a SQL background myself, and had reservations based on all the things I'd read about MongoDB as we decided to build a platform after doing things bespoke for two decades, but time has proven our architecture choices out. It's easy to be proud of something that works well.
I've taken dance lessons. They'd never work remotely. A large part of it is because what you think you're doing with your body is not what you're actually doing.

Sometimes the instructor has to use his hands to push you into the right position. Another large part is both of you stand in front of a floor to ceiling mirror. He'll be in front of you off to one side, so you can see both him in real life and your reflection at the same time. He moves, and you match, looking at both him and your reflection.

Lastly, you'll never learn a partner dance online, because it's all about the feel of working with a partner.
Telemetry.

I work for a telco where we log large amounts of network requests using MongoDB.
You become a commodity only if you choose to. It’s your responsibility to avoid that.

A construction worker is a commodity.

A construction worker that does church restorations from a specific era isn’t.
I don't know that they're unimaginable. Right now the death count is about 1.25 times the death count for the 2017-2018 flu season. At any rate it fits within a context of many other illnesses and pandemics, and it makes much more sense to compare this virus to those rather than deaths from war (though there are discussions you could have about the direct relationship between the two in specific cases).

I'm not saying that you're doing so here, but evoking the language of war is a common rhetorical tactic. When you compare the deaths from this disease to wartime casualties it causes people to analyze them in similar ways, when the two have mostly non-overlapping causes, remedies, and knock-on effects. I actually believe that's what the New York Times is attempting to do with today's front page, and I think it's something to be avoided.

Edit: disregard if this turns out to be a bioweapon
I think these are the typewriters in the loud open office scene(s) at the Daily Planet in the movie "Superman (1978)"
Thanks. My last name is "Shirriff", by the way (no "c").
Urbit.
More likely, we have highly successful organizations of both types, just as we have highly successful bands of both types.
Nah, just plain old Prolog.

(I've only been working with Prolog for about a year. I know there are other things out there like Datalog, Mercury, and Kowalski's Logic Production Systems, but I want to grok the root in fullness before I get to those.)
What bout the tracking of phones and laptops? You'd have to have your laptop with a remote desktop software or something like that.. or to spoof the GPS and make sure you connect to an anon wifi that is not sharing its position.
Unethical would be being asked about your relationship with the company and lying about it.
Is Shopify ready to be double-crossed by Facebook?
If they can also offer the ability to pre-pay for delivery on-line, or at the very least equip drivers with card terminals, they could also capture some extra customers who use a third party primarily for this kind of convenience.
Would you say that virtual reality isn't ready yet or that it will never be ready?
Isn't office rent far more expensive than equipment?
This is wage discrimination. The problem is that it is, so far, legal discrimination.

If an employee gets married, is that a legal reason to cut their salary? No.

If an employee has a child, is that a legal reason to cut their salary? No.

If an employee comes out as gay, or updates their gender identity, is that a legal reason to cut their salary? No.

The first two could logically be tied to decreases in productivity, but even if it did decrease a workers productivity you can't cut their salary. It's illegal.

So what's the real problem here? Taxes.

Let's say that we correctly argue that the product of ones output should be compensated at the agreed upon rate and that if efficiencies of production are found by the producer they are under no obligation to 1. Disclose that fact or 2. Pass on savings to their customer.

Despite the fact that this is logically and economically sound the reality is that legislators will balk at legislation which would make their state less economically attractive. Convincing them is not an impossible task, but it's a hard one.

The principle of "equal pay for equal work" is not naturally embraced by industry. Almost any distinguishing characteristic that could be used as an excuse to reduce wages has been used to do so. Laws championed by labor movements have been the only way to curb the natural tendencies of companies.

So is it normal and natural for a capitalist CEO to take this position? Yes. The moral and logical ramifications have little power. It's only when those ramifications are instantiated by law advocated for by impacted populations that we should expect change.
If you don't live alone, it's not actually all that hard to do home haircuts if you just want a basic haircut.

The 1500 hours of training it takes to get a class A barber certificate in Texas (the first state whose requirements I happened to find on the web), which I presume is similar for barbers in other states, covers a whole lot more than just a simple haircut.

A lot of things that can be done reasonably easily, at least in a basic way, at home require a lot more training and preparation when offered as a service to the public. When offering a service to the public you have to deal with a much wider variety of situations, and you have a much higher volume making things like sanitation a lot more important.

(For anyone curious, that 1500 hours is 180 hours of theory, and 1320 hours in instruction and practical work. The theory is 50 hours of anatomy, physiology, and histology of hair, skin, muscles, nerves, cells, circulatory system, digestion, and bones; 35 hours of barber laws and rules; 30 hours of bacteriology, sterilization, and sanitation; 10 hours on disorders of the skin, scalp, and hair; 5 on each of salesmanship, barbershop management, chemistry, shaving, (scalp, hair treatments, and skin); 4 each on sanitary professional techniques, professional ethics, and the scientific fundamentals of barbering; 3 on cosmetic preparations; 2 each on (shampooing and rinsing), (cutting and processing curly and over-curly hair), (haircutting, male and female), and (theory of massage of scalp, face, and neck). 1 hour each on (hygiene and good grooming), barber implements, (honing and stropping), (mustaches and beards), facial treatments, (electricity and light therapy), and history of barbering.

The 1320 practical work is 800 hours of cutting (men's, women's, children's, curly, and razor), 80 hours of shaving, 55 of styling, 40 of shampooing and rinsing, 30 of bleaching and dyeing, 28 or waving, 25 of straightening, 25 of cleansing, 22 of professional ethics (how does this differ from the 4 hours covered in the theory part, I wonder?), 22 of barbershop management, and a bunch more subjects requiring from 8 to 17 hours).
But it’s not though. There were wage increases in the 90s, mid 2000s and then the ones you site. Those relate to the business cycle and don’t undo the structural problems and trends that I highlight.
Show HN: Edit Hours
Maybe they should, actually - I am surprised they’re not.
Something i do:

1. Find 10-20 friends

2. Go on holiday for a week in a cottage in the middle of nowhere with terrible internet speed

3. Bring a dozen books each and put them in a huge pile in the middle of one room

4. Eat a lovely big meal together in the evening

5. Mercilessly shame anyone who is doing anything other than reading a book, cooking, or performing essential biological functions before dinner time

You don't all read the same book, but there will be plenty of overlap, and it usually works out that there are a few books that many people have read.
Removing old, obsolete dams restores life to creeks and streams
I don't know why there isn't an app that simply only lets you order from places that are within 30 min walking distance. (I don't know why this isn't written in law - having someone drive more than a few minutes to deliver you food should be considered a crime against humanity because it is so dumb, inefficient and demeaning to those involved)

That way people on bikes, mopeds, whatever can do the delivery and it's fast, easy and cheap for everyone involved.

The people making the deliveries have to live within a specific radius of you and the delivery spot, that way people in affluent neighbourhoods get paid more to deliver, because it costs more to live in that neighbourhood and people who live in poorer neighbourhoods, get paid less.

You know where I'm going with this - it should be teenagers and college/uni students doing these deliveries part time, not grown adults. We as a society should be moving beyond menial labor, not creating new 'gig economies' that prey on folks who have trouble finding stable jobs because we've optimized away any semblance of community and dignity in exchange for billionaire mansions and yachts.
I see. I guess it was just one theory.

What you're saying makes sense, thanks for explaining.
What if others are finding Zoom and remote life acceptable? How can you ever go back to in-person meetings until all others in said meeting were back in the office?
This was written in 2013:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/04/03/the-locust-economy/

Year after year, I'm appreciating the analogy to locusts more and more.
Possibly, I'm no professional compiler author. But I imagine doing so would require templatizing a lot of logic, and would significantly slow down the compilation of the compiler itself, which is an important metric for development velocity of compiler improvements. (The linux kernel is famous for taking about the same amount of time to compile through its history. If compile times get long enough people start paying attention to optimizing compile time instead of performance.)

It was eye-opening when I read this blog post and learned that LLVM spends about 0.4% of all compilation time reading the bytes of the string "null-pointer-is-valid" over and over. Hot code paths can be pretty hot.

https://nikic.github.io/2020/05/10/Make-LLVM-fast-again.html
In the short term over the duration of effect. I don't think I've ever seen a reliable study that demonstrated any reliable evidence of long term harm from coffee with any certainty.
Good question. You'd need some accurate-enough data source telling you about failed writes. Which eventually comes back around to needing a consistent database and indications of client disconnects.
It does finally! In 8.0.16+
But isn't that what you mainly do in an office? For some that is not life either. Having friends outside of work, a family, a house you enjoy living in may change your perception. Not saying this on and argumentative tone. Just take into account there is more to commuting and sitting in an office all day.
I'm looking for the same.
Yes, I’d split them in two types in the markets where Deliveroo operates:

* existing restaurants (or food trucks) that were identified as promising by the Deliveroo; there’s a program to help them grow and the most common step is to lend them spaces in delivery-only kitchen. The key thing is to have a menu that is meant for that, so the food and the containers can survive a 20-minute ride. Some use the same brand; other create a different one for delivery only. Compared to the experience of getting a loan from a bank to open a second restaurant with a front-of-house in a busy street and having to commute between the two without experience is managing a kitchen remotely, that program was described as far sensical and likely to succeed.

* restaurants that were designed with that idea from scratch. Taster is a start-up (founded by Anton who ran the afore-mentioned program for Deliveroo in France). They identify concepts that would work, develop, finance and grow those brands from scratch. I believe that the idea is working really well.
~30k Americans died in car accidents every year before this, so clearly there's a disconnect between raw death count and the "vitally important" nature of a tragedy.
I have a theory that 50 years from now people will look back on caffeine the same way we look back on everyone smoking in the 50's. There were tons of "smoking is healthy" articles back then too, and it was baked into the culture. Caffeine's negatives are more hidden and second order effects that come from increased cortisol levels, lack of sleep, adrenal fatigue, etc. I've done a bunch of research on this and might write it up in a blog post someday.
#!/usr/bin/env zsh

dir=0

up() {
xdotool mouseup 1
}

down() {
xdotool mousedown 1
}

right() {
dir=$(expr $dir + $1)
}

left() {
dir=$(expr $dir - $1)
}

walk() {
for i in {1..$1}; do
xdotool mousemove_relative --sync --polar $dir 1
done
}

square() {
down
for i in {1..4}; do
walk 20
right 90
done
up
}

block () {
down
for i in {1..10}; do
walk 200
right 90
walk 1
right 90
walk 200
left 90
walk 1
left 90
done
up
}

circle () {

}

block

# go crazy
I recall being taught a (fairly rudimentary?) explanation of the memory model that the available space is used from one side as the stack, and from the other side as the heap. Reading the article, I realised that memory management in a concurrent context is way more complex than that, but you don't go into a lot of details here (fair enough, that's not the main focus).

So each task gets 16k of stack space, but what if it runs out of it? These are allocated from the "main" heap, so they won't exactly run into each other, but might trigger UB or crash the program. This is something that a real scheduler (like the one in the OS's kernel) would have to deal with anyway, so how does, say, Linux, solve this? Giving a lot of stack space to each running thread would lead to fragmented and underused memory, or is it not a concern at the stack spaces you'd normally deal with?
Whose penis were you drawing?
Created this project last year for my day company when they learned I was more than just a web designer... and developed it to my team specifications (they told me what they wanted, I made it happen) and I had mentioned it in a comment on Hacker News which seems to have attracted over 1,000 new users. It's completely free to use and just helps you keep track of your time as well as lets you work in teams so you can all add to the same time record and keep track of what everyone is working on. If you happen to come across any bugs or errors, feel free to send me an email. I still do service and maintain it but as far as features.. it is kept to be a pretty simple straightforward tool. Maybe you will find it useful for your team as well. It is free and I have no plans to charge for it. Enjoy!

Additional details for Teams:

Once you start adding team members, which if you're working on different aspects of a project together and you just want to keep it in the same time log, it would be handy. Oftentimes, I would be assigned a job, but then my shift ended.. and another team member would be working on the project, so that is what it was designed for -- to keep track of everyone's time spent on the same project.

Times are built in blocks so in other words, once a team member adds a time, no one else can delete it save for that person. After another person adds their time, the previous times are locked in place and can only be undone if you have each person delete their time records. This prevents any tampering with the time of projects.
Yep. With these "cost of living adjustments" it's almost always a better move long term to live in the higher COL area, especially if you are living inexpensively and saving the vast majority of your money. I save more per year than I would gross working as an engineer near my hometown...

Although I will say, person B in your scenario has potentially more upside on their housing equity, and they do potentially get a higher standard of living short term. Of course, there are aspects of standard of living such as public transportation, good public schools, people in your area you'd like to date/be friends with that person B may not be able to buy.
* handling over two deliveries from the same restaurant to a single rider can work at times, but it’s hard to find the rare good cases and you get very angry customers ver fast; handling two deliveries from different restaurants is… ::shivers:: Let’s not talk about it.

I think this is the area of most opportunity. You can’t really do this with a guy on a bike but in the us there is no reason you couldn’t establish delivery windows for certain neighbors and pickup windows to restaurants then have a guy with a meals on wheels like truck come, pick up items from adjacent restaurants and deliver them to customer.

It messes up the delivery driver as disposable and replaceable mentality as timing is critical but if you want to have efficiency sometimes you need to pay a bit more.
MySQL's rise IMO cannot be considered without also looking at the rise of Ruby on Rails and other CRUD-optimized platforms and frameworks. Also ORMs. These things denigrated the idea of using an RDBMS as anything but a dumb table store. Features like stored procedures and views were seen as pointless. MySQL was the perfect database for people who had no respect for databases.
Upper Hudson valley of New York. Near the Shawngunk mountains. They're some of the best climbing in the US, I've got family reasonably nearby, and it's a beautiful area.
If you think this is illegitimate wage discrimination I have a question for you, if you order coffee in bumfuck idaho, do you pay the barrista, who does the same work as one in Palo Alto, the same price for their coffee?
> write it up in a blog post someday

No time like the present! Brew up a pot, and get hammerin'! :)
This is a excellent point. What state is FB incorporated in?
For me, it isn't worth expending the mental energy editing Wikipedia. I'd be exhausted seeing the arbitrary deletion of articles like this; fighting Wikipedia policy warriors, who have all the WP:TLA and WP:FLA rules memorized; fighting PoV warriors, the successful ones who are also policy warriors; fighting cliques who take unofficial ownership of articles.

And maybe it's just me, but I don't get the impression that most very light editors of Wikipedia have even made a single proposal for deletion.
A Python universal HTTP plugin for handling headers
>It indeed existed and we had the opportunity to evolve with its ambient presence.

It may exist in a number of plants all over the world but that doesn't mean that people were harvesting and using it outside of certain isolated cultures until fairly recently, compared to evolutionary timescales.

If anything I'd expect significant genetic variation representing adaptations only present in some groups.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20859791/