skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the rise of MySQL is combined with using RDBMS as a table store rather than a relational database, but I am not positive that this was driven by RoR and ORMs. Every large-scale system I have worked with that utilizes MySQL (and I'm on at least my third in a row of these systems, sadly!) is/was driven by application-logic database utilization via the "FriendFeed model" - that is, a big fat ID->Document Blob table for persistence and breakout tables for indexing.

ORMs and ActiveRecord in particular encourage, to some extent, the use of a RDBMS, even if they didn't get to take advantage of them well for a long time - for example, in RoR "has_one / has_many" for foreign-key relationship, .joins(:field_name) for, well, joins, and so on.
If the number of renters exceeds owners statewide [0], Prop 13 will become a victim of it's own success. It helped existing homeowners stay in place so well that growth that otherwise would've occurred did not, and the minority of remaining homeowners will lose their property tax benefits.

[0]: There's a slight tilt towards owners (54%). If property prices continue to become less affordable, it seems reasonable there will be less owners in the future. https://datausa.io/profile/geo/california#housing
You make a valid point, and if you're reading fiction for pleasure then your own judgement of the experience is really the only thing that matters. However, if you're reading technical material with the aim of improving your skills, how can you tell whether you are learning something insightful or important?

A classic problem, and the reason that some questionable authors with unreliable content are nevertheless among the most popular in their field, is that the student of a technical subject is by definition never going to be qualified to evaluate tutorial material aimed at their current level. We all rely on the opinions of those more skilled or experienced than ourselves to guide us, at least until we reach a level where there are no more tutorials and instead we're learning from our own experiences including original research and discussions with peers.

In the case of Design Patterns specifically, if you're not into the kind of OOP where those patterns apply then it will have much less value to you. However, I'd say anyone who is working in a language like Java, C++ or C# should have at least passing familiarity with the patterns within and their names, if only to recognise the concepts and key details when they come up in discussion with fellow developers or get mentioned in code or documentation. Some of the ideas behind those patterns are relevant in non-OOP contexts as well, but in other programming styles they are often expressed very differently, which is why I say the book would have much less (but not necessarily zero) value to someone whose interests lie away from class-based OOP.
> Local taxes are owed based on the physical location the work is done.

Actually, state law varies; it's quite possible for taxes to be due in both the state in which work is done and the employee’s state of residence, or either one of those alone, or neither.

See, e.g., https://www.americanpayroll.org/compliance/compliance-overvi...
This is stupid.

You can enjoy caffeine and that’s fine. Nothing wrong with that. But it is a drug. Your body does not need caffeine to sustain itself, like it does nutrients.
Precisely due to the existence of these two websites, Quora and cplusplus.com I have a custom Google search engine using a whitelist I created specifically to exclude these and include bloggers from standards committees and other people I follow
London is dirtier and just as inflicted with "undesirables", unless you're willing to continue paying SF rent prices, or live in zone 3 or beyond.
I got to question this. For at least 30 years before these apps, pizza places and Chinese restaurants had figured out how to handle their own driver service. I think the apps want people to think that it’s. Or possible to handle your own delivery.
I'm largely in the same boat. I was part of the founding team, architected our systems, wrote a good part of it, and eventually look over leadership of the engineering and product teams as the CEO had to focus on more external matters. I played the SE role on any meaningful call, worked closely with marketing, and even did sales directly a couple of times landing us an LOI at a critical time.

We had an "ok" exit, not enough to never work again by any means but it put some decent amount of money in the bank.

After riding out the acquisition for a year I've been looking for my next role and it feels like I don't fit in anyones box well enough to get the nod. Besides landing an exec position at a startup with funding, the big tech companies of the world seem like the only place to get good compensation for that expertise. From what I can tell, the big tech places don't seem to be interested in hiring people from startup-heavy backgrounds nearly as much as they used to be.

My approach is to try to reestablish some networks, and tossing resumes are interesting job listings. But the reality is that almost no one is getting hired for great roles without a warm intro to a hiring manager. Dusting off the old personal website never hurt either, it might at least let you get into the right kind of conversation after the warm intro.

It feels like I'd be in a great position to start a startup but with spouse and young kids its not the right time (especially now) to do that sort of thing.
Really only true if you _only_ care about gaming.

If you're split at all, single core perf on AMD these days is real close, and multicore Intel is just getting trashed (especially in any kind of price-per-perf metrics).
It’s relevant to a huge vocal majority of HN as I stated the principles of said vocal majority. Thus it’s relevant, no?
Its open source, and furthermore it is used by parts of the government that want to stay anonymous, so I would say it is trustworthy.
The one that stores solar energy crosses stomach barrier in a way that alters it’s functioning drastically by giving it energy. Who knows if LSD equivalents found in plants helped proto-humans (from cells to any mammal) develop key aspects of the brain and therefore we are still receptive to them. Just because it’s used as a recreational drug today doesn’t mean that “it’s altering it’s functioning drastically” that’s just today’s society’s opinion on it or just because today we’re just simply abusing it by using large quantities of LSD (just like over eating and going obese, you’re drastically changing the body).
Healthcare and social safety nets would be my reason. Even people who thought they had adequate healthcare can go bankrupt, and every time I see a Reddit post about one doctor being "out of network" leading to a large bill I'm glad that sort of thing doesn't have to occupy any of my mental space at all. I had a hard enough time picking car insurance.

The social safety nets is not so much for myself, but being surrounded by others who are struggling is unpleasant but also leads to societal issues overall (crime hotspots, etc).

I long ago decided that settling in the USA would be great if I ever magically become rich, but until then since I have no roots in the area it's nice to visit but I'm not sure I'd stay. One definite benefit though is that the states vary a lot in culture and feel so you can probably find an area that suits you.
20 Million instructions in 100ms. More if IPC is >1.
If anyone's interested in rivers and dams, and some of history and influence they've had on the formation of the US (and vice versa), there's a great book called The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers. Not affiliated with the author in any way, but I picked it off a shelf last year and found it a really good read.

This kind of thing brings up a bit of mixed feelings for me. On one hand, it's indisputable that damming rivers has a negative impact on the ecology of those watersheds. On the other hand, in an era of climate change, it seems like trying to hold on to as much freshwater capacity as possible also seems like a prudent idea, and I'm not sure what the best way to reconcile the two would be.
I don't get it. The No.1 copyright infringement tool is undoubtedly the most popular web browser, whichever that is.
5 yrs ago, I got a loaded iMac 27 with extra monitor plus up to $200/month for internet and phone expenses, but I never exceed $100 on both. They've also reimbursed my headset and office chair.

My company has been the most generous I've seen so far, and we were a small, 40 person company, now 64. I'm grateful for it.
Or because too many people were using it!
Are infections spread out across a representative sample of the population?

Is the population of New York (in terms of genetic makeup, behavior, underlying conditions etc) match that of the rest of the world?

I realize that this site is filled with autists who believe they can solve everything with a clean, simple model (the less lines of code the better, right?), but reality is a fucking mess. All models are not even wrong.
The important thing to remember is that the same forces that made those people homeless are what made you pay for your overpriced apartment.

All the “unlanded” are sharecroppers, some better paid than others. Time for some solidarity among the renter class.
As someone who "chose to be born" in the US, I'm so sorry my country is making things more of a hassle. It's already tough living in another place in many ways without the hassle of an uncertain legal status that makes planning more difficult.
It's not a binary decision. Every reasonable person agrees the government should take action; the questions are how much is needed and how severe it can be.
Marlboros? Those are for interns. The real work was done by those smoking unfiltered Lucky Strikes.
Speed was definitely a big deal when git first came into being. However, as far as I remember, the main thing that made git popular was actually Github. Before Github, various souce repository sites were awful (and in the case of what SourceForge became, more than awful).
Ask HN: Firing up the ole RSS reader. What are some good feeds out there?
It’s been a minute since RSS and frankly, the stuff I’ve been using (google news, HN, Reddit, NewsHound) are not really sufficient for RSS as they’d just blast the reader with tons of irrelevant or value-less content.

So, I humbly request some of the community’s favorites; Content that isn’t flash news. Post em up. :)
Basically any place with seasons and cheap land, something with a forest on it of usable timber for firewood and woodworking projects. PNW has lots of land with doug firs. I enjoy shooting sports, so a place I could safely have a 500m range would be wonderful. At least a small above ground stream, perhaps a pond/lake.
‘Star Trek’ Failed to Reckon with Our Greatest Threat: Climate Change
So wait - you're saying it's ok to engage in risky behaviour - as long as it doesn't result in maiming/killing somebody?

Surely you can see that's a recipe for disaster?

People are very bad at judging risks - and everybody things they're cleverer/more careful/better than the average.

That's exactly why no government that I'm aware of has ever enacted what you dscribed.

Ok - so you make it that driving whilst drunk is OK - and you will only be charged if you kill/maim somebody. You will soon get a whole bunch of young 20 year old males, who think they are invincible (or that they can hold their liquor like Captain America) who end up destroying families in completely preventable MVAs.

Everybody thinks they're a "better driver than the average" - or that "their reflexes are really good". Unfortunately, the average is exactly that - the average.

Sure, according to you - you can now charge them after having killed a mum and her kid walking across the road - but what about the fact that you've essentially encouraged this behaviour, and raised the probability of such things happening?

Similar logic applies to any risk taking behaviour - yes, there are certainly grey areas - but there's a reason handguns are a restricted item and not anybody can buy them at any corner store. Having a gun in and of itself doesn't "harm somebody", as you say - but having more handguns distributed among the population, without any attempt to reduce the risk (e.g. background checks, safety checks, licensing checks) will increase the risk that something bad will happen.

Likewise drugs are a controlled item.

And with public health directives like this - the aim is to force people to take sensible precautions to protect those vulnerable among the population. I hate to say this, but people are sometimes selfish and only think of themselves (we all do this). So sometime you need somebody to look out for society as a whole.
Network alone is enough to pay for on-prem. Amazon egress fees are beyond egregious.

The only reasons I've seen to justify putting something in the cloud are:

You're tiny - colocation is fine but generally speaking if you don't need more than a single-server's worth of performance and you've got a for-profit business, "the cloud" is probably easier.

Your workload is extremely bursty.

You're using the other stuff. AWS/Azure/GCP has all sort of services that require scale to be efficient - if you're subscribing to those services and are medium-sized (I know, that's not even loosely defined) - it probably makes sense to be in AWS/Azure/GCP.

If you don't need those services, or you're extremely large, you can almost always do it cheaper yourself. Whether you want to is another/completely different question.
Wow. I'm done with GitHub. This is a vulnerability afaic. Just going to dissapear my code base huh.
The IRS cares where you’re working. Facebook (or any employer) has to report it accurately.
As someone with acid reflux caffeine is like nuclear waste. I never drank coffee or tea at all until my mid 30s. Now I have GERD and still drink it, I should stop.
Yes. From the extra context you have given, since you already have multiple high-end GPUs, it makes sense here in order to remove the bottlenecks of a weaker CPU for example. Then I agree on this to some extent.

But for those who don't have multiple GPUs and want to do DL training, I'm sure they would start off with one NVIDIA GPU and a more recent CPU that is just good enough for DL training rather than a high-end powerful CPU, which I why I hated to ask this investment-wise.
This is interesting, I can definitely see how being muslim in the West can lead to being judged negatively, and the parallel whith how eastern europe tends to be perceived sometimes.

I have been myself quite surprised by how Americans or Europeans seem to think that eastern europe is backwards on every level based on how they judge russian government.

One stupid example is : someone believed that all soviet made devices were bad quality, when actually a lot were manifactured without the idea of planned obsolescence built-in, which made them very durable.
But they had a bias for everything russian being shitty because it is supposed to be a backwards country, and didnt consider different metrics to evaluate things.

I largely agree that there is a huge amount of caricature being made about russia, but I would also argue that the government is partly at fault for that because of the monolithic image they try to project. They erase all nuance about russian people and life in the country on purpose.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g-search-filt...

Similar, but also enables highlighting of certain domains.

Also available on Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-search-filt...
We have a generous hardware budget. Some people have used it for home office stuff but most choose to just buy it with their own money so they can keep it if they were to leave or use it outside work.

Some people get noise cancelling headphones or monitors with their budget.
Thank you! Just curious, is there any reason why "Wiper blacklisted URL: <URL>" need to be shown instead of a cleaner removal?
I've been working from home for two years. My employer hasn't paid for anything in my home office. I have company issued computers and monitors (nothing amazing), the same ones I was using when we still had an office, but that's it.

Honestly, my expenses besides that have been minimal. I bought a new office chair once on my own dime, but that's pretty much it. I'm still using a long card table for a desk that I've had for probably a decade now. Internet costs I was already paying for anyway.
Fair point. There's a sweet spot to be found between full-on crowd-sourcing and giving all the power to 2-3 blind reviewers. Maybe limit the participants to be the members of the technical committee? Or maybe expand it to include members of the given conference?
Here is breakdown for UK https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52403772, France https://www.liberation.fr/direct/element/la-repartition-par-... and Belgium https://5minutes.rtl.lu/actu/frontieres/a/1496940.html after quick googling.
Probably closer to my family in general, which currently is situated in the south-east of the US. I live in the PNW and absolutely love it, but I don't think I'd stay here too long if it wasn't for my job. If I could somehow get the rest of my folks to move out here, I would definitely pick either the PNW or Massachusetts. I originally grew up in the north-east US and loved Massachusetts.
> each employee in the San Francisco Bay Area costs an extra $20,000 to $35,000 per year

This is where they lost me. I can make $140k working remotely for a job that is a minimum $200k in San Francisco. And that is just salary. It doesn’t count rent, lunches, and other office costs.
Ya, I glossed over some details there. However, the main point I was trying to get at is that a PO box doesn't mean bupkis for this question.
I like the slight, vague implication in your post that no testing means no deaths.
Also NY times:

https://www.nytimes.com./2020/02/18/world/europe/coronavirus...
Yeah, it's not a wonder drug. There are serious risks. And in terms of treatment for something like depression, it should be regarded like any other depression treatment: it may work for some and be crap for others, and do awful things to some people. If you have access to quality professional mental health care, that should be your first stop, before self-educating.
Planning is never on a permanent basis. That’s what “plan” means.
My employer gave everyone in the company a one-time $500 stipend, no questions asked.
>It's actually going to be a great era for consumers.

It's actually NOT, AMD, Intel, MS and big media companies are planning to put hardware DRM inside the computer.

The last 23 years of PC gaming we've seen the PC become a closed platform because of STEAM and mmo's, aka any client-server software you buy mean's you no longer own your PC or have any personal privacy because the program is constantly beaming data back to the mothership.

So no, they are going to turn the PC into locked down platform like mobile where you never see the exe files, they are trying to kill off local applications they want to "end piracy" by literally removing any control you have over your PC.

That's what Windows 10 DRM is about, UWP - encrypted computing, vm's, etc. Mean's it will be increasingly impossible to preserve old software because they are not honest binaries.

Don't think so? That is what Irdeto is all about, they've been encrypting PC game files for a while now and the future of PC gaming looks grim with always online drm, encrypted files because of micro-transactions and in game stores.

https://irdeto.com/

So no... the future looks locked down and dystopian to anyone who's been paying attention, what we're gaining in performance we're losing in freedom and increasing levels of DRM, VM's and encrypted software.
It’s parallelized on the GPU, but I/O isn’t really something you can parallelize that much.
The browser have other, legitimate uses. Popcorntime pretty much has no other legitimate use other than as a tool for copyright infringement.
I grew up in San Diego, work for an unfunded startup with low pay currently, so I moved right across the border to Playas de Tijuana. Its not actually totally ideal because some days it smells bad. But I live a block from the beach, the weather is just as perfect as San Diego, and my cost of living is like 70% less.
But you would expect the new one price to favor low cost of living candidates over high cost of living candidates. Especially where candidates in developed countries end up competing with candidates in developing countries. It’s unlikely that a dev shop in Bengaluru is going to start offering remote salaries that would be enticing for a US-based engineer, but the reverse would be completely expected.
I still consider Asheville home although I've been in Austin for 15 years now. I would move back in a heartbeat (provided I could convince my wife). Luckily, family is still there, so I get to visit regularly.
I moved to Elk Grove a few months ago and wrote an article on this topic and touched on most of the points you mentioned! :) https://medium.com/@bigilui/moving-from-the-bay-area-to-the-...
I like the notion of 'slow nomad'!

I don't like the idea of bouncing around a lot - a month here, a month there - it feels superficial. On the other hand, between reading and talking to a lot of people, and exploring the hell out of wherever I am by bike, a place can start to feel old... I've been here in Bend, Oregon for 5 years, and have ridden more roads and trails than some who have been here much longer. It's difficult to find new stuff to explore at this point without driving further afield. I kind of miss the sensation of it all being new, yet to be discovered (by me).
So, emacs?

We are talking lisp here. I don't think there's anything that compares.
Well, double the cores, double the cost...
What country are you in? We're watching the last season now-
I used to feel like I was limited by those "thought leaders" too. Except I lived in an low COL area, where the inertia is towards a lower salary. Once I started working remotely, I learned I wasn't bound by those ideas anymore.
> W3Schools deserves a break IMO. Sure, it's not the best resource and I wouldn't rely on it when learning new things, but it's handy when you know roughly what you want and need a quick reminder of the syntax.

Even in that case W3schools is mostly good for getting in the way of the much more useful MDN link that should be the top result.
My wife and I talk about leaving Seattle to go somewhere. Except both of our extended families are mostly here, we have extensive social networks, our kids are deeply integrated, and we got major homesickness when we moved from an island on one side of the city to a suburb on the other.

I'd love to go spend a year teaching software engineering in Costa Rica or New Zealand. Settling permanently? I dunno. I've ripped up what roots I've had multiple times now, and I don't really want to do it again.
So basically block 70% of all results from first and second page? Google has turned into a defective product.
How to monitor your Machine Learning models in production
You can get a watermaker and if it's a sailboat you won't need that much fuel. Food is still an issue though.
If interested in urbanization and the particular problems SF is running into today, I would highly recommend Progress & Poverty by Henry George. Fairly dense at first but it lightens up.

It was written in SF post-gold rush to answer the question of why the obscene wealth generated by the gold rush resulted in abysmal quality of life and skyrocketing inequality in SF. Sadly relevant these days.
Do they though? I've wondered this before as a non-smoker.

I assume patches are slow release but smoking provides a bigger hit all at once. Sometimes that's important, both in terms of impact and building tolerance.
Very wrong. Entire RAID arrays can be lost to fire, water/flooding, power surges, multiple drive failures, theft, etc. And if the controller dies you may be up the creek.

Backup is separate. Ideally following 3-2-1.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/