skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
w3schools

I look to the bottom of the page every time to avoid this terror...
That was April 28. Since then a reliable witness (Ed Bolian) has reported many more runs, including < 26 hours !

(May 15) https://www.whichcar.com.au/news/the-cannonball-run-record-h...
Philadelphia

It's one of the five biggest cities in the US but most people routinely look past it.

First of all it's fairly cheap, less than half as expensive as SF even in the nicest parts.

It's got the best restaurant scene of any city I've spent time in (and almost all are free BYO).

It's got a great art scene including a ton of amazing live music. 4 sports teams with passionate fan bases.

It's racially diverse (no racial majority), mostly safe, and has plenty of young professionals.

And if you really need to you can get to NY in only a few hours.

The only reason I'm not there is that the tech scene sucks. If I could be remote I'd be there already.
Yeah, plus CoL differences don't affect ALL things you spend your money on; amazon sells stuff for the same price no matter where you live.
> This flushing does address CVE-2020-0550 for snoop-assisted L1 data sampling but the main emphasis seems to be on the "yet to be discovered vulnerabilities."

I am unsure if this is just idle speculation (heh) that there may be issues in this area or there are issues that have been disclosed to vendors but not the public yet?
Only for w2 income. Or if they aren’t an employee, rather a contractor and earn 1090 income, then the onus is on the contractor.
Chicago, where I live.

A world class city where you can buy a single family home in a nice neighborhood for less than $750k.
The focus is not really on the "commercial" part of it but the part where I don't necessarily have to do everything from the flower stage. In a similar vein, I don't think that Berliners and Barcelonians are churning their own butter because there isn't a shop selling butter already made, or knitting every sock they own because nobody sells socks. The US marijuana sector isn't even really heavily commercialized, there are no major regional or national distributors or sellers of weed, but you can buy products made from flower all the same.

The smell from making my own edibles in an apartment would probably not endear me to my neighbors, and sometimes I would rather use an edible than roll a joint.
Companies, and many agencies in the federal government, already do this..

As long as the same policy would equally apply to all races, there is nothing wrong with making COL or salary adjustments based on where an employee moves.
Pardon my ignorance, but what is a Portal?
> To those trashing Python in favor of Golang: A compiled language with no OO is not a replacement for Python.

Why?

I mean, come on. Who in their right mind would ever claim that Go is not a good choice to develop web services?

And are we supposed to turn a blind eye to Python's problems such as sub-par performance and the GIL?

I understand how Python fanboys will pick Python over alternatives whether that makes technical sense or not, but asserting that any compiled language cannot be used to deliver software that has been implemented with Python, and that explicit support for OO is a relevant requirement, is something that flies in the face of reason.
Taco Bell plans to hire 30k workers through curbside and virtual interviews
on mars.
for those who dont know about native search filters, appending "-domain.tld" to a regular search query also works
You'd think with all the training ladies' hairdressers would know how to deal with different hair types. My hair isn't that much different from Caucasian hair. Even some ladies' hairdressers in the UK don't know how to deal with my Asian (Oriental) hair. The strands are thicker and I have more hair as well. I either go to the Asian salons or go for the non-trainee hairdressers.

I have received highlights that aren't visible at all except under the sun, hair that doesn't hang right as the weight of my hair holds it straighter when it's long, left with too much hair as they don't understand what thinning hair is, etc.
All of my family lives in Brevard and I mountain bike a ton, so I would move there in a heartbeat (I live in Raleigh right now). In fact, I'm already remote (and have been for 4 years), so why haven't I done it?!
I've often said to people "There's no such thing as paradise. Everywhere has its issues and problems. What matters is whether you care about those problems or not."

When I lived in Seattle in the 1990s, I cared about the problems I saw/knew about in the PNW. When I lived in Philadelphia for 22 years, I really didn't care about the problems. Seattle felt like paradise. Philadelphia just felt like a place to live.
But... nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM!

If you set up "your own solution", you're always the "guilty one" if something fails. If you buy IBM (or HP or whatever), it's their fault if something fails.

(i did some of that stuff in enterprise enviroments.... honestly, IBM/HP/... + paid support was always the better option for me, mainly due to "liability" issues)
I strongly agree! I liie the variations and local differences. The local decision making power. I don’t want it all to be the same.

I just think with the internet, while our bodies may be in one place, we interact with people from so many other places. For example, in this thread, I may be interacting with people from maybe 5 different US states and maybe 5 other countries. Which region’s law applies? The one where I am physically present? The one where the HN owner is registered? The one where the HN server is located?

If an employee lives in Florida but works for Facebook remotely, a company based in California but maybe registered in Delaware, which state’s labor laws apply to that employee?

Maybe these things are obvious to others and I’m just far behind on understanding legal jurisdiction, but I just think things aren’t so clearly defined as “local” anymore.
It is not different. For a product like mongodb, both the durability guarantees and the documentation explaining them are an integral part of the user experience. If I'm starting a project, I'm making decisions for a junior developer whom I'll hire in 2 years. I care what code that junior developer will be most nudged to write.

If the Stripe API had documentation was needlessly unclear in a way which led people to lose a significant amount of money, that would be a bug.
Ideally one would desire an indefinitely large memory capacity … We are therefore forced to recognize the possibility of constructing a hierarchy of memories, each of which has greater capacity than the preceding but which is less quickly accessible.

”Burks, Goldstine, and von Neumann, "Preliminary discussionof the logical design of an electronic computing instrument," 1946.
A video-call device they make: https://portal.facebook.com/
Seven technologies and trends the Covid-19 pandemic will accelerate
Cynical but in a dumb way. A moment of thought will tell you that lost productivity by being all remote outweighs the benefits money that the FAANGs are saving. If they could just shovel that money they're saving to the employees to get that productivity back, they would.

A smarter cynical take would be that it's more likely that 1) they know their employees don't want to risk COVID-19, 2) they don't want to risk their employees getting COVID-19, but not for the reason he states but instead because that people worried about getting sick at the office are less productive, and 3) they want their precious little cash cow employees back producing milk at full speed as soon as they can.
I never connect any personal device to company networks. It's just too much of a liability to make a simple mistake and lose my job.
I happily use Octal on iOS (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-hacker-news/id1308885491)
For me it’s the stackoverflow and github comment scrapers. They often clutter up my results greatly.
Cyprus (and I live there now). Low taxes, Mediterranean Sea, great work life balance.

When I ignore taxes and cost of living I also like Hawaii.
webmd
Better version:

https://gist.github.com/fctorial/4cef5d564d84662baacfebaed7c...
I work remotely and live in NYC. Honestly, I cannot imagine living anywhere else. Present conditions notwithstanding, I believe New York to be an ideal place to base oneself. The connivence to both everyday needs, world-class food, culture, and yes, employers, is unparalleled. And on top of that, there is perhaps no better place in the US from which to explore the world.

People say it's expensive but they act as if you get nothing in return for what you pay, which is certainly not the case.
The place you're looking for then is Haast.

However, if you're earning a good salary, I would suggest Lake Hawea if you want to still be part of society. (and you should still be covered by the nations gig fibre network there)
I hate those, but they're so many that you'd need a community maintained list to keep track of them all…
> A moment of thought will tell you that lost productivity by being all remote outweighs the benefits money that the FAANGs are saving.

Really? Three years working remote and I'm still more productive.
Right. I wouldn't mind moving back out to the redwood tree forest in Northern California, which can be as quick of a drive as 1 hour 30 minutes from SF, but realistically 2 or so hours.

All the other areas in CA it lists are super far away, but regardless I have a feeling it would count it as CA Everywhere Else, despite the prices out there not being far off from Silicon Valley.
> Where exactly do people go to bars without meeting friends group they don't already know?

Everywhere is my guess.

Some examples:

1. People go to their “local”. You probably already know people there, but you don’t when you first go if you are new to the area.

2. When you are out of town. Bars near convention centers can great places to meet interesting people. My local happens to be one.

3. When the bar has a theme you and your tribe like. It’s an easy way to meet new people you like. In larger cities, the bar scene is constantly evolving.

4. For live music. Having lived in Austin, there are great shows every night of the week. Yes, you usually invite friends, but there are some shows that I would not miss even if my friends didn’t want to go.

5. After a long day, I will sometimes choose to go to a bar alone and that is not likely to have anyone I know as customers. Sometimes I want to be around people and have a drink, but I don’t want to interact with anyone.

6. Same as 5, but I just want to read a long-form essay or a book.

I’m sure there are more.
It'd really depend on the income. I currently live in San Carlos in a very small workshop that was converted into an in-law unit from the 1930s. I'm not at it yet - but if I was guaranteed to get bay area FAANG level of pay - I might consider moving elsewhere. Until that happens - I'm staying within the region. I don't see a point to leave since pay will scale with where you go frequently enough and in most places - it's just not enough on a single household income. (Even here - it's almost impossible to buy a home in the peninsula on senior software engineer FAANG level of single income)

Even then - I did like San Francisco a lot but only the parts you could get a nice place in. There are many areas of San Francisco that I don't like because they're just not nice. (Lots of crazy people yelling in the street, trash everywhere, bad smells, crime, loud in general, etc.) If I was able to afford living somewhere like Twin Peaks - I'd consider it... But last I checked, I'm a few million short.

So, even if I was remote and made a lot of money, I'd probably still choose SF if I could while I didn't have kids. If I have kids and stop going out - I might like to live somewhere on the coast like Pacifica or Santa Cruz (Opal Cliffs). I want a very large workshop at some point - so I might have to move into the mountains. I've spent some time in a nice house there on a cliff in Santa Cruz - wouldn't mind that... But, again, missing a few million...
I’ve been working remotely since last June.

I decided to stay in Seattle. Sure, we have our issues (homelessness, high rents) but we also have some perks (close to nature, beautiful weather 8 months of the year, fast internet, cheap power, roughly sane state government).
Goodbye Forbes!
Decaf still has some caffeine, just less.
Really, if you’re a contractor and if the local and state governments have f*cked up the housing market as badly as they have in much of California, badly enough that you have to live in a van, I don’t believe that they are morally entitled to capture even a dime of the value of your labour in income taxes.

Screw ‘em.
It is a huge bet that productivity in the long run is equal to or greater than the savings in rent. When you do the math on the occupancy cost per square foot relative to the labour cost on a per square foot basis (using a company’s occupancy numbers divided by square footage of the office), it works out to 4 - 7%. If you increase employee turnover slightly or decrease productivity in the long run by a small amount, you’ve erased the gains and destroyed your company culture in the long run. Oh, and if you give your employees a bunch of money to fit out their home offices and start paying for their internet at home and give them money for lunches and whatnot, you’ve just erased a portion of the savings in rent and further reduced the odds against you as employer will be net positive.

It is a hugely levered bet and to see all of these companies making this bet on the basis of a 3 month experiment with, to say the least, confounding factors, seems irresponsible.
That's how they (allegedly) got supply, not demand, which is what I focused on in the post
I had zero problems acquiring first 1K customers for my product. Just spammed some relevant forums. Actually I got way more then 1K this way. Problem was that said amount was not making it worth for me. And acquiring more presented a challenge. Basically lacking external investment to increase market share by whatever means I put that particular product on a diet (invest few hours here and there). Since then it brings me small but steady income without investing much. As I have other products and also create those for other companies I am ok and happy with what I got for my efforts. But if I had to live from that single product it would not be a comfy life to say it mildly
Security-minded thinking dictates that we should move forward with the assumption that it will happen. The important outcome is not "we can't do anything as a society because bad men could hurt us" but "how do we mitigate and minimize this kind of event so that progress can continue".

Look: I don't want my loved ones in the car that gets hacked, and I'm not volunteering yours, either. Sad things are sad, but progress is inevitable and I refuse to live in fear of something scary possibly happening.

It is with that logic that I can fly on planes, ride my bike, deposit my money in banks, have sex, try new foods and generally support Enlightenment ideals.

I would rather trust a mesh of cars than obsess over the interior design of a bunker.
I believe the primary way they succeeded was giving away money. When you signed up they'd give you $10. Later it was reduced to $5. You could also get that amount by signing up friends
Please make one for Bing. I gave up on Google search about half a year ago initially for all searches that could yield politically incorrect results, but then for all technical searches as well due to these spammy sites. Bing technical search is definitely higher quality and the general results are more politically neutral, but it still needs your extension. I currently find Firefox/Bing to be the most effective combination.
I think there are two great arguments here: nobody needs tools that perpetuate a vanishing system and there are lots of interesting things happening in EdTech. While I am grateful for your example, I would like to offer a different perspective.

I know of a university teacher who is looking into solving the arduous task of grading without going crazy. I approve of a tool being built to facilitate this.

I am torn on this issue as well: I strongly dislike formal education, with it following a metric of "teaching to the test" and "learning to test instead of retention." I wish that there was more systemic change towards a different way of assessment.

But not for one second will I assume to know what is best for the teachers in that space. If building a pre-grading (which is merely an example here) can help them shave off an hour of tedious work a day, I think it's a valid side project idea. It may even be a valid business idea.

The project that changed my life[1] was an EdTech productivity system that generated student feedback for online teachers working with young students in China. Student feedback as text-only is a horrible way of communicating individualized instruction. Yet we help teachers speed up that process, which allowed them to do one thing: teach more. Be more present in the classroom. Foster stronger relationships.

I would argue that making anything nominally more convenient is a good thing: it removes an inconvenience so that things that matter can take place. No teacher would call teaching inconvenient. Lots of them would call admin stuff very inconvenient.

Again, it's not about "teaching to the test" per see. It's about removing barriers to allow for meaningful, accomplished, and impactful work.

[1] https://thebootstrappedfounder.com/from-founding-to-exit-in-...
Use Amazon for searching, list a few candidates, then go look at them in local meat space and buy the one you like, locally.

Edit: Wait, what? Light bulbs? Just go to home Depot or the grocery store and be done with it. Most other things can be bought this way. And it's same day having.
Exactly! I mean, in a way, governments seem like SaaS, just trying to provide all services, with tax being the membership fee, some members being more subsidized by other members.

Geographic governments make sense for many reasons and yet it seems that virtual governments could provide other services.

I wonder how much the Cathloic church is similar to this idea of a virtual or rather, geographically distributed government.

Anyways, I appreciate you exploring this with me.
At my employer if you were hired in SF and moved to Montana, you'd take a pay cut. If you were hired in Montana and moved to SF, you'd get a pay raise. Either one requires approval.

I'd be surprised if this isn't the norm in companies with a distributed workforce.
I think there's truth both in the incentives listed in the article and in this explanation, and there is a complex and varied set of cynical reasons that explain any large move across many employers like this. The real lesson is not to be a vulgar cynic.
N = 1. The fact is no one knows how it shakes out across teams and organizations and whether it heightens the learning curve for new employees who do not benefit from the informal chatter around them, or whether it increases employee turnover in the long run.

Seems irresponsible to make organization wide bets like this without proper testing. “Move fast and break things” applies to culture too I suppose.
MySQL was already ridiculously popular from use in PHP/MySQL applications well before Rails was popular. That said, I generally agree with your statement:

> MySQL was the perfect database for people who had no respect for databases.
can you mention some brands that were high rated but crappy?
There are some who are adapting well to remote work, like yourself, there are some who would be adapting well to work but other disruptions from COVID-19 reduce their effectiveness when remote, and there are quite a few who are just not effective when remote. At my employer, for example, effectiveness reduction estimates by department range from -20% to over -50% for particularly hardware dependent teams.
Can we have the option of not showing the removed results? Or maybe just show small notification on top "some results were removed by Wiper, click here to show them"?

Otherwise some search results might still be plagued with offenders, though admittingly their presence is much more sufferable.
> This type of action is signalling the company doesn't actually pay you for your knowledge or output.

And you win the Nobel prize for stating the obvious.

Tech salaries today in hotspots like Silicon Valley are probably on the order of twice what they were in the early noughties. Why? Because everyone’s so much more productive these days? Or because that’s what the market dictates?
Paying a salary based on someone's location is utter horseshit, unless they are an unskilled replaceable commodity. So at facebook, which is it?

It's as though people think that they are paid out of some kind of sense of paternalistic fairness. It's leverage, and if a recruiter can tell you "well the cost of living in your area is %30 lower, therefore your work is %30 less valuable" and you believe them, then sure, you are worth %30 less. If an HR person says, "our policy is we pay less in the area you live," you can respond with, "that's really interesting, my policy is GFY, because I work where I deliver value."

Employers do not pay for your time, they pay you for theirs, to shorten the period between their investment and the maximum yield it can return to them.

Facebook is no longer mainly solving growth problems, it is solving sustainability and optimization problems, and if you want do do that, you might as well go work at a bank. They haven't dashed the hope of paycheck arbitrage, they have just made a huge public commitment to inferior talent, and they deserve what they get.
I have a system 76 oryx pro. I love it, though it’s big and heavy, it has 6 cores and a gpu that handles everything I through at it. Battery life is terrible, I could make it better by switching to the internal intel gpu (and sometimes I do) but it requires a reboot. For me it’s a portable workstation. I have an system 76 desktop too. It arrived dead, but support was able to point me to the card that came loose in shipping.

Pleasantly surprised at how low matenance the os is (pop os)
Great work! I actually made something similar 15 years ago with a P2P social networking angle: You could hide/promote results based on your friends' reccomendations.

Check out some old screenshots from Firefox version 1.0:
http://getoutfoxed.com/screenshots

It went viral on del.icio.us and let to me taking venture funding to found www.lijit.com, which lives on now as http://sovrn.com/
Surely in Vienna where they were actually fighting the Turks they had no compunction about drinking coffee?
expert-sex-change.com
A lot of nutrients (e.g., caffeine, vitamin D3, the fiber in raw carrots) are the closest thing we have to a "free lunch" because the evolutionary pressures that limited access to these nutrients are gone.

Our brains used to compete for scarce calories and nutrition, but now we can vastly increase these things with little to no downside.

There is no scientific distinction between food, drugs, and nutrients. They're all molecules. All that matters is the dosage.
No, but your pay has little to do with what your work’s worth. That’s a contributor, but the most important factor is the market, by far.
my least favorites are the generic "difference between" sites, none of whose domains I can remember at the moment. but they really drive me nuts when I want to find results from people who actually know what they're talking about.
I try to read the reviews and find ones that seem more personal and skip stuff that seems generic. I either buy cheap stuff with the expectation that it will only work for a limited time (like a single project) or I look for a brand with a good reputation and warranty. If you buy from somewhere other than Amazon, you can find stuff that is cheaper. Currently, some places like Ebay have quicker shipping times than Amazon.Smaller sites may be less prone to manipulation from review mills.