skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live here already. The mountains of Utah, 30 minutes from BYU. My house was very affordable on my salary alone and is 5000 square feet. I have a whole acre of forest for a backyard and I'm a short walk from trails into the mountains that I can explore for hours.

BYU being close is great because the town has an amazing food and music scene for it's size. BYU has a great art museum and does concerts regularly. Bands you've heard of like Neon Trees, Imagine Dragons, and Kaskade all got their start in Provo.

I think there are probably countless places that are 30 minutes from a large University that would check all these boxes.
These guys won’t even move to New Orleans, what makes you think they’ll consider Mexico
Not quite on the topic of the text but..
I often wonder about this is the context of pacific Island cultures. Christianity is a huge part of community and cultural life in many PI countries. As something that was originally imposed on their ancestors by colonisers, does the work of de-colonisation also have to include a re-evaluation of religion?
HN's software deliberately allows reposts as a way of giving good submissions multiple cracks at the bat. We want to mitigate the randomness of what gets noticed on the /newest page, which can be something of a lottery. When there are duplicate threads, we resolve the signal/noise issue by merging them: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... That's one reason we ask people not to copy/paste their comments, as I mentioned.
Automakers move manufacturing to cheap labor markets, pretty sure HQ and engineering are still in relatively prestigious cities.
Permanently Beating My Insomnia
That’s almost worse than not censoring it heh.
What are you comparing to that makes Helsinki expensive?
And a fairly common trick used by those who want to mask how they got your email address is to strip everything between + and @ in the email address you gave them.
People have had a hunch that coffee has been bad for hundreds of years and have been trying to prove it ever since.

Mostly we just find new ways that it's good for you instead.
can you explain the laws?
Hospital and clinic here have fewer emergencies, there are fewer sirens going on, the graphs show infections have not really changed. You can't throw 16% of my towns buisness into bankruptsy for this flimsy reason anymore.

fewer than last year I mean. There is nothing wrong in the town.
Philly does have a great restaurant scene!
I don't want to talk about it, but people should be wary of kratom, went to some bad places with it.

Also at minimum constipation is a massive symptom
I created an add-on which replaces !s with inurl:stackoverflow.com to replicate the bangs of duckduckgo in Google.
This next year or two might be your chance to get a home for a good deal. Vegas and similar cities are projected to have a very hard landing due to them being so dependent on tourism, boom and bust cycles, etc.
REGex in Rust with EcmaScript Syntax
Caffeine has the unfortunate side effect of raising my blood pressure about 10 mmHg. While I love coffee I had to give it up. I can't imagine that would be good for me long term.
I've been following these techniques for decades:

1) PG and Viaweb had no traction until they hired a PR firm. Back in the day, those were $5k to $15k/month.

"It took a painfully long time for word of mouth to get going, and we did not start to get a lot of press coverage until we hired a PR firm (admittedly the best in the business) for $16,000 per month."

https://www.you-books.com/book/P-Graham/Essays

YC now has "BookFace", so I suppose you could just promote to other YC'ers if you have an account.

2) Hotmail used a footer on every email for viral mindshare.

3) At Yahoo, new properties were announced on internal employee lists and it was requested that say 500 employees would seed the new service so it didn't look like a ghost town.

4) Most of the social networks spammed your contact list to go viral. Or just changed preferences underneath what you set, like Linkedin and Facebook.

5) Most of the dating sites early on send emails from women, even when you don't have an account on those sites!
No, I didn't say don't pay taxes, I said don't pay them less because they live somewhere cheaper.
Regarding thread local storage - isn't that typically implemented using the segment registers (on x86 at least)? So you would need to vary those between fibers (instead of just between kernel threads) and your scheduler would have to explicitly save and restore them. I would guess that's not possible to do in portable C though.
I think first off unsustainability is a minor concern. At a birth rate of 1.7 we'll still have more humans in 2150 on the globe than we had in 1980, so that doesn't sound so alarming.

More importantly I think the author points to a real problem but finds the wrong solution. It's indeed true that family is a form of social support, but it's not the only one. The author laments the breakdown of the nuclear family but it is the nuclear family itself that was probably one of the worst inventions we ever made.

Instead of trying to rebuild the socially impoverished nuclear family, the low birthrate can be used to rebuild community. Socialisation not out of any tribal obligation, but voluntarily. Creating institutions in which people cooperate and live together rather than small suburban homes full of lonely grandparents.
I do work remotely, and I live in the beautiful Pacific NorthWet. My wife always wanted to live here, and so now we do. I love it. My ultimate would be to be able to snowbird down to AZ or NV for the winters, but I'm content here :)
Mediterranean coastline is 28,600 miles.

Californian coastline is ~850 miles.

Also, much, much lower COL in certain countries, obviously going up for premier destinations (like Ibiza, etc.)

California coastal properties are ALL mind-blowingly expensive. I don't work at FAANG so CA property is a non-starter.
I've written 100% clojure(script) full time professionally for the past 3 years and have turned down several offers for more clojure work.

There are certainly less jobs in Clojure but they're out there.
I don't find it easy to use. I want something like existing APM SaaS.
The technology page at https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b175dbc0d73 is worth skimming for anyone who is interested in posthuman sci-fi. Much of the exotic tech on their is based on realistic (but highly speculative) physics. The site also has a good list of physically plausible megascale engineering: https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b5645097563
If you ever write more of what you're thinking on this topic, please let me know at hn@ycombinator.com. I'd like to read it. Users often point things out that we haven't thought of, but this was a particularly memorable case to me.
Heap is great.
I live in Florida; I don't particularly care for it, I don't see the charm. But my life is here, well established: wife, children, parents, in-laws, friends. My life is here. My work is only a part of that, and not the biggest part; it certainly doesn't keep me from moving.
Sounds hard
This may be a factor, but I also initially worked for a non-profit. That's the majority of my paid work on the ground in town here.

I'm relatively new to town and I am a freelance writer and blogger by trade and I know something about creating an online business because of it. I feel like if I am too critical of what other website people do who are more long-time locals, I'm basically cutting my own throat.

There's a lot of factors and they are hard to tease out. I feel like no one online would likely pay me to help them set up a blogspot site. I spend a lot of time on Hacker News and people here role their own and probably wouldn't see any value in paying me for what I know about the backend of blogspot and how to do design work in that venue.

I'm more technically inclined than most locals and there's a big chasm between me and them on trying to convey why what I do has value. I can see value in it, but I don't know how to explain it and I am not good at sales. I have experience doing volunteer work and I sort of fell into doing more of that, which I can't really afford to do because I'm a dirt poor freelancer. I need to find a way to improve my income.
The downloadable version of dynamodb is only intended for testing and is not a distributed system by any definition, nor does it behavior match the production system exactly.

There's no reason for Jepson to be applied to a single-node in-memory kv store.
Massive tax cuts and other packages, look at what cities were offering Amazon to put another office in their city.
Txtodo: A 24-hour todo list for Covid-19 quarantine
If history is any tell Intel allocated $475M pre-tax charge against earnings when they did Pentium FDIV replacements -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug . But I assume most people are more likely to raise a ruckus for potentially invalid computations, than for subtle potentially leaky computations.
I'm surprised at that. My wife and I became permanent residents in 2007. It must have changed a lot since then as it took us under a month from application to residency.
That sounds way too high. It's CONFIG_HZ, right? According to this[1], it can be 1ms to 10ms, with the default being 4ms.

[1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/Kconfig...
The curious story of the Neo Geo AES [video]
"the fiber in raw carrots"

I see you're familiar with Ray's other work :)
Damn I love that!

I only feel the future itself is going to be properly astonishing... Even in the mid term...

Nevertheless I just crazy love science-fiction, so, thanks for this project!!!

Btw I see that not just as a fiction works, but as an exploration of the evolution paths for our real future as well, so that's just as important as real science.

That's our compass for science and technological progress.
Companies pay as little as they can get away with. Fair enough. But when their workers are remote, those companies are competing with every other company that's willing to hire remote workers. On the other hand, SWEs are notorious for accepting low pay. So in summary.... who knows how it would shake out?
I remove as much as possible (not just the utm bits) from any URL that I am planning to store or send to someone else.

I especially dislike URLs that don't fit on one line.
Except not exactly, because for some of us fast metabolisers, half life of caffeine can be less than 4h, meaning by fasting from 1600 to 0800, you are down to trace levels, and the body is reversing its tolerance.

I've done informal tests and steady state caffeine every day for a month is not the same as abstaining. You alleles, and hence mileage, may vary.
The reason people believe these news about conspiracy theorists is because many of them have their relatives/friends/acquaintances who on a regular basis tend to start those crazy topics at the dinner table and who are never argued against because by that time everybody knows that arguing with someone fixed on an idea is absolutely useless.

You can’t be theoretical in conspiracies. You can either prove it (or at least know facts others don’t) or you are crazy.
We wanted a quieter, slower life. We researched a lot of places in the Midwest and south and Michigan came out ahead for us. We’re also right in the middle of my parents and wife’s parents. I plan to work remotely for the rest of my career, focusing on freelancing.
Can we stop with the conspiracy theories? Git rose where it was today for a multitude reasons, most of them technical: it is very fast, rebase is well supported, if it breaks it’s easy to fix and so on. (Yes, some of these are fixed now, but it is too late)

I mean, many people had the exposure to bit git and hg at some point in their life - especially the kind of people who make decision which vcs to use. Celebrity endorsement may be good to convince me to try something, but it cannot convince one to use something over alternatives, if they had enough experience with both.
It’s likely these employees’ initial employment agreement was to work on-site in the Bay Area office.

If they want to move away from the Bay Area and work 100% remote, they’re being offered that option - that’s a change in the contract itself, in their favor, which they don’t have to take if they don’t want to.
Kitchener-Waterloo (KW), Canada.

It's basically the Silicon Valley of Canada with plenty of opportunity, beautiful trails, light rail transit, amazing food from all around the world, and a burgeoning event scene.

Plus, it's a 40min drive to Toronto, and <2hr drive to beautiful sandy beaches on 3 great lakes (e.g. Wasaga Beach, Long Point, Goderich).
If the delivery platform is not evil, it can charge as low as PayPal do. But if they charge less, they can only do less advertising, which makes the network effect weaker.

Is there a way to let people discover suitable service without paying a lot for advertising? Like the real word-of-mouth, not the "KOL" one.
Birmingham Alabama's hospitals are currently overwhelmed[0].

This thing is going to get even uglier quickly as it tears through rural areas that have little to no nearby healthcare options.

And as the people who are out mingling this weekend start to get ill in the next week and start to feel bad enough to need hospitalization in the next two to three weeks we're going to see some scenes just like in NYC with overwhelmed hospitals and morgues being replaced by air conditioned semi trucks (or worse, bodies piling up in the summer heat). It's already happening in some rural areas[1].

The only counties that have no deaths are those with very few people and/or no testing [2].

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/dire-coronavirus-alabama-icu...
[1] https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-deadly-checkerboard-Co...
[2] https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/coronavirus-spread-rural-c...
I was mistaken. They are 2x NF-A15 (140mm).

https://noctua.at/en/nh-d15

The other two fans I mentioned went in the topside of the case.
I did some reading on that a few months ago when a friend was trying to convince me to filter coffee using paper (apparently that remove cafestol and kahweol).
It seems like recent studies have shown more mixed results for these compounds. They can (mildly) increase cholesterol, but are also anti-carcinogenic in the lower intestine and may help to regulate blood sugar.

> Early studies confirmed that coffee diterpenes (especially cafestol), effectively increase human plasma triacylglycerol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL), may be a potential risk of inducing some cardiovascular diseases [7,14]. However, from a more comprehensive perspective, cafestol and kahweol show a remarkable two-faced effect. In addition to the deleterious effects on serum lipid levels and liver enzymes in some cases, extensive studies have demonstrated that cafestol and kahweol exhibit a wide variety of pharmacological activities, including anti-inflammatory, anti-angiogenic and anti-tumorigenic properties.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6747192/
I for one am hoping that house prices drop with all the tech people moving out of the Bay Area. That way I can move back to Rockridge (North Oakland) to work remote from there without paying an arm and a leg.
I totally agree that working longer does not mean more work gets done. The people I'd need to convince are the hundreds of scared lower-level engineers who have a to earn a promotion within two years or probably get fired.
Show HN: Thoughtful Poetry
Portland's a long way from the coast.
a whitelabled version of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen
Not CPUs -- they're rarely recalled. The Xeon in my computer has 50 pages of errata. It's common knowledge that CPUs are terribly buggy.
#RAD #MVP

Good idea, even better implementation.
The counter to that is that there's people that live in cheaper areas that are willing to accept less _because_ their cost of living is lower. If a company can hire them instead of someone )with the same productivity) basing their expected salary on what people make in SV, then why wouldn't they? Following that logic, people living SV should start making less while people living in inexpensive areas should start making more; it should even out to some extent.
Disclaimer: I'm a FB employee

What's being forced upon me? If I continue to work as before, nothing changes. Working remote full time wasn't an option in my initial employment agreement either, so it does not seem like that agreement applies to this situation.
At $179 that's a cheap product.
This used to be built-in to google itself. You could choose to block a site from future results from any results page. But they killed it, along with forum search, code search, usenet search, and so many other useful things.
examine.com is often a good starting place and lists many studies.

https://examine.com/supplements/theanine/
I'm from ATL and I'm curious about Raleigh. What is the social and cultural scene like?
As a futura fan, I really admired Ikea for switching to verdana for purely utilitarian reasons: they needed a font that had the absolute widest unicode coverage for use in basically any language on planet earth. It was a short list.

That said, I cringed at verdana's bell-bottom almost-serifs, especially when used at undignified large headline sizes, far larger than it was ever intended to be set.

The move to noto makes me happy.
True on "adrenal" fatigue, but it does increase cortisol levels and blood pressure. Chronic use will also lead to increased run-of-the-mill fatigue.

Caffeine works by blocking adenosine receptors, which is part of the mechanism for feeling tired. So the brain compensates by creating more receptors and flooding the brain with adenosine.

If there are no caffeine molecules in the brain to block the receptors, you will crash. Consume more caffeine, and voila: you feel normal again.
Some people are competing with local labor. Others are competing with global labor. Which situation benefits you strongly depends on your ability to demonstrate value to the employer.

It isn't just supply that is global but also demand. If you demonstrate exceptional value relative to supply globally, then buyers of your skills must also compete globally.
Presentism (I’ve discovered after googling) is not a fallacy, it’s some niche criticism of eurocentrism that’s being reappropriated by the cultural right to try and whitewash some pretty atrocious stuff. Here’s an excerpt from Forbes [1]:

> Let’s acknowledge that most modern Americans are not fans of slavery, the confederacy or racism. But is it right or useful to go back into history and cleanse the campus of references to those events and people who, in an earlier era with a different set of values, participated in them? So much is lost if we insist on this approach to history:

–Leaders are not perfect. In fact, the very qualities that may lead to huge success may also result in grand failures. Ask Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton or, yes, Woodrow Wilson. We’re better off celebrating and learning from leaders warts and all.

–History itself is full of failures and successes. Before the U.S., essentially every culture and country had slavery. Only in America was the prospect of eliminating it on the table at the founding, and eventually it was accomplished, Are we now to cleanse the public square of all failures?

——-

Generally, I think slavery and mass murder/subjugation are pretty awful, no matter the era, no matter if someone else is also doing it.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddavenport/2015/12/01/prese...
The rational way to do this would be for Facebook to take into account COL when setting salary for non-remote work, and to not take it into account when setting salary for remote work.

Why? Because if they are specifically trying to fill a spot in Menlo Park they are going to have to pay enough to attract people who live within commuting distance of Menlo Park. If they are trying to fill a Seattle spot they need to pay enough to attract Seattle workers. And so on.

If they are trying to fill a remote spot then they should be largely indifferent to where that person lives. For remote work they only need to set pay high enough to get the number of people they want from the entire country.

If they set remote pay at a level that makes them attractive to people in Georgia but not to people in Connecticut, and at that level they can find all the remote workers they want, why should they care that Connecticut engineers aren't applying for remote Facebook jobs?
It has been a decade since MongoDB was initially released. It still isn't a database in any meaningful sense of the word. Please don't downplay the amount of trouble one can get into by assuming it is a database.
Some thoughts:

Slay the Spire, an obvious inspiration for this game, is my favorite game of this last few years. This game builds on that formula in a meaningful way, and seems like fun so far. What makes Slay the Spire so special, though, is the steady polish (some technical, some new content, lots of balance tweaks) applied over the last few years. Here's to hoping this game will follow that part of the inspiration also.
>you don’t deserve a 6000sq ft mansion that a doctor living in the same region cannot afford.

Speak for yourself.

One life to live. Go for the home run - stand your grand, hold out for the big offer.
He speaks as if he's making "black/white" statements, but if you listen to him long enough, his ideas do contradict each other. I think the most valuable thing to take away from him is that only you can detect good health by paying attention and making decisions in real time, and that the optimal combo will always be in flux. It's like when he constantly restates his bio on radio shows. He's just a conduit for whatever his intuition tells him is right. I don't hang on the specifics of his work, but rather the mindset that intuition, curiosity, and attention will save you.
Dude you live in the mission, probably the most disgusting part of the entire bay area, other than maybe the bay itself. I didn't last a single week there

Move to Noe Valley or Bernal heights
The problem is this article has a sample size of 1. This story is basically anecdotal. Come back to us once you've dealt with 100 RAID 5 setups and tell us how that worked out.
Ask HN: What intangible qualities do you look for in early employees?
When you go beyond a founding team, where you likely have a background with your founding members, how do you screen for the attributes that make early employees successful?
That's the year that I applied and got permanent residence. It didn't feel out of reach, besides the long month of waiting.

The background check was pretty epic, though. I had to prove that I was indeed in a relationship with my girlfriend, who was a New Zealand citizen. This was probably because I didn't have a job lined up or a degree or skills to offer. We turned over about a year's worth of letter's we had mailed each other, many of which were pretty intimate. Supposedly someone flipped through them. Then I had to get a chest X-ray and some other medical exams, along with a drug test, to make sure I wasn't just coming over to freeload off their medical system or sling dope.

I imagine it would have been much easier if I had the skills and income that I have now. I was actually kinda shocked that I got permanent residency as easily as I did. From what I was told, I should have been pessimistic.
find a subcontracting firm, and get in there. I've worked with a couple, and while they don't tell me what they bill me out at, in one case I was pretty sure there was a 20% buffer they'd built in. I suspect in other cases it's probably more like 25-30% - you'll get billed out at $100/hr, but they'll pay you $70/hr. But in those cases you don't own the relationship, nor necessarily have much visibility in to the business relationship. You're just a pair of hands at that point.