skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably. You can get a 2br apartment in Detroit and Ann Arbor for half the cost of a 1br in San Francisco.
Do you mean the weather in the northeast, or Philly in particular?
> backend engineers get paid more than front end

I'm not surprised having setup a hosted GL instance. It's actually quite amazing how it mostly just works but when things go wrong between upgrades and migrations you quickly realize how complicated everything is under the hood.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/architecture.html#com...
How are cities hurting? The cities are the ones refusing to build. The landlords are profiting from this and so is the city. (Higher land value => higher tax revenue)

Do you really think this will "relieve" anything except push the problem onto other cities that also refuse to build? (And will inevitably push out people who already had to leave the big city due to the cost)
Does Chromium test with valgrind, various sanitizers and static checkers? Since when? This is 5 years of bugs. How many would be caught by modern tools? Could those tools be improved to catch those bugs? I'm surprised this isn't mentioned in what they're trying, but maybe they're at the practical limit.
If management is pushing a project it is their Responsibility to clearly articulate why a project is being taken on. If the team thinks it’s a waste of time then management has failed to communicate the companies objectives and how the project relates. If the people closest to the project don’t understand why it’s worth doing that’s a huge red flag and they should reconsider the project entirely.
3990x does have more cores and threads, but it also has lower clock speeds than the 3970x.
This is a real problem that has existed for a long time, but has really only came to public attention because of the lockdowns. I wrote about it here: https://blog.routesimply.com/why-your-restaurant-should-brin...

My partner owns a pretty successful craft brewery in the bay area, and he's recently decided to get rid of doordash, grubhub and ubereats. What worked for him is using a network of ex-Uber drivers (there are tons of whatsapp and telegram groups where these guys hang out) together with an app (www.routesimply.com) that I built for him.

He takes orders directly on the phone, instagram and fb messengers and tacks on a delivery fee that the customer pays for and gives 100% to the driver.
>pharaonic

Oh! Thank you for teaching me this word.
I'd LOVE to work from an apartment in Surfers Paradise or Broadbeach in the Gold Coast (AU/QLD) with ocean views. Not necessarily a super cheap area but the lifestyle is great (to me at least) and the views are AMAZING if you can get them.

Property prices are the killer, but the actual cost of living isn't really that high over there and the public transport is fantastic so you wouldn't even need a car.
A celebrity tabloid talks about the personal life of celebrities. This is a technology focused forum and the article is about a big name in technology choosing a new technology.
Any favorite spots in LA? I live in Pasadena and could use some recommendations of places to check out once the pandemic dies down.
My theory is they have occasional dike failures and all the short ones drowned.
Tomatoe tomato. RAID uses redundant (ie backup) drives for availability.
The whole origin of HN is from PG fandom, isn't it?
You should spend some time in Russia before you determine that Russia is a place for “young, broke, lonely and bold.”
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Chirality is either an underlying property of biological life, or an epigenetic (so-to-speak) result from having a Spinning Something and then throwing Life into it. Reality itself could have a spin or orientation and therefore Biological Life would be subservient to such. In my opinion long-term adaptations have about as much pertinence to chirality as it does to magnetism. Either it turns or it doesn't, it doesn't slowly decide to over millions of years.
This instead of the site that collects PG's parenting tweets? It was on the front page a few weeks ago.
I feel you. I used to live in Quebec so I know what that's about. Chicago weather is tropical in comparison.
Sorry to be that guy, but 'things were uphill from <point>' means something got super difficult (as in running uphill is hard) - not sure if that's what you were shooting for.
Yeah totally, and I think your earlier point about these things being designed by committee explains a lot of this. I onboarded at a place where I had to use this map of people’s desks to find certain people. Like, I can do that, but I’m never going to need to. But whatever ops manager representing their department probably thought there should be some ops thing in there, or they fought for that software and want to make sure it gets good use or whatever. I get all that, but generally what it indicates is that no one at any point (e.g. an engineering manager) said “hey this thing is intuitive enough people don’t need training on it, and culturally my people will feel condescended to”. It’s a bad signal, and borne out in Rachel’s case by the desk and equipment stuff. And while this isn’t always the case, if they can’t get small stuff like this right, what are the odds they’ll get professional development, comp, or conflict resolution right?

Hiring (or training) good managers is very hard, even more so for engineering managers. But it’s so bad as an employee to have a manager that doesn’t advocate for you, good people will leave, and that’s just a downward spiral.
nah, Mediterranean is huge. Many affordable places there. If you look at the well advertised "brand" places then for sure it's expensive. Greetings from Cyprus.
dunno i’ve been fully remote for 6 years now. Many reasons people get together. Several times a year is my experience. Would be a tough pill to swallow to have to secretly travel to town, get a hotel, all on my own dime. What a huge stress & pain in the ass.

edit: In fact, “get the team together quarterly” is, last I heard, pretty standard guidance for distributed teams. I think it’s a fair assumption if you have little experience working remote. There’s more travel involved than you think though.
People just love re-inventing the wheel. I created my own implementation, back in the early 90s in Borland Turbo C and used it to implement a multi-terminal POS system for a busy bar. Did not know what the technique was called at the time though.

Then I joined a company in 96 and discovered that their software all ran on a custom in-house developed multitasking O/S (!). I immediately recognized the task switching mechanism and formally learned about coroutines.

Now here we are in 2020 and the youngins are still rediscovering the same thing.
There is no real difference between dead or too-busy.

The only question is how soon are you going to page humans. After the automated mechanism flipped your master 2-3 times but the cluster still hasn't made progress [nothing coming out of the master; or it locks up after a few minutes again]), or right after some other automated mechanism detects that there's a problem.

Whatever automation you have in place, it has advantages and disadvantages. In the GitHub case - I suppose - they determined post-mortem that it would have been better to just let the master chug through the incoming onslaught of queries instead of failing over, and over, and over. (But of course this seems like a trivial problem in any auto failover setup, so I suspect there's more to the story.)
> The default timeslice is something on the order of 100ms, isn't it?

Consider that a single core on a modern CPU running at 2 GHz can execute over 20k instructions in those 100ms.
I'm pretty sure it use to be, I remember searching for something like this years ago and stumbling upon a comment saying it had recently stopped that offering.
America Is Officially in ‘Fuck It’ Mode
s/celebrity/technologist/g

s/sports team/company/g
Not arguing one way or the other, but the comment you replied to did not imply every single caffeine drinker falls into that category
Really? Xapata like the bread.
> I think the largest reason people move or stick to Linux/BSD is that there are unique features that can't be found in other OSs

I was going to argue with you, but now that I think about it more, I believe you are right. People use Windows or Mac generally to run some specific software (for example if you need Visual Studio or want to play certain games, you are going to use Windows and probably don't think about the OS very often).

Conversely, users pick Linux because they want to run Linux.

Considering both Linux and MacOS are Unix, what kinds of things can you do in Linux (or BSD) that you can't do in MacOS? Is it all about the window manager?
At the company I work for, HR defines pay bands based on the HQ location and there's a % modifier based on where you live. So yes, if you move to a higher COL area, you get paid more. If you move to a lower COL area, you get paid less. Honestly, I thought this was a normal and uncontroversial practice until this.

Frankly, the calculus of your pay probably depends a lot less on your knowledge or output than you seem to think. Geography and luck play as large of a role.
This is exactly the image that the West wants to project about Russia - did you travel to Russia or know people actually living there? The West is extremely corrupt and opportunities are only for the rich, well-connected or tech workers. A lot of people would move out of the West if they knew an alternative existed.
Can you very quickly summarize the basics here? How do you find which keywords to target, how do you include them in your content, what's good SEO hygiene, what wordcount do you need, etc?

Basically, I'm not really aware of how you do SEO marketing, and would like to learn.
...it's funny, because if anyone can write code that wouldn't require 32 cores to run, Linus would certainly be one of them.

Don't forget to keep in touch with reality, a bunch of people on this globe still have to get by using dual-cores.
Ask HN: Are you worried about generative programming AI models?
We're starting to see more sophisticated uses of code generated by AI models that go beyond the typical IDE intelli-sense.

Recently there was a HN post about an AI model [0] (believe a NN) that wrote a bunch of CRUD Python code given human sentences as input.

Though the example seems simple, I think it's implications are far reaching. Personally, seeing the example has shortened my estimated timeline for "deep" code generation by a substantial amount.

Naturally I wondered how soon until basic CRUD applications, and other low-hanging software development fruit are picked by AI driven software.

I think the average programmer is safe for the next 5 years, but soon after only highly domain-specific use cases for human programming will be cost effective for businesses. CRUD apps, static websites, and perhaps more complex applications with some human programming, will greatly reduce the needed headcount of programmers in a typical business.

I see this similarly to IT, where initially IT teams were much larger, however more recently with the advent of DevOps processes and technology, a small team of IT-centric developers can reliably handle a medium-sized company.

Likewise, an easy value proposition will be the aforementioned AI models as products to reduce development cost for simpler applications.

Should we begin to prepare for this wave now by learning some tangential sub-field to retain similar magnitude of job opportunities? If so, what would be some examples?

Obviously we should be constantly learning, its a necessity in the field. My point isn't to fear-monger, rather contemplate if this wave could be larger than the typical language/technology advancement, both in magnitude, and in time of adoption.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23250379
Phoronix has actually benchmarked compiling the Linux 5.4 kernel on all three of the 3990X, 3970X, and 3960x[1]:

- 22.48s, 3990X

- 23.64s, 3970X

- 27.54s, 3960X

But keep in mind that the 3970X is USD $2,000, while the 3990X is USD $3,990... can't speak for Linus but that extra 1.1s per compile isn't worth $1,990 to me.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3990x-th...
You just weren't shady enough to get away with it.
> Can an exogenous molecule that was so adaptive be missed this bad and now consuming it will just fill that gap we had for millions of years?

I think the simplest answer to this is that for most of human evolutionary history, calories were scarce. And caffeine, like all stimulants, boosts metabolic rate both through thermogenesis and increased activity. That's a hard downside to overcome, even with a plethora of other health benefits.

For our hunter-gatherer ancestors, an endogenous chemical that burned an extra 100 calories a day could very likely mean the difference between life or death during a drought. That's not the case today, because calories are essentially free (in fact we're literally dying due to a surfeit of calories).
Chrome users: uBlacklist is fantastic. (It also has a Firefox version.)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...

It's also one of the best extensions I've seen in terms of code quality: https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist
That is Kanyakumari as the other commenter has pointed out. I was born and raised near there. It was such a beautiful place back then with a lot of greenery, ponds and the ocean. I wouldn't want to go back and live there these days, but I do miss the small town vibe I grew up with.
There's a high level of distrust in this comment, both of peers and of managers, which I think misses an underlying thing: teams without this level of distrust of each other and of management have a lot of advantages.

So if you're a manager: do your damnedest to build trust.

If you don't have that trust, it will be hard to pull off any of these activities. Even around things like spreading work and knowledge around - distrust is how you get people hoarding knowledge for perceived job security; or bitterness about being asked to do something they aren't the best at (feeling like you're setting them up to fail instead of trying to up their skills).
They don’t! Which is why in this new remote world the applicant in Phoenix has the advantage because they’re able to accept a lower salary because of CoL.

None of this makes any god damn sense in regards to adjusting the pay of people that move but it doesn’t matter in the long run because such practices are still governed by market forces. Facebook can try and predict what someone is willing to accept based on their location and renegotiate based on their available options but it’s not infinite leverage.
I'm positive that tax law would get in the way of such a scheme.
I’m struggling to see how this will promote remote work arrangements. Perhaps that’s the exact intention? “If you think you can stop coming into the office to save time and money we’ll cut your pay”?
You aren't going to find any legitimate research that caffeine causes adrenal fatigue or is associated with adrenal fatigue because there's no such thing as adrenal fatigue.
"You are charged trying to get your kid into a good school through mail fraud"

Eh. Hard pitch for a DA to run with this case. I don't honestly see a poor family being prosecuted for trying to get their kid into a rich school due to their property line. The DA office wouldn't like these optics. Jury?? Not a chance. If it were rich kids taking advantage of a poor school - the DA would run with it.
Genuinely thought those chips were EOL, maybe they got a good deal on a pallet of them that Intel were about to throw out?
I suppose amphetamine was also more accessible then.
I just passed on a recent candidate who was a perfect technical fit for an open position on my team (far better than the candidates I’m now considering). He did, however, come across as extremely arrogant and abrasive.

I can work with a junior team member growing into a role but I can’t jeopardize the entire team dynamic based on one person’s inability to work well with others, regardless of how proficient they might be.
I don't see any companies planning to definitely do this forever but the reality is that this situation is probably going to persist for at least 12 months and at that point it's better to just treat it as a permanent transition from the employees' perspective.

However even with Facebook you can see they're making a lot of decisions that would make the decision easy to reverse. They're still paying rent on all their existing buildings, they're still encouraging people to live in tech hubs via higher salaries.
> Now how would I sound if I compared my dismissive experience of it in contrast to that?

I would trust that both of you are telling the truth about the way you experience reality, wouldn't assume that one had to be false for the other to be true, would probably try to offer some words of sympathy or encouragement for your bad experience, and would do my best to accommodate both in the future, of course :)
A sports team choosing a new technology sounds quite interesting! Please do post content like that.
By that logic, giving up water for two weeks would lead to withdrawal effects. Does that make it bad? Not defending caffeine, only pointing out poor logic.
This is for the Divoom Timebox btw. Maybe it is different for other devices.

But serious question. Am I crazy for not thinking this belongs here? I feel like I'm in an alternate universe where nobody cares about this stuff.
You should fact check your fact check. New York and California income taxes are based on residency. If you live in one of these states and work in a different state, then you will owe income tax to your home state. New York City also has its own income tax which is also based on residency in the city.
What stops one from paying the difference at the tax returns filing?
Yep! FB can’t pull this shit once you have other offers.
AMD's core density is a huge deal, and it's not just for gamers anymore. Lots of enterprise software companies are rethinking or have restructured their licensing agreements to prepare for a future where per-socket licensing (which pretty much implied 2x sockets per server) will be undercut by 2nd and 3rd gen Epyc making single-socket servers at scale relevant again.
So much this. There's companies out there that value output at what you're worth, regardless of where you live at. I'm almost certain that Facebook is one of those companies — when it comes to high output employees. Negotiate.
Was using datadog's APM to track the transactions and our API usage. But because we are using GC AppEngine, we had to use a workaround by installing the agent on a separate VM. Then we found out that we will have to pay for APM and that VM too, not just APM, so we left it.

We tried newrelic before, it was good, but datadog seemed like a complete solution (and has better design).

Actually I am surprised that there is no high quality open source APM.
Whilst I’m really happy purism is doing what they’re doing, it’s always a little sad to see the handful of things that get in the way of this being a fantastic machine. Firstly, the WiFi card being 802.11n really doesn’t cut it in 2020. Next, the bezels look really large. I’ve fallen in love with my precision 5530’s tiny bezels. I really want a machine with some good I/O, made sturdily, with an AMD cpu/GPU, and free software. I don’t think such a thing really exists though.
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I'm with you on this. Boulder is great.
A lot of people have decided on Bend, Oregon where I live. One of the Oregon state economists - who lives here and works for the state of Oregon remotely - compiled some numbers showing it's the remote work capital of the US.
As someone that drinks their coffee black, I think that says more for the good taste of sugar. Even most tisanes are sweetened as much as not.

That said, I have grown to love robusta coffee. I've heard it is akin to how cilantro tastes like soap to some people. Delicious for a lot of us.
GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code
w3schools cleaned up their act and I find it a very useful website these days. Even https://www.w3fools.com/ says so now.
This is what convinces me caffeine is a drug and not a vitamin or nutrient. If I miss my daily vitamin I don’t even notice but if I miss my daily dose of caffeine it’s difficult for my brain to function on account of the inevitable withdrawal headache.
I think we hoped for "work from anywhere", but many got "try to work while minding your kids at home, also webcams and stuff are out of stock".
I hear it can be hard to make friends in Estonia if you weren't born there. Just wondering if you and anyone else had any experiences being part of the community in northern Europe?
> I'm paying $700 a month in the SF/Bay Area.

What?? How far out are you considering the Bay Area? Is that for a room or a place to yourself?
of course... I do it out of respect for the receiver though. I would much rather see: www.something.com/stuff over www.something.com/stuff?itrackyou=123&moretracking=absolutely&utm=facebook123&garbageparam=moregarbage&howlongisthis=superlong&inolongertrustthislink=true
How many commenting here have going kids? Because IME that combined with aging parents are huge factors.
Does a replacement CPU with similar performance even exist?
If the goal is to improve your skillset, then maybe try building a real-time multiple game. You will learn many different skills, including:

- Graphics: Displaying 2d/3d graphics, using the GPU, shaders, etc..

- Multiple Clients: Dealing with multiple browsers or OS's

- Realtime Communication: Multiplayer will require sockets or web-rtc to provide a realtime experience

- Database Tech: Depending on what DB you choose, you'll learn CAP theorem and other trade-offs.

- Algorithms: Developing gameplay logic, rendering logic, AI logic.

- User Experience: Making the game fun, getting feedback and implementing sugguestions.

Making a game is also very satisfying, which is important to prevent burnout during the project.
I post them on HackerNoon, which has a "originally published at" backlink. They tweet the ones with good engagement repeatedly, people shared those tweets. It makes its way into roundups and newsletters. Occasionally, people steal them and say they authored it, but they leave the backlinks so whatever. I post some on relevant forums as well.
Granted. However I've spent the last 8 months living in Ukraine, including the war-torn areas close to the Russian border, and I absolutely loved it. Found it easier to make friends, build a life, and move up in society than I ever did in the West.
I would try to buy a place in southeast England. Maybe nrear Ashdown forest or similarly wooded areas. I've never been to the country but it has a rich history and culture that I would like to explore.

When I need to retire back in my native land I will stay where my grandpa farmed. Last house on the electricity line, birds everywhere etc.
Shopify is planning to do this on a permanent basis.

https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1263483496087064579
Kinda living it already; Taiwan. Love it here. Close to Japan and Korea, and my remote company is in Japan.

I would like to try living in Europe someday ( Switzerland would be awesome ) but I don't make enough money to do that yet. And there are visa issues too.

If I were forced to live back in the states, probably Boulder, Co. Maybe Brunswick Maine.

Honestly though, health care keeps me from moving back to the States.
Think about it from the angle of consulting rates as a remote developer.
Would you charge a different rate to companies that operate in the same markets based on where you are at?
Why would you accept a different rate as a FTE, then?
You charge what you're worth, not where