skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made significantly more than this working in SV. IMO it's totally fair to say $100k is "not even close" for certain roles in certain companies.

But then I moved. I'm here to tell you, the Bay Area has a quality of life problem that far exceeds the cost of living difference.

After moving, my monthly _mortgage_ payment is almost $1k less than the rent I was paying for a not-so-nice house in San Jose. When I run the numbers on my current house (considering only the property and not the HOA), trying to find something comparable around San Jose, I come up with around $10 million at a minimum. When you consider the HOA I live in - we have 20 miles of maintained trails and an HOA park almost every mile - the quality of the schools, the quality and cost of restaurants... the list goes on... this quality of life literally can't be purchased in the Bay Area for a software engineers salary, no matter what they do. And here is the thing: after moving I could take an 80% pay cut over my Bay Area salary and maintain this quality of living changing _nothing_ about my spending habits.

But money aside, I'm actually happy after moving. In the Bay Area I binged, ate, drank, and smoked every night. I put on weight, my mental and physical health was deteriorating. I was depressed. I felt like every time I left the house someone was trying to trick me out of my money. I saw societal decay at every corner, homelessness, unmaintained property, crumbling infrastructure. I felt it was the least progressive place I've ever lived and it made me feel guilty that I could afford to stay slightly above the decay. The Bay Area is a place that required significant effort for me to be happy and that wasn't possible when investing significant effort into maintaining my high salary job.

My advice to folks living in the Bay Area: take stock of why you are there. If the answer is a paycheck, I find it very hard to believe it's worth it after my experience.
Dictatorships also project power through police so imagine high intimidation from “the system” or “the state”. USA uses a similar power projection to keep people afraid and supposedly lawful.
That history is - surprise, surprise - closely related to the region's race and class relations. Boston has always been the flashpoint for such issues, more so than New York City, in part because of its smaller size and more pointed and concentrated relationship with the slave trade. The two great waves of Irish immigration meant tensions among the working and lower-middle classes, which had previously been largely black - tensions which were gladly encouraged by New England's wealthy. Incorporating Irish into the police force was a direct (and highly successful) attempt to foment interracial clashes; this preempted the forming of interracial bonds within those lower classes, which would have allowed them to demand more rights and a better quality of life from the elites. This is the same thing that happened with labor unions; Irish and black fraternization is bad for business, so court the Irish and foment bigotry against their black neighbors (to the point where they don't even want to be neighbors anymore).

The way that this dynamic extends into the busing crisis and the infamous racism of Boston sports fans should be obvious.
Happy for you. Real talent deserves recognition. Thank you for everything you do. Keep up the good work.
You should start looking at the videos. I've seen a couple of unconscious people being kicked in the head this week by "protesters". These people are nothing like law-abiding.
On the JWST, I wonder how much could have been saved by scrapping the project and starting over with a clean slate.
Monospace capital letters would also be better for displaying tickers, CUSIPs, expiry dates, etc in columns.
Canada: Indigenous People and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
It's a relevant statistic for this discussion, which is not a discussion about generic police brutality. Retracting from "Black Live Matters" to "we're discussing police brutality here" is a common mote-and-bailey tactic that isn't a valid argument.
If you've heard the need for Cobol programmers, often times it's for banks. When they digitized circa 1960 with the original computers, IBM mainframes, they operated using batch computing, which is why, even now, bank websites sometimes have hours of operation. Moving away from mainframes and modernizing that stack is, quite apparently, a lucrative business - if you don't mind working with bankers. There is an intentionally onerous amount of regulation in that industry that things operate under, most of it not relating to tech, but the tech does need to work under it.
Never trust a benchmark you didn't falsify yourself.

The corollary is to write your own benchmark (i.e. something that remotely matches your use case).

Also it is almost always more interesting why something is slower/faster than something else than the raw numbers.
I think it may depend on the socioeconomic class of the neighborhood - I'm a white dude, but I used to drive beater cars, and when I was a field engineer driving my own car, it was amazing, because like clockwork whenever I was in a we'll to do area I'd get pulled over for (what I presume was) looking "out of place".

Similarly I've been pulled out of cell sites at gunpoint and bent over the hood of my car, and patted down several times also for "looking out of place".
I am highly skeptical of claims that people have lost significant weight by changing when they eat and not what or how much they eat. Most people significantly underestimate how much they consume and often eat little snacks at various times without even consciously remembering it. If someone had followed you around before you started intermittent fasting and recorded everything you put in your mouth I suspect you would find that you were eating more than you thought.
Cosmos: Operating System Construction Kit
> How do you get people to obey the law, in a way that is safer for all concerned?

Start by not shooting at them, especially when the protest is legal.

Escalation is the big problem here, nobody is complaining about using rubber bullet against dangerous armed people. They're complaining about using rubber bullet against people in a non-violent protest. If the police is using significantly more force than their "targets", there's an escalation problem
Ay mate I couldn't catch ya?
I think Google is not just being renewable energy, but also building new solar/wind farms to "offset" their use so this is not the case.

Maybe Amazon is doing something similar?
Tires are made with nontrivial amounts of plastic as well - this [1] link says 24%

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/nature/tires-the-plast...
I think the problem is languages are very versatile and there's almost always several ways of doing things, so nailing down what constitutes a fair comparison is always contentious.

To use your analogy, I'd saying comparing two languages is more like comparing a woodworking workshop to a metal working workshop. There's a lot of similarities (they both have hammers) and there's a lot of overlap in functionality (you could make a little box in both workshops). But how do you make a sensible comparison between the two shops? Just saying 'you can build this little box slightly faster in the woodworking shop' doesn't really tell you much at all. They're tools that can be applied to a wide range of tasks, and unless you have a specific task you're interested in (e.g. I want to be able to process my log files as quickly as possible) it's hard to make any general statement about one set of tools being better or worse than another.
> because from their point of view the police are the people most likely to assault or kill them or their children on the street, more so than random criminals

I don’t think that is framed correctly.

Black or white statistically you are far more likely to be killed (or assaulted) by non-police Of the same race as you.

I think everyone knows that, and to say police are the most likely to assault of kill black people takes the wind out of the sails of the legitimate issues. In other words police represent an additional threat to one of the groups and not the other, but in either instance the police are not the most likely perpetrators to either group.
And the Roma have never had a problem with systemic racism?
It worked on Fedora 31, but they did noticeably improvment in F32. If you are fun of Wayland I recommend to check Sway.
I think the parent comment was trying to say that addressing high-skill immigration is not a hot topic for the Democratic party, they have no interest in that. Their immigration-related hot topic is illegal immigration and everything related, such as DREAM Act, because they know that's what their target demographic gets riled up by.
Since we can't see the source for MacOS or Windows we can't judge whether or not these are the same challenges that they also faced. Aside from the different display server protocols the challenges may not be unique to Linux.

Perhaps the money that went into supporting this feature allowed them to overcome these challenges with much more ease. Unless someone who is more familiar with the source of MacOS can clarify otherwise I think it would be safe to say that this is not a new challenge, perse. Just new to Linux.
I am surprised their "Tech Spec" section does not list SoC/processor and GPU.
This is a pretty basic benchmark, but there are more robust ones for Crystal and others here: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

Under Filters you can select the languages / frameworks that are of interest to you. For example Go seems to have several implementations that beat Crystal: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r19&hw=...

Having programmed in both though, I far prefer the language / idea of Crystal for innovation. But it is hard to beat the performance and explicit nature of Go for production applications.
Your headline's misleading. Red Hat knows it's long been fixed in the LTS kernels, but it still needs patching in the RHEL kernels. Generally speaking, current LTS kernels are not used in older Linux distros.
It's not the layout I dislike but the styling which makes it harder to see what is a button and what isn't, e.g. only 2 of these are clickable https://imgur.com/a/wR9xsvT
IPFS 6.0 enables QUIC by default, adds support for the NOISE protocol
Not sure about his images, but WebP supports lossless compression. If they are coming from a camera, it seems reasonable that they might be lossless, depending on the camera settings.

[Update] Just noticed he's going JPEG->WebP so my comment makes no sense.
> who have very limited mobility in the job market

The solution to that problem is to relax immigration restrictions to make it easier for immigrant workers to switch jobs so they have more leverage. Not go the other direction and further torture immigrants by making their lives harder.
You’re confusing police with firefighters. NYPD don’t handle fires at all
A more complete web benchmark might be one which connects to the database, does some queries, and renders the result. Then we'd look at what percentage of the time is spent in the runtime of each language, and apply Amdahl's law to see if switching is cost effective.
That's unfortunate. AFAIK GTK4 will be Wayland-only and out in a few months, and some bleeding edge distros such as Fedora already run Wayland out of the box, except if you have NVIDIA, because Xwayland is still crap under nv; but not for long, apparently there's some rumours and intention to improve the nv/xwayland situation, just nothing concrete out yet [1].

So yeah, betting on Xorg in 2020 is not a smart move IMO.

1: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-G...
18.04 I had a lot of trouble with on my XPS.

20.04 has worked like a dream! It even can update the bios now, so you don't need to keep a windows partition or usb around.

I really have no reason to go back to any other OS
Open Source – For the News
Aiming to make an independent news and 'ideas' site that works like open source code projects works. Peer reviewed. Nothing goes to the master branch until there is consensus. Cleaned like a pristine codebase for bias and facts.-> https://unspundaily.com/become-a-contributor/
ARM and Linux take the supercomputer TOP500 crown
I think this kind of language comparison is usually done to prove a point rather than in a dispassionate search for real truth.

I've never seen a situation where a team genuinely looks at the available languages for their project and chooses one based purely on performance. Even projects that are very performance-sensitive usually have other criteria (like not being able to use a GC language).

In most situations, there are a number of competing criteria for choosing a language. Team familiarity, deployment environment, availability of necessary libraries, compatability with other code in the organisation, compilation time, making maximum use of available resources. All of these, and many more, are usually as important as raw speed.

For a "real" comparison, there would probably need to be a lot more code being executed, and specific tests for specific environments - standalone web server? microservice? CLI? desktop app? mobile app? All of them will have different needs and preferences for performance.
Let's be honest, after passing through ridiculous interview questions and being hired I am frequently disappointed at what's on the other side. I have nothing against foreigners and wish them the best. H1B's are routinely abused and this in turn creates a toxic environment. This only makes the code quality worse as devs rush, creating even more technical debt as they go. Maybe they killed themselves to get here, but I'm not seeing sterling results in their work.
Once I limited my time on FB I felt better, it is really affecting your mental state. Unfortunately I have friends that I will forever lost contact with so I can't delete my profile. I deleted the app from my phone and logged out from everywhere except from 1 pc that I usually don't use. Now I am going on FB at most once a week for 10 mins. It has improved my life a lot.
They feel like they know better and do not want all of the fixes that the LTS kernels provide for some crazy reason.

I suggest you contact them if you rely on a RHEL kernel to ask them why they do this, it's always seemed crazy.

Note, I'm the person who does the LTS kernel releases, maybe they just don't like me :)
Off-topic question: Is Livewire comparable with RShiny, and is there anything that would let me do what Livewire does in python?
What is an appropriate theory of when a journalist should reveal the name of someone who doesn't want that name revealed?

Some simplistic possibilities:

1. Never.

2. Always.

3. Don't, if they're a 'good' person. Do, if they're a 'bad' person.

My theory is that it's a sliding scale, depending on one's judgement of the following:

Where does this person fit on the public/private scale? The more public a person, the less right to privacy.

How influential is this person? The more influential, the less right to privacy.

How much of what brought them into public interest was of their own choice?

What threats might the person come under if the name is revealed. The greater the threat, the more right to privacy. Also, are these threats physical, economic, or social?

How sophisticated is the person? Do they know what reporters do for a living? Do they understand the conventions of "off the record" and "pre-interview negotiations"?

I'd like to see more discussion of this and less of "cancel my subscription."
Don't forget that that delivery truck isn't just delivering boxes for you.
Tech unemployment definitely isn't 20.7%.
Hey there -- I came across your blog a year or so ago via the Rpi Drupal stack. Cool stuff.

I didn't realize you had such a large YouTube presence. I'm curious how you got started. You seem to be quite interested in Ansible so I imagine you just started there and it grew organically?

FWIW -- I'm looking to start making YouTube videos on full-stack web development. I used to be a high school teacher before teaching myself programming well enough to do it professionally so I think I'd be pretty good at this topic/market (entry-mid level). I'm just not sure exactly where to start, how to make myself standout compared to others doing the same thing, etc.

Maybe you've written a blog post on this topic before you could direct me to? Is entry level full-stack web dev too broad? Thanks in advance, keep up the good work!
riot is huge and video games is a huge market for instant messengers - there's a lot of overlap there. i'm honestly surprised that it hasn't gone beyond riot games blocking riot.im's trademark applications and progressed to riot games suing for trademark violation.
Apparently the uBO developer says still not possible:

https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/hdz0bo/will_ubloc...
UGC web (including app stores) has to externalize dispute resolution or they lose all credibility with developers

'separation of powers' is a useful concept in the law, it's coming to the private sector (except with shorter arbitration timelines)
The Origins of Multicellularity
I've lived in many US cities, including SF, and your characterization rings hollow for me. Unless you're focusing exclusively on climate, SF without a car isn't all that much better than dozens of other cities. Notably, unless you live near a BART stop, most transit commutes are going to involve some bus, switching to a separate system, 30+ minutes daily commute, $12+ round trip, etc. Or paying for rideshares. Dozens of cities in the US have the equivalent or better, without all the other associated baggage of SF. Here are a few examples I've lived or spent significant time in:

- Chicago, IL: The L reaches a lot more neighborhoods, is a single integrated transit system.
- Columbus, OH: Great bike lanes and dedicated paths, bus system that covers the entire city.
- New York, NY: By far the most walkable city in the US.
- Philadelphia, PA: Decent subway system, good connection to NJ and NY via NJ Transit. Very walkable core and neighborhoods.
- Washington, DC: Far superior version of BART with a lot more coverage.

Unless I've just happened across a half dozen of the best cities in the US, SF isn't all that remarkable.
> In that case you would add in such library a line like this:

That's certainly an approach to make sure libraries run in the correct environment. But it still doesn't seem to enable use-cases where you run an eventloop on some threads and blocking IO (or just blocking on the eventloop) on other threads, which are often found in bigger programs that are made up of a lot of heterogenous libraries.

One could say "you might not need that - just run everything async". But since we are talking about a system programming language where libraries might be exported and used in different projects I'm not sure if that lack of flexbility won't hurt long term.
Why not turn it off for them then?
Why would it matter if it’s obscure or popular?

You could say the same about any aspect of design - logos, outfits, UI styles, color palettes, you name it. These things can bring subtle character and recognition to a brand, and it’s not really a smart thing to be skimping on.
Improving image compression should really free up some space on my website so I can fit in a few more javascript frameworks.
Weird that they highlight its numerical use but there's no effort to disambiguate 0 from O.
No, I've never been to Denmark at all. That sounds really expensive. Not even Stockholm is that expensive (I live 60 KM south of Stockholm).

If you go out to eat there at a normal place, it'll be more like 300-400 SEK (~280 DKK) per person including 1-2 alcoholic beverages.
This is over the board racist comment! Re-read your comment by replacing "Indian" with "Black" and see how you feel about it.
Microsoft Teams is the evolved version and it works just fine. The video quality is better than Zoom IMO.
> A fundamental tenet of (US) law is that using a weapon while committing a crime is itself a crime.

This conditioning to think that protest is a criminal act leads many to justify any police action including those that lead to death.

> We're not at war.

Tell that to the unaccountable, militarized police forces.
> Right now there's basically 0 downside/accountability

which is why there's protests
Don’t fight the trail. Take what it gives you
This is one of the things the protesters did, and they bear responsibility for it.

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/watch-man-tries-to-help-...
That's quite a high priced dad joke.
Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland are clued up enough on tech that you might even get an endorsing short with R&M.
Also interested in this!
The disconnect is from one of the beliefs listed in the Twitter thread: "There is no 'geospatial industry,' only industries with spatial problems."

I'm a statistician with a state health department and do some GIS work. If I were more skilled with geospatial analysis, there's no doubt the decision makers I work with would be delighted.

If somebody wants to use GIS skills, they should keep an eye on IT or analysis roles. They might not specifically ask for it, but you can still sell it in the interview if it'll help solve their problems.

If you're hoping to make the big bucks or work on cutting edge problems, then staying local will be difficult.
And bear in mind: The amount they make this way could adjust, Google would have to be prepared to outbid Bing for default search placement. Bearing in mind, that whoever is the default search engine on Chrome controls the Internet, there's a lot of money at stake.
The biggest difference would be that GitHub Sponsors has no fees [1], so everything people put in will go to the developer. Where Patreon can take 5-12% depending on the plan [2].

Additionally, GitHub is just so much closer to the actual open source work and more easily discoverable for users of your product.

As a supporter, I'll pick GitHub over Patreon anytime.

[1] https://help.github.com/en/github/supporting-the-open-source...
[2] https://www.patreon.com/product/pricing
How is it in the collective interests of Americans to block highly educated and productive people from taking jobs in the US? The economy is not a zero-sum game. The administration still lets in temporary agricultural workers - who work for incredibly low wages that very much undercut jobs for Americans - and yet keeps out people who work in fields where there is a shortage of qualified workers and who earn relatively high incomes?

Educated immigrants grow the US economy and increate the total employment of the country in the long run. That's who is being kept out here.

This isn't an action that's being taken to help fix issues with the H1B visa system. It's simply to stop immigration to the US.
Lol, snowflakes, coffee doesn't taste the same ... try living in poverty, in war, like hundreds of millions of people live every day of their life.
>If immmigration is bad then you want as little as possible. It doesn't make sense as a goal to say you want to limit something you want to get.

People want food to sustain themselves. But, for a lot of people, limiting the amount of food consumed and picking healthy foods over junk food is a good idea. You don't want just "any" food, you want the food that will sustain you and will be good for your health in long-term.
How is blaming socialism a bad thing? Has humanity learned nothing from the failure of socialism throughout the 19th and 20th centuries?
I'm currently playing through the old Zelda games that don't provide an in-game map. This looks like it could be useful.
I set up my dictionary lookups to be done with a three-finger tap. Much easier.
Red Hat sometimes also backports new features, not just security fixes. In the first years of RHEL life cycle new features and certain upgrades are usually added to the point releases. This is actually nicer than being locked into same feature kernel for 10 years...for those that can't afford the changes, you have the Extended Support for each point release which then gets only the security fixes.