skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Relative to what you make, is that a lot, compared to what you'd make/pay in Kansas City?

With remote work, it's not even close. I'd take COLA pay cut and still have more after taxes.

But even ignoring remote work, let's compare two cities: San Francisco and Salt Lake City.

Median HH Income in SF: 108K (source: https://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/california/san-francisc...)

Median House Price in SF: 1.4 Million (source: https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/)

SF Price to Income ratio: 13

Median HH Income Salt Lake City: 74K (source: https://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/utah/salt-lake-city/)

Median House Price: 420K (source: https://www.zillow.com/salt-lake-city-ut/home-values/)

Salt Lake City Price to Income ratio: 5.7

Of course SLC has worse average AQI than a coastal city like SF. If you are inland and have a large population, you will have worse particulates. So let's look at coastal cities all of which have air quality as good or better than SF and have the bonus of warm water so you can swim at the beach:

Jacksonville, FL:

median HH income: 47K

median house price: 196K

Price to Income: 4.2

Charleston, SC:

median household income: 64K

median house price: 337K

median price to income: 5.3

Wilmington, NC:

median household income: 53K

median house price: 300K

price to income: 5.7

Do you see a pattern?

And none of these cities have streets filled with feces and homeless encampments, a 16% state income tax with high income surcharge, or refuse to prosecute property crime.
The monsters and other creatures in those videos are super adorable. I can’t wait for the program to be released and to try it myself. I am also hopeful that it might be open source even.
Both.

Interestingly today Trump / Gov. Newsom had this (not really an) argument at presser today. So there are now a lot of good articles

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/Are...
Hungary has tax bonuses for mothers of bigger families. This is a policy constructed to encourage the middle class to breed, unlike the "just give money for each child", which would be more of an incentive for the non-working underclass.

Total Fertility Rate in Hungary has grown from abysmal 1.2 to still bad 1.55 or so, still far from simple reproduction, but at least it goes in different direction from most of the developed world.
Once someone has been anointed a "whistleblower," it is a bad look for you to try to play devil's advocate to whatever she's saying.

Stepping back, without a media circus, how really do you expect to change anything at organizations this large and powerful? Facebook transcends governments dude, Mark Zuckerberg has an unfathomable amount of money and power. At least give her some credit for putting out a non-conformist opinion.

Also, with regards to your specific points, everyone is qualified to determine political bots are bad. I can't believe you're going with the, "Well she is missing the nuance oh and she gets paid a lot of money so there!" take here.
UK or EU?
"cutting up the bird to find the song"

That is such a good phrase, is it a quote from somewhere?
Virtually all compilers still support them, even the most modern compilers that support Fortran 2018 (Intel, GNU, IBM, NAG, ...). The source file extensions readily tell the compiler what sort of code the compiler is dealing with. In the worst case scenarios that I have seen, the compiler issues a warning when encountering obsolescent language features.
I think this is a valid question worth asking. As we dive further into the age of constant electronic activity and people preach digital detoxes, lament the loss of "deep work", and wax on about dopamine, it's good to consider all areas in which we've allowed such stimuli to pervade every part of our daily lives.

Certainly, people can point out that constant audible stimulation dates back to at least the radio craze near the beginning of the 20th century. So that gives us a place to start researching comparisons on the effect on attention spans and other aspects of human cognition.
Holyshit, I have thought about the exact same thing. Like totally questioning everything about cars and why do they look the way they look. Cheers, made my day.

Have you also though about how we see 3 holes on a face (2 eyes and 1 mouth, ignoring the downward facing holes of the nostrils) as normal. Just add one more and it’s horror. We take these things granted and then slight changes to it is completely terrifying.

I also wonder - if we rewind evolutionary time and restart with slightly different initial conditions, not sure what species including humans would even exist in the same form. It would likely be like that game Spore.
Stories like yours make me extremely grateful for the advancements of science. Please do yourself a favour and enjoy your "second life". Maybe get a copy of this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Great-Revolutionary-Treatment...
You gotta ask yourself who's been in charge for the last 20 years and why do we continue to elect them?
I think the only reason for a Go 2 would be to introduce breaking changes.
I also appreciate that they clearly covered: (i) why you shouldn't use this going forward; (ii) why you might continue to anyway; and (ii) what the alternatives are. All in all, a very well handled response.
Most of the world uses Java, including "happening" companies. Please be highly aware of HN bias. If one only reads HN, one can get a highly distorted view of the reality of software engineering.
Yes Nassim Taleb said the same. When you want to read unbiased news, stick to financial newspapers, because business people don't want somebody's coloured opinion but simply the facts.
The actual nvidia announcement linked in the original post? (https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-acquire-arm-for...)

I could quote the whole post, but to satisfy UK regulators, NVIDIA committed to:

> NVIDIA will expand Arm’s R&D presence in Cambridge, UK, by establishing a world-class AI research and education center, and building an Arm/NVIDIA-powered AI supercomputer for groundbreaking research

which is much more than Softbank ever did. And the list of things they commited to goes on, and probably will continue to increase as the US and China get their says on this.
> You seem to hang on this notion that people are merely consumers, especially those who want to live longer, so they must die.

That is not an intrinsic property to people. But so far, at this scale, the only normativity we were able to organize human endeavour around has been the normativity of market. Religions are gone, particular states don't matter much, and so little else is left with purpose. Just the market. This naturally makes consumers of us. Pretending we will use the extra time to "engage in more pleasure and leisure as well as personal development and research." is self-deception in my opinion. Longer lifespans also amplify accumulatory dynamics of rent-seeking, causing greater inequality. Whatever potential we have right now that we are wasting, will go onto be waster at large scale while a select few, distributed by power laws, will "enjoy" that time of leisure and pleasure.

In short, we can't even organize the time and talent we have wisely, and the dynamics that create this imbalance would only be amplified with longer lifespans.

> People want more pleasure? Why not? I won’t deny that I have a hedonistic streak in me but I’ve yet to see a convincing argument against hedonism which doesn’t take an extreme view of it.

Here is my best argument; pleasure itself is a poor goal to organize one's life around. It is ephemeral, it is prone to confuse proximal rewards with actual goals behind it and therefore the meaning it can provide is a very narrow one. Life of any addict is a proof of this dynamic. Porn (proximal reward) is not intimacy. Hyperpalatable junk food is not nutrition. Cocaine is not a real win in life. In fact, all of those prevent the actual goals to be attained.

> the feeling is puritanical and punitive. I don’t share your misgivings and the burden of proof is not on the immoralist because there are no gods to judge us.

I am not suggesting any purity codes, nor complete exclusion of erotic consumption. But existence itself is punitive if you optimize for the wrong criteria. Reality is the god to judge all of us, the consequences of our choices and the lesser gods we thought we could identify with, like the god of pleasure or god of immortality, potentially misleading that we can cheat reality.

At the bottom of that reality is that we are humans, all of which had and will have a taste of death.
Example or it didn't happen
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Also add Apple and Netflix to that list.
The article specifically states that they're going to keep Moment-Timezone up to date. Which is important, because the timezone database has changed approximately 4 times a year for the last 5 years (https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/).
That's the sort of thing you might believe if you get all of your news from Fox News or Breitbart, but it has no basis in fact.
As someone who experienced the orange, this article doesn't do it justice. This was an extremely strange day.

The air quality was decent relative to the past month of wildfires. The air felt and smelled like normal fog: cool and slightly wet. We've had days in past years and many recently where the smoke would make the sun a slightly warmer color, but it was always close enough to normal that you could compensate for it in your mind.

September 9th was completely different. The world looked like a sepia-tone photograph. While the orange light was dimmer than normal, basically no blue light made it to the ground. You can't compensate for a complete lack of the higher wavelengths. When looking at the night sky, astronomers often illuminate their sky charts with red light so that their night vision isn't ruined. The same thing happened here, which made white lights extremely bright. And because the brain has some capacity to correct white balance, white lights were also blue. Being the only blue in the world, you could see all the places they were reflected. Blue was on a different layer from everything else.

It was basically night by 4pm, but what surprised me most was that seeing blue was an emotional experience. You know those videos where they give a colorblind person those glasses that let them see what they've been missing? That's what seeing blue was like. It was like seeing ultraviolet. It almost made you cry.

The only thing you could do was look up at the sky, and the only reaction you could have was emotional. There's a certain feeling you get when you know everyone has the same thing on their mind. It reminded me of 9/11: not as sad but just as pervasive. It was like every conversation was preceded by the unspoken lines, "The sky looks crazy today, doesn't it?" and "Never seen anything like it."

For more pictures and reactions, this twitter thread does a good job: https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1303711062512943105
> I don't think mutability is JS design flaw. It was designed for manipulating UI - computer screen, which is mutable.

You don't need, or particularly benefit from, language-level mutability to specify the next state of UI as a function of previous state plus new inputs, which is really the best way to model interactivity.
Been looking for something like this for years. Thanks!
That’s not really true. Netflix and HBO don’t have ads. It is possible, just very very hard to stay away from the ads temptation.
Sure.

My point was simply that the compiler may be in position to disprove the assumption that this call is in fact dynamic (it may actually be static) or that it has to be a call in the first place (and inline the function instead).

I'm certainly not arguing against branch predictors.
> So actually there are many libraries and tools that could be done and just work forever, timezone stuff is much more dynamic than I'd ever realised.

I think the parent’s point was that things like security updates still need to happen. So there may be scrutiny if you come across a package and there hasn’t been a change for a couple of years, in the JS ecosystem it would raise red flags for many. Maybe not so much in the Go ecosystem.
Both are true. Fires are a natural part of the environment. When you constantly put out fires around urban areas a lot of the excess brush just builds up, inevitably causing the mega-fires we see today. Huge fires are not as common in Europe mainly because Europe doesn't have as many forests as the west coast of the US.

But there's also a ton of evidence that we've had some of the warmest years on record in the past decade. The fires around the Bay area were started by a record-breaking heatwave. And temperatures in the interior of California regularly get above 40 C during the summer, so that combined with no rainfall means a lot of fires every year
A Java Low-Code Development Platform Drives Useful Innovation
It’s an old idea that keeps resurfacing and frankly I think it misses the real problem of modern websites: they’re too bloated with code that the user is expected to run and yet isn’t there to serve the user.

I’d love to see a world where cloud computing / time sharing was tipped on its head and users and businesses could charge back their compute time spent running JavaScript trackers, analytics, etc from the sites their users visit. Of course this fantasy would never be technically possible but one can dream.
There isn't really much outside Samsung Electronics in terms of revenue/profit.
> Aren't the police there for protecting property?

Kenosha has a democrat mayor, so no. Police had to stay well out of the way, and was frobidden from using any kind of force. Just watch the videos of what transpired. Don't rely on misleading, "fiery but mostly peaceful" CNN edits - watch the whole thing just this once. Watch the interview with Kyle before the events, taken by a journalist embedded with the protesters, as well. Your question indicates you've been quite severely gaslit. Bet you don't even know how many people got shot in CHAZ.

I would not go to that area unarmed at that time. The guy Kyle shot in the arm was pointing a Glock pistol at his head at that moment (you can see it on videos from several angles), and later said his only regret was that he didn't kill him.
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This article is way too long and rambling. It's like somebody took a couple good insights, a Jared Leto biography, a bunch of acid, and started writing. It weaves a giant improbable web that spans generations and many different actors, with some facts sprinkled in to keep it believable. And virtually no sources for anything.

Sorry but this reads like a classic conspiracy theory. I would be amazed if more than 10% was true, besides the obvious factoids like where he lived
How to localize an iOS Apps with Over The Air updates
Marijuana is physically harmless and socially far less harmful than alcohol. Its illegality has long been a weapon used against minorities and the poor. It also moves what could be a legitimate business into the hands of criminals and gives them money and power.

It is way past time to legalize. You’ll get over the smell. Or don’t, I don’t care.
In my case it was multiple extra requests (7x?) it was enough that we could see a degradation in server response times.

Even with that extra server load we still saw improvements visitor performance as measuring using Real User Monitoring
In that comparison, I find myself to be a luddite. It's not that the new tools aren't cool or useful. But they come with unacceptable trade-offs around ownership, and tie me into relationships with more third parties I do not want to enter into relationship with.

I suppose the market doesn't care, so I'll keep being a closet neo-luddite until all my tools are replaced with services.
Well, they do say: "We will release data updates for Moment-Timezone following IANA time zone database releases."
The problem with .NET is that Microsoft have a proven history of seeing the next shiny over the hill and dropping support for existing frameworks and libs while the "new and improved" framework is rolled out. See ! This way is better! Well, until the next better way comes up within a few years.

I know of teams who have moved to Java simply to avoid the churn. Many folks prefer the boring but stable Java ecosystem.
Let me tell you, mostly these solutions suck. There are several reasons for this: (1) leaky abstraction, (2) not the correct abstraction, which works in all envisioned cases without limiting you, (3) often you do not want to only use an API, but instead change a tiny thing and that needs code or accept limitations (4) the existing API is weird or has a weirdly structured result (5) it is inefficient (6) you depend on a third party (7) you might have some rate limits, and probably more reasons.

If you got capable developers, let them do their job and create a flexible (expecting changes, simple design, usually not an elaborate many classes design) solution, that actually fits your situation. Developers are (should be) abstractions specialists. They should be able to find working ones in most cases.

Or live with limitations and the spread of thinking, that some things are not possible in various appartments. Mental barriers, that stop creative thinking, simply, because the tools do not exist.
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Bots and fake accounts are another form of advertising. Governments and political parties manipulated, influenced or controlled legacy media. Online and offline politicians are disseminating misleading political ads. Partsian news networks attack their opponents all day long while claiming to be objective.

On the surface the outrage seems misplaced. This seems like business as usual.

Perhaps the outrage isn't misplaced if the goal is regulatory capture and entrenchment of the social media space. Imagine a world where "fact-checking" and identity verification is mandated by regulators as a prerequisite to posting online. This wave of censorship will be buoyed by a tide of righteous indignation.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/governments-are-go...
I feel like we have similar values, do you mind if I follow you on twitter or reach out over email to talk more?
America is a very large country and lots of places have fantastic climates. Also seasons aren't a bad thing.
Procedural animation tools are such an exciting area.

We've had some glimpses of what can be done but nothing modern.

Over a decade ago, I was excited that spore's creature creator would inspire a real authoring tool but nothing seems to really have gotten there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRr3lgckIAM

Unity is our flash-like game authoring platform of today and it's animation tools are nothing like what we once had. Flash was simpler and more fun 20 years ago.

We've really lost something here. Authoring in this area has become less accessible.
TIL: Intl.DateTimeFormat [1] has good browser support [2] and allows for nifty tricks like

> new Intl.DateTimeFormat('zh', { hour: 'numeric' }).format(new Date)
< "下午11时"

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... "MDN: Intl.DateTimeFormat"

[2]: https://caniuse.com/mdn-javascript_builtins_intl_datetimefor... "Can I Use: Intl.DateTimeFormat"
It's quite telling that the same things the CIA thinks are good torture material are inflicted on people who have no control over their lives in medical institutions.

If you would not like to be submitted to something yourself maybe you shouldn't do it to people who are in no position to protest?
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> Most of the world uses Java, including "happening" companies.

On the contrary, even boring enterprises often don't actively use Java. Sure, lots of places do, but lots of places have either never adopted or dropped (or at least relegated to certain legacy systems) Java, especially, on the enterprise side, places that at some point became largely Microsoft shops, where even if they've since moved beyond that, they probably didn't go back to Java except maybe for any Android work.
Text email is a barrier for kernel development says Microsoft employee
But the cave submarine and the self driving do not. GP forgot to add a question mark.
I dont get this.
Absolutely agree with you. Same, with larger impact, would be if we apply this thinking to how we build cities. Think about it for a moment. How much "crap" and "stupidity" is there just because of legacy.
I think it’s unfair to say that RTFM (if delivered well, and linked to the relevant documentation) is a poor response.

Documentation should be the canonical source of truth and more clearly laid out than any person can deliver.

Though, a better statement than RTFM (that I see in the Postgres community on IRC most commonly) is “does this documentation answer your question?”

The intention is clear that if it doesn’t answer the question then they will help and update the documentation.
Be careful, you can still get scammed here. I got hit for a $75 scam product that I bought with my CC, mistakenly thinking I would be protected. The scammers knew what they were doing though. They ship you a super super super cheap version of the product from china, taking advantage of those low low China -> US shipping rates, so that they have certificate of delivery. So you can't say you never got the product. And in that case, both paypal and the CC company require that you send the item back. Shipping the item back to china costs more than the item itself. So there's no point. Scammers won.
I am surprised this segment (admittedly picked from Ars's secondary writeup) hasn't made a splash:

"It's why I've seen priorities of escalations shoot up when others start threatening to go to the press, and why I was informed by a leader in my organization that my civic work was not impactful under the rationale that if the problems were meaningful they would have attracted attention, became a press fire, and convinced the company to devote more attention to the space," Zhang wrote.

That is a damage control role. Perhaps more tellingly, it highlights the entire organisation's priorities: if it isn't drawing press attention, ignore it. Of course that's not the phrase FB would use in a press release. They'd deploy a convenient euphemism, such as "dedicate the resources elsewhere".
Those hidden snippets are not the cruft. Every ugly hack we would find is likely a required use case and the whole mess is the craft. Maybe we should stop calling it a mess and accept that non-trivial software with on-demand requirements always take this form...

So lets call it detail instead. You cannot separate detail from the craft.
Err.. well social psych and ML don't constitute "almost all fields".

If someone asked me for a list of where to find pseudo-science, it would be fairly small set: social psych, nutrition, AI.
I think Apple Pay includes the bare minimum friction to determine that you actually want to spend your money. I don’t think any less friction is ethical. I assume the Google program uses a cookie or similar technical means to indicate your membership in the program, which you previously opted-in to paying for through a flow with affirmative consent. That seems like an appropriate solution, and it shows that this model is supported by current browser tech. Websites are free to create their own membership programs, or band together and form cooperative programs, devising any system they like to set prices and divide up the revenues.