skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1 bedroom for themselves, 2 offices, 3 cat rooms, one spare
1. Chicago: 8th overall US, 344,146 positions, 17.9% growth 2010--2018.

2. Detroit: 11th , 241,135, 37.2%

3. Minneapolis, 14th, 196,151, 17%

4. Kansas City, 24th, 100,782, 17.3%

5. Cincinnati, 28th, 82,088, 23.9%

6. Cleveland, 29th, 76,698, 16.3%

7. Indianapolis, 31st, 74,615, 24.2%

8. Milwaukee, 32nd, 71,755, 9.2%

9. Omaha, 40th, 37,508, 10.7%

10. Des Moines, 42nd, 28,693, 26.9%

TFW article is basically a textualised spreadsheet.

Not listed: wage levels, cost-of-living, industries, skillsets.
> private groups affairs.

No such thing. They are relying on societal assurances that contracts they enter will be enforced, that property they hold will be protected, etc. Society is free to regulate those "private group affairs" since they are externalizing the costs onto society.

> there is a lot of value there, more importantly it's not obvious

Sure, but generally in the cases where politicians mistakenly intervene in markets with distortionary effects, economists are pretty united that the intervention will be a bad idea (see: rent control).

On anti-trust, economists recognize monopolies as a pretty clear market failure and it seems to be the tech employees who are deploying the "free market" arguments in defense of Google, FB, et al.
Report: Hanford unprepared for potential nuclear waste leak
The people making the hiring decisions are providing high pay because if they don't, then the person they want to hire has the option of working elsewhere for high pay. The people accepting the high pay are able to get the high pay because they have the option of selling their labor to someone else who will give them high pay.

Price is based on supply and demand curves, and cost of living isn't directly a causal factor. If it is true that FAANG can keep printing money while hiring people willing to accept lower pay, then that will happen but it will be because the FAANG's prospective supply of labor would have increased.
> What they mean is that politics they don't want to talk about is bad at work.

I'd phrase it as "all personal politics are bad at work"

Your personal politics around parties, constitutional issues, housing, healthcare etc are irrelevant to the company and an active distraction to your coworkers. So keep them for personal time.

I don't know why this is such a challenge for the US work cohort. You don't sit and do crafting hobbies at your work desk, or process photos that you took on the weekend trail expedition. So why use company time for your politics? Why do you think Bob from Accounts has any interest in your views on the size of the President's hands?

I worked for 15 years at a company that had two over-riding rules: no sports talk and no politics. And it was bliss.
In this case, Airfoil would be the tool to use: https://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/
It’s currently tied for 1 with their other usual suspects in US News [1]. Of course these rankings are all a bit arbitrary, game-able, and should be taken skeptically :)

[1] https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-sch...
Yes! See https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1304399735445426176
There's lots of sprawl in cities like this, especially Indy. Everything is 20 minutes from everything else ;)

If you wanted a house in a more trendy, downtown neighborhood:
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1627-Fletc...
love it. Thanks for sharing
They're also bad for your heart and can really mess up your diet if you're not careful
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I can rent a $4,500 apartment and still save, post-tax, at least $100,000 more than I could save post-tax anywhere in the midwest except maybe Chicago. Even including the value of paying off a mortgage vs. rent.

Tech jobs that pay more than $300,000 -- maybe $350,000 -- simply don't exist in large quantities outside major job markets. And the ones that do aren't the "trusted senior individual contributor with plenty of freedom to choose your projects" roles that exist in spades on the coasts.

Last time I job marketed in the midwest I couldn't even break $250 all-in, the vesting schedule was pure bullshit, and that role would have included a lot of political BS. Basically moving from blissful respected individual contributor to stressed out disrespected middle management, and all for a massive cut in post-tax savings.

I get why jobs are exploding in those areas, but they aren't the sorts of jobs I want.
It's in Pittsburg which is a Midwestern city. Even if the state has some coast.
Amazing that this video is not more widely known! Thanks
> What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white).

Grew up (Indian-American) in the midwest and can confirm this is true with a large majority of people there.

If you don't look like them, they will be cordial to your face but then subtly make it very clear how they actually think about you.
To be fair, some might count "the hogs ran 100 miles away" a local success, if their chief concern is hogs in their backyard where their small children play.
> Besides, I have a hard time worrying about if my wages were lower than they "should" be when they're already more money than I'd see in any other field.

Ah. So yes, CS majors don't understand marginal thinking.
You can do that in Frama-C as well. But now this new precondition must be propagated somewhere. For example, if you have some function (syntax from memory as well):

/*@ ensures \result > a; */
int increment(int a) {
return a + 1;
}

you would change it to:

/*@ requires a < INT_MAX;
ensures \result > a; */
int increment(int a) {
return a + 1;
}

But if this function has N call sites, you now have N problems: At every call site you must prove that the precondition holds.
Isn't that exactly the same root cause of why the article asserts American cities can't keep up with infrastructure upkeep? Cities accepting up front windfalls regardless of whatever long term costs that come with it?
I mean, the most prolific of them even get TV shows and podcast episodes and documentaries about them. And that specific sub-genre is exploding in popularity.

So yes, in a way we are holding them in certain high regards.
Debt Collectors Have Made a Fortune This Year
this is actually a really good idea! really impressive what you built in a short time.
What Is Git Rebase and How Is It Different Than Merging?
Thanks!

Depends really on the perspective you look at it from. That post is from the visitor privacy / privacy regulations perspective. If you use GA full on, you will get some advantages such as storing cookies on devices but if you either make GA "privacy friendly" (enable IP anonymization, disable user-ID, disable cookies etc) or ask visitors to consent to being tracked you will get less accurate numbers than our method.

We haven't noticed any issues with VPN usage as still you need people to use the same IP, same user agent and visit the same domain all on the same day to be counted as one with us.
They have, which is why on-shoring has been making a comeback for the last five years
Vive Pro Eye and Varjo VR2 are some examples. I expect the functionality to be a part of most next gen headsets
I strongly disagree with the first point. The high salaries in the Bay Area and NYC filter out jobs where the marginal value of the labor is low. This also filters out low margin, low productivity businesses. This in aggregate also filters for higher skill employees on average. As a result, the chances of you working at a highly profitable (or fast growing) company is higher. The chances of you working with (and being mentored by) high skill colleagues is higher. Working at a growth potential or high margin company where you are a profit center, working with/collaborating with/being mentored by other (on average) high skill workers means you have a much higher earnings cap, even factoring for COL.
Without the hunting though, it would be even worse. If these hogs have no natural predators, the only thing that would check their population is running out of food.
Or they're not as monetariliy greedy. There's multiple forms of value.
I had this issue too, even before the pandemic. In fact back when I was looking even if there were Elixir job postings they often strongly preferred a Ruby/Rails background on top of that, which I didn't have.

I just decided it's one of my hobby languages. If a job comes out of it in the future, that's awesome.
Examples where you think governments are exploiting this?

Governments just love reducing tax dollars by shutting stuff down!
I think that largely depends on what kind of programmer you are. Like it or not, systems development, app development, backend, frontend, integrated circuit development all have their own mindset and associated challenges and skills. What is your most essential skill? the drive to learn.
ESA Planetary Robotics Lab Releases Open Source ExoMy Rover Powered by ROS
At a certain age a backyard for your kids to play in matters way more than being close to authentic ramen.
The federal government can provide funding for state programs without taking over the administration of those programs. That happens all the time.
Mitsubishi's iMiev (2009) was the first EV to sell more than 10,000 units.

Toyota RAV4 EV was released in 2003 though it was only available for lease (leasors could buy the vehicle at the end of the lease). Indeed, the RAV4 EV 2nd Generation is the reason Tesla exists as a going concern today; without Toyota's cash infusion, Tesla would just be another Faraday Motors in car history.

Ford released an EV truck in 1998.

And the US granddaddy of them all (excluding vehicles only available to fleets) is the GM EV1, released back in 1996.
> and that needs to be achieved first before we can achieve a GitOps philosophy like Weave Cloud.

I think "[automatically] export all generated YAML templates and CLI commands as a git commit / git patch" is something that may be worth supporting even without the import of existing templates.

First, it should be much easier, since you're already doing the hard work of generating those strings. Exporting them as a git patch could be as straightforward as keeping an internal repo folder and running git format-patch.

Second, it would make for a much easier sell to greenfield projects (which don't need import), because if your GUI tool can export back to the usual YAML code, I might consider using it knowing that I can 'eject' at any time, or that if the generated YAML suffers from any ShuttleOps bugs I can at least fix them and apply the fixed YAML manually while I wait for a bugfix.
I do work for a FAANG company and bear that bias, yes. I haven't always worked at a FAANG company though -- before I did I appreciated the upward pressure FAANG companies were putting on salaries.

I took another look at your comment I replied to, I must have glossed over the "If they have not ties to the party, they shouldnt have tried to compete" part. I apologize. I want to be clear that I'm not suggesting these companies shouldn't compete, I'm glad for all of the employers we have in tech. What I am suggesting is that they pay the price the market for that talent is currently willing to bear and if that results in less concentrated ownership for the ones that eventually do come to dominate the industry I won't be losing any sleep. For those that think current giants are "unbeatable" -- current FAANG companies were tiny and irrelevant 20 years ago and the industry was dominated by a different set of "unbeatable" giants.
Easier to transport to mars that way.
https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/2745 may be what you're after.
I am not saying that, I am saying there is a furlough scheme in the UK that was introduced by the government as a response to Covid-19.
Check out the link I have provided, there is more information available there.
Contract work in London pays a premium I believe.
I don't mean open offices. They're even more crowded than cubicles. I mean the classic ones where you have walls, a door, your own desk, a few feet from your desk to your door, a bunch of bookshelves, a few monitors, a window, and nobody enters your office unless it's important.
Just on the Boston note, the city wears itself out pretty quickly. COVID is actually showing this strongly. Freedom Trail and related powered a downtown that otherwise died since March.

Of course it'll come back whenever it does, but the "real culture" of the areas that aren't total millennial, college, or medical resident playgrounds is up in Cambridge /Somerville. And those two towns are pretty small ultimately with rough commutes into the city.

Minneapolis and the like start to grow on me, as it's trading one smallish cultural area for another, but at a fraction of the cost.
So basically doing video compression between the shader steps? Interesting.
How do people believe in stuff like this? I am honestly asking how this mechanism works. Is there some proven psychological fallacy?
Well if you were making jerky the salting process might not kill all the parasites. But it was more a nod to the story that came across HN a few days ago about Hanford having all this Cesium around that they weren't using. And it is in Washington state (a state with a pig problem) and the engineer in me likes the synergy of turning two problems into a public good.
No, jacobriis is not doing that. He's stating

> when people say things like this they often do so to feel virtuous themselves

You're laundering his comment into some abstract statement about how you can't make generalizations about anyone, when he was the one making a generalization that people who say that they experienced X are making things up.
Just curious... What ethnicity are you? On the west coast, outside of a couple cities, my experience has been the opposite - though I'm of a darker complexion.

And I'm not too fond of rural attitudes on race anywhere - if the rural west coast is somehow different, I'd love to hear your contrasting anecdotes. I know on the east coast it's certainly not the case.
thx -- really appreciate it. it took me six months to write so I am glad it was helpful. just added comments on the bottom of the post if you want to ask any questions: https://www.safegraph.com/blog/data-as-a-service-bible-every...
Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) Threats
I work for a sizable consulting firm with multiple offices including one in Chicago. We saw a lull during the early months (april-june) of Covid/quarantine, we froze hiring, and a few projects were cancelled (one was a major airline). We had a heavier bench for a short time, and utilization fell 10-20%.

That lull is over, at least in Chicago, and not just our office. We have almost no bench, utilization is reaching 100% for at least tech centric practices, and we're hiring again. Front end, back end, devops, salesforce implementation and integration, you name it, demand is exceeding supply for resources available.

On one hand it's comforting to have job security. But it's also surreal to hear reports about 13% unemployment. These are strange times. It does feel like anyone in the tech profession that we are insulated from the worst effects of this catastrophe. Most of us can easily do our jobs remotely. My brother and his girlfriend are both chefs living together in Chicago. Enhanced unemployment benefits expired in July and their lease ended in August so they both moved back in with their parents. I know what is happening out there but at times I feel like we live in a bubble.
To be honest, even something as simple as coinmarketcap.com and allowing you to enter how much you have would be great for the accounts portion.

I did love the fact that M1Finance and Vanguard Plans are supported by your dashboard and will be following along with you as one of my favorite financial products (alongside M1Finance and Privacy in my opinion)
Just to pile on in re: efficiency and industrial production...

As others have pointed out, industrial agriculture is only efficient at producing industrial food and then only if many externalities are left unaccounted.

The industrial system cannot produce even one heirloom tomato. so what's the efficiency there, eh?

But I want to point out the crucial divide between soil-building and soil-depleting agricultures: if you integrate over a large enough time scale the former always beat the latter because soil-building system can keep going while soil-depleting systems are ultimately doomed.

So it doesn't matter that industrial agriculture has been more efficient for two hundred years or so if it eventually results in environmental devastation. All the billions of people who are alive today thanks to Haber & Bosch might also be doomed thanks to Haber & Bosch.
This comes very close to GA alternative, it's nice and fat free. The daily salt reset is a deal breaker. (basically means people visiting the site are considered unique everyday which breaks monthly/weekly unique stats and conversion tracking spanning more than 24 hours)

Our current pipeline for one app has a 14-20 days conversion and we rely on this data to optimize. Also have an marketplace app where conversions periods spans several days depending on the product and promotions. With the daily anonymization algorithm reset, every conversion will seem it took less than 24 hours.

The hunt for a GA alternative continues. BTW does anyone know/recommend a great self hosted alternative to Mixpanel?
State oil companies are the government. At least the state profits and collects those gains in the state coffers. Then, it's the government offloading the cost of cleaning up their messes on also the government, by drawing down from that same pool of profits.

Private oil companies privatize the gains and socialize the losses.
This one of the best stories/things I've ever read here in Hacker News and I don't say this lightly. Really amazing and inspiring story! :D
A list of MySQL WTFs: https://grinnz.com/stuff/lolmysql.txt
Engineering managers at large companies in the Bay Area can make $600k. (And I don't mean directors or VPs, which are over $1 million.) Engineering managers in the Midwest are generally lucky to reach $200k. That's a basic new grad offer in the Bay Area.

Obviously not everyone is going to CA and getting a $600k income, but the compensation cap there is dramatically higher for top talent.
Yeah definitely a valid point. I understand (more or less) for people who want kids, I need to add that to my comment. Of course I can still see some benefit to raising kids in a place like NYC, but that's much more nuanced
Sounds good - I wouldn’t give Amazon the benefit of the doubt either.

So - are you absolutely certain that nobody in your household used the term ‘whirlpool’ in any text based online interaction?

For example - is it possible that you emailed someone while you were coordinating these tests and you or they are Gmail users?
Reading the article it seems like the core issue is:

>To make matters worse, it appears that the most popular EF Core MySQL provider maps .NET’s TimeSpan to TIME by default, despite the fact that TimeSpan can contain intervals in the dozens of millennia (it uses a 64 bit integer and has 10-8 s precision)

It's this mapping is bogus. If the ranges don't match TimeSpans should be mapped to something else.

MySQL's BIGINTs are 64bits, so that might be a more reasonable target. Of course you lose some "typing" information in the schema, but it's probably worth it.

But I suppose it would make sense for MySQL to provide a "BIGTIME" alias for this purpose, and deprecate the old one maybe.
This list is hard to read. Anyone have a printed list?
Not to mention basic nutrition! People are eating foods starved even of common electrolytes. It's ridiculous.
How'd this get voted so many points? RTFM and use a more appropriate datatype.
This is awesome. what's the performance like on a raspberry pi?
Celery Flower is absolutely maintained! Last commit and last release were a few months ago:

* https://github.com/mher/flower

* https://pypi.org/project/flower/#history
+10 to this comment. linking data is simple in theory but extremely hard in practice.
In my view, what holds the Midwest up, is that not everybody gets to live in the high-wage cities, yet we don't just give up on inventing and making things. Wherever smart, creative people live, there will be stuff happening, albeit perhaps at its own pace.

I tend to look at the high-wage regions like silicon valley, like they are a different country. Some folks will emigrate to that country, and I'm happy for them. Those of us who are left behind, for whatever reason, get on with our lives and find what there is to enjoy in our humble surroundings.
Remote instruction was viewed as an important early application of telecommunications technology. For example, the first FM radio station in this state (KANW, which perhaps due to its experimental nature at the time apparently did not claim a vanity call sign with meaning as most early stations did) was operated by the city school district with the purpose of broadcasting centrally produced lessons to classrooms. Broadcast to the public was only an incidental goal at the time as FM receivers were not yet common. Similarly, in many cities there is a public access television station which was, at least historically, operated by the K-12 district for similar purposes (KNME here, originally for New Mexico Education, has a similar history). In some larger areas there is also a television station operated by the community college or university extension, originally for the purpose of delivering continuing education courses.

Today the majority of these stations have quietly transformed into public stations (many having become NPR or PBS affiliates) and that historical purpose is largely lost. All evidence indicates that this concept of remote instruction was never particularly successful, although some school districts retained a city-wide closed circuit television system for quite some time with the primary use of announcements and occasionally low-interest courses such as less common foreign languages.

Remote insturction is certainly not new, and while the technology has indeed advanced I'm not convinced that it's really advanced since the 1960s to a degree that really revolutionizes the field. The technology in use today is still fundamentally video and audio delivery. Of course it's usually bidirectional today, but anyone who's tried to teach online has probably discovered that bidirectional video doesn't help nearly as much as you would hope.
It's a type with a minimum and maximum. How in the world is this an "unforgivable" sin? Shall I rail on C for the `size_t` type only having 16 bits?

> lack of a suitable replacement

MySQL's various string "alternatives" have proven how stupid having multiple types with different limits really can be.
I think things could work out if you replace those platforms with decentralized protocols.
I completely agree. I made the mistake of taking a lower paying job in a lower cost area at the start of my career. When I did move to a higher paid area, I found that new grads were almost being paid my rate.
My limited experience doesn't mean much in the big picture, but this comment struck me as funny because one of my few memories of Alberta was seeing two rats chasing and fighting over the lid of a food container. I guess I got lucky.
All of the current products are basically cameras, right? I’m excited to hear about possible improvements
This is what the Philippines is doing for distance learning for mountain provinces.

I find it interesting, while most South East Asian countries/ASEAN/the world does Internet distance, there's significant infrastructure issue that make radio best.

Same as why most emerging economies embraced cell phones much more readily vs ever having copper lines strung across.
They say this is an information economy, so what is information?
K6 is my usual go-to, since it can import Postman request files (which makes it easier to simulate more complex requests with file uploads and such), and is highly configurable.

https://k6.io/