skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Critical thinking. The ability to evaluate ideas against reality and reject them if they don’t match.
Moved from the Midwest to the Bay Area, and tech comes in two forms: IT departments at major industrial firms (manufacturing, chemical, pharma, etc), or companies that are eventually bought by West Coast companies. The pay cap is much lower. Becoming a millionaire through stocks and wages is harder, but you will still be in the top 10% of earners overall.

If you want to live in a mansion, the Midwest makes this dream obtainable. Buy a 6 bedroom, lake (reservoir) side, 4k sqr ft home for less than a million. Of if you want an acre of lawn, but not live too far in the country.

What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white). (EDIT: This gets more pronounced the more rural you are. Cities tend to be more accepting. What you will find is that rural areas have more relative sway on thought compared to the West Coast.) Towns outside of major metropolitan areas are dying as most major industries that supported that last two generations have left. Drugs are a huge issue, but its not as obvious because the floor for homelessness is so much lower. The only major infrastructure and building projects that get approved are sports stadiums, because idiots in local government rather have sports teams than functioning schools.

What the Midwest does have is solid engineering and research universities, that graduate thousands of STEM oriented students a year. Unfortunately there are often over an hour from the nearest 250k+ city. I went to one, and I think less than 25% of my friends stayed in state. The brain drain is real.
good. hopefully more people die of covid. less people on earth the better it is.
Not that winter in Boston is particularly pleasant, but I feel like the jetskis are going to be a lot less fun when it's -40 out.
Scientists explore ways to use mineral waste from mines to pull CO2 from the air
I'm surprised not to see Madison, WI on this list. Our tech sector has been strong and growing for several decades - locally we have Epic Systems, Exact Sciences, Promega Corporation, Thermo Fisher Scientific, several large insurance companies like American Family Insurance, Sentry Insurance. It might be easy to miss the agglomeration of these companies in one area because some of them are technically in different municipalities than the City of Madison. But it's a great area, and most of the big players here have been spared or even strengthened by the unique circumstances of the pandemic.
Big tech today learned from Microsoft’s failures. They invest heavily in lobbying, government affairs, and other non profits setup to help their causes.
Facebook selling your data to advertisers is annoying. TikTok et al vacuuming up data to be stored by the CCP for things like blackmail[0] is horrifying and basically geopolitical chess moving to give them leverage on things like putting Muslims in detention camps [1]. Treating the two as equivalent is somewhere between intentionally ignorant or acting in bad faith.

[0] - https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-has-a-database-on-americ...

[1] - https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/china-confirms-death-of...
> Have you considered requesting a 24 hour private cacheable resource and counting the requests on the server? Or is the browser cache too unreliable?

Nice idea.
So to hide a backdoor in a opensource software it's the best solution to tell the world that you (the NSA) is actively working on a Project? Like SELinux? Man do you think they are stupid? They work on those projects to make their own infrastructure more secure, don't you think every one looks on their fingers/commits?

>You should also consider as a swiss citizen that US law is increasingly world law

That's Bullshit, was probably half true in the Cold War era but for sure not today.

> They're doing that to Assange right now.

That's England, you know those little dogs of yours.
Sorry, I think I misunderstood what you were saying there. Could you clarify a bit more about what kind of functionality you'd prefer we support in the scenario you described? A large influx of traffic hits your application while you are unavailable to handle it. If you do not have autoscaling enabled, your application performance could suffer, if you do have it enabled your bill could grow out of bounds. We do plan to let you set min and max bounds for autoscaling once it is implemented. Thanks for your help!
> * There was no way to run a console command.

There is a console now, was added a few weeks ago.
Minneapolis is unbearable during the Winters. It is so cold you have to plug cars into outlets to keep the oil warm. They have underground tunnels between shopping malls, etc.

I lived in Boston and it is a much, much nicer environment.
What exactly leads you to believe that Elixir is past its peak?
I second this !
I’ve found celery to be extremely useful and reliable at handling > 1MM daily async tasks with non deterministic latencies. The programming interface melds beautifully with Flask.
If someone is really shilling they won't be persuaded by any information you provide. If someone isn't shilling but may have doubts about the proposed regulation they won't be persuaded by you insulting them as a shill.
This is very useful to know, dylz. Thank you!!
It is hard to tell if this is general trend or workforce relocation, when only looking at data in these picked cities and for past few years. Job posting data from this year due to pandemic may tell a better story.
It is pretty much the current greed driven technology. Company doesn't want to invest in proper FPGA technology that will allow reconfiguration of chipsets on the fly, but instead they want people to buy new chipsets every year or so and preferably make the old ones obsolete (not resellable)
The same benefit that all of the FAANG companies provide: "value to shareholders". I thought this was the ultimate capitalist notion of "benefit"?
Caravaggio Destroyed (and Saved) Painting
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An arbitrary top text search result for those who want to skim text beforehand.

https://hub.packtpub.com/is-scala-3-0-a-new-language-all-tog...
Thanks for this great comment!

I agree with you and this is partly why I started this platform: We need to get away from anecdotal, someone famous said it works, so it works kind of thinking to socially verified approach: If many people in my area with a similar soil type have grown this specific plant successfully then I have high chances too. But there is no such platform for that kind of info. YET!

Happy to chat more!
We've learned through painful experience to treat Celery as little more than a vanilla pub/sub system. Some of its more "advanced" features sound nice, until you discover they're implemented in surprising or unscalable ways. They've gotten better at documenting some of these gotchas, but at this point we've been burned one too many times. I'm hopeful 2021 is the year we eliminate Celery from our system.
What is this lost paradise taken away from us by industrialisation? Subsistence farming? You don't have to theorise if that was enjoyable lifestyle - just take a look on any developing nation and people that are more than eager to ditch that. Or do you propose we escape further back and live our lives as hunter-gatherers?
excuse me, what's the point of "favorability ratings" when there is no competition to compare them to ?
Vint Cerf discusses the future of internet
> there isn't a way to get them back if you save/overwrite.

Of course there is, in your case. If patient identifiers have a fixed, known length, then you can pad with leading zeros to recover them.

You only have a problem if 012345 and 12345 are distinct patient identifiers.

It is bone-headed in the first place to use numeric-looking identifiers (such as containing digits only) which are really strings, and then allow leading zeros. Identifiers which are really strings should start with a letter (which could be a common prefix). E.g. a patient ID could be a P00123.

This is useful for more than just protecting the 00. Anywhere in the system, including on any printed form, if you see P00123, you have a clue that it's a patient identifier. An input dialog can reject an input that is supposed to be a patient identifier if it is missing the leading P, or else include a fixed P in the UI to remind the user to look for P-something in whatever window or piece of paper they are copying from.

The main point in my comment is that instead of shaking your fist that the behavior of other users in the system, such as those who choose Excel because it's the only data munging thing they know how to use, you can look for ways that your own conventions and procedures are contributing to the issue.

If people are going to "Excel" your data, and then loop it back to you, maybe your system should be "Excel proofed".
i always call this exact distinction the difference between programmer and software developer. in my case, actual programming is 10% of the time, maybe 20% if you count staring at logs and/or monitoring trying to figure out what the hell happened. interns do the most programming since that's the easy part, the hard part is figuring out what interns should program next.
It's a mock on that rule, attributed to Churchill:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22That%27s+something+up+with+whic...
> It's interesting - the comments section appears to be a litany of excuses for big tech just to see what sticks.

Not sure what comments section you're reading. In the one I see, most of the top comments are celebrating the possibility of these companies getting broken up. There's only the niggling problem that the law probably doesn't provide a provable cause of action supporting said breaking up.
Doesn't that only support their point? A naively optimistic estimate that ancestors are uniformly distributed will take more generations to hit the limit of 2^n vs the historic population. In reality ancestors are "reused" even faster than that, particularly with examples like geographically isolated villages, etc.
Broken link? That is exactly the title of the linked article on my end.
Saccades are neither random nor very predictable. They are voluntary. You can predict the "salient" parts of an image that humans will prefer to look at, and use that information to e.g. improve video compression. But your predictions will always be wrong sometimes because humans are unpredictable.

It should be feasible to detect saccades instead of predicting them, and render new pixels more quickly than the eye can move. But it is right at the edge of what's possible, and really needs more reliable eye tracking than is generally available today, along with purpose built rendering techniques and higher resolution + higher field of view displays.
> Salaries are $80K fresh out of college.

I think this is changing (for the higher) in some low cost of living areas (although I can't speak for the midwest) as tech talent moves out of SF. My good friend just got a $120k offer for a pretty "routine" new grad job.

e: for clarity
The pigoons are coming.
And importantly, how does this increase compare with the amount of engineers available?

It’s all fine and dandy to say there have been cities where “tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these cities” but it says nothing of the labor market. I am under the presumption that labor is exploding for software/tech.

My biggest reason for not moving to non-tech hubs is the lack of companies employing engineers. There are only so many, whereas in the Bay... you could make interviewing your full time job and likely never run out.
Conferences are the least efficient way to network
The descriptions I'm reading from people who say that they are suffering lingering effects from covid do not seem to match this hypothesis. In this thread for example someone described eating as being exhausting after having covid. Even after years of inactivity a person should not be experiencing this kind of difficulty from eating.

You'd also expect to see these same complaints from people who have not gotten covid which I'm not seeing.
It is very interesting that the reported lingering long-term symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 align almost perfectly with major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder.

Clinical depression and anxiety levels are through the roof right now. Shouldn’t that be considered an explanation for these post-viral symptoms?
> Facebook selling your data to advertisers is annoying.

Facebook selling your data to advertisers is also horrifying. American "businesses" accept foreign investments and money all the time. Nothing stops those same countries from buying data from Facebook. The only difference between that and TikTok is that money is exchanged. It's just as horrifying.
Curiosity, Fearless, and Listening skils.
Most of the political destabilization (in america) has been going on before social media: https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-we-polarized-dont-blame-...

> EK: ... The core story of the book is that over the past 50 years, the country’s dominant political coalitions have sorted by ideology, race, religion, geography, psychology, consumer behavior, and cultural preferences. This has, in turn, kicked off a series of feedback loops in which political institutions ... adopt more polarized strategies to both respond and appeal to a more polarized audience, which further polarizes the audience, which further polarizes the institutions, which further polarizes the audience, and so on.

> Social media is one of those institutions, and in my view, is clearly a polarization accelerant. In the coming years it may prove a primary driver. But the bulk of the run-up in American party polarization predates social media, which means social media isn’t core to the story.
> it doesn’t seem to work for pigs (thus why Montana banned hunting them)

According to the article, this is because Montana doesn't have any pigs. You can't hunt pigs without bringing them in if there are no local pigs. But that's not an issue that applies to places that have too many local pigs.
Could you explain why Germany does not allow German to waive their copyright? I couldn't find the information about this.
> “Elixir is past it’s peak”

I would really appreciate any data that backs this up. Or is this a personal observation written as if it was a consensus? Because if we are going by personal experiences, the community definitely feels bigger and more active than before to me.
This is a very consumerist world view (get big house, get fun toys) that not everyone believes in. I choose to live in a more vibrant city where I essentially trade my money for opportunity, experiences, and community.
Because the manufacturing techniques have improved? You can see the effects of better manufacturing techniques in other parts.
Chilli is another useful thing to grow, which 1 tree can produce much more than you (and relatives) will eat in a year.

Saying that as the chilli tree at a friends place is always covered in chilli's ready to pick, even if we strip it bare and return a few weeks later. It's an overachiever. ;)
> It may have been a different strain, or the antibody tests are garbage (or both), since they reported negative.

Antigen tests are not terribly sensitive. If you get tested to soon or too late your antibody level will not be high enough to trigger a positive result. If your family got them at varied times after infection, or if you got more than one test, it would be very unlikely you hadn't gotten a positive result.

Conventional wisdom is that it peaks ~3 weeks after infection, and is highest for 1-2 weeks around that time. In practice everyone reacts differently and it can be hard to predict. I was infected in March and I'm still testing positive every 1-2 weeks. That's because I had a fairly rough go round, and developed a very heavy immune response. Asymptomatic[1] people may mount a very limited response and never test positive for antigens at all.

> Since then, I've had a persistent "throat-clearing" thing. Lots of "harUMPHf." My sense of taste never fully recovered, either (that was the weirdest part of it. I've never had that happen before).

It took me an inhaler and 4+ months to clear out my lungs. Constantly coughing up thick sludge. That inhaler was a godsend during the worst part of it- helped me move stuff around when I needed air most. I still have breathing issues (damage to the blood vessels), but I can fill my lungs easily now.

[1]: NB that due to the way lung problems work, "asymptomatic" cases can still inflict a lot of damage. Since your oxygen demands and supplies are constantly changing -due to exertion, air quality, altitude etc- your body is used to quietly adjusting your heart rate and breathing rate up without you noticing. Your lungs can go through some serious losses of efficiency and put a lot of strain on your heart before you notice. This goes double for people with high anaerobic tolerance; if you run a few times a week you will just ignore co2 buildup to a much higher level than a couch potato.
Man I swear I got retconned, I just couldn't see this. I would like to retract all I wrote. It's pretty cool!
It's not the same as what Amazon does, not even close.

Target owns the products on its shelves so it can do with them what it wants, even give them away for free. Importantly, the product manufacturers are not its competitors because they aren't in the retail business; they are in the wholesale business of making and selling to retailers.

Amazon does not own the products in its marketplace. The sellers in the marketplace do not sell their products to Amazon. They are all sellers, like Amazon, and that is why Amazon's practices are an antitrust issue.
Religious Freedom: A Non-Partisan Principle for Hyper-Partisan Times
Not sure if privacy is a valid argument here. As long as visitors are annonymised and it is self hosted I don't see how this would invade a person's privacy.

The problem with Google Analytics is not that they track a user on a single domain, the problem is that users are tracked on a *.google.com domain and Google knows who you are based on your other google sessions and knows everything you do on the internet because every website uses GA. With a self hosted product that wouldn't be the case, so the privacy is given by nature even if you'd track a user across a space of a month or longer.
this won't happen. lets be honest our politicans are bought.
The title has been changed since this was submitted.
West of Ontario in Saskatchewan, wild board are considered to be pests and it is open season.

https://www.rgsl.ca/wild-boar-in-saskatchewan/
This sounds like an invariant even an optimizing compiler could find, because it's such a common construct. Well... I guess they have an easier job because they can "assume away" signed overflow.
I love it. I was very self concisu about my writing when I left college and I spent a year or two rewriting a few of my favorite novels. By hand. It was helpful. Great idea.
We will be revealing a lot more about the architecture at our upcoming virtual conference called Deploy that is happening Nov 10-11th. There are a few sessions that touch on how the platform was implemented and I encourage you to tune in for those! (schedule to be announced soon).
https://www.digitalocean.com/deploy/
Are you honestly curious?

If so, there’s something of a sliding scale. Most of them take their car - their single car, that serves the whole family. When it breaks down, they lean on friends, family, and neighbors for help.

Those without a vehicle in the first place... don’t. I live in a town of <15k people today, and grew up about thirty miles outside of it. I graduated high school in the early 2000s - many of my classmates didn’t see a doctor unless they had a medical emergency.

It seems like there is a large disconnect between your perception and the reality of life for much of America.
Or buy the new Xbox, since the price and what you get(hundreds of games and the console) is amazing
In General Relativity, locally all reference frames are flat. This does not change at the event horizon, chemistry continues to work normally. It is just that in the time it takes for half the molecule to affect the other half, the other half will have slipped across the event horizon.

There is a classic analogy of light traveling through space-time being like ants crawling on a balloon. A black hole is a spot where the balloon is being sucked in. Faster and faster as you get closer. The event horizon is where the speed at which the balloon moves matches the speed of the ant. There is nothing special from the ant's immediate perception about this line, but if the ant crosses, it is doomed.
similar here in detroit but anything above 140k is going to be extremely rare. You probably would have to have some serious negotiation power/leverage to be able to get that.
I am just reporting what I observe in usage in, e.g. SG1 working group of the ISO C++ Standard committee.

Parallelism is an abstract behavior to be sought for, but concurrency is about code or apparatus to manage, enable, or coordinate it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if at some level that physics has forced the manufacturer’s hand—that previously low error rates are now unacceptable when you multiply them by 64GB.
What I read around is that's not the enterprise ECC, it's more akin to ECC bits used in flash memory. It'll allow manufacturers to play fast and loose with memory.
Inspiration is lumpy, so I've adopted the Fieldstone method [1] (articulated by the prolific Gerald Weinberg).

In my implementation, I collect little thoughts (shower thoughts, observations, good turns of phrases, etc.) into a single continuous Google Doc. I revisit it often and guided by my current emotions and interests, try to coalesce like-ideas and rewrite them into a large idea. Some ideas eventually snowball into something substantial.

Unless you're a columnist with a deadline (with innate talent driven by adrenalin), everybody knows how difficult it is to write an essay from scratch. However if you've been collecting ideas, and have been developing and coalescing and rewriting them over and over again (often for years), the essay almost writes itself.

[1] https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2016/05/04/weinberg-on-writing...
GitLab has always been remote and working well so far.
I initially agreed, but after some thought I've changed my mind; it is appropriate.

If you want an example of Apple not doing something quietly, consider how they stopped carrying Fortnite on the App Store, or the policy they tried to implement wrt the Unreal Engine.

If there had been some public spat with Bose in the run-up to this, and/or they announced a policy decision related to selling their hardware, it would not be quietly.
I am using it to proxy (think API gateway) all sorts of network-bound things [0]:

1. Content delivery (downloads).

2. Analytics (metrics and logging).

3. Proxy misc HTTP requests.

I planned to move web-hosting to Workers too but Netlify is just too smooth and I don't see a reason to do so currently, though the recently announced free analytics product (for websites proxied through Cloudflare) might tempt me to do so anyway.

[0] The 50ms time-limit is for cpu-time and not wall-time. The latter doesn't seem to have any documented limits and so works great for "streaming" network-bound workloads.