skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope the tech workers leaving California take into account how hostile most states are in terms of non competes for employees. Not having them enforceable here is a big part of the magic that let the tech industry thrive in the Bay Area.

That said, I’m happy to tough it out here and potentially take advantage of not having to compete with as many other techies and private school kids for rentals in my neighborhood in SF.
And open source software.
A lot of people are saying this is a bad deal because you don't get to keep your entire TC when you leave the region - you effectively end up losing more TC in the long run. True but like... you also can have way lower expenses for housing... and if you move to a state with no income tax, you might not even lose almost any net income.

But - uh - I think a lot of people would be happy to keep 90% of their really high silicon valley TC if they moved to another region and they got a one-time $20K relocation bonus to top it off. I'm sure many people in SV would move if they thought they could keep 90% of their TC in another area. That said - it only stays true if they stick with Stripe. As soon as Stripe doesn't employ them - they're gonna be competing for remote-only workers wages (or whatever is local too I guess) unless they move back.

I see these options as really good offers for those who really want to temporarily move somewhere else, like the company/manager/whatever they currently work for, and want to come back to the tech hub in 2-3 years (new parents? young/childless married couples? someone who misses their friends "back home"? Idk). For everyone else, I don't know why you'd move away unless you were already planning on it anyway. Your savings will be short term gained and you will lose all your friendships locally. You won't likely get to keep that $400K+ TC by sticking with permanently remote jobs or by not living in a tech hub city unless you never lose your job. (Uncommon) For people who hated living in NYC or SF Bay Area then maybe this is the winning ticket to help them kickstart their jump into another region.

If Stripe IPOs - they could use that stock they earned for 2 years while working remotely to buy a house almost anywhere besides NY/SF. (Effectively meaning they don't need SF/NY income anymore because they have paid the most expensive part of housing off)
If it's indeed just a 10% cut, you're likely going to be coming out ahead wherever you move, at least in the short term.

In the longer term, it depends on raises. Historically a big cost to moving to work remote in a low cost of living area is receiving much stingier raises indefinitely. I suspect that will continue to be true, though who knows.
I think that "locking up foreigners" nationalism is more trumps flavour than "trade with all, allies with none" etc.

He's very good at convincing people he supports their ideological position when he's really just using it to justify what he wants to do right now for his own reasons and will drop it the second it's not useful. That whys he's anti China until he has to actually take an action on China or exporting jobs or crime and punishment etc. :(
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I have an iphone and it's the other way around.
In New Zealand, your criminal record consists of solely those crimes you have been convicted of in court, and is automatically clean slated if you have gone >7 years without an offence (unless you have been convicted of a serious crime in which case it's on your record for life). In fact it is an offence for most employers to ask for your full (non-clean-slated record.

We also have a system known as police vetting, which is a far more intrusive background check, and includes not just actual convictions but also mere encounters with the police, warnings, etc. Police vetting can only be requested for roles that involve working with vulnerable adults or children.

In all cases the candidate must (a) consent, and (b) be supplied with a copy of the results. Overall I think this is a good system though there are some areas for improvement.
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For HIV there’s medication which practically guarantees you cannot become infected and there’s medication which will practically guarantee you will not get ill and cannot infect others.
My wife and I have both been using the "CalDigit TS3 Plus" nearly every single day since December 2018. 3-4 different laptops, 2-3 monitors each, endless accessories and drives, etc. Zero issues.

I keep this hub[0] in my laptop bag for traveling and I haven't had any issues with it in over two years, either. I've plug in monitors, daisy chained USB-C, plugged in my iPad as a second monitor, and projected over HDMI numerous times.

And I have this[1] monitor for traveling.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074DRW84M/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06Y8SSQG5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
don't think that was the topic though?
Which part does that?
> Customers don’t have an option of a cheaper price to not earn points, so customers aren’t being convinced of anything.

Nonsense - buy a cheaper, non-point earning ticket if you don't want the points.
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One monitor is the laptop. Then I use a dongle that provides two full-size DP ports from one USB C
I probably won't end up emailing you, but thank you.
That's... actually pretty interesting concept to consider.

Sometimes I do wonder how much better we could all get along if some substances had relaxed or dropped restrictions.

When you think about it, there's the mental toll on users about public disapproval amplified by the legal status. On top of that, the divide on the non user side about someone being a "lawbreaker".

Just seems to cause a lot of division. On top of the illegality of harder drugs leading to the rise of cartels and gangs.

Just thinking out loud. What if the US said 'screw it', try making everything legal for 5-10 years, produce what it can locally, and just see what happens. The hope with this idea is that one could starve out the cartels while perhaps providing a path to rehabilitation.

All of that said, I am still a believer in the Rat Park experiment. If we solved some of our more real problems people perhaps wouldn't need to turn to such substances, as examples by the reports of drug use increasing under lockdown conditions. Reality seems to match the experiment. The thing about that experiment, they found if the rat's other needs were met (food, shelter, socialization) they actually would start to prefer normal water to drugged water again.

Hmmmmm
Interesting timing as BitMEX just announced in late August 2020 that they will be enforcing KYC/AML measures early next year.

I wonder who was trying to get the jump on who, both here and there.
There are romantic arguments to be made on both sides here - historians saying that something is lost when this transformation happens, and that this is simply progress that people react to positively on the side of the doers.

Both of those seem misguided and rooted in one paradigm or the other. When I think about the tangible effects of something like this, I don’t see many downsides.

One thing that sticks in my mind - how easy it is for people to look at photos and videos from, for example, the Holocaust, and say “wow, the world was so very messed up way, way back then.”

The technology of the time isn’t telling the story in the full fidelity of those who lived it. Instead, it looks nothing like the reality that it was, and makes it feel further removed. Fine as an art form, but not a service to reality.
I'm working on a game backend (which I'm finding Elixir/Erlang pretty good for) and I don't see how I could reasonably do this without using my own GenServers.

I can see not writing my own GenServer for webapps, but when it comes to concurrency webapps tend to be dead simple. Elixir is a fine choice for these but I feel like its killer features don't shine that much over the alternatives.
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The rotation step may be 5.625 degrees. That would be equivalent to a division of 90° by 16, which could be accomplished by a simple 4 bit shift

One of the original design documents mentions a 90°/16 division operation: https://arcadeblogger.com/2018/10/24/atari-asteroids-creatin...
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> The last two millennia of physics were also blindsided by it's own implications of it's discoveries in the 20th century.

Putting aside whether we have had two millennia of physics as a distinct discipline, the point here is that progress on these issues was made by the methods of physics, rather than those of philosophic epistemology and metaphysics.
Maybe the italians knew what the goal was?

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colpo_grosso_(programma_televi...
Academic historians are just annoyed because they didn’t do it first.
It was the plot of a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, and a pretty good one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_%28Star_Trek:_...
Isn't the vast vast majority of flying done for business?

People will go on vacation once or maybe twice a year, but fly on business a dozen or more times.
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There might be a counter-argument that being identified and tracked also has a dollar amount associated with it.

It might be the personalized pricing you get, just because they know your zipcode.
Go for it! I usually shoot digital, but have a Nikon FM2 that I get out a few times a year. Sometimes I'll even just walk around the house with it snapping photos with no film. Just to feel the camera.

I sought out this feeling in a digital camera for over a decade. After trying a bunch of Fujis I finally broke down and got an M10. It feels just like my old film Leicas until it runs out of battery.
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Most of my holidays are in the mid 5 figures range, shorter work trips tend to average around 2k/night. I'm not looking for cheap deals, but for a better experience. I don't buy packages, I mostly design my own itineraries.

I work with a boutique agency with around 10 staff, their yearly volumes with the chains I frequent are in the tens of millions. There are lots of agencies like this, you only need a couple of billionaire clients making regular 500k bookings to have a plenty of leverage.

I always thought travel agents were bullshit until I found out about the perks offered trough the Four Seasons preferred partner program and figured I'd give it a shot for a single booking. After check-in the agent called me to make sure everything went smoothly, I pointed out a tiny issue regarding the check-in progress that I would've immediately forgotten about if not for the fabulous service recovery arranged by the agent. After that this agency has had all of my business.
> Programming is a complex task that includes five steps: problem identification, solution design, coding, testing and reporting.

Perhaps it's because of different terminology, but I'm already somewhat lost on the first sentence of the article. What does reporting mean in this context?
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Even entry level at stripe is above $150k:

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Stripe/salaries/Software-Engi...
> Let’s say an engineer making $150k year manages to frugally move for only $5k. That means, after one year they’re already loosing money

How do you come to that conclusion without taking COL into account?
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OTOH every decent erlang book or tutorial I've ready, from Armstrong's book[1] to Learn You Some Erlang[2] to Erlang and OTP in Action[3] and others all start off by introducing primitives like spawn, message sending , and receive.

They then introduce OTP and explain all the cases it handles.

I've never read a book or tutorial on OTP that just starts with OTP. In fact (a bit tangetially) whenever I encounter abstractions where I don't already understand the primitives I have a very difficult time. Maybe that's just the way my brain is wired though. I have a terrible time with OO programming for that reason. I much prefer a separation of functions and data because it's much easier for me to reason about what is happening.

Anyway, I agree that programmers should start with the primitives, but I've never seen anyone really teach OTP any other way.

Edit: also there are tools such as Erlang.mk[4] by Loïc Hoguin[5] that will handle a lot of the boilerplate for OTP projects and building releases, though it's good to do it manually at least once while learning.

[1] https://pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang2/programming-erlang-2nd...

[2] https://learnyousomeerlang.com/

[3] https://www.manning.com/books/erlang-and-otp-in-action

[4] https://erlang.mk/guide/index.html

[5] https://ninenines.eu/
There's a bit of a difference between interpolating to fill in spaces between pixels with hints from what's next to them and adding whole new words and sentences.
I didn't say sysvinit was better, although it frequently is. There are other inits and daemon supervisors out there.

journalctl is a terrible interface.

As for delays: you've never seen "waiting for [thing]... 5 min 30s" before? You're lucky.
Look here if you don't like to interact with Twitter's UI:
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Yea, CA income taxes are in the range of 10%, right? Move to a state without income taxes and you’ve already avoided taking a net salary reduction.
Interesting. Similar premium. Their 50/10 costs the same as my 1000/1000.
Perhaps the only way this could be resolved is some kind of certification and education of consumers that only certified cables/devices should be used.

For others they should go after the vendors for not following spec. Yes there are fakes, but companies like Nintendo could be forced to either comply or if they don't want to, use a proprietary port like they usually did.
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> It's like if I used machine learning to double the length of the federalist papers.

I don't think that's an appropriate analogy at all. When colorizing or up-scaling, you're making informed guesses to fill in gaps, and even if it's wrong occasionally, it doesn't matter.
Putting an ill person in jail for a lifetime sounds extremely wrong.
People perceive a lower probability of advancement in other regions, and lower probability of securing similar employment in the event of turbulence at your employer. It's a personal decision how much value to assign to these possibilities, but obviously it's significant enough to sufficient people that Stripe is having to offer extra incentive to move.

Although the above is not the only factor. Obviously there are things like weather, geographic amenities, politics, etc to consider.
Once again,

> implementation detail

There is no guarantee that even CPython will keep the current behaviour. Ultimately, the promise you're given is that __del__ might be invoked by the system some point between "the object has no live references" and "never".

The original assertion gives a much closer intuition than your description of the current behaviour.
How are they doing this? I thought the KYC stuff was necessary for anti-terrorism laws. Am I mistaken and they do that for other reasons?
It might be as simple as saying "what historians are saying this? are they speaking for all historians? I just asked 3 historians and they love 4k."
I think this really depends on your lifestyle.

I save > 60% of my post-tax income. I'm able to do this because, 1) luckily, I make a lot of money, and 2) I don't have any dependents or health problems.

If I moved to St. Louis, I'd save an extra ~$2k a month in taxes, which is basically the cut in salary.

I /only/ spend $40k a year outside of housing (I realize this is a lot). A lot of that /was/ on traveling to see friends and family, and about 10% of that is utilities, car payments, etc - things that don't really change. Let's say $20k of my spending is on local services like entertainment and restaurants and general shopping. Let's say that's 30% cheaper in St. Louis.

That's $6k in savings. Plus another ~$1-2k per month in rent. Absolute tops, that's $30k per year. For context (not to brag), this is not much much more than my annual raise.

Sure, if you have a giant house and several dependents, and spend ALL of your post-tax income - living in Saint Louis could offer you twice as much spending power.

For a lot of people, it doesn't. Most of their money goes toward investments, and I can't buy investments any cheaper from Saint Louis than I can anywhere else in the world.

Finally, if you own, even with the $12k limit on SALT, the fact that Mortgage Interest is deductible makes the difference in housing not as extreme as it might appear if you make a lot of money. Also, a lot of places with very high housing prices - unsurprisingly - have really low property taxes.
AFAIK if they're in a partner program like FSPP the kickback will come directly from the chain, and these are exactly the bookings where travel agents can offer the most value.
It's still cheap compared to comparable alternatives though.
Yeah I mean a prepaid SIM + top up with cash is < $30 USD.

It just feels like they're taking advantage of people.

Although now that I think about it I wonder how they do E911? Sounds like a liability
There's probably a niche that they are catering to. Perhaps, catering to this niche is advantageous for Mozilla to receive further funding. It's too bad that the free & open internet does not seem to be a priority anymore.

---

edit: I'm looking more into their recommended apps & the overall effort. It's possible it could either be for the better or worse, so I'll keep an open mind about this & follow it. I don't agree their general moderation worldview, however if I could somehow self-select my own worldview when using their tools, it could be interesting...
That poster on the right is amazing, it mirrors our current political situation in many ways.

point 1: Just stating the current status quo.

point 2: Good old fashioned sexism. Women are too weak, etc...

point 3: Even stronger sexism. Telling them straight up to go back to the kitchen and make some babies.

point 4: Saying that they should proxy vote through their husbands I think? It's kind of a strange point that I think might be better understood through the lens of sexism.

point 5: What absolute bullshit. Just tell the big lie I guess. See also: modern day abortion panels that consist entirely of old white guys.

I also appreciate how the final slogan is "vote to keep half of the population separated from politics, you know 'unite'".
> unlimited service

"limited to United States"

I hate it when marketers say one thing, but the contract says the exact opposite.
muh censorshit resistance
They could probably buy a house now, in the right location.
n8n[0] is self-hosted, has a nice GUI, and its source code is available on GitHub. It is not open-source in the strict sense though.

[0] https://n8n.io/
I missed that in the article, could you please provide a quote with the relevant content about the Manhattan office? Thank you.
I paid $8 USD a month for 62gb a month and 600 minutes of international calling.

(It was in a country of >1billion people)
How much of that fossil fuel use in regards to food would be impossible to replace with nuclear power and/or mobile batteries?
And lose out on things such as a refund if you need to cancel, etc.