skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having had a fairly long tech career working in small, non-SF cities, even getting paid 70-80% of a Bay area salary, I can tell you that this allows you to live very, very well.

Bay area salaries are much larger than most other jobs (tech or not) in small cities. I recall local tech companies offering 1/2 to 1/3 of what you would get paid for average (non-FAANG) work in the Bay. In most smaller cities in the US > $100k is still quite a lot for a household, let alone a single income. If take that income outside of even small towns to more rural areas, $100k can allow you to live very, very well.

Sure eventually we'll see salaries reach an equilibrium, where local tech companies have to offer more and big tech companies will offer less. However, for the next few years, if you're coming from a Bay Area company, you can take a pretty major cut to TC and still live extremely well. You don't have to move to the middle of nowhere for this to be the case either.
There is no trick to appreciating it, just that people that own work by a particular artist have a vested interest in talking that artist up and getting others to 'appreciate it.'

The best advice I can give is to spend time with a particular work of art.

Go to a museum or gallery, pick a specific painting or sculpture, and then come back to visit the same work of art multiple times, preferably on different days of the week, at different times and under different lighting conditions.

A good work of art will show you something different every time you visit.
Ah yeah I misread. Thank you!
Ask HN: How to find an investor for an adult content project
Adult content seems to be a big market but still in a gray zone. Are there investors who primarily focus on adult content projects? How to find it?
Same as @AndrewKemendo I re-lo'd to Northern Virginia just outside DC, 3yrs ago in my case. This is my 3rd tour in DC/Va. It has been a fantastic three years, especially w/r/t life, friends, family, society. I bike to work, and every day has been wonderful.

That said -- and I hear pushback on this from other threads -- my job opportunities here for any senior level roles are next to nil. This could be because I do not have a security clearance (a local favorite), or it could be because the job pyramid here in DC/NoVa really is differently shaped than SF/SV, or it could be that i'm an outsider w/o a deep social network, or perhaps I'm not looking at the area correctly.

As an anecdote, I get tons of Linked In messages for opportunities in California. CTO positions, VP positions at venture backed growth startups, all across the board. I get almost no in-bounds from companies in DC except for consulting firms (been there, done that when i was 20-25, not sure if that is a good fit at my current stage in life.)

I'm sure part of it is my profile. I have lots of real-time systems, model, quant, Computer Vision, and tech leadership background. I'm just not sure how much of a market there is for that -- though I'm positive having a security clearance would change things dramatically.

This presents a serious concern for me, and a balancing act for continued happiness in DC/VA.
Prop 13 is hardly obscure.
Any alternative to Tailwind UI? I can't justify that price for hobby projects. I'm also not interested in material-ui which is becoming open-core.
>“Abandon a standard when it is demonstrably harmful to productivity or user satisfaction.” — Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface

Basically description of posix. Well, sure, it tries to solve an unsolvable problem, but still.
There's a couple performance issues opened on the Stencil repo, as well as documented developer experience requests (e.g, Source Maps). With additional investment, I think Stencil has further potential to be an influential evolution in the front-end stack.
Real-time video processing with Rust, FFmpeg and OpenCV
AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
I hope not. Kernel programmers need to be paranoid.

This is a classic idea for doubly linked lists. The empty list has the head element linked to itself in both directions. Buffer rings are sometimes organized that way. The cases for doubly linked lists are messier.

Bear in mind that in modern CPUs, branches to nearby code are almost free, but indirection to far memory is expensive.
Middle East battles ‘cyber pandemic’ as hackers and malicious actors take over
The problem is when the details are incorrect it indicates that the information has been filtered through people who don't understand it. I suspect that the original sources actually revealed a lot more specific information, but since the journalist didn't understand it they didn't preserve it when they reworded everything. It's a common and frustrating problem with journalism.
>I think THE major difference was enforcement of noncompetes (as well as those as a proxy for a slew of similar regulatory differences). <

Exactly
If true and the attribution is to be believed. I imagine there will be a significant amount of backlash against autonomous weapon, immediately followed by UN denouncement.

I'm not a lawyer, but what kind of laws would govern extrajudiciary assassinations?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Marie_de_La_Condamine
Well, it was 2006. There was a period of several years after that where displays actually got worse as "HD" took over, which meant going from 4:3 and 16:10 aspect ratios to 16:9, and being stuck with awful 1366x768 resolutions.
For some reason, I can happily listen to robotic voices for a very long period of time. I have listened to several books that way, when there isn't a good narrated version.

In fact, apart from a few quirks (a pause at the "." of Mr. for instance), the iOS TTS engine sounds almost pleasant to me. It's no where near a good narrator, of course, but good enough if there is no poetic value in the words.
Rudimentary comparison:

Bootstrap 4.5 starter kit [1]: 74kb, DOMContentLoaded after 180 ms

Bootstrap 5.0 starter kit [2]: 57kb, DOMContentLoaded after 160 ms

[1] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.5/examples/starter-template/

[2] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/examples/starter-template/
Not sure why I bought it, except maybe I was drunk in college

humanexperiments.com
Baby Boomers Speaking To Us From 1989 (2019) [video]
There is no way to make a stove safe in the face of incorrect usage. I wouldn't be able to judge whether flame interlocks should be mandatory without any statistics about the frequency of this type of accident.
That's all of a piece with the other state "hack" of advertising one "prize" and actually paying an annuity based on that amount (or the value of the annuity).
I wasn't thinking about Trump at all. I don't think he (or any President) is very relevant at a local level, at least not on a short time-frame. The influx of people probably has something to do with it, although in Utah (where I live) there is not much anti-housing response. There is lots of construction going on both in Salt Lake City and in the surrounding areas, and lots of political support for it.

The real problems I see are more cultural ones. Homelessness is rising (as it is throughout the US). Utah had handled homelessness much better than other places due to a unique balance between the local government, the police, and the LDS church (I'm not a member FYI), but changes in the mayor and chief of police disrupted that balance.

I also perceive an arrogance on the part of some of those moving here. The idea that they can just start changing things without understanding how/why things were the way they were before. I don't think I'm against change--it's impossible to stop it in any case--but I also don't think coastal values are right for every area.
It's not a vulnerability when the private info goes to the Google itself :)
As some others have noted, having context for the art will deepen your understanding of it, which might make you appreciate it more or maybe even appreciate it less. Either way it'll help lead you into the work.

For an artist like Jean-Michel Basquiat it's especially important to understand it in the context of what it meant for a young black man to create art in an art world that was (and is still) predominately white. Keeping that in mind, take a look at the "Untitled (Rinso)" work that is shown in the article. Rinso was a brand of soap that introduced a blue powder in the 1950s and had advertisements that would say things like "Whiter Washing" with smiling blonde women. You have his infamous crown icon, with "No Suh No Suh" under it. All of these elements can help lead you to see the commentary he's making.

There was a documentary a number of years ago about him called "The Radiant Child", which might be a good place to start.
The Future I Believe In
And even that's very easy to change if you want. A couple changes in the SCSS and you've yourself got a very custom looking framework.

I used to prefer Zurb‘s foundation because I liked their defaults better, specially regarding tyopgraphy, but boy they ruined that framework.
Celestinecr/celestine: A neat library and DSL for creating graphics using SVG
And there's Bootstrap-Vue for the vue folks.

https://bootstrap-vue.org/
In most jurisdictions in the USA renewable energy generators are registered and audited by a third party, (like mrets.org where I work). Anomalies with generation data can be compared directly with data from the grid operators. Utilities will also require these commercial operations to have a "commercial energy meter" which are very expensive.
It’s basically an anti-cheat “feature”. The assumption is that if you’re running a windows game on Linux you’re probably cheating.
It always felt to me like everybody likes to hype up the amount of people leaving in the hope that people actually leave and the rent might go down.

I don't think people really want leave San Francisco and the few unlucky ones that do will pay even more rent when they come back as soon as things start booming again.
> You obviously don't live in California,

Only for a little over 4 decades.

> don't make enough money to pay taxes,

Yeah, let's just say my household income is in the top 10% in the state, so no.

> or are just being cussed.

If by “being cussed” you mean “understand the difference between total tax rates and top end marginal income tax rates in a progressive tax system”, then, yes it must be this one.

If not, you've missed at least one important possibility.

> The US top end tax rate is 37%, plus California is .... what? 13? You're already up to giving away half of what you make in California.

If you make enough in regular income that essentially all of your income is taxed at the maximum marginal federal and state, sure.

But virtually no one does that , one, because, first, you have to make a huge amount of income for that to be the case, and, second, if you make enough income for that to be the case, you probably have plenty of opportunity to structure how you make income so that, again, it's not. (Of course, while France’s top marginal income tax rate is “only” 45%, it makes a lot more of it's revenue from non-regular-income taxes than anyplace in the US, with a 20% standard VAT rate and a 42.2% top tax rate, including surtaxes and social charges, on capital gains.)

> Meanwhile you have to pay taxes on physical property like your house, and your house is valued at 7 figures if you live in the Bay Area

You don't have to pay full-value on the house except in the year you bought it, assuming market appreciation of > 2%/annum because prop 13.

> Finally, there was a VAT the last time I lived there

There has never been a VAT in any part of California. There is a sales tax, which is not a VAT, which is not a VAT, and the maximum sales tax rate in the state is 10.25%.
For JS/TS/etc, Prettier: https://prettier.io/

I don't agree with all the formatting, but I also just don't care enough. It's sooooo nice running `yarn format` on a huge legacy codebase after adding prettier.
I ended up leaving SF and moving to Austin, but Sacramento was really high on my list as well. It's a very nice town, and being half-way between SF and Lake Tahoe is pretty hard to beat :)
This used to drive me nuts and I feel like I wish the rule was, if your code breaks something you are not allowed to work on anything else until it's fixed and if possible it will be reverted.

There needs to be some incentive to not let people shit all over the code based for everyone else to clean up. Reviews are enough. All code was required to be reviewed by owners and there was still lots of this.
That's a fascinating piece, although IMO Wolfram could really do with an editor. While I realise that the article contains serious/important information (for mathematicians, historians, comp scientists etc), this bit resonated the most with me:

Göttingen was at the time a top place for mathematics. In fact, it was a sufficient “math town” that around that time postcards of local mathematicians were for sale there.

Utterly charming.
I don't think guitar music's dead. Guitar centric music may not be popular anymore, but you'll find guitars in a lot of places these days.

There's also a trend towards guitarists that play with samplers and loopers and perform live that way.

I see plenty of new guitar music on youtube in a huge variety of styles and genres.

I also frequently hear guitars, albeit hidden under layers of effects, in hip-hop and electronic music. I think guitar music is a long ways from dead.

Rock and its derivitives and the typical 4 or 5 piece drum, bass and guitar ensemble may be dead, but guitars are doing just fine and I think if anything, there's so many more avenues available for incorporating guitars into music with a lower barrier of entry than previously.

Someone can actually sound pretty decent strumming a few chords, looping them and playing with the sound without needing to learn as much.

It's not the same, but guitars are everywhere and these days they're even being incorporated with midi technology or other things to let you do some crazy stuff with them.

Also, trends come and go at some point you'll get a group of young people who wanna rebel against the 'digital electronic sounds' the older people like and suddenly discover acoustic instruments and stuff again, they'll be new and cool, the even older people will shake their fists and say things like

'those darned kids, we used to play real instruments before any of that electronic stuff came along'

and the cycle will continue.
Definitely keeping an eye on Stylex! To me, it looks like the optimal solution to the CSS styling problem.
Yes, I've seen that a few times. What non-technical management sees is an engineer at the center of efforts to fix an issue in the midst of a crisis. What they don't see is that the work done by competent engineers doesn't blow up and become a visible crisis.

IMO this is a big red flag that something is wrong with both the technical and non-technical culture. Technical management isn't happening, at least not effectively, and non-technical management is getting too far into the weeds on technical details of production issues.
Apparently, yes, though I've never tried it: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/k2kyjt/is_it_...
I doubt it, software is eating the world, there aren't enough engineers and we see productivity gains like the cloud where you can basically run a global scale business with just a handful of people. We will probably see more of those companies than less.
That must have been a very old Pascal

Nowadays there is the @ operator
California's Exposure Notification System Rolling Out on iPhone Thursday
Maybe I’m in a filter bubble, but I’ve never heard of anyone else assigning such low priority to exploits like this.
Как прекрасно что снова можно играть с уточками безнаказанно ещё пару десятков лет!
You're blaming the tech industry for the faults of NIMBYism.
I didn't know AOE was working on Linux, saves me the headache of setting up Windows. https://www.protondb.com/app/221380
We will only know once AMD APUs on TSMC 5nm will come out. If you look at 7nm options, A12Z and AMD Ryzen 7 4800U, the former has better single thread, but the later has much higher multicore.

Unfortunately, I could not find any data on TDP of A12Z under full load, so it is impossible to guesstimate at the moment which design is superior.

UPD. Actually, there's this: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

If I am to believe the successor to 4800U will gain 10% perf from switching 7nm -> 5nm, design-wise it matches M1.
True for reading legacy JS. For newer code, you can still identify noobies (and "experts") by the conspicuous usage of let instead of const.
and that's a big reason for why I love it! I'm so tired of seeing a bunch of divs being added to components just to get them aligned to the page's main grid. Give me a couple of classes for applying gutter width and as either padding/margin/gap and I'll apply it as actually needed!
Overvalued Startups Could Be ‘Shorted’ by New Firm
It's strange. Can you tell your browser/system, please? Thanks.
> The primary point is easy access to nature from a metro area.

Define "easy access to nature." Where I live, there's a major state park within the city limits and a very large lake within ~20 minutes drive. In ~2 hours I can be at the beach. In ~3-4 hours I can be in the mountains. And untold amounts of basically empty land just outside the city. If you're going to arbitrarily define "easy access to nature" as "mountains next to ocean right next to me", well OK, not a lot of places fit that bill. But that's a very narrow definition designed to fit basically SV.
Fantastic. The pace of introducing such a change speaks loudly how good the engineering around teams and product involved must be.
>Boston and Seattle are even much farther away...

I'll grant you the Santa Cruz Mountains if you're on the southern end of the Bay. You've also got the hills in the East Bay and various options in Marin and points north if you're in Marin.

But Boston, in addition to various coastal walks has a bunch of nearby parks and small mountains/hills to the west and in southern NH. Also tons of sea kayaking/canoeing. Depending upon where you live, bigger peaks in NH are maybe 2-3 hours.The Sierras are further than that from the SFBA.

Don't get me wrong. The Bay Area has great recreational options but so do a lot of other cities depending upon what you're looking for.
Yeah, when we live in a world where people legitimately believe that Bill Gates is trying to use COVID vaccines to install microchips into people, you can't always be sure that someone giving an insane opinion isn being ironic or sarcastic.
Maybe I don’t cook enough, but your biggest issue is one I never face. A) I very rarely have any spills, and B) when I do, they’re never so much that they cover the controls (which are at front and center of stove, and not by the burners themselves, which is the way mast are designed).

Just seems like an odd issue for it to be your “biggest” turnoff from induction.
It is still a little shocking to me that Peter Thiel can be quoted in mainstream business publications without any note being made of his quite open support for white nationalist hate groups. Not far off from quoting Albert Speer as an architecture critic!
talks.guru
Not being bored or underutilized at work. Excitement about career opportunities. Room to move upwards.

Hard-tech job opportunities w/o having to regress to an entry-level or mid-level role.

Senior level job opportunities, w/o having to join a consulting firm (i mean, if i'm potentially traveling 4/5 days, i'm not really 'living' here anymore...) I've rolled the dice on management consulting before in my life and spent almost no time in my home city. That was great when I was 20 and not so great with a family. I do wonder whether it is different w/ DC and local projects or whether it might be different in a partyly-WFH future!
Thank you! This is pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Had to read the post through a few times. The comment section had people asking the same questions I had and more, and with insightful discussion.
For me, the Bay Area offers a few benefits that are hard to replicate elsewhere.

1. Cultural diversity. I'm an immigrant and having lived in Seattle, Boston, NYC, and Philadelphia, I'd say the Bay Area is hands-down the most welcoming of all of those. It may seem like a small point but my parents and family can walk downtown in traditional clothing and no one even notices. Not true elsewhere.

2. The weather. Initially I thought this was overstated but I've realized after two decades in Boston and Toronto that seeing trees without leaves for six months of the year has an impact of my mental health. Seeing greenery, and enjoying warmth, even in January has a huge positive impact on my health.

3. The optimism. Most people I meet in the Bay Area are optimistic about how a problem can be improved. That's rare and I haven't found that in other cities or countries I've lived in. As an entrepreneur that's a wonderful to be part of.

Detractors of the Bay Area seem to hang out in very specific circles of friends which seem to be rather homogenous. A solution for me was having kids who go to public schools. I end up hanging out with people who are typically not other tech founders.
To me it's quite obviously a preview of the ecological collapses that climate change will bring over the rest of the century. This is a small taste of things to come and the scale of the solutions and sacrifices required to adapt to them. The amount of government intervention, which was met with a lot of skepticism in the West, is going to remain a prominent feature.
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Don’t think for a second you fool anyone, buddy.
just here for the drama...
Geothermal heat pumps (aka ground sourced heat pumps) have a high initial capital cost. Their suitability also depends on the local dirt as much as the local climate. You need good enough ground moisture levels to have a high enough thermal conductivity. Otherwise the cost of the hole becomes prohibitive.
have a look at https://tailwindcomponents.com/
I needed it myself, and the other pieces of sw did not work proper, then spent 3 years of spending a few hours every evening promoting it, posting it to forums, etc. (And a little time prorgramming, but promoting it took waaay more time)
I honestly think that some game developers should seriously consider cutting off their games feet and open sourcing them. Nothing interesting e.g. just the parts that do the slow stuff that talks to the OS.

Especially in very niche games with small teams, there is 0 IP in the boring parts of the game. If your code isn't too much of a clusterfuck, I will happily try and fix the bug myself and make a PR.

That and I firmly believe that open source is by far the most efficient way to ensure a reasonable code quality.
Boring is the new exciting.
this is great holiday content