skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New England had something close to (or even superior to) Silicon Valley. Most of the leading minicomputer companies were headquartered in the Boston area, and benefitted from the world-class universities there. But that industry collectively missed disruptive changes from minicomputers to microcomputers, and then the Internet.
If someone doesn't use few and uses "several" then I presume "several" means "seve"n or more. Yes, literal language of several allows for 3 or more but we'd use few then. And it's clearly not many - which I put in the 10+ bucket typically.

In my opinion, several years in this context between two companies would be at least 7 years total - however, I think 4-5+ years at one company is a sign of complacency or you got lucky. So, I'd think spending 10 years at two companies very much a sign of complacency or luckiness. I can't imagine doing it unless I got really lucky. Great managers, great organization, great team, decent work, and, of course, great pay... but that is incredibly rare as far as the social circle I'm involved in goes. So, chase the pay at least.
This is just automocking, though. If you need to mock out a component class method you can still provide a manual mock without too much trouble.

I might be thinking too narrowly here but if you're needing to mock a component class method in the first place, it might be good to do it explicitly anyway.
One Thousand Drones (by Intel) put on Christmas light show (by Walmart)
Flagging because headline incorrectly implies the vulnerability still exists.

Mods, can you please update the title?
How Disney's legacy business is holding back Disney+
You know they’re going to happen.

Seems more productive to guide than fight the tide.
Is it actually better in a CO2-emissions sense to use a 90% efficiency natural gas furnace, or to use a 300-400% efficiency heat pump running off a grid that is 2/3rds (on average) powered by renewable sources? Not making a statement or asking for a guess: asking if anyone has done the math on this.
Mass transit is what enables population growth, but the numbskulls in the Bay Area decided to have a dozen different transit agencies who all fight like mortal enemies when it comes to even simple things like coordination of schedules. Not to mention the complete incompetence in just improving existing infrastructure like Caltrain and various light rail systems.
> young people’s familiarity with Elvis or even the Beatles is dwindling

I'm not surprised you mentioned Elvis, but his catalog isn't as deep, the songwriting wasn't as good, and between his stint in Vegas, death, the impersonators, and rumors that he's not really dead, he seems like more of a punchline.

I do wonder how this will play out with the Beatles, though.

Funny enough, I think part of what will keep songs going is their inclusion in movies and TV shows, something artists are often reluctant to do.
I always answer: fuck off; we're full. California, particularly Bay Area California is so ridiculously dysfunctional, the last thing any region needs is their refugees, who will bring with them the problems they're fleeing. Austin for example. Used to be a great place.
Maybe it is a tough call, because the guy shitting on the sidewalk isn't living in your previous apartment at twice the price.
>‼ That's it. There is no further interaction from the victim. Now your company's internal network, personal documents, O365 documents/mail/notes, secret chats are fully compromised. Think about it. One message, one channel, no interaction. Everyone gets exploited.

Yeah, so? He makes it sound like some novel nightmare, but that has been the case with 0-day, RCE bugs for half a century, and we have had tons of those...
I don't think New York in the 70s can be explained by its own governance alone, so I object to your characterization of New York in the 70s being the result of its own failings. The state and federal governments basically abandoned the place ("Ford to City: Drop Dead"), and something similar is happening to San Francisco as well. What a loss for the country, as the next Silicon Valley, if there is one, likely won't be in the United States.
Yeah, that was my first thought. "I guess he's done performing these songs live and believes the best thing for his heirs is the cash."
CRISPR and another genetic strategy cure blood disorders in clinical trials
Wind can blow at night. Also batteries can be developed (in the broad sense including dams,flywheels, gravity rocks, etc)
> I think something that gets lost...

It's really not lost at all. Most people know about the secondary effects of the lockdown. Loss of jobs, loss of schooling, mental health effects. It's all front and center.

The math is simple. Without lockdowns, millions die, so we lockdown to some degree.

It's not that government officials are enacting lockdowns in a callous disregard of their negative effects, we simply have no other sane choice.
> Your default assumption should be that ICOs are fraud.

Are they ever not fraud or a scheme to enrich the architects of the scheme?
he played an important role, but all the work by military tech companies and stanford during the war did as well.
Genuine question: Are the the local communities who complained about tech people raising price are now happy/satisfied?
I wonder what he'd need so much money for. Especially considering his age.
He Designed a Smartwatch App to Help Stop His Dad's Nightmares
I think SVs appeal is that you can leave in a quiet suburb close to a lot of easily accessible nature, while still having Amazon 2-day shipping, ridesharing, Uber Eats, and luxury retail. There's not many places in the US like this. Europe has a lot but there's not much tech jobs in them.

You are also close to SF if you like the madness of the city every once in a while.

Other suburby places with nature easily accessible usually have a more spartan retail experience and sometimes the mail/Amazon doesn't work so well.
We might see a bunch of post-covid guitar groups.
The cognitive dissonance is that a huge number of highly respected people in the field, and coworkers, said "yeah, this was racist bullshit", and the actual paper in question has been seen by a lot of people by now.

But if you are committed to the stance that racism doesn't exist and this is all a grand SJW conspiracy then you have to grasp at straws to ignore the overwhelming number of experts disagreeing with you.
Yeah, it's not a universal thing¹ but the short version is that one of my friends was told how he was "one of the good guys" and not the kind of immigrant they hate.

And another was in sales in industrial manufacturing and there was a lot of misogyny and low-grade racism there.

They're in WA now so and much happier.

¹ the "isn't happening to me" thing is sort of analogous to "works on my machine". Because of the range of stuff, things usually do "work on my machine".
Gas use in homes goes way beyond the stove though. I just moved into a newly renovated house, it has a brand new gas stove which is amazing. But it also has a gas furnace, gas water heater, and a brand new gas washer/dryer. No idea why they'd install a brand new gas dryer in this day and age - likely the power bill is a little cheaper from it (which is itself a problem), but I plan to install solar panels in the not too distant future like many in my neighborhood already have in which case the gas version definitely becomes more expensive.

Plus even for the stove, it has an attached gas oven, which doesn't really bring me any benefit except maybe a marginally faster pre-heat time that I can live without. It's even a net negative to me because now if I want to do any kind of slow cook in the oven I need to worry about ventilation and it's hard for it to hold a steady low temperature. Heck even for the stove, I wish it had half electric burners and half gas, if I'm doing some slower process like making a stock or chili or something I'd rather use electric to again avoid the fumes.

So despite the fact that I love being able to saute over a flame now, I'd definitely support a tax that makes using gas much more expensive. A full-on ban would be extreme, I'd agree with you that's overly aggressive control, especially until electric burners get better. But ideally I could choose and in places where I actually get a lot of value from it I could pay the higher price to offset my environmental impact, but in all the other uses it would make more economical sense to avoid it so appliance makers, construction companies, etc would be incentivized to drastically reduce the use of gas.
I trade for fun as well. I am doing it with a rather small account, but if you feel like having a conversational partner from time to time feel free to email me.
> usually with the belief that the ends justify the means

This is exactly how the vast majority of the purportedly CIA-ambivalent media franchises ultimately come out in The Agency's favor. If they depict agents doing bad things, it's always made pretty clear that the world would be even worse if they hadn't.
I'm not convinced to Tailwind. Can someone explain to me how this is better than "normal" CSS? Take this example from the play site:

3 bullet points, each has to repeat the same thing:

<li class="flex items-start">
<span class="h-6 flex items-center sm:h-7">

<li class="flex items-start">
<span class="h-6 flex items-center sm:h-7">

<li class="flex items-start">
<span class="h-6 flex items-center sm:h-7">

vs classes:

<li class="bulletpoint__container">
<span class="bulletpoint">

<li class="bulletpoint__container">
<span class="bulletpoint">

<li class="bulletpoint__container">
<span class="bulletpoint">

And when you have this all around your project, and then you decided to change 1 thing. How Tailwind makes it easier here?

I tried to inspect the Tailwind styles in browser - sorry, but it looks like nightmare.
It's still untrue; I don't know when the first IPS screens were but I picked up a Thinkpad X61T with an IPS screen on ebay; that was released in 2007.
Why not to use ORM ?
Ask HN: Best way to quantify developer productivity for upwards reporting
I realize the the ask is a bit ambiguous, and even a bit controversial. Just to get this out of the way: I do agree that there is no perfect method of quantifying a developer's contributions, but I also believe that something useful can come out of such metrics. They absolutely should be only one of many vectors when determining a developer's effectiveness and value.

That said, I've used GitPrime previously (I think they were purchased w/ a recent name change). Was never a big fan of GitPrime, and was concerned with some of the hand-wavy answers I received when attempting to surface how specific metrics were calculated. In fact, some of the metrics were quite misleading, and the method in which some of these were calculated was not easily adjustable to fit the team's workflow, or so I was told.

So, if GitPrime isn't appropriate, what tool is? Or is there such a tool? How do you quantify a developer's performance & value based on available data (such as git activity, etc). Or is this just a fool's errand and the best course is to be a good manager who stays on top of the daily work your team is involved in? If so - how do you summarize your findings such that they have meaning across multiple teams?
Here electricity is 2-10x the cost of gas (depending on the electric usage tier you’re in) for simple stuff like heating. I pay over $0.40/kWh for electricity...
You can get a portable induction cooktop for under $50. My parents have 2 Ikea units which they often use instead of their Viking stove. (They place them on top of the stove so they can use the hood).

Pans are the same price as regular cookware, you just need to make sure it's compatible.
I'm seeing that AutoRoute, which eventually became the basis of Microsoft Streets and Trips was first released in 1988.

It certainly didn't have real time traffic, and probably didn't have lane configuration information, or comprehensive business information, etc. But (from descriptions, not personal experience), it showed maps and did routing.

More complex mapping tasks are readily achievable now because more information is computerized and the demand is there, and the portable computing machinery to make it most useful is there.
We don't call people working in excel programmers though, not even themselves do that. That is the thing, we create a ton of wonderful no/low code tools, but then we create different jobs from programming since the programming is no longer the hard part the role is no longer a programmer.
2019-2020 State of Mozilla Report
A lot of people mistakenly drive North and don't realize how dreadful Oregon and Washington are. It's 10 times worse than anyone thinks on your actual mood. Reading a number of sunny days per year on city data doesn't do it justice. I recommend people move either to Arizona or tornado alley (if you're not worried about them).
At the moment Ethereum "2.0" is a scheme to manipulate the market price of ethereum by printing a whole bunch of additional ethereum out of thin air and awarding it to people who lock up their funds completely out of circulation for an unspecified time (considering that this "launch" is now years after the the original claims, the claimed >1 year should not be read as strong evidence of only one year).

Because the new system is completely unusable there was absolutely no legitimate purpose to start this lockup at this time as a public system rather than just some fake-money test network.

Once (if?) it becomes usable it will have the additional ultimate property of further enriching the beneficiaries of Ethereum's 72 million coin pre-mine, since those super large positions are effectively illiquid (can't sell more than a small share without crashing the price), its low risk for those parties to place large amounts in lockup.

The concept of "proof of stake" has fundamental soundness problems which have not been addressed except by obscuring it with deceptive obfuscation and protecting it against peer review through sheer complexity. https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf
I meant: That 'one trillion dollar mistake' article it refers to is likely using 'trillion' because the 'null is a billion dollar mistake' thing already exists, and this one blog post refers to both of these papers/memes.
Ever heard of the Sony leaks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_hack
For those not following bootstrap 5 previous test releases: jQuery dependency is being removed as well (not mentioned on these release notes).
So Raft is single leader but Paxos is leaderless?
Yeah, definitely agree there, my enjoyment of winter lasts all of about a few weeks.
There's no perfect climate, and if you do winter sports or something more power to you, but after the beautiful snow, when you have to deal with slush and road salt, I could do with skipping from like, Jan 1 to Apr 1.
Rents in San Francisco rose faster in the 20 years before 1995 than they did in the 20 years after.
The Great Smog of 1952
David Bowie coins at The Royal Mint:

https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/events/music-legends/dav...
Yeah, that will show 'em...

Then people will move to some understuffed FOSS alternative with 5 people working part-time on it, with as severe bugs that nobody notices (remember Heartbleed and countless others?)...
I have a traditional electric stove and, yes, it is not good compared to gas. But I've heard claims that induction is better than both. Have you tried that?
Worst advice? I am just commenting what I am seeing. Worked as a contractor in a bunch of teams in large companies, quite a few blue-chips.

Yep, I was quite amazed when I came out of pocket size companies, it is quite amazing how f*-up everything becomes when you have a few layers of management, methodologies, enforced way of working, measuring "effectiveness" that affects your promotions, when scrum meetings suddenly become just a simple way of filling in burn out charts for manager, when number of solved JIRA tickets becomes more important than what was solved ("yes you have solved a bug that could prevent nuclear core meltdown, BUT your X coworker solved 20 bugs in that time"), when documents are more worth than code, when people are forced working together even if they fit together like an oil and water "as they have right skills" etc.

Can someone still remember the times when developers were paid by the lines of code? It all comes from the same type of thinking.

And this all came out when there was a huge push to make development streamlined around 15 years ago. And it is certanlly not getting any better, if you are having person who wants quality of code, you can be 100% sure there is someone trying to make his promotions work easier.

Sure, maybe I had a bad luck to have never find "the right company" as they (beyond some scale, lets say a few hundred developers) all seem very similar to me. Same bs, wherever I look.

And I agree with you, when the company is small it works the way you have described.
> real summers/not chilly

I mean, it's not cold once you get outside of SF/San Bruno. If you're in the peninsula or south bay, it's really fucking hot during the summer. Uncomfortably hot because no one has AC and many of the homes don't have insulation still.
Not for this version. The Jetson powered Duckiebot has several components that are custom designed: chassis, electronics, and even the battery!
Yes, Google has a better track record. You brought open source and - totally unrelated - sendmail into it.
Hating yourself is fashionable now. It'll pass.
given how much the locals hate techies, the migration couldn't happen soon enough. I haven't been in SF in 4 years and its been great. I made valuable contacts but beyond that, there isn't much SF offers now that remote work is becoming mainstream
The main idea is that those jobs are now moving to remote, because of the pandemic?
Northern Virginia about an Hour from DC.

The only two things you miss in VA on your list is "grittiness" which is a negative for me, and walkability, which you could get if you go closer to DC.
I think Dylan has aged much better than the Beatles have: their sound is very emblematic of a particular era of music in my mind. Of course, it may be that their focus on heavy, lush production, particularly in their later work, makes them particularly vulnerable to changes in taste. Dylan's work, on the other hand, is generally much more spare and focused on guitar and voice.
A lot of software will end up using OpenGL->Metal, Vulkan->Metal, or D3D->Metal translation layers but it won't matter if the GPU is fast enough.
> requires the use of certain types of pans which increases cost more.

Really, no. Walmart's "own brand" stainless steel pans that start at under $10 work fine. The pans it doesn't work with are actually rare/expensive (pure aluminum/pure copper, and certain high-end stainless steel that are now largely discontinued).

People repeat this special pan thing often (multiple times in this thread) but I don't know where this idea came from. The most common/popular pans for the last fifty years work with induction, and cheap ones are MORE likely to work.
If we're relying on "what is legal" for validating data why do we need a blockchain?
We’ve been trying to hire these people for ages locally and remotely and we still couldn’t find them so I have no idea where you think all the talent was hiding until covid 19.
It's not clear to me what you are asking. How can you derive a FROM clause from SELECT * ?

Perhaps you could provide an example?
Fixed link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame,_Inc%2E
The point was the local govts did not contribute to the the rise of Silicon Valley, not that no one in the Bay area was involved
"Family" is the obvious guess.
After 10 years in the Bay Area tech scene I'm sitting here at a co-working space in Poulsbo, WA. Home ownership is still a challenge given how crazy the market is for places that are not in a city but close enough to commute if you wanted to. However, many QoL enhancements including views of the mountains every day, close to the Olympics, generally lower taxes/cost of living. I left the Bay in June and don't see going back any time soon.
I have a different reaction: it is not an ethical thing to do. There are lots of things people can do to get money - but this doesn't mean people should do them. Isn't the ethical thing to do to report the problem so that the system can't be gamed by others?
OTOH I'm tired of people who don't "have the time or knowledge to complete [their ideas]".

Ideas are cheap. Show me the code.

Asking, explicitly or implicitly, for others to "implement/finish" their ideas is easy. I would even call never finishing / polishing anything very disrespectful: I'm not (should not be) here to cleanup after "talented" individuals. This is detrimental to my own "ideas."

So at least, if not anything else, I better be recognized for the boring and tedious maintainership work I do and that talented people with their "ideas" refuse to perform...
This is really exciting! Congrats Arathorn and the rest of the Matrix team
as i understand it the big roadblock for multiplayer AAA titles is anticheat, and dont see anyway that changes until linux eats into the MS marketshare (but it should.. linux is a joy!)
Or wuftpd. I once accidentally dropped my keyboard, and it turned out that the keypresses that generated were a remote root exploit for wuftpd.
I find myself nodding in agreement with points 6 and 7 (about mixed and large changelists), but unsure of how to implement the suggested fix.

Given that I don't control the tools used, how do I ensure that functional changes aren't lost amidst formatting changes? I would love for BitBucket to ignore formatting changes in my PRs, but alas, no.
> If you have the ability to work with react components, you probably are knowledgeable enough to use CSS.

If you are building a webapp, nobody is knowledgeable enough to use css because css is broken for this use case. Tailwindcss is absolutely aimed at css experts. There is nothing for non-technical people in tailwindcss because it exposes all the existing css properties, just with a selection of values.
I don't know exactly, but my experience is that most parents say private schools do a better job (teachers are better engaged and aren't checked out, apathetic pencil pushers). In the areas with good school districts (and there are a handful of those), things swing to another extreme: too much pressure, like Singapore-style schools, which causes children to buckle under the pressure later in their lives.
Read the associated text, the art is specifically and purposefully not meant to be "easy".