skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This general topic seems to come back into focus on a regular basis on HN. People have been leaving in numbers for the 30 years I've been here, always citing traffic & cost of housing as the primary reasons. Nonetheless, the population growth remains net positive.

Re-posting my take:

"The fundamental design of the Internet was to be robust against various forms of damage to the network. I see Silicon Valley as a similar type of system. It is not difficult to look back 40 years and see how at each inflection point, The Valley's constituent technologies, and the companies they spawned, led the rest of the world and scaled The Valley up.

- In the 1980s, Silicon Valley's Intel lost it's dominance in DRAM production to Japan. The economic impact was dire, and yet

- In the early 1990s, networking and workstations emerged from the likes of SUN and Cisco. They carried through until global competition stole their wind, and it was on to

- The late 90s and the .COM boom. And what a boom it was, Amazon, Google, followed by another death knell for myriad .COM corpses. Promptly engendering

- The 2000s birth of social media. MySpace faltered, then LinkedIn, then Facebook, then Twitter, came up and are still going strong on the foundation of

- 2010s open source platforms. Still mind-blowing: At one point WhatsApp had 40 software engineers and 400,000,000 users. At 3 years old.

I've heard about the exodus from California, usually citing so many thousands or 10s of thousands of people leaving. But looking a the net population changes, Santa Clara County is down 5,000 from 2018-2019. Alameda, San Mateo, San Francisco are all up.

Silicon Valley is a system that regenerates from one generation to the next, and so far, always bigger and more influential than the last."

Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24803215
You can't use your Gitter creds to log into Matrix yet (although we're hoping to support Gitlab/Github/Twitter login for Matrix before Christmas).

Instead, just sign up for a Matrix account via Element or another Matrix client, and then you can look at the Gitter server's room directory at Gitter.im and join its rooms from there. Because Matrix is one great big open network, you can pick any server for your account; you don't have to use the Gitter one :)
I was estimating a few hundred million streams per year (including All Along the Watchtower by Hendrix). The $4 million/billion streams gets split a few ways and the songwriter only gets a portion of that. Radio was more lucrative for songwriters since the songwriters got the bulk of the revenue (no payments to performers).
A Group of MIT Students Gamed the Mass State Lottery and Won Millions
> Something else could easily eclipse Covid-19

I doubt people will talk about Covid-19 much at all by the end of the century.

The 1918 flu was much, much worse in total number of deaths, and even worse when you consider how many fewer people existed at that time, and it killed people in the prime of their lives. And by the year 2000 very few people knew about it at all.
I mean, consistent code style is just good practice, so maybe that's not a great example.
Hackers breach Israeli insurance company, steal client data
"Detroit" moved to the suburbs. Check out the statistics for Oakland county (and possibly macomb county for the blue collar workers).

Toyota, GM, Ford, Chrysler, Nissan, VW, and all their parts suppliers(and the supplier parts suppliers) have at minimum a white collar office in south east Michigan.

The event that caused the Exodus from Detroit was the Race Riots. You can Google that because I'm not touching that topic.(and it doesn't help Detroit has a 1% tax)
So interesting!
There are many scientific fields that cannot conduct experiments, such as climate science. To say that this is not science is quite naive.
How a Group of MIT Students Gamed the Massachusetts State Lottery and Won Millions

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/how-mit...
There is only one rating higher at Microsoft I think. So important is actually pretty bad, but agreed it should get their critical rating according to their own scale.
Underlay – The world’s distributed knowledge graph
Remove the word "public"
Debugging what this LISP virus is doing (2009)
I would not deny this, but it’s worth stating the obvious: most recreational drugs can also have the effect of destroying human relationships and generating stories that are highly tragic.
I agree that the SFBA has a very attractive pool of women, I just question whether they're available =) I've lived in a similar variety of metro areas as you, in North America, Europe, and Asia. San Francisco ranks dead last. Pretty much any guy can improve his dating outcomes by moving from SF to NYC, no matter what his standards are and what he's looking for, mostly because you can actually get regular dates with the accomplished, independent women there.

I have one friend who lived at a base in Antarctica for awhile, and he favorably compared the dating scene there to what's in SF.
> Are they ever not fraud or a scheme to enrich the architects of the scheme?

The Ethereum ICO is a good, rare example of non-fraudulent ICO.
Slaves aren't an effective asset in this century.

True, 250+ years after slavery was abolished in the U.S., slaves are no longer an effective (or legal) asset.

Companies like Apple, Google, etc., did not exist in the 1800s. Stock ownership did not become common until the 1900s, even amongst the wealthy, so there was no alternative for this hypothetical slave owner. Moreover, unlike the North, the South did not have easy access to shipping or to the raw materials for heavy industry. (For example: Pittsburgh didn't become the Steel City because it was a nice place to live; it became the center of the U.S. steel industry because of its proximity to the raw materials and the methods of transportation available at the time.)
This is true. I've just pivoted to not playing games with restrictive anti-cheat. It's not ideal, but it's only a small handful of games and I've got plenty of other stuff to play, and the stuff I do play runs flawlessly. Well worth it to me to never have to worry about Windows nonsense ever again.
Much cleaner. You can go even further by using point-free style:

get().then(set)

It's the try/catch blocks that make async/await truly worse than native promises. I use them sparingly because so often the .then syntax is both clearer and terser.
One reason to stay in SV: Big tech total compensation is higher here than anywhere else in the world. That's why I'd continue to stay in SV rather than moving.
I have experience in deep learning research/engineering in NLP and am getting into ml for robotics.

Really excited for this course + hardware. I think one top value for me personally is that more time could be spent on hacking the ml algorithms, replicating and comparing with real research work (https://www.duckietown.org/archives/63665).

I live in India and find the shipping costs of MOOC Founder's Edition Kit (369 USD + 49 USD) a bit expensive. Just the Duckiebot MOOC Founder's Edition costs 14 USD to ship.idk what custom duty would the govt put on it :(.

1. Is there any alternative to shipping it?
2. Is there anyway to build similar bot from parts for the course?
3. I guess, since you're non-profit it's made such that it's cost effective rather than for profit. It would be great if you describe why you chose each of the component for the current bot.
The lack of non compete bans anywhere else in the country is not luck though, and other worker protections that prevent legal liability for stuff you work on outside of work.
when the work is remote we don’t need remote-california to save 10% on wages. we will go to remote-ukraine or estonia and hire twice as many engineers
> The market has plenty of room for correction, but there's a shortage of ethical buyers.

I wonder whom you'd consider an ethical buyer apart from the software maker for a closed source software since no one else can realistically patch it?
Factory-farmed salmon: does it make sense to grow fish in indoor tanks?
That's a fair take. Before this year, most of us might have said 9/11 was the defining moment of the start of this century.

I'm not going to try to predict what history will look like 80 years from now, or whether 9/11 or covid will be considered more significant by then, but this does raise an interesting question of how people in 1913 perceived the nascent 20th century.

Obviously things happened over those 13 years, but whatever they were, history ultimately decided that they were inconsequential enough for the "20th-century events" Wikipedia article to not even mention anything before WWI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th-century_events
Track records do not lie.

Palantir ipoed and is doing well 3x of IPO price already. You might believe Peter is saying something wrong, but the fraction of the truth is still way higher than normal guys.

Media indeed take Trump literally. Trump speeches are extremely tailed to the supporters. Trump's China policy is also bold in the sense that he opens a venue of tools that previously unthinkable. Future policy makers would be more flexible on the negotiate table.

Building the wall is just a concrete symbol of rallying the supporters. Like Obama's yes we can (turns out yes we can only do something slightly different).
I think it's because of the hardcore minimalism of the creators or Tachyons and also Theme UI, it lacks mass appeal because of it. If you dig into Steve Schogers style (the guy behind Refactoring UI and Tailwind aesthetics) you'll see that he's more in the Streamline Moderne camp than Bauhaus minimalism, his stuff looks more "designed" in the sense of how non designers think about good design. Tachyons is kinda invisible..
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5 Bay Area counties coordinated in going into lockdown earlier than the state required. Sometimes we do act like a region.
Yeah, like many people, I ended up making my own inheritance routines. Then when class came out, I was half rejoicing, half regretting to put up the work. But well, no thanks. I rather keep using my own far from perfect way of things.
Not necessarily; technically there is a Linux build being developed, but it being used on Stadia doesn't necessarily mean it will be released to others.

Just Dance 2020/2021 is a good example of this: the PC version was discontinued in 2017, but 2020 and 2021 were also released on Stadia -- without an accompanying PC build.
With Proton and SoftMaker Office I have no reasons to have a Windows installation anymore.

But that is not the case for everyone.
SuperbCompanies has announced DeviQA as a top software testing company in 2020
SuperbCompanies recognized DeviQA as #1 software testing company in 2020.
what happens if everyone goes back to the office in a year and now you're the only remote employee?
*Wanna be entrepreneurs purchase most of the domains.
Off-topic, but I clicked this link, watched the Jackson 5 video, got lost on Wikipedia, and closed the tab before reading the article (which I was initially excited to read).

The problem with the internet isn't clickbait and hyperbole, it's that it's changed our attention spans.
Denver, Las Vegas, Reno, Boulder, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson, Santa Fe...
Messaging is now mainstream: Mattermost on Salesforce’s acquisition of Slack
> but their Qualcomm based laptops are extremely slow compared to offerings from intel / amd.

But who's fault is it? I would tend to think that it's Windows Arm port that sucks since Qualcomm chips offer good perfs for Android phones.
For posterity: I misremembered how much wealth is disincentivized in Norway - it’s “only” 0.85% wealth tax and 24% capital gains. This explains why there are way fewer who become millionaires in Norway than in Switzerland, even if Norway is so rich in resources while CH is not
If it doesn't, surely, you can define what you mean by "trivial things"?
Managers are nothing but employees. Same as developers and other groups. The owners might consider their opinions along with the opinions of the other groups. There is nothing special about managers. And it is the owners who decide how and what to spend their money on. Not the managers.

>"..won't have a say, explicitly or implicitly..."

Nice try. What are you implying under "implicitely"? If this is what I think it is, the managers are just as replaceable. Often it is actually easier for the owners to replace/get rid of a manager than from good salesperson/developer/etc.
A lot of gamblers ignore the "expense" column when talking about their winnings. I had a friend would would go to Reno 2-3 weekends a month and brag about winning $500 or 1000. He never really talked about the fact that on most weeks he came home with empty pockets.
My problem with Sacramento is 1) crime in Sacramento proper (I have friends in the Sac DA's office, so maybe I am biased by hearing the worst of the worst), and 2) the summer weather. The suburbs of Sacramento, especially to the north, are very attractive to my wife and I and I think that if we do stay in California long-term we will be heading to Sacramento to make it happen.
Checkout awesome tailwind[1], there are lots. tailwind.build, https://mertjf.github.io/tailblocks/ etc. Also hobby or not, the time saved is no joke.

[1]: https://github.com/aniftyco/awesome-tailwindcss#ui-libraries...
Mass Testing and short lockdown reduced SARS-CoV-2 infections in Slovakia
The negative side is that those elites can not wait to make their new home the same as the old home, then they will move to yet another new place.

It's called plague.

As Texan, I dislike any companies who relocated from CA in particular, they're cancerous. Looking at what they did to Denver, Salt Lake etc.
Quick question StavrosK: I see on this page here https://imgz.org/i9hxfgRu/ that you have a counter "Viewed 403 times". How are you able to track that behind a CDN? Won't this count how many times the CDN (instead of individual users) have hit the server? Thanks!
Sure, but a Windows developer only has to bundle things that can't be relied on in the base OS. In Linux almost everything in user space fits in that category.

The vast majority of Linux developers don't ever do anything with dependencies and just rely on packagers to do it for them. I hardly ever use closed source Linux software, but it has been my experience that they support at most 2 precise distro versions.
How does Stadia strike you as an alternative? It works on anything (AFAIK) that runs Chrome.
We love our induction stoves, but definitely have had issues finding ones that have good controls. A lot of the cheap units don't have much granularity in heat settings, but the higher end ones have gas-like, nearly continuous options. All of them, high and low end, seem to be suffering (like cars) from some of the modern UX theory that if something can possibly be a touch screen it should be.

We've settled for a unit that has physical, clickable, tactile buttons to control the temperature and a numeric readout that clearly states the current temp and all controls on the side, away from spills. I'd love to find an induction stove with a plan old knob for each hob though.
Privacy.com is an excellent product, i recommend everyone use it. Excited to see what this company becomes in the future.
refurb says>For some reason I get a buzzing sound when the stove applies current (minor).<

That's the power company irradiating you nads, lowering your fertility and reducing the population. Welcome to a Brave New World!

Man has cooked with fire for aeons and a few pieces of coal from the nearby railroad track do wonders to keep the nights warm on my lean-to campfire here in CA. I'll give up my coal when they pry the lumps from my cold dead hands.
the new release brings two more SP maps, in total there are 11. tbh, SP is the only official game mode that the community can contribute maps quickly (without needing a game release for the map to become playable, or without depending on other players), so the amount of SP maps that comes with the installer is not important at all...
Great article! Very interesting to find out how something I use every day works. Your post is easy to follow and understand, excellent work!

I see it didn't gain any traction, you should try submitting it again later.
Modern anticheats are basically kernel rootkits which go even to the point of trying to checksum your drivers and inspect how they work. They're basically as invasive as they get.

They obviously can't hook into Linux kernel so they react by just banning the player.
Threading is the one thing I actually kinda like in Teams.
Yup. Check out Lutris - you don't need Steam to get the benefits of Proton (and you don't need a specifically Proton Wine build for most games).
> That’s what proof-of-work and proof-of-stake are about

Nope. No amount of "proof of X" will help if you put false data on the blockchain in the first place. They will do a great job securing the false data though. Good luck with that.
This is what real climate leadership looks like; actually having the courage to assert that you're going to halt on big emissions sources.

Meanwhile in Canada you have the government claiming it's a climate leader because it'll plant trees and ban plastic straws meanwhile expanding development of oil sands. It's completely disingenuous.

Software engineers with any experience in profiling should know how to make big gains on a problem quickly. Find the biggest problems and cut those down to size. Fiddling at the edges isn't gonna get us there.
I grew up in a deeply conservative part of the country. The amount of casual bigotry that permeates even the most mundane social exchanges now shocks me whenever I visit my family. I can't imagine what it's like to be a minority there. Even being a white man who people treat kindly is uncomfortable enough.
I mean, we allways had flat earthers (even though I couldn't believe they were serious either, when I first stumbled upon them).

But this new level is a bit unsettling.
It really depends on how generalised your component libraries are. If you want to customise the color palette, you will need to use the same color classes in all libraries, which requires that the `colors` part of the config matches everywhere. Using a shared base config is probably a good start at least.

As purging is only done for production builds, the purge content paths only need to be defined in that projects config. If you are using components from `node_modules` then you should add their paths to `purge.content`.
> I currently use https://read2me.online/

Doesn't seem to be working. Putting a link returns "Bad request"; uploading a .txt file returns "Bad referrer/request type".
I wonder if there wasn't something else going on in 1918 that perhaps eclipsed it in terms of importance.
I don't know if you're right. But I hate Metallica and I would love for history to somehow pin the death of rocknroll on those greedy bastards.
I checked, it does only count the view of the whole page (html and all). Just loading the jpg doesn't count.
Having worked in both fields (computing and pharmaceuticals) and in both areas (Boston/Cambridge and Silicon Valley -- though never in SF) I can tell you the Bay Area is a shadow of the Boston area in this regard. And the VC dollars send the same message. It honestly surprises me that the JP Morgan healthcare conference is still out here -- I imagine it's due to weather: it's a January conference, and a good excuse to get out of NY/BOS at a nasty time of year.

My point in my GGP post was that the opposite is true, first for tech and more recently for internet commerce, in the Bay Area. And I agree that the #1 driver was a healthy attitude to IP laws (which also drove the film industry to California, first to the Bay Area and then to LA).

And the second was an attitude that people don't care so much about your background and what's been done to date, an attitude I believe to be a legacy of the gold rush.
I'm amused by the implication that if Google has even one piece of incorrect information in its knowledge corpus, it's justified in returning absolutely any answer to any question. You can deduce anything from a contradiction, after all.
> I came of age in the 1980s.

I think what you are referring to is at least in part a much more general and normal part of growing up, and somewhat specific to that time in your life.

As you say it is "just what was going on". You don't easily question the natural (seeming) background of your life. An art work or book or song could be radical in the context of what came before, but you have at best a fuzzy idea of what "before" meant.

Of course we all miss out on interesting things going on, all the time, but not for the same reasons (or scope) as when we are "coming of age".
I realize it must be annoying to have this topic brought up every time Matrix is mentioned, so thanks for the update!

Nested threading could enable some interesting use cases, but I think for many contexts a single nesting level would be better though.

Is the current plan to allow customization via room settings?
Yep, 7 years. Reflective of the quality of conversation here, where I read daily but don't interact. However, seeing quality lower even further by baseless well-written opinions prompted me to respond. I'm especially disappointed to see when someone challenges an opinion that it got downvoted. This type of voting behavior makes having a dialog impossible. I'm not even saying you're wrong here, just the reaction is lacking substance.
NYC spread out the COVID-19 to the whole country.

CA spread out the liberal and leftism to the whole country.

Please do not come to Texas.

You fled CA, then can't wait for a second to make your new home to become another CA, stop the plague.
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I can really recommend a book called „To Mock a Mockingbird“ on this topic. Full of deep dives, cool puzzles and such.
This rather negative excerpt from Jack Nasher, "Conv!nced - How to Prove Your Competence and Win People Over", p. 185-187 may be helpful:

"We are frightenly bad at making an accurate assessment of other people's competence, and the same is true for the closely related factor of intelligence⁰. In one experiment, only 20 percent of people tested were able to assess the intelligence of others with higher accuracy than a random number generator.

[…]

To assess intelligence, which is colesely related to competence, there are, however, some generally valid factors. The following items are charcteristics of an actual high intelligence¹:

• speaking quickly
• using easily understandable speech and standard English
• making eye contact while talking
• displaying self-confident behavior
• reacting quickly and with little hesitation

[…] Unlike many of the previously discussed points, however, these five items are also indicators of actual high intelligence. All of these points can rather easily be evaluated by mere observation. Interestingly, it is easier for us to make an accurate evaluation if we only hear people and do not see them - visual factors often are misleading."

[0] Reynolds, D.J. & Gifford, R. (2001). The sounds and sights of intelligence: A lens model channel analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 187-200.

[1] Murphy, N. (2007). Appearing smart: The impression management of intelligence, person perception accuracy, and behavior in social interaction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 325-39

and

[2]
Slaughterhouse Five is a more challenging book, and more effort to read. I honestly can't tell you if it would be worth the effort for you.

Cat's Cradle is a somewhat easier read. I'd suggest trying that next, and if you like that, give Slaughterhouse Five another try.