skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a wife and young child and plan to stay long term. Both my wife and I work in tech, and are not fans of remote work. So for both of us this is the best place career-wise. We own a modest house, with a nice yard, so no complaints there. We love the food, nature, weather, and theatre scene. We're in San Mateo, walking distance from downtown, which means we have access to some of the best ramen outside of Japan.

To be perfectly honest, the only thing missing is our friends and family in Canada. It wasn't so bad when we could visit 2-3 times a year, but the pandemic has put a stop to that.
In my experience, its the sloppy Engineers that create problems that get the most credit. They are called upon to be 'heros' again and again, to fix their crap they shipped with 1000 issues.
have you tried induction stoves? they heat more evenly than conduction electric, more efficiently and safely than gas, they are perfectly flat and a breeze to clean. Superior in essentially every way, but for some reason not very popular in the States.
Improving open source security during the Google summer internship program
Your experience may be your own; I live just outside of DC as well (though on the MD side) and get bombarded with DC and MD job offers all the time. Perhaps not to the same extent as CA, but saying only 1 or 2 seems like a personal situation.
I’d imagine some of the revenue was their commission from selling tickets.

At least where I am, vendors and their family are basically prohibited from playing/winning after they were found to be winning way too often.

What was happening is they would get to know which players don’t check how much they’ve won and declare you’ve won $100 when you really won $1000. Or worse.
As long as the actual system still does what Gitter does (i.e. provide a quick way to have project-related chatrooms), I don’t think anyone will care what it’s powered by.
Merchants eat the majority of fraud costs not the credit card companies. It is up to them verify billing address and whether to allow a shipment to another address. Only time credit card company will eat the fraud is on a stolen credit card that is used in a chip based payment. Card not present is still on the merchant.
Is it feasible to use the Vertical Pod Autoscaler with Airflow on a task level?
1080p isn't high res compared to the MBP retina screens.
That was exactly my point. That I can't run the gas house heater without electricity.
At that point, guitar music had already been giving way in Europe to beats-based music. While initially North America scoffed at trends like eurodance, in retrospect it was only a matter of time before the electronic-music wave hit America, too. Also, the turn of the millennium is when hip-hop in the USA started to go from a somewhat niche and edgy genre to completely mainstream and ascendant over guitar music. Metallica had nothing to do with it.
I think its important to point out that noone actually bid on those contracts and that is more likely to be the reason why it was shutdown rather than it being an environmental thing, it sounds great in the foreign press tho :)
Another interesting characteristic I've seen over the years from top performers is that they also have deleted the most code.
How much equity would you need to hold to compensate for a 30-40% decrease in wages?
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It was a gyros damn you!

My trashy romantic story would quickly devolve into "he kissed her passionately, like another man she had known that also kissed very passionately, like this man".
> wildfire smoke was getting pretty bad

For reference, can you give some numbers on this situation, such as average/high daily PM25? I've heard multiple people refer to the smoke as bad, but I'm wondering what it means exactly.
I agree with both your comment and the one you are responding to. I just hope that this venture isn't targeting non-rational people out there... even though it certainly looks like it is.
Well... duh she was fired.

If you put preconditions on your employment, your employer is always free to say fine, you can leave right now and we don't have to negotiate further.

However, the whole outrage sort of presupposes that Google should be acting as an impartial scientific foundation, and not a money-grubbing for-profit company dedicated to protecting its own reputation and dearly wishing its own employees won't badmouth it specifically in public. In this current political climate, one must be very careful before saying your employer is both a massive polluter adding to global warming, and has an implicitly racist bias in their primary product.

Gebru was not careful at all, then demanded to know who in Google could possible dare object to her unveiling such truths (as if those truths were obvious and indisputable). Surely, if she got that information she wouldn't do something irresponsible like naming and shaming them on Twitter as naive at best and racists at worst (like she did to LeGuin in the week before she was fired).
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Hi HN! Occasionally I get a little overzealous with my music volume and my roommate has to ask me to turn it down so this weekend I built something that lets him to do it remotely! Hopefully this can make WFH a little easier for a few people :)
Have a fucking heart. Imprisoning people for trying to survive is no good.
> out of the box you get around 4-5s of latency between the source and the player

In the world cup in 2018 I was watching an RTP feed direct from the IBC in Moscow on my desktop in VLC. The goal went in, and strangely I recognised it was a goal for England (I don't really do football). Window was open, and I cheered.

A few seconds later the neighbours cheered - they were watching it on TV.

I remember watching a 4K FA Cup final too in parallel to an off air TV feed. Watched the goal go in on the TV. By the time it had gone in on the 4K feed I'd actually forgotten it was a goal, so I guess that wasn't too bad.

That's a problem with streaming. If you're watching a popular live event like a big football match, and your neighbours are too, you need to be receiving it at the same time to avoid "spoilers".
I came of age in the 1980s. While I didn't live in NYC, there was a lot of crossover between the New York crowd and the artsy people in my city so I got a lot of exposure to it.

The strange thing is that while I was aware of Basquiat and numerous other NYC artists of the era, I didn't think much of them. They didn't seem special to me because they were just what was going on at the time.

I have a specific memory of when the biopic came out and wondering why they made a movie about Basquiat. I had no real frame of reference. Same thing with music, which was even more of a crossover locally for me than art.

It's only been in recent years I've been able to look back and see what was going on and why it was special. It's mostly a matter of exposure to a lot of other art and music, gaining a lot of context and perspective.

Makes me wonder what I'm not appreciating enough today.
I don’t see much discussion of the unmovable reality of timezones. Sure, any tech worker can work remotely for any employer... In theory. In practice, timezone distance is becoming the new relevant measure of distance.

The further you are (in TZ distance) from an organization’s management, the less opportunities are available to you in that organization, because the degraded communication will make it impossible for you to fully participate in the decision-making process.

So I think that the most skilled tech workers over time will gravitate to areas which combine 1) high quality of living and 2) minimal timezone distance from management.
$5M is a little hyperbolic, but $4M is not.

$1.5M will get you a shack - really old maybe a little bigger than 1000sqft in Santa Clara if you can find one at that price at all.

$4M gets you a nice, newer 2900sqft house (comparable to what you'd get in the other regions I mentioned).

$1.5M would have been enough in 2012, but it's gotten worse since then.
That's a good idea but I think people hate watermarks, and watermarks aren't crazy about people either. Plus it only works if people use the service!
I think this can also be problematic. Long lived code _must_ work, which is good. However, it can also live a long time for bad reasons. I have seen long lived code that only lives a long time because it is so complicated that no one can understand how it works, or written in a way that is very hard to change. So it lives a long time, because no one wants to take the time or effort to touch it. Finally, when it _must_ be changed to support a new feature, it might require a full rewrite.
I grew up in a small town in the Ozarks and there was a huge amount of fundamentalist Christian propaganda and social conditioning going on in the public school system. The high school principal passed out bibles, prayer was held before many sports practices or events, recruiters/councilors for Christian youth groups sat with the students at the cafeteria at lunch, etc. Some of the science teachers taught science well, though others made it explicit that they were Creationists and were only teaching evolution/Earth science because they had to, and that the students could stick around after class to hear 'what really happened'.

This was on top of another layer of class conflict between the middle class teachers/administration and lower class/trailer park kids, who mostly dropped out at 16 which was fine with the admin. Lots of additional pressure on other students who didn't conform for various race/gender/etc. reasons. And then completely bizarre stuff like, though the official reason for not having a soccer team was that it would detract from the sacrosanct football program, many of the teachers were clear that believed soccer to be a Communist sport (this was in the 90s when the cold war was long over).

Many of the perpetrators here are very nice people and fine neighbors, but if you aren't an evangelical Christian it can be a challenge. Especially if you're not white: the KKK is still a well known presence just down the road in Harrison, AR, so it's not just woke fearmongering.

It's one thing to live in these environments as an adult and be able to blow a lot of it off, but it's another thing completely to have kids there, which really detracts from the 'leave California to raise kids' motivation.

And it would be better at a larger city like St. Louis or Indianapolis but some fraction of the population of those places are from towns like mine and don't find these beliefs and practices to be particularly problematic.
> Increase taxes on the wealthy, etc.

Anyone working for a Silicon Valley company as an engineer is almost certainly considered "the wealthy" by most of America.
Sorry for the late reply, traveling.

In my case, because it's what Ubuntu "supports" for bootable root crypto ZFS, and I wanted to try it.

I've run ZFS on top of LUKS for my backup storage servers for probably over a decade now, and it works fine. But it wasn't really an option for my workstation.

That said, I'm not really sure what benefit I'm gaining from ZFS on my desktop. I've got that snapshots which are definitely nice. I've used it a couple times to go back in time. In theory I can go back if I wedge the system through package installs or an OS upgrade, but I've not done that (yet). It does slow down package installs because of taking snapshots, but that's ok generally.
Zulip threads (topics) are fundamentally different from slack threads.

TL;DR Slack threads are an after-thought add-on, Zulips topics are a first-class citizen.

Slacks threads can branch of at any point from any message in a channel - if you miss the start of the thread message, it disappears unless someone cross-posts to the channel or mentions you. This is by far the biggest problem I have with slack threads.

Zulip organizes into streams and topics, streams being roughly equivalent to channels and topics similar to threads. However, unlike slack, every message must live in a topic. Topics that have seen a message lately bubble to the top, topics that don't see activity fall to the bottom. You can still see the full stream in chronological order, but messages are grouped by and visibly marked with the topic they belong to. This makes it much easier to both follow a stream and still mentally follow multiple conversations in the same stream.
Although I was only a child at the time wood stoves were being phased out in the Tahoe basin (sometime in the mid/late 90s?), I definitely felt torn between the "rustic / cabin" feeling of the ordeal and the better air quality of having them phased out. It was never so bad in the neighborhood I was in because it was mostly rich folks who came up for xmas and maybe once in the summer, but xmas was so smokey! It was even worse in areas that have some inversion layer / valley geography to hold in the smoke down close to the ground; the valleys leading up to Squaw and Alpine could get "hotboxed" with pine-flavored smoke at times!

edit: I'd take that pine smoke over the general "Essence de Diesel" that pervades the current European city I live in!
I think threads, used sparingly, are nice. They're good to have semi-private messages, so you can keep the more irrelevant conversation that would normally go to PM public and searchable, while not spamming the channel.
They're also good for support channels, to have a thread per support message.
Lots of failed research parks, oil wells, railroads, gold mining operations.

The thing with oil wells, railroads, and gold mining, is that geography/geology matters more than path dependence.

Silicon Valley and Hollywood, and to a lesser extent NYC and London, are more about path dependence. Their dominance in their sectors seem more resulting from, if anything specific to point to, legal factors, than geography or any particular natural resource/phenomenon.

Why make movies and software in California, one in the south and the other a bit more north?

The founding of Hollywood was just as random as the events that "caused" the rise of the Valley. What if Griffith had gone elsewhere? What if Edison hadn't enforced his patents, causing the exodus across the country to make movies out of his purview? Similar climate/environs/affordability elsewhere, why not AZ, NM, TX, GA, FL?

This is a lot different than, say, the reasons for North Carolina to eventually beat New England in textile production, or why the Rust Belt is where it is, or why rail and shipbuilding was big in the Northeast but not so much space and auto manufacturing. It's more like why the appliances that are made in the U.S. are mostly made in the south.
He’s talking of threads as in “email threads”, not “process threads” - i.e. indentation and grouping of messages and replies.
Oh, lord. I don't usually have to think about sanitizing data coming from my own database, but of course any long-running database can have all sorts of crap in it. What a nightmare.
It's not pointless. In the context of JS 'modern' generally means es6+ or node as opposed to es5.
I remain unconvinced.
Who is experiencing the decrease in wages? For many Americans the distribution of these jobs to other locations would result in an increase in wages.

Not to mention, the top companies would still hire top talent in a competitive market.
I mean, the impact varies per organization but can be pretty severe in certain contexts. I'm considering the fact that many organizations have the majority of their proprietary data living on things like Sharepoint, OneDrive, and so on (as opposed to sparse data stored locally).

I would consider this a bit more unique.
One more thing for outsiders: Security Clearances are huge here, which really changes outcomes.

@stryan Would love to chat offline if you're open? Really struggling in deciding whether I can continue to live in the region long term, despite being in love with the area and the people.
Low tax rates, lax regulation, and a relatively efficient and impartial court system (our courts are definitely in the pocket of capitalism, but not so much in the pocket of individual capitalists) have led to a proliferations of companies there, many of whose existence in Zug consists solely of a mailbox.

This has also led to a proliferation of local talent which looks passable in a suit, can open mailboxes, is versed in law and/or accounting, and does not steal excessive amounts of money.

The business model is basically "stuff that is not provably illegal yet". During the Cold War, Switzerland got away with a lot, but in recent years, many formerly lucrative areas of business started drying up thanks to stricter money laundering laws etc. So for an ecosystem that has evolved to accommodate financial engineering right at the edge of legality, cryptocurrency seemed almost a custom made niche.
Wonder to what extent that solves the problem. Quite often your code reviewer's interest/world view aligns with yours: "Right we need to ship this feature asap so let's worry about tests later" or "More commits boost your performance review so these 50 1-liner commits I get it."

It reminds me of a similar problem in academia: the LPU (Least Publishable Unit) phenomenon where people tend to break a work into multiple smaller pieces to get more paper counts. It's so widespread that lots of paper reviewers are doing them too. So you don't get punished.
What differentiates highly productive developers is their ability to ship more complete functionality from the same input as other developers. Inputs can be tickets, requirements, or even notes from a meeting. Commits and pull requests are production steps, but don't tell the whole story - they do give you some level of indication.
An ethical way of dealing with it in this case would be to publish that you found a security flaw (without actually disclosing the exact details) and maybe have some trusted third party verify it e.g. another white hat organisation like Google zero?

Then the clients of Microsoft will put pressure to get it paid for and fixed - because they are the ones that bear the true cost of security violations (Microsoft only has indirect costs).
Yes: https://www.cloudcraft.co/

Does it look familiar? It's because stealing other people's stuff and putting text on them is the only thing I'm good at.
I actually cannot think of anything unique to the Bay here...

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> One simple example that I presented in the other comments: maps. I don't think we ever had (or that it was even possible in a non-networked/poorly networked world) commercial components for maps even remotely close to what services like Google Maps offer.

Maps are inherently nothing new, instead of a google search, I'd go to my local library and buy a physical map. No need for 3D rendered vector processing over an interconnected network.
I've not worked specifically with contaminant sensors, but I know oxygen sensors require very specific and very consistent flow rates across the element. The type I've worked with used a ceramic element which absorbs oxygen and changes resistance as a result. So increased or decreased oxygen results in increased or decreased resistance.

Using a sensor like this to measure percent of oxygen in a gas requires you to eliminate a lot of confounding effects like pressure waves, flow changes, etc.. Basically you can cause the sensor to absorb more oxygen than is present in the gas by temporarily increasing flow.

So if you're building an air quality sensor you have to pay very close attention to how the air moves through the sensor. That requires not just a calibration but also characterization of the flow through the system under environmental conditions.

One other effect I could see is a contaminant sensor becoming fouled. Oxygen sensors can become fouled and report inaccurate values, which is why it's very important to control the inputs.

This is one of the reasons an antifreeze leak in an engine block can cause your engine performance to go to crap. The oxygen sensor is part of how a stoichiometric ratio of fuel and air is maintained, by monitoring the combustion products for excess oxygen. So when it gets fouled either the ceramic element is damaged or the sensor stops receiving consistent flow and the resistance relationship ceases to be valid.

In short I don't see how you could build a useful long-lasting sensor by just buying parts off Amazon or Digikey and throwing them together. You would have to treat it like a scientific instrument, meaning that you have to validate your assumptions about how the sensor performs and I doubt that most of the products on Amazon do that.
Needs to be updated on a regular basis.
FYI it's not just PL that factors into security.
The engineers, for example.
I don't really understand that argument unless you're literally just using the base from a CDN directly.

You can easily override the defaults with SCSS variables and customize it to look however you want.

Most sites look similar now anyway.
Post Author here. I think you are underestimating your own creation. Stencil is a delight to work with, and very well done.

We at Wix are a huge React shop. We know all the best and worst of React, both OO and Functional styles.

For us, while Stencil is super interesting and is better compared to React, we will not move to Stencil.

Had we started now, it would have been a hard choice React or Stencil

I think the main message here is that
Tailwind sounds like a crazy and backwards concept. It looks insane and I used to feel the same way. However, after trying it and it clicked I can't imagine myself going back. It's one of those things you really need to try before you get it.

Now I find all of these arguments against it like someone trying to convince me not to use syntax highlighting (http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/). I understand the reasoning but it's not something I would even consider.