skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say they did maybe just not directly. There are plenty testimonials of people crashing on other peoples couches, working out of garages or sitting in on classes at Stanford in the 00s in SV. Of course today SV also recruits from all over the world and spends plenty of venture capital for housing, transportation and health care. But that isn't something most cities or even countries can do.

New York and London are outliers because they are big financial centers. They are still far more like Stockholm than the other financial centers are. In theory a smaller financial center like Zurich should arguably be better for startups than Stockholm but it isn't even a competition when looking at the outcome.
Great advice all around and solid article, works well at any age.

However, ageism, aka Age Discrimination(tm) is real in technology as I'm sure it is in other disciplines. I'm sure many will say, "don't suck" and you'll get hired. Remember your words/thoughts after you reach the final "culture/fit" check after jumping through every flaming hoop put in front of you during the interview process, and then suddenly, after all the glowing feedback the 30-something VP of Engineering or Paper Clips makes your candidacy flatline.
He mentions density, which to me all most always comes down to height. How tall of a building can you build with meter thick walls?
Because at some point the banks will fail and one of these ‘scams’ is going to be necessary for you to get along in life.

I’m sorry that this is the case; I really wish that the system we live in was sustainable, but it’s not, and it probably won’t be reformed before it’s too late. Maybe this is a matter of opinion, but it happens to be the most common opinion of people that have studied the matter without incentive to believe one narrative. I have never seen a well-informed defense by an independent writer that did not rely almost exclusively on appeal to authority.

There are opportunists. There are scammers. That’s not how this thing got started. We started this to mitigate an unstoppable problem. I personally never liked many economic aspects of the Bitcoin protocol, and dismissed it very early. I know many others that aped into mining a fortune based on much less understanding. I’m now willing to accept that it is the least bad of likely candidate solutions, and the reason for that is that all newer entrants cannot gain relevance without massive investment, which means owners from the old failing system.
In addition to ageism, I think the proliferation of the MBA/McKinsey school of thought really works against older programmers. You have an increasing number of managers who have little to no domain knowledge around 1) Programming, and 2) whatever industry they happen to be working in. What's worse, is that they see no problem with this because they think they "understand business".

What this leads to is a lot of dumb decisions. One example in this case is that, to someone who's never written a line of code, a 25 year-old developer is the same as a 50 year-old developer, but at half the cost and without the hassles of things like kids to take care of. You need to have a decent understanding of the work developers do, in order to understand the value the 50 year-old developer brings and why paying him or her 2 or 3x the 25 year-old is actually a bargain.
I suppose as a bookmarklet it's not so bad, but it would be pretty dumb for someone to write this as a Greasemonkey script or something. The selector is also impossibly wide. There are a lot of fixed position elements on a website. Many of them are not sticky headers.
Author declares themselves a "bitcoiner" and writes things like:

> PostNote: This article pairs well with my piece on Bitcoiners having integrity. What it boils down to is there is no integrity in Ethereum and nothing but integrity in Bitcoin

Which seems a little...
Depends what your definition of "better" is. If better = "killed more people", then sure...

The US state with the lowest death rate is Hawaii with 38 deaths / 100,000 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...).

Compare that with Australia - 3.7 (https://covidlive.com.au/report/deaths-per-population) - Canada - 0.27 (https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-s...) - and countries with even stricter and longer-lasting lockdowns like Singapore - 0.00042 (https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...).
Not that it's a contest, but I'm 63. :-) After a mostly entrepreneurial career--but always around software--I'm back to coding every day for a living. I love the sense of accomplishment--always have. Great advice here, to which I might add that getting comfortable as an independent contractor is very useful as well. For me, there are many philosophical reasons for that, but practical ones as well; the most mundane of which is simply that if you do lose a traditional employee job, you feel comfortable grabbing a contract job in the meantime.
There are plenty of ways to port out of COBOL, none will work.

I once interviewed for a COBOL position. It was a typical large financial institution. It was a lead position that wanted a migration plan out and then would lead to a team for me. I have a lot of systems integration and information management knowledge. I have worked on planning multi-year projects and migrating out of large systems like this before.
The interview went well, and afterwards they showed me around the place and what they were doing.

I sat down again in the office with the hiring director, and I enquired about how long he has been with the company and what he has been working on. Turns out he had been hired in five years ago and had already attempted this once before without success. I knew without a doubt why they didn't have success, and it had nothing to do with COBOL.

Financial companies are highly risk adverse. COBOL developers know this. COBOL developers know that if the shop isn't COBOL their job is at risk. So, COBOL developers will constantly introduce "what about this risk" issues, which then must be considered in committee; thus, the company is eternally paralyzed. The fact that the director couldn't make it anywhere in five years meant nothing was going to change.

As I recall, I checked in a few years later and they were still in the same place. I suspect it might have been a decent place if all I wanted in life was a paycheck. They were nice people.
https://archive.is/N5ktJ
No, they tried just one of the methods you listed. Having it be set by user preference is an interesting idea, but whatever the default setting is will be used by the overwhelming majority of users and will be quickly subverted by attackers.
Better article:
https://financialpost.com/fp-finance/cryptocurrency/circle-l...

While USDC is undoubtedly way better than Tether, it's nice that the upcoming New York Stock Exchange listing will require more transparency than the attestations they provide now.
Cool, you do that then wage a million dollars it can't be copied then I'll come to collect the million.

In the entire history of software there was absolutely zero copy protection for a determined person. Not just commercial one, but think of FBI/NSA/CIA level of protection, and yet they failed spectacularly when a determined individual wanted to steal the secrets. Hence my above "if it can be read, it can be copied".
> The default, if I'm reading the article correctly, is to not disappear messages. What's new is the ability to disappear messages by default for all conversations, instead of having to remember to set it for each conversation.

Yeah, that's my read too.

The article's title is confusing and should be changed. I was worried they were going to change the defaults on me, and I was going to have to rush in and reset things.
Maybe I'll come off as a youngin' with this one, but PHP. I honestly really enjoy it. There are some quirks and syntax I don't particularly like, but overall, using PHP in a server setting isn't bad at all. I always heard people talk down on it in college, but those people probably never used it either. PHP by day and Rust by night is a nice combo honestly. Pretty different, but it gives some variety.
Unironically WeChat's moments are probably what you're looking for.

- They don't embed ads in moments.

- It's a chronological feed. And you only see posts from your friends (who you allow to view moments).

- You can set the expiration time of your moments (so no one can see anything older than 1 month, 2 weeks, 1 day (I think?), And keep them visible forever if you want.

- You can only view comments from your friends. Your friends will not see your comment if they aren't friends with the poster whose moment you replied to. And your friend's friends won't see the comment unless they're friends with you. This keeps things personal and avoids flamewars between randoms.

Anyways, I personally like to use Strava to keep up with my active friends. You get to see them as they go on vacations and when they've gotten vaccinated based off an easy ride (and in the title). I use it to just peer into the lives of friends as they've moved to different countries and continents.
> sooner or later, someone is going to want to display some HTML (or an actual website!) within their application. We’d really rather not bundle an entire browser engine to accomplish this

I read that and cannot avoid thinking: yeah well, sooner or later someone is going to want to play an MP3 file. Should now all GUI toolkits include multimedia playback support?

Someone is going to want to display and edit a PSD file, does it mean the GUI toolkit should be able to handle the Photoshop file format?

I get where it's going (I've been a GUI developer myself, working with Qt which does include a browser engine), but to be honest I think that already crosses the line from GUI framework to do-it-all framework.
I thought so too. "I bought an old house and, uh-oh, it had problems!" isn't much of a story.
A lot of the credit? Estonia is 99% of Skype. There's a reason their tech ecosystem (which is more impressive than Sweden's) is called the "Skype Mafia"
This is a pretty neat thing and kudos for them open sourcing it. Typically, you'd have to hand over $5K - $25K for this card! This can hopefully make them available at a lower price.

I built something similar (although I didn't use a CSAC[1] since it was too expensive but I did have a nice OXCO which is pretty stable. I use a Raspberry Pi to distribute plain old TOD via NTP to my local network, but the 10 MHz output I send to my bench where I can use it for radio projects. It is actually a better clock source (frequency stability wise) than the precision time source in my HP spectrum analyzer but it has worse phase noise (jitter) because it does get corrected by up to +/- 20nS periodically.

[1] Chip Scale Atomic Clock - Microsemi -> Microchip https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/clocks-frequency...
I wholeheartedly agree.

I never meant we should ship people places, just that “supply” exceeds “demand”. Capitalism is an inherently inefficient mechanism for the distribution of resources. It favors the aggregation of capital over efficient distribution.
Nice project, I've been working on something similar, but with an Arduino (Adafruit ESP32), an Adafruit GPS featherwing and a RTC. I originally started with a Linux-based solution like yours but no matter what I did I couldn't get the accuracy below about 5ms and my goal is sub-ms (verified with an oscilloscope.)
OP's way of life has been made possible by cheap energy. Wishing it away before renewables are able to provide baseload power in an advanced economy (and the storage problem is, at best, decades away from being solved) is unwise.
500 is generous. Samsung's "Internet" browser has 50 tabs limit with the same behavior. However unlike Safari, it warns you that you've hit the limit after it had gone ahead and closed the oldest tab.
we are adding a better warning when we can't provide a valuation and also improving our fallback logic to prevent this outcome entirely. thanks for sharing.
The character limit introduces a lot of misunderstandings.
> there is no way I would also spend my free time on projects just to impress some people.

Generally, me neither. However this attitude does not meld well with a stagnate career.
How's a news story reality, and social media not? News stories (especially the sorts you'd share on social media) are usually virtual, detached from reality.
> > Are you an lobbyist than?

> No, […]

So why are you talking like a typical right-wing lobbyist?

> > Quite a distorted view on reality given all the surveillance laws passed over the last few years…

> Specifically, which one?
> In Europe I mean.

> I'm familiar with statewatch, they are a reliable source, but […]

Anybody having a look at the statewatch website will instantly notice that your question doesn't makes any sense given that we're counting the latest surveillance laws by the dozens (maybe even by the hundreds by now), and that your claim to know the website seems dishonest therefore.

Also you're trying to relativize that source by all what follows that "but"…

> As a term of comparison: do you think people are more surveilled in Europe or in the United States?

Why do you try to derail this conversation?

I'm surely not baiting into whataboutism…

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque

The rest of that question is even loaded with a whole battalion of subtle attempts to completely derail that thread. Nice rhetoric for someone who's not professional in that field. ;-)
Your Dublin unicorn examples:

* Intercom - Founded in San Fransisco according to themselves.

* Workhuman - Founded 20+ years ago.

* CarTrawler - Founded 30+ years ago.

Not really signs of a "Silicon Valley"-startup/unicorn kind of atmosphere in my book :)
PyCM 3.2 released: Machine learning library for confusion matrix analysis
I have a lot more confidence in the US Federal Reserve, and the power of the US government in general than I do in a crypto company and their “commercial paper”.
<no real limits to logging

I am not sure what fantasy world you live in but it’s obviously not Oregon. The same type of groups that decimated the logging industry via the Spotted Owl are now going after dams via the fish. First they create this enormous fire hazard and now they want the water that fights it to wastefully run unimpeded into the ocean.
The problem is: when devs have learned about a necessary tuning knob, it's almost impossible to get them to stop touching it.

So recent JDKs have a sane default. Finally. Now we have a zillion app from the time defaults were not sane, each having a few -Xm parameters in their config. If they work well enough, nobody takes the effort to remove them. If they don't work, just type a higher number and test.

Manual JVM memory tuning will stay with us forever.
There is no inconsistency.

William Rees-Mogg, the co-author of the suggested book, was the father of Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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It's not a surprise at all. There are a lot of people who are downloading the Tiktok app as they find it entertaining. You can learn a lot of things in TikTok, and at the same time, it serves as a social media. Want to find more about a certain niche? Worry not; there's a lot on TikTok.
> The point is that your compensation should not be based on where you live, but how much value you add.

Well this seems rather naive view of things. Do these folks also pay same SFO/NYC rates for all services and infrastructure that they consume in cheaper area.

Doesn't a beautiful home in mountains add same value that a million dollar condo in silicon valley offer? But remote promoters seem happy to pay 200K for a mountain home. Because of this real estate agent will get only 20 percent of potential commission on this deal as compared to expensive city.
I am torn. I absolutely love the technical blog post and the effort that went into open sourcing everything needed to build these devices, but, you know, Facebook. Compliments and respect to the engineers involved for really well done engineering.
Re: voting, it's not a "right" if it's compulsory. It's an obligation.
Paying people simply what they are used to being paid is even less fair than what they are doing. Given that they already have location adjustments, if they simply let people keep their comp regardless of their move, employees that moved to Boston from SV and now work remotely from Boston would be paid more than employees who were always in Boston and still work in their Boston office. Remediating this would require increasing everyone's pay outside of their top market (Is it just SV and NY? Not sure) and that would cost significantly more.
> While it may be possible to pull off a jaded, "I've seen some shit", "get off my lawn" attitude, it will probably make everything more difficult.

My boss/CEO once told me "You can't have this shitty attitude if your stuff doesn't work" (or something similar)... I made sure my stuff worked after that. Although, my attitude was really only bad with him, IMHO; everyone else seemed to think I was nice to work with.
It doesn’t have to be organized crime. It can be as petty as someone trying to get someone to smuggle in contraband for personal consumption (e.g. a cigarette or drugs or a weapon.)
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The GP was probably suggesting letting bubbles of people moderate for those who opt in to the moderation. Thus, a channel would only be banned for people who are in the group.

Analogously to real life, one doesn't have the option to choose all of ones neighbors, but you can choose the neighborhood you live in (assuming you have adequate wealth, redlining is illegal, etc). Moderation bubbles would enforce content rules much like an HOA enforces grass cutting, etc. I'm not sure how it would work out, but I'm curious if there are existing examples.
Take a look at smart card authentication systems, for example those used in subscription TV services. The "smart card" is usually an 8051 type micro controller and does a little bit of cryptography to be the DRM.

The battles between the companies and hackers in that scene were fascinating.
Thanks, that’s what I was thinking, that advertisers figured it out early on, and they aren’t smarter or dumber than the rest of the professional population, so this shouldn’t be some surprise that took years to work out.

(I personally remember thinking exactly that, that cookies allow universal tracking, as soon as I learned of the concept, but I don’t want to put too much stock into that belief because of the possibility of hindsight bias and misremembering.)
Whats the point in dying a millionaire though? Surely you want to spend some of that money while you are alive (and active - not 80+)?
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As an expat, I go there where I get treated best. Why wouldn’t I? Do I owe my country of birth anything?
There are way more HDDs lying around needing to be used than GPUs, though. Storage is so much easier to come by. File coin has structural problems like you cant mine filecoin without first buying filecoin to stake…
That is anywhere with walkable, bikable, and dense living and temperate weather.

Without the ability to involuntarily commit people to mental healthcare facilities, or jail, the only other option is to live somewhere that is less hospitable to homeless people.

And building more to give free / cheap housing to the homeless people who do not need mental healthcare or jail is not going to work on a city or state level, especially in highly desirable areas due to induced demand.
Jacobabad - Pakistan, Ras al Khaimah - United Arab Emirates, and Jeddah - Saudi Arabia are the only cities with multiple TW>=35 recordings according to their table S2 in page 24 of this pdf https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2020/05/04/6.1...
The article talks about the researchers designing special electric lights to mimic the paleolithic stone lamps (including flicker). Is this design published anywhere?
The law does not care if it is consenting. The law indicates that a 17 year old is unable to consent.
Why do you assume that?

Apple's cash reserves and are not the same thing as a stablecoin reserves. One is cash that a company owns, like Apple, and their shareholders own it along with the rest of the company. The other is the cash reserve backing an etherealized USD bank account. It's an "other people's money" problem.

That's kind of the interesting part, to me. USDT is, a "private money" in a more real sense.. or at least different. As long as coin prices float, no one owes anyone anything. A stablecoin implies a price guarantor, a currency peg operator.

If things play out the fun way, stablecoins get sansacked by WSB's version of George Soros. Then, in the next iteration, CoinBanks are offering fixed interest accounts.
> I suppose we might speculate that, possibly, hypothetically, the reason the Russians are committing war crimes in Libya is because the Libyan army was annihilated around 2011 by a helpful excursion by US/UK/etc troops onto Libyan soil.

Or we can speculate that the reason is the modern worldview of the Russian power as the zero-sum game with the west, where each problem delivered to the West is Russia's win, and excursions of troops of the other side is a helpful pretense.
Step 1: Buy Bitcoin

Step 2: Print USDC equivalent

Step 3: Use USDC to buy bitcoin

Step 4: Repeat
A video game character that "lives" in a mirror, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost

that can do sketch comedy with a human performer.
Obviously no one wants this to happen, but I wonder about any possible mitigation strategies. Like creating homes and infrastructure under the ground, or at least covered by lots of insulation, like a Moon base covered with lots of dirt.

Of course, that would completely suck for the people who have to live there, and we should do our best to prevent it, but some people probably aren't going to have a choice but to try and handle it in whatever way they can.
As used in the article, personal brand is a lot closer to your first paragraph than to snake-oil peddling.

> Personal brand also works like that. When you work on a project, even a crappy project, your personal brand is on display for all potential shoppers to see. And even when everything is going south, others will notice which people are easy to work with, which people can be relied upon to do what they said they would do, and which people consistently produce a quality result.
HN is the HN of cryptocurrency. ;-)