skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silicon Valley is a very unique place so I am sure there will be other places in US that do not match this description but here you have a choice of:

Living down in the Bay Area:
- long uber (or car and no drinking) drive any time you want to go out in the city.

- lack of diversity in terms of what ppl do for living, almost everybody does something tech related and we are sadly rarely a party starter type :)

- high rent if you want a nice apartment or a house

- if you are single guy dating life is a real survival of the fittest here, not that it's impossible but it definitely puts you in more desperate mindset than most other places

San Francisco:

- Used to have to drive 40-50 min to work everyday but that's no longer the case due to covid

- To be honest for me it's just too dirty and dangerous. I originally came from Central Europe so even London was a bit gross with all the trash piles around restaurants etc. for me but SF is a whole another level. The things you see on the streets here take some time to get used too. I am a fairly large dude so I get to avoid allot of things but my girlfriend had mentally ill folks throw needles at her, chase her with a lighter trying to set her hair on fire. Not that you cannot have fun here but you eventually learn to Uber straight to your destination, no walking around just exploring like you would do in Europe.

What I loved about London and Europe in general is relative safety + public transport combo. No need to plan everything out, no need to worry if you gonna drive/how much you can drink, no need to be on guard several times a night when something weird happens around you.

Edit:
Just so I am not only listing negatives.
There is allot of cool things you can do here.

Skydiving, paragliding are super common in California and weather is great for those type of sports.
Water sports like surfing, kite surfing.
There is some beautiful nature around so if you like hiking you won't be bored for a while.
Tahoe is close so in the winter you can go sking multiple times a year with only a 3-4 hour drive.
Money you make here will allow you to travel more than any other place.
Doctors are on call. Firemen are on call.

There are plenty of jobs that are not on call. Lots of enterprise positions do not require you to be on call. If you work on a site that requires 24/7 uptime, why is it so hard to accept that engineers have to be on call?
Most of my professional life has been 80 columns, two spaces for indentation, and an auto formatter. I love it: on a 27" monitor I can have four 81-column terminals side by side, with room for a fifth column wide enough for commands. Being able to see many parts of the codebase side by side is incredibly useful.
I'm saying PL/M didn't affect the design of CP/M. You could write CP/M in C or assembly and it would be the same.
Its really great for results, and motivation. Unfortunately with age, its also how I get injured very easily if going full tilt.
Which can (likely will) make you lose all the stacked money.
Readline Emacs Editing Mode Cheat Sheet [pdf]
> For instance, the resources it takes to construct a pipeline/power line to the nearest town might be more than the electricity/methane that can be generated from the well.

Well, there already is a pipeline for the oil product (so the additional overhead for a small gas pipe isn't that huge) and an electric grid hookup for the pump. That can be used even for a small-scale electrical generator.
I think the days of a team like Williams thriving in F1 are over, unfortunately. Maybe I'm being too cynical but I don't think cost-caps can fight entropy like that.
Only marginally relevant: does anyone know how to change speed of a podcast like this? I have the Video Speed Controller extension and it works on videos perfectly, but I don't know how to change speed on an audio-only player like this.
If you need metrics to guide you, maybe. But most folks I know who run or bike regularly haven't bothered getting tested unless they're hardcore data nerds.

I know this is hand-wavy, but if you're already working up a sweat for at least 30 minutes twice a week, you're doing alright. If you're also lifting heavy things with proper form, you're doing great.
I think things are beginning to change. My impression is more publishers sell watermarked but DRM free PDFs.

BTW I personally find it odd the OP wants to reads epubs on the remarkable. The remarkable is good for reading PDFs. The epub experience is rather meh.
Not at all

Even if 99% of the rest of the world is also running on renewables, Crypto is still diverting energy generation that could be decarbonized.

Once the world energy generation is fully de-carbonized, then it is a non-issue.
Yes. Browsers are great at presenting beautiful webpages, the best compliment to that would be an application that opens when you click on "try our app", downloads a nice compressed binary, and executes it in a sandboxed environment that works on every platform. Maybe that can be successfully built into browsers but I believe it could be better done as a separate project with a fresh start.
FYI, the signal-slot paradigm has been introduced and popularized by Qt over 20 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signals_and_slots
I think this is a bit of an exaggeration. Maybe in the major cities proper it’s true that a majority don’t own cars, but I doubt it’s true for the metro areas as a whole.
Ha, that would have been my question as well...I've often come across the idea that digital synth emulations are necessarily "perfect" and indistinguishable from the original, but is that really true in your opinion, from a first principles standpoint? If not, which component would make the emulation most difficult?
Health insurance is nearly always paid by the employer. And aren't US taxes quite low compared to much of Europe?
This is true about NYC but not about Boston or any other U.S. cities.
We need federal legislation that bans super strong Service level agreements in cloud tech. Amazon has the best cloud entirely because of their hellish on-call powered by their absurd SLAs. I'm sure this is one of the most important components behind why there is so much oncall.

I'd love to see amazon and bezos get punished instead of rewarded just once for being slave drivers. Please pass federal legislation against "999" or other extremely absurd SLAs.
Only if you are in an echo chamber and believe CNN is reporting accurate news
Unless you use a different VM for everything, you've just moved the problem from 'secure your workstation' to 'secure your VM'.
Bonzi Buddy might might have some thing to say about that
Sounds like a place to leave as soon as possible.

Unless the tool just meassured for amount of change and flagged it for review, which might make sense, as you can also mess up by removing things, you think are unused.
Square indicates intelligence, which allows them to move non randomly towards the nearest edible biot (it’s on the page right after the bullet points).
It can be even worse than that if you’re buying your insurance yourself and you have a family.

But if you have insurance through your work, it’s usually not that bad, it’ll probably be under a thousand.
Yeah, by computing on the gpu (or by using a spatial partitioning system like a quad-tree), you could probably speed that up massively.
Getting used to a new style is like wearing new shoes. It takes a day or two to break in, before it feels natural.

Most arguments can be translated to "because I like it this way".
> Usually I write sentences as they pop into my mind, then I edit them down into more numerous, shorter sentences.

This is interesting to me, because I do the exact opposite. I write my clauses more or less independently, then try to string the related clauses together with linking words punctuation in a way that flows naturally.

I can't imagine composing long, complex sentences on the fly, and the only people I've seen that manage to do this in conversation are unusually erudite.
ES -> DK -> US

For me it's a mixed bag, and we will be probably moving back to Europe next year, after spending 6 years in between San Francisco and New York.

On the positive side, money. Software engineers make much, much more in the US than anywhere in Europe, including Nordic countries. My income tripled in the US, and my income was considered pretty high Denmark. Another positive side of the US is that there seems to be more opportunities, particularly if you are white or Asian and work in tech. My wife couldn't get a job in Europe, here she joined multiple FAANGs.

On the negative side, the lifestyle doesn't really fit us: too much focus on work. The problem is not -only- longer working hours, but that a lot people center their life around their job. I also find the social issues of the US (unequality, racism) more disturbing than the ones there are in Europe.
That is exactly the naive mindset he is talking about.
This is effectively how all calls in Objective-C work. Everything turns into

objc_msgSend(receiver, message, params)
Indeed, I stand corrected.

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/
And the problem with downloading using cloud is you have to use their apps and requires them to supply your phone data forever which is no no in my book. Imagine the dystopia there would be if there were no piracy.

You got refunded but in my country many sites have implicit rule "Once you purchase it, we can't return it back".
The general tendency is for viruses to become less deadly with increasing mutations. Highly deadly strains kill too quickly to spread well, whereas the common cold kills relatively few but hangs around long enough to keep moving from person to person.

Viruses dont "care" to kill people, viruses only "want" to spread. That's what drives a viruses growth
Streaming-exclusive games are a notable exception to this, which is why it's so important to smash things like Stadia before they can gain a foothold.

Not even from a piracy standpoint, just a "I want to play this after the server/company shuts down" standpoint.
> Shorter lines also force you to write one param per line when calling a function.

And this is unconditionally good why?

Linus isn't wrong when he describes lines as a natural unit, already operated on by our tools and our brains. Having to stitch multiple lines together has its own mental cost.

Is a longer line always better? Definitely not. There are absolutely cases where an expression split over multiple lines and well-indented can make code much clearer. There are also cases of the inverse, where you have to take a single atom that was split across multiple lines and re-integrate it while reading. (The patch that Linus is referring to here has some of these.)

Line length should be driven by some combination of total character width and expression cohesion.

A single line can be overly complex even far below an 80 character limit, and a single line well above that limit can still be easy to read.

Prose, and therefore comments, have different reading patterns and therefore different motivations for line length. You want to limit comments and documentation to 80 characters? Fine. Code? That's valuing one metric over another, or simply hoping that strongly clamping one metric is going to also improve another.
COVID is considerable more virulent than the flu. The hygiene measures that were instituted against COVID have almost eliminated influenza here in Norway as well as making several other lung related conditions much rarer than before.

The fact that a vaccine does not provide total immunity is not does not make the restrictions worthless.
You mean like Gemini? https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
Twine: A Unified Cluster Management System for Shared Infrastructure [pdf]
> In Holland it's around 100 i think and here in Spain it's free.

You personally pay around that amount in "insurance", but a big part of your healthcare costs are being taken out of your general taxation. The Netherlands spends around 13-14% of its GDP. That's pretty far from 100/EUR/month per person.

I live in The Netherlands and I'd take Western European healthcare over the US's any day, but let's not sugar coat it by hiding the ball about how it's being paid for[1].

Before I moved to The Netherlands I paid 0 EUR/month in "health insurance" (a country with a true single payer system). Does that mean I wasn't actually paying anything for healthcare? No.

1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
Usually it's very subtle, definitely not in your face. For some it will be the glass ceiling at work they'll never manage to break,no matter how good they are, for others it will be people simply not wanting to interact beyond 'hi, bye' level.
Unless they can find someone to trade the LN for cash, which is increasingly easy.
A trust assumption of PoS (Proof of Stake) is that >66% of the stake is honest. If you violate this trust assumption then yes PoS breaks. This is a similar trust assumption to requiring that 51% of the mining power in PoW (Proof of Work) is not malicious.

This risk can be mitigated:

1. The network should halt if a fork is detected. A fork with more than 66% of the stake behaving maliciously means a fundamental trust assumption of the network has been violated. Stop everything! Let humans figure out what is going on. I'm not saying every PoS system WILL halt under these circumstances, but as a countermeasure they SHOULD be designed to halt and value safety over partition resilience. Thus, an attacker forking a PoS must never allow parties to see either side of the fork. If a party notices a fork occurs, they will halt and can't be double spent against.

2. Following from 1, how do you prevent parties from communicating and discovering that a fork is occurring? Are you a tier-1 ISP and can control all internet traffic? You can defend against such attacks by making it very hard to hide the presence of a fork via redundant communication mechanisms. For instance the Bitcoin blockchain is broadcasted via satellite, a PoS blockchain could do that as well.

3. Additionally you can require that stakers lock their stake for long periods of time e.g., 6 months. This means that if an attacker wants to perform this attack and truly have nothing at stake they must cause a fork in the chain before the 6-months ago mark. Parties who are up to date with the latest chain are not vulnerable since they have already accepted the consensus history of chain. New parties who are syncing for the first time would be vulnerable, however clients could be programmed to have hardcoded 6th month checkpoints or clients could check block explorers and halt if a fork is detected.
Amelia Earhart enjoys a ride in Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Car, 1933-34
Give rucking a try.
If you’re a native speaker I imagine that’s true, but if you learned the language later in live it remains a pain. I feel comfortable discussing love, art and politics in French but I still dread writing down a phone number!
What do you do this with? Running?
The US out of pocket expense for healthcare is a lot lower than you probably think:

https://i.imgur.com/kZlS6pC.png

The overall US healthcare cost per capita is around double the median of affluent Europe typically; higher than double vs Britain, and lower than double vs eg Switzerland or Norway.

A lot of US healthcare is covered entirely or partially by employers. If you're a software developer making near or over six figures, it's very common that your healthcare costs are covered by your employer.

What you're talking about when you say "100" for Holland is subsidization by way of taxation for covering healthcare costs. When you say it's free in Spain, you're talking about subsidization by taxation. Around 1/4 of the US population also gets "free" healthcare (ie the higher income brackets are paying higher taxes to cover those people).

US healthcare is artificially very expensive, for numerous reasons. The employer provided system can also make unemployment quite risky, definitely. There is no free lunch however, someone is paying for the healthcare in France, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and so on. Whether it's $7k (Germany), $8k (Switzerland), or $11k (US) per person, it's a lot of money.
This is extremely cool! I wonder how much work it would be to bundle it up into an XScreenSaver-compatible binary.

Edit: It looks like running it locally on X11 is trivial, so this should be easy to do. I'm trying to hack it together now :-)
> Generally in modern languages you use libraries rather than language features

This was exactly the feeling I got as I read his list: "these aren't features, they are, at best, nice to have library functions and syntactic sugar."
They did say “ruling out chance”.
> Schools should really have skin in the game in terms of financial success of the students afterwards.

Some of them do, and this manifests as admitting lower-performing rich kids and maintaining an active alumni network for placing graduates into jobs. (The 'skin' here is making sure the donation and endowment stream remains robust over time).
Can you find a country in Europe, where the majority of population does not treat non-tourist people with a foreign background, if not with hostility, then at least as a strange specimen, not sure what to make of them?
It's OK. You can use a highlighter and scribble on the margins. Taking notes on a separate notebook is a little awkward because you have to switch back and forth.
I've never found calibre to work except on novels. Books with diagrams, tech books, it totally fails, at least for me
This article is terrible and does not explain how proof of stake works let alone how it's broken, but links to another (probably better article on etheruem.org). back to studying it for myself, then. I literally have a headache after reading the bitcoin analogy and trying to guess which parts of the analogy I will need to remember for later in the article (hint: none). It would have been simpler to just explain what a nonce and hash is.
Ebers Papyrus
I love videos that jump right into the meat of the video, please put the fluff at the end :)
I believe you will find two main sources of differences in tone between the various DX7 emulators. One is that there are fairly major differences between the original DX7 and the DX7 II (I used the latter for the original engine now adapted in Dexed). The other is the analog filter on output, approximately a 16kHz lowpass filter designed to reduce artifacts from the DAC (this is replaced by a more general Moog-style filter in the Android implementation but present as an accurate emulation in Dexed).

I think Dexed is quite accurate, but this work will allow the authors to take it to the next level. I suspect most people won't be able to hear the difference, however.
I and another person are taking over an old batch processing system at work. The system itself is fairly stable, but interacts with some other systems which keep falling over or changing things without adequate notification. Currently there are (mostly false) alarms almost every day, usually for stupid reasons like the network falling over for a few minutes or disk use going above a fairly arbitrary level. So when the subject of weekend on-call came up we just went hard "no", and we've been discussing solutions to that ever since (adjusting cron scheduling, making alarms more forgiving, adjusting customer expectations, improving automation, etc).

Importantly, we can do this because we live somewhere with employee protection, and our contracts do not mention being on call or working weekends. If you don't have that you're pretty much SOL.
I'm interested in the same question as the OP but referring to Academia instead of Industry.

It's probably pretty comparable, as academic salaries in the US are significantly higher than anywhere else, except perhaps Switzerland.
People conflating subjective opinion with objective fact is in my opinion one of the most frustrating things about Internet discourse today.
That seems like a very unusual financial situation. Paying that much more for an apartment probably means you weren’t in London before, and then it would be extremely odd to make the same in the Bay Area as non-London UK.
Really 80%? A joint paper by the Norwegian Trade Association (NHO) and the main trade union organization (LO) concluded that about 50% of the working population could work from home.
Fitness programming normally follows a methodology that is the exact opposite of this to reduce injury rates. Steady, consistent incremental increases to intensity, volume, or frequency over the course of a 2-3 month macro cycle.

I'm not saying yours is a bad idea, but, from everything I know about fitness, this sounds like designing for injury.
why can’t it be that the entity paying my wage opens the channel, allowing me to withdraw the $1500 ?

(does the normal transaction fee apply if I want to withdraw from the payment channel?)

is it really the case that a channel can only handle a maximum balance equal to its opening balance?

sounds positively useless, so i’m confused by the hype if this is really the case
Well considering I made the initial statement, no, it's not. A company I used to work for once hired exclusively from the must-have-Python-experience pool (not my decision) and the cto fawned over how well he solved this "well-known-leetcode problem", and he utterly failed my problem, which tests for actually useful competency... of course he was hired -- and turned out to be a complete lemon. I remember that hiring round distinctly, everyone we interviewed for that position (n~10) was competent for the leetcode problem but never did basic things in my interview like "write tests", "don't try to make a complicated algorithm", etc, even when told explicitly to do/ not to do those things.

Outside of that I interviewed several of my friends (I know them from a non-programming context, so I don't know their competency) who were predominantly python devs, and completely noped out of them for the same reasons (and these were my friends).
There's a nursery rhyme,Sing a Song of Sixpence, which has "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie", so English wrote out numbers the same was German does.

The King James version (1605) consistently writes out numbers in this way, e.g.

Leviticus 12.4: And she shall then continue in the blood of her
purifying three and thirty days ...

Genesis 11.16: And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg ...

Genesis 11.12: And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years ...

What about more recent? In David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens, we find:

"About five-and-twenty boys were studiously engaged at their books when we went in ..."
The podcast app I use has options for that (iCatcher). Many apps will do it and will pull from RSS feeds or open podcast directories.
David Goggins is that you ? I have been exercising my entire life and running is the only activity that routinely gives me injuries that last for nearly a year. Most of us probably don't have the best form but watching Goggins get his knees drained last year made me question if humans were meant to run regularly past a certain distance and past a certain age.
For reading books, I'd rather go for an Android based device that features a more potent reader app that allows you to set bookmarks and to more easily jump around in big books. It works very well for reading papers and well structured books that don't ask you to look back x pages all the time.
Pornography Is Boring
Covid too generally produces mild symptoms, but sometimes kills.
Third vote of support for BBM. I went to comment them as a resource before finding your post.
Not sure if that's the right way to look at it. Formula One, back then, was much less afe than today. They pushed the limits, technical, and Senna pushed them as a driver. Both knew what they gor thselves into. It was a tragic accident, not more and not less.
I wish we just said 'ten-four' etc. instead of 'fourteen' which sounds almost exactly like 'fourty'. Especially over the phone someone could easily mistake one for the other