skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just moved to Oakland (Lakeside area) from Tennessee, and it was purely voluntary. My job is remote-first, but the office is in SF. I'd been working remotely for the last 4 years in TN, and I was sick of it. Now I'm really enjoying life in Oakland and the Bay Area. Locals keep telling me it's a shell of what it was pre-pandemic, but the pandemic is (hopefully) a temporary state. It will be interesting to see where things go when everything normalizes again.
yeah, no... most europeans make fun of the radical leftists you tend to find in the Bay Area when they encounter them.
The first amendment does apply to companies. As in they have the right to not associate with you for any reason. However, there are plenty of cases where that right has been taken from them when their services have been deemed so necessary that they must do business with the general public. e.g. the electric company can't cut you off if they don't like your politics. And until recently we had net neutrality. There is no reason that a platform neutrality policy couldn't be legislated in the same manner without violating the constitution.
I'm from the Bay Area and have lived in Oakland for the last 6 years (lived in SF for 11) and from my perspective it's great here. Not without it's problems and very expensive compared to other cities. The only other places I've ever lived were north TX, MT, and central CA, but I've extensively traveled the US for work and holidays.

My entire career (since 2005) has been in tech and mostly at startups. The bay area is done has been a trope my entire life. What I've noticed in my adult life and as a professional is that people move here regularly, but there is also a bit of a hype cycle that draws and repels people. I also see a whole lot of people that come here to get rich and get jaded pretty fast when they don't while having to pay a whole bunch more than if they lived elsewhere. I have a great group of friends that are mostly from other places around the world and I think some of them are here to stay, but inevitably some will leave. I don't think this is specific to the bay though.
I have to say it is always a pleasure to read this kind of reports by Backblaze, they are written in a very clear and simple language and their findings are usually explained in detail and without any form of condescending/arrogance.

And from time to time they contain memorable sentences, like this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24200360
Sagas are definitely what OP should look into here. Quite frankly, transactions are a bit of a fools errand beyond a certain scale, yet are still treated with some absolute purity from the days of Cobb. If you have multiple changes that need to be made, the "all or nothing" approach makes it really simple to deal with and manage.

Sagas are about recognizing the individual changes that are necessary, and dealing with the success or failure of them at a higher level. This is complicated though as the developer and the business now need to have a specific conversation around what happens if A succeeds and B fails? Does A need to get "rolled back"? Does B need to be retried? Does C need to wait until B succeeds before proceeding? That all brings in a level of complexity and the only answer is to manage and use the appropriate patterns and tools to do so. Wanting to go back to a land where you can just wrap it all in a transaction so that you get one nice boolean indicating success at the end is quite frankly just naïve. The real world doesn't work like that.
> but it was also 4 weeks between doses instead of 3.

YMMV. The UK gave out AZ and Pfizer. First at a 12 week interval, then shortened to 8 weeks.
Well as a society we are super screwed if some event wipes out the internet or computers. The dependence is gonna keep increasing. I wonder when we'll hearing stories about Amazon servers shut downs inadvertently killing some people.
Absolutely not, the delineation is dead simple. If someone else gets an obligation because of my right it's not a right.

My right to own a gun, have free speech, against self incriminating, or against unlawful search and seizure require Absolutely no action on any person's part but mine besides the court to uphold them (which is true of all systems of rights. Having a court does not negate any of this).

The people who wrote the bill of rights were very aware of this delineation because they stayed exclusively on one side of it.

So you can disagree but to say the idea simply doesn't exist is nonsense.
$125m is a like parking ticket for them
The 'T' in Tdap stands for tetanus
yeah. and believe me, i have an iMac 27 stuck with Catalina on which i can't even use my own app LMAO. but keeping Catalina (and even Big Sur) was just not worth it. lots of headaches and time spent on stuff that is gonna be deprecated anyways.
Maybe hired by a competitor to tank the company intentionally? I would not put it past many big companies to do something like that.
> 2.) What counts as a claim? Is 'the sky is blue' a claim, or is that common knowledge? We clearly wouldn't flag common knowledge because using the flag when it's not necessary deprecates the usefulness of the flag, but then who decides what counts as common knowledge, particularly across different cultures and countries?

Everything, including your example. The entire point is to discourage people from making claims.

> 3.) A common metadata way of judging someone online is through their sources. Think of many subreddits which don't allow certain 'left-wing' or 'right-wing' sources. The supporting text will be upvoted and downvoted based on the readers' idea of the source: In the politics subreddit, a NYT 'claim support' would be upvoted while a WSJ one would be downvoted. Instead of using headlines as proxys, the URL would be: "Oh, it's X. They just always lie. Don't even need to check; downvote, nobody listening to THEM could be correct."

This is a good critique, but if one were actually implementing this, you'd also need to implement some way to verify that people are actually reading the sources (which in itself is already a big annoying problem).

Your other points are also good, but ultimately this thing I'm claiming would be niche due to the friction involved. If it were to not be niche you'd want to put in effort to "validate", or in other words have "trusted" (another problem) members randomly select controversial claims and verify them manually.

I don't believe a fully algorithmic approach, even with "the crowd" can work.
I think having a mentor is essential. But a senior/lead/manager engineers ends up being sort of a mentor

I would say it is like visiting a new city, you can spend hours researching the best landmarks, attractions, events, night life, read online reviews, etc... But will probably not be better than just going with a local guide or friend. Guides offer immediate insight, right answers to the wrong questions, might share local stories/curiosities on subject. Take you to the best places, actually local and interesting, instead of the same old touristy attraction traps. Curate the visit for the time, and interests, you have. Adapt the journey to unexpected events...
You might make friends, most time better than being the lone warrior on the road to nowhere

They'll help you better guide your career. Avoid workplace traps.

Young/new people tend to focus to much on showing off. Wasting endless time fixing every small or tangent problem because they can. But with the insight of the bigger picture it is easier to focus and produce relevant work that moves the company, career, and knowledge forward
The dealership and lot model has been the case in the US for many decades - it isn't anything caused by the pandemic or anything to do with the chip shortage.
One month of Tianwen-1 remote sensing orbit
Aside from being arbitrary: Is due process a single, one-size fits all?
Right. Not only is it not complicated, it couldn't be any more simple.
Do you have any good resources on how compliers actually work ?

I imagine most of the work is in creating the complier,you could just fork the base language add enough features to it. This is a gross oversimplification, but I believe that was the original idea for c++, right?
You believe this based on what real world evidence? Or is it just your feelings?

Because if you're not using logic to take your current position then it'll be impossible to use logic to convince you otherwise and nobody should waste their time.
I'd like to know why they get these small slaps on the wrist too. $125 million for them is like a person with average wealth being fined $20.
I didn't work on the OS team, but when I worked at Apple, if I had snuck in an altruistic change without direct order/approval, I would be in trouble. I suspect there's a good chance that the higher-ups are aware of this.
That takes some skill. I was almost duped like that by someone we nearly hired for a sales position, which is much easier to fake for a few months, especially working remote.
Xenophobes are mad :

1) Because of foreigners with no work, they are thought of to 'cost money'

2) Because of foreigners with (good) work, because they are 'stealing' their jobs or have a better life

You can't win.
This is a pretty ridiculous distortion: not only is childcare not "outsourcing" of one's child's development, but it's also one of the oldest and most traditional vocations. It predates our modern economic structures by thousands of years.
> 2.) What counts as a claim? Is 'the sky is blue' a claim, or is that common knowledge? We clearly wouldn't flag common knowledge because using the flag when it's not necessary deprecates the usefulness of the flag, but then who decides what counts as common knowledge, particularly across different cultures and countries?

As a further point, what if a blog says "not a single cloud was in the sky" and subsequent facts show there was in fact one cloud in the sky - does that count as fake news?
>I guess I got what I paid for.

News flash, you won't get any better customer service from AWS or Azure, etc. (unless your dropping lots of cash). With AWS you have web forms to fill out to create a support ticket, good luck ever getting a real person on the phone.

This is all of course subject to the size of your account. Sure you can get a dedicated AWS account manager if you throw enough money around. But running one small managed k8s cluster won't cut it.
That made me laugh. I don’t know anyone who would think that is a serious article.
Their friends/communities are on it. At least, that's why I haven't uninstalled, I just aggressively unfollow/block things I don't want to see.
Perhaps I worded that a little badly. They are responsible for making sure you are getting paid, or if you get fired.
People believe they get value from the groups

This has largely replaced forums

Facebook tried to make a separate groups product for people that just want groups and not the rest of Facebook

Just like Messenger can be used without a full Facebook account

It is higher value for users than the newsfeed other social network experience, but it mostly sucks too
In some fields of engineering PE is pretty nonexistent. Some people come from other degrees (like math, physics) and call themselves engineer without difficulty. But engineering fields require a much more narrow and deep set of skills. generally the key classes to learn those skills come at the end of three or four years of prerequisite classes, so it's a pretty high barrier to starting without doing the degree.

In programming you can learn your way to advanced skills while getting paid. Once you know roughly one class worth of basics there's valuable contributions you can make, at least if you are decent at figuring things out on a computer.
CCTV captures fatal Tesla crash in Paris
Maybe my preferred endgame is just a world without global social media, then.
At-home testing- how to win
this is very exciting b/c it feels like one of the 1st language features centered around runtime debugging.

Most languages don't seem to do a lot for run-time debugging. Being able to `gdb` and step-through on a local binary is a far-cry from detailed metrics / visualizations. We end up resorting to stuff like Honeycomb, but I'm waiting for the days of a programming language built for the ground-up for runtime debugging.

Anyways, this feels like an important step in the right direction and I'm excited to try this out
Seeing as the #1 political bad actor is Dr. Anthony Fauchi. So we could start by removing him.
Why don't the mainstream actually inform people of all important facts? Them being trustworthy, will make people less inclined to believe misinformation. If you skip over important questions, these gaps will be filled with bull**ters.
> that is not influenced by any other programming related knowledge to be specified at the right abstraction level using abstractions that are easy to implement?

Why do they need to be easy to implement? We're talking about design. A lot of PL design is hard to implement. And why does it need to be programming related knowledge? We shouldn't restrict them to things that are easy to implement because then we'd restrict them to a very small subset of possible languages.

So when you say "A language they come up with is not going to be good", then I have to ask how are we measuring good? Because if you think that a teacher would not write a good programming language to write programs in, then I would probably agree with you, because writing programs is not something teachers do.

But like I said, not all programming languages are used to make programs. Most people use a programming language to do things that decidedly don't look like programming to you and I. For example a lot of developers consider Excel to be a not good language for writing programs. Programmers usually lament that Excel users would be better served by a "proper database", but they neglect to appreciate that making this change would quite literally ruin the tool for them. But there are more Excel programmers than all other developer-centric languages combined.

I think a teacher who uses Excel to to manage their classes could design a very compelling DSL for classroom automation.

> I personally do not even think a kid is going to come up with some revolutionary concept

We were talking about teachers designing the language. The children came into the picture because they would provide teachers a model for relating to the pedantic nature of computers.
What you’re saying sounds correct, but is there any evidence that shows omicron is resulting in less serious illness/death because of the vaccines? The reports seem to indicate that the overall risk profile of omicron is lower including for unvaccinated people. Are we just parroting the same fact as for the alpha/delta variants without any substantial evidence here when we say vaccination helps avoid serious illness for omicron? Why would a variant which has apparently evolved to evade the vaccine continue to react to prior vaccination? We see the opposite with flu vaccines sometimes when vaccinations prime against the wrong strain.
I lived in Austin for a while and just drove everywhere in a Nissan Titan (a pickup truck). Wasn’t bad. Quite easy to get around.
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Article makes claim X. Readers of article say it makes claims X, Y, and Z. Independent fact check puts a stamp on article saying "This doesn't say Y and Z", but to most people, who will for the same reason share an article after only reading a title or a little blurb their friend wrote, will write off the article as flawed or fake news because of the fact check stamp.

Not really sure what a good solution to this is, other than to "fact check" people's posts on facebook, as well as the links they share. So maybe this link can be shared without the fact checked stamp among epidemiologists on facebook, but Bob's anti-vaxx group may get fact check labels when they try to summarize what is in the article.
From what I understand, the immune system has some capacity to anticipate mutations. The most basic function of antibodies is to stick to and neutralize the target, in this case the spike protein that the mRNA vaccine presents to the immune system via producing some copies in muscle cells. But the immune system doesn't just produce exact form-fitting duplicate antibodies, it also has something like a biological "fuzzer" that also produces antibodies to target anticipated mutations to its main target, the spike protein. Each time this system gets stimulated, it not only makes more antibodies and more memory cells to produce them, it also runs some more anticipatory mutations. So in aggregate, hopefully the increased quantity plus maturation of these various antibody tweaks produce enough antibodies that stick well enough to the virus to incapacitate or slow it down so that the other aspects of the immune system have time to react instead of getting overwhelmed. And it makes sense to have an antibody arms race like this since viruses mutate so fast. Obviously, this doesn't always work and viruses frequently out-mutate the immune memory, but the immune system is pretty smart.

By the way, if there are any actual scientists here that spot some atrocious mistake I've made describing this, please let me know. I find it really interesting to learn about but I'm certainly no expert.
yeah, that's fine. You should call yourself a software developer (or, as I call myself, a software plumber). An software engineer, minimally IMO, is someone who can 1) produce a software BOM, and 2) can craft an SLA. I can maybe do 1, and can't do 2. So, I don't call myself a software engineer.
If misinformation cannot reliably be distinguished from truth, how can you so confidently assert that there are "coordinated efforts to deliberately misinform"?
Linux kernel design patterns – part 1
If they're accurately reproducing the behavior of the Android app, Google can't change or remove that API without breaking versions of the app that people already have installed. (And a lot of Android users will hang on to old versions of apps basically forever.)
> in fact, we know that wages in tech are quite high.

Are they? Compared to what a janitor makes or compared to what management makes? Compared to what they would be if they hadn't been held back by anti-poaching agreements in the bay area?
if you owe the bank 500,000,000,000 the bank has a problem

if you owe them 500,000,000,000,000,000 you got a value overflow error
Do you honestly even believe your own words?

Right now SF has less houses then people. Sure that could be fixed over some time but how do you enforce that right tomorrow?

If my rights only maybe eventually exist in the future, they don't sound much like rights.
> before becoming president of Purdue, Daniels was governor of Indiana. His successor in that job was Mike Pence. Daniels was also a rising star in the GOP, so he's a competent politician who got closer than most to actually dealing with international relations.

How is the governor of Indiana closer to dealing with international relations? I suspect the president of Purdue does it more, given the international nature of academia. How does Mike Pence affect Daniels' experience?

> he's using the name for an online school Purdue bought

Is that good?
Guess we are about to find out that BMJ belongs to racist disinfo right and was always disreputable source.
The problem is that it's basically impossible to know. I'd imagine the vast majority of infractions were just employees improperly communicating privileged information via Whatsapp or whatever, without gaining any real advantage by doing so.
My bet would be they're not willing to pay for the actual expertise they need. I bet the fact-checkers FB employs don't have the qualifications those of us who fact-check academic publications have; the sheer amount of information FB has to wade through tells me that they need a lot of people, and I have an inkling that they would really resist paying for non-tech expertise that doesn't immediately lead to $$$$.

I also wouldn't be surprised if there were perverse incentives for the fact-checkers: Some claims take longer than others to evaluate, but I bet they're on some sort of metric based system. Or that 'I don't know' or 'it's unverifiable' aren't good enough answers even though that happens.

I also don't know if FB could GET that expertise at this point: I view big tech more kindly than most information specialists I know and I wouldn't work for FB even for six-figures.
> I don't think the high-level people would really know that these changes even existed...

if anyone on the outside knows, then Federighi (sp?) and insiders know and approved publishing with visibility?
This does not deserve to be downvoted. A degree is secondary to actual talent. Too many students in my graduating class were undeserving of their degree, and plenty of folks can do the job without it.
Moved here 6 months ago. Lot of what you read is hyperbole. Truth is always somewhere in the middle. Bay Area can be amazing or horrible depending on where you live, where you work and how much you earn. There are some areas where I don't want to go but there are a lot more areas that are thriving, full of friendly people with great communities.

Yes, it is expensive - that is very true. Yes, taxes are high. But despite those, there is no lack of people moving here so there must be something right, right?

I have lived in 6 states in the US and 5 countries globally including most that people throw out as alternatives to the Bay Area. In my experience, Bay Area has the highest concentration of smartest and open minded people that I have come across. You want to build something? Bay Area energizes you because everyone will be encouraging and ready to help. Weather is nice. There are plenty of gorgeous places to visit, within the area and even more with a short drive.

However, I'll repeat - it is expensive! This is the most expensive place I have lived. We are a dual income household and money is less important than it used to be so for us it is totally worth it. Some years ago, we probably couldn't afford to live here.

There are two kinds of people I am seeing moving to the Bay Area - 1) high earners that can afford it and 2) those early in their careers who don't mind living in a less than optimal situation and moving here gives them a wage bump .

By large, the people moving away are those with average to good incomes who have kids and can't afford the lifestyle that they want. In the end, it comes down to what you value more. In the Bay Area, one thing you do NOT get is value for money. Will we be here long term? Who know but right now, I am in love with this place.
Don't think of it as a top-down conspiracy. Think of it as an alignment of perverse incentives.

New variant comes out, CDC is pressed to propose a solution. Pharma companies come in and say "here's a study we did ourselves showing that our own product provides some improvement." CDC recommends pharma product for lack of any better ideas.

You can reasonably imagine getting this result whether or not the booster actually provides more than a marginal improvement.
Notches Gone Wild
As I harped on in the AWS outage, when you combine this fact with the disruption of Stack Ranking/forced attrition, how does this lend itself to long term stability for something that is approaching utility-level importance for the economy?

Utility companies are staid and boring. That's a GOOD thing.

If AWS doesn't restructure, then what does it do? Re-re-reimplement all the internal bespoke systems that run AWS? Doesn't matter, their employees will turn over and the bitrot in those systems is about, what, four years?

Man I hope they are good at microservices!
When they are wasting time fact checking satire and also censoring facts from renowned medical journals, it points to some failure in the system occurring.
> As a further point, what if a blog says "not a single cloud was in the sky" and subsequent facts show there was in fact one cloud in the sky - does that count as fake news?

I wouldn't say it's "fake news", but it would be a claim that would be deleted, yes.
I think this practice is widespread in finance.
I'll not be surprised if other firms get fined next!