skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't usually bother to complain about ads, but this site is really atrocious. It auto-played me 6 ads (including the same one several times) before playing the video (that I'm not interested in anyway). Then it keeps following me around as I scroll through the ad infested article. Someone somewhere should be shot.
> the people i met in the MW were way nicer than the people i knew from the east coast or west coast.

The people i met were way more polite than people elsewhere. Thats what nice meant.

> it seems like a great place to be...

It seems to be a place that is rewarding to be in and will make you happy (if you fit in and want their cultural norms). Normal in this context = Want a quaint middle class hetero nuclear white-picket-fence american-dream style life and you're also polite and friendly just like those around you. Many people want that, especially "all american" people who grew up (white, middleclass, american) with that experience themselves (and american propoganda). No bigotry implied... thats not everyones experience, but its probably the "normal" for a native Midwesterner (from my time there).
I'm very curious if anyone knows of any software that does the opposite, i.e. running an arbitrary command on my computer when I tap a button on my phone.
You must understand that people have not liked SF for a long time -- at least five years if not further -- and feel "stuck" there for career reasons.

The pandemic has made a lot of things (everything?) about the city much worse while opening up an avenue to leave. Thus, many people have taken it.

As they're leaving behind a network, a likely fractured group of friends, and a never ending lockdown threat, it's created complicated feelings.
Annoyance, probably. My question is, why do websites play sounds by default? Specifically, when I'm in a zoom meeting and a company-wide email goes out, I tend to hear three or more echoes of the Outlook notification sound.
Monitoring is part of the toolset ;)

Perhaps it's a good time to mention that I've implemented health checks for a lot of applications.

It returns healthy when everything is okay ( eg. Select 1; on the db) and unhealthy when something is off ( eg. Hard drive 80% occupied, CPU at 80% or memory at 85% ) and returns failure when....

If could be just a library in nodejs and adding an endpoint.
I grew up pretty close to Chicago and folks in California still call me "corn boy".
It's substantially the same story, no? and even reports on the big HN thread that took place about this.
if history is any guide then the future archeologists looking at the content of our internet will conclude that we're living in matriarchate these days (with Pamela Anderson interpreted along the lines of "religious figures,[5] an expression of health and fertility, grandmother goddesses") like the today's scientists conclude that about past societies upon finding this Venus figurines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurine

Or like for example another interpretation there produced by scientists who seem to have never seen that Kim Kardashian Instagram post :)

"It has been suggested that they may be a sign of an earlier prevalence of steatopygia, now associated principally to women of certain African or Andamanese ancestry. However the Venuses do not qualify as steatopygian, since they exhibit an angle of approximately 120 degrees between the back and the buttocks, while steatopygia is diagnosed by modern medical standards at an angle of about 90 degrees only.[21]"
Direct voluntary control of pupil constriction and dilation
That is a really good point (screwed up my throwaway account - this is OP)
Clearly you don't.

The merits of carbon capture technology, obviously (very much so) have nothing to do with my comment
Sheep Fever of the early 1800's - Then as now the covervenge of global events, innovation in biology, inventions of new technologies, and international competition in trade acted as the catalyst for major changes in the allocation of scarce resources.
how did you find btc via rs?
I upvoted this comment, since it's important to retain a skeptical perspective, anywhere. Reading psychology is very liberating as it can be an immense help in understanding your personal experiences, but it can also become a vessel for projecting your preconceptions on those around you. Labeling others with mental disorders is also a way to dehumanize them and certainly not a healthy way to engage with the world. In the end, psychological labels are just shortcuts that help pattern the world in the absence of real understanding.
>Moreover, machine language executables must continue to work across evolution of the architecture family. The way a new Intel processor is today has as much to do with C compilers as it does with the need for someone out there to run MS-DOS or Windows 95.

Apologies, but I think this belief that compatibility must be maintained is false. Apple has made three incompatible binary architecture transitions and dealt with the issues via emulation. Each time, the performance gains from the new architecture have masked the inefficiencies of the emulation layer until applications could be rebuilt. It just takes a willingness to say no to legacy compatibility. Microsoft is finally trying to take a similar step with WinARM. I suspect the x86 architecture will get relegated to the dust bin within a few more years. The instruction set is just too polluted and chaotic at this point. As an example, the Apple M1 instruction decoder is much wider than x86 and part of why that was practical to implement in a power efficient way is that the M1 instruction set is much less variable in length.
>"On the one hand, I think any rational individual would acknowledge that privilege has made for a rigged system. But on the other hand, in the spirit of deconstructing those imbalances, we’ve dismantled upward mobility for everyone — not just the underprivileged.

Instead of a definition of equity that raises the floor (a rising tide floats all boats), we’ve adopted a definition that institutes a ceiling on achievement:"

Despite repeating the "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" motto literally ten times, it should be noted that upwards mobility is highest precisely in countries that implement policies the author laments (a phenomenon known as the 'Great Gatsby Curve' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gatsby_curve#/media/File...).

The explanation is fairly straight-forward and intuitive, shorter ladders are easier to climb.
Tesla Model Y outperforms Model 3 in IIHS crash safety tests
You can build a more expensive a nuclear reactor to quickly adjust power output across a wide range just look at nuclear subs. You can’t however do that and meet close to 100% of annual demand by keeping average power output below 50% and sell electricity at under 25c/kWh without truly monumental subsides.

That’s why nuclear isn’t load following in practice. Sure you can build reactors that occasionally dip few a few hours each night without breaking the bank, but something else needs to be covering your daily peak demand let alone extreme demand.

PS: The more expensive bit relates to both design changes to deal with reactor poisoning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_poison) etc and thus construction cost increased alongside increased maintenance costs due to increased thermal cycling etc.
The worst part of these major vulnerabilities is the endless follow-on stream of knee-jerk 'CVE' that are clearly nothing-burgers, and yet will be described as a 'new Log4j' vulnerability, and cause a bunch of people who don't know better to panic.
The other problem is people not capitalizing abbreviations as they should. You see even major news organizations doing it. The entire nation of Great Britain appears to think there's a space agency called "Nasa." Ignorant AF.
Will it always be 8? Or will it vary?
I think we all agree that Axie is not a fun game. There are other games with millions of users that are actually fun and play to earn.
Whats the scam? The insurance company was hired to provide insurance for the other driver. By all accounts they did so. If the other driver had no insurance, your options would have been the same: hope they pay out of good will, or sue them.

The public policy motivation for liability insurance is to protect the lawsuit route. If you sue an uninsured driver and win, you might not be able to collect (getting blood from a stone). But if they have liability insurance you can collect on a judgement.

You choose to drive with only liabilty insurance, and are upset that insurance didn't cover an accident when you had no liability.
... Overland Park is 82% White[0]. It's one of the wealthiest white suburbs of Kansas City, and has been for decades.

I appreciate your experience is different than the statistics, but it's quite literally less diverse than the US as a whole, and less than Minneapolis and many other midwestern cities.

[0]: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/overlandparkcitykansas
The bay area seems to have combined the pernicious conservatism of aging "liberals", the worst of leftist politics, and the bizarre, culturally illiterate excesses of SV tech and grind culture into a noxious stew I'm surprised anybody can tolerate for any length of time.
Yeah, that's a factor too. The actuaries had way better salary trajectories than the programmers we worked with when I was at an insurance company in the Midwest.
An Olympic swimming pool is 50m x 25m at a depth of 2m, so an area of 1250 square meters. The continental US is 8,080,464,252,719 square meters, so it would take 6,464,371,402 Olympic swimming pools to cover the continental US. Stacking Olympic swimming pools in layers it would take about 37 layers swimming pools to cover the US with 240 billion Olympic-sized swimming pools.

So the volume of water is enough to cover the continental US with water to a depth of 75 meters if I did my math correct. And that second zone, three times larger, could cover the Continental US to a depth of 225 meters.
No gameplay balancing by design sounds terrible. Release one bad overpowered item or spell and the game is forever ruined.
Coming from a Southern US state, I expected that the Bay Area would be more egalitarian given the language. Instead, I've found that it's more like an idea incubator setup by generational wealth that people need to leave if they can't become nouveau riche before they want to build a family. Even when you win the lottery, your reward is living the same type of life in CA that you could in 45 other US states without pushing yourself. 1849 Gold Rush. Same as it ever was.
I am sure audits could help Age either way. :) I am just saying that it is still fresh as opposed to GnuPG. This is what people typically call "battle-tested", when the software has been used by a zillion of people for some time. Of course I cannot speak about Age much, this is the first time I heard about it.
Imagine if you had the option of buying a piece of gold or a piece of land with good irrigation and good soil. You can plant vegetables on the land and sell those vegetables for other people to eat. Therefor your investment is generating profit and "cashflow". Gold on the other hand just sits there, and you may want to keep it in a safe at a bank and the bank will charge you a fee for storage making it negative cashflow.

The price of gold or land or BTC can go UP or Down, but that depends on market demand of that asset. The nice thing about owning the farm is that even if the value of land goes down you can still sell your vegetables or eat them to stay alive.
I lived in alameda for 1 year in 2010. Hated the whole Bay Area and left as soon as I could. For me it was just personal preference.
Regardless of what the map is about, the statement "poop on the streets is very common in San Francisco" is both about human and dog poop. The frequency with which people encounter human poop on the sidewalk in SF is very, very abnormal, even if dog poop is more frequent. One of my best friends owns a house on a street which is not a bad part of town by any means (both sides of the street are lined with immaculately-kept victorians that zillow thinks are worth $3+ million) and he has to clean human poop off of his own sidewalk about once a month.
Serverless Land
Not to mention that automatic logins isn't just a perk, it's a security feature. Your password manager will not mistake leg1t-website.com for legit-website.com and type in your password into a phishing site because it just woke up.
Well, public schools are still free everywhere. And in state public universities are still fairly affordable - the one in my hometown offers $1k tuition for the year now.
> something as routine and boring as moving cities

How many times in a life do you move across the country with a spouse? I wouldn't call that routine, you need to ensure both of you can find new jobs etc, and likely they are thinking about their future kids and where they should be brought up. When you move on your own, sure, but the more things you add to your life the harder it gets.
I'm satisfied. I've never had any trouble getting either auto or health insurance to pay out, and I've been a customer for 35 years.

As for title insurance, there's no way I'd buy a house for cash without title insurance to make sure I'll actually own it, and I don't blame the banks for insisting on the same.
Cities have a bad rap, but they're actually the safest, most eco friendly, most productive, most opportunity filled and healthiest places to live...
Most offer letters in the US have a line that includes "other duties as required" or similar. Job descriptions are generally extremely broad.
Most people have friends and family so uprooting oneself from a community and moving to another city is actually a big deal. It’s a very cynical take to dismiss their complaints about a place they probably once loved as clickbait.
NFT Pokémon actually sounds like a cool use of blockchain. However the game seems to focus more on the get rich aspect than the actual gameplay.
There's something particularly exciting about Detroit that's hard to put my finger on, especially the last few years of development in the Midtown area. Something about all of the lovely art deco architecture slowly being re-occupied and revitalized by tech/retail/restaurants makes it an incredibly interesting time and place to be around.
my apologies, I specified coastal cities in an edit, since my original phrasing mentioned only the coast in general.
I tend to agree.

There’s certainly valid reasons for wanting to move away. But these posts aren’t really saying anything new, they tend to feed off of each other creating an online impression of SF as some kind of hellhole.
> HMs in small companies, maybe, in big companies , they don't care, they are paid to bring talent in,

You're confusing recruiters for line managers. HM == Hiring Manager == the person who's trying to build a team to accomplish a project, and at large companies most likely a multi-year roadmap.

They absolutely care about people staying a long time - it is expensive to train people on the internals of each company. At a FAANG++ company, you get your first code checked in in your first week, but it takes a YEAR to be truly productive where you are fully autonomous, and have paid off the initial ramp-up period.

> I have seen your other comments along the same line, is mostly wrong, at least here in the US, is always business

According to you. Not everyone's focus is 100% financial-based. Do I want to maximize my earning potential? Of course. But work is also 1/3 of my life. Another 1/3 is sleep. They money is for the last 3rd. So is my entire focus on 1/3 of my life to make the other waking 3rd to be as lucrative as possible? I think that's one way to approach it, but I think that's extremely short-sighted and unfulfilling.

I want my work to be meaningful, challenging, interesting, and impactful. At this point in my career I can control all this by finding workplaces, coworkers, and projects that match my skillset and my impact, and I can realize this. This means committing to multi-year plans to achieve something significant. (In the olden days we would have called this a "legacy", and I suppose that's still appropriate to some degree, though I don't expect to get a plaque on a bridge for it).

I think a lot of people are in the same boat as me. It's also part of the hacker and startup ethos - to make an actual dent in the universe.

Your attitude is very cynical, and while I agree with you that you don't owe anything to the capitalist system that is cynical about using you, that doesn't mean seeking money is the only way.

> lots of companies don't have enough "senior positions" or all the next level positions are covered

Absolutely not true. All the FAANG++ companies do promotions based on accomplishments and achievements, not a quota of budget or availability of folks at the next level.

> Also, managers see people who are afraid to leave, or "loyal" to the company as people then can squeeze more work out of.

Not the case. These managers exist, but they're not the majority. Most people who go into management genuinely care about people, and are interested in developing them. They'd like to reward loyalty. Unfortunately the aforementioned capitalist system does not permit this, but on an individual level managers are human beings with usually more empathy than IC's (out of necessity).

> "Anything big" like what?

A major software project that takes a team of people several years to accomplish.
It sounds like you were just cheap, didn't want to purchase comprehensive coverage, then that came back to bite you. This sucks, but is hardly a scam. Even worse, it sounds like you even understood what comprehensive coverage does (cover 1st party physical damage regardless of situation), and consciously chose not to buy it, assuming that anything that would possibly happen to the vehicle would be someone else's fault. Terrible assumption on a cross country road trip. You would have been equally fucked if you hit a deer, spun out in a rain storm and hit a median, popped a tire and ran into a ditch, etc.
Yes this is true. I realize my comment had the wrong tenor in that the actual exams matter less than just having rigorous courses. Not everyone should be a doctor or a physical therapist or a software engineer and it's common nowadays to credential so that some institution can make money.
I used to work at one of these as it was being thought up - boots on the ground so to speak, straight out high school. Both my father and grandfather were union pipefitters, welders.

They mixed the coal with asphalt in a big ole mixer. Bulldozers push coal into a hopper, conveyors take the coal up a few stories and it falls down a Shute and gets mixed with asphalt prior to being burned in the coal fired steam plant. We had four large towers of asphalt holding tanks, they had to be climbed regularly to check to make sure we didn’t overflow them while pumping off tankers.

I don’t know how this is supposed to reduce CO2 emissions or how to capture it on the back end, but that’s the beginning stage of making coal more environmentally friendly.

You mix the coal with something else and have to create an entirely new mountain pile of mixed coal and you burn that. The logistics of mixing coal with asphalt - not so easy.

I read the GAO 33 page report to make sure my local power company is listed, yep. Southern Company shut down the operation. They’ve had DOE signs at the entrance for 20 years at least.
Laptops didn’t shrink to such a tiny part of Apple’s revenue because of poor performance, Apple is at its core a consumer electronics company, and the paradigm for what devices consumers mainly use shifted with the times.
This would use FCM controlled by you, correct?
Best open source 3D printers 2021 (with links to designs)
Reminds me of all the Trotskyists who say Communism has never been discredited because no true Communist regime ever existed, only forms of State Capitalism. Why oh why has no actual ASN.1 parser ever hewed to the self-evident Platonic ideal of machine-generated purity?
Oh yes I'm aware of our racist, ageist, and elitist city council, but it's mostly a reflection of the population. Only 12% of Apple employees actually live here. Although it's changing as the old people die and the only people who can afford their houses are current tech workers, but sadly, most of those current tech workers either don't vote or can't vote (lots of immigrants).

This city would be a lot different if we granted the right to vote to all of our resident non-citizens, which I think we absolutely should do. They live here and pay taxes. They should have a voice.
Flashback #10: Thinking Outside the Black Box
Isn't it common for SUVs to outperform sedans on IIHS crash tests?
As a recent (~6 years) newcomer from the poor parts of Europe ... eh it's fine.

Yes it would be nice if people cared more about doing good than being seen to talk about caring about the correct things, but I can't imagine any other place in the world where I could've grown my personal wealth from zero to "As much as my parents did in a lifetime" in 6 years. Whether that's because of or in spite of the environment I don't know, but it sure wasn't happening back home.

That said, would be nice if all the friends I made in the past few years stopped salmoning and stayed in the city. You don't have to move back out to the burbs just because it's family time. Cities are a strictly superior place to live (imo) and being exposed to the riffraff is a feature, not a bug.

edit: There is research that says mixed income neighborhoods are the fastest way to lowering crime, lifting kids out of poverty, and improving life outcomes for all.

https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/27116/...
:| Moving is not routine and it is not boring. It's stressful and expensive as hell. I wouldn't describe "we have to get the hell out of here" and "throw all your things in trash bags and transport it in 24 hours" as boring, but more as "I hope I don't have to do this again because it's definitely going to shed some years off my life."
1. Stick with DDR4 systems, DDR3 are much slower.
2. Used to have both 1U and 2U servers at home, as people mentioned they are pretty loud, try to avoid
3. Regular commodity tower case with slots for 120 fans is best in terms of loudness/cooling capabilities
4. Try build something on commodity hardware pieces - would be easier to sell it away once you want to get rid of it.
Hah. If it was 2014, I was probably at that fair.

I was ignorant of Palantir at the time, but I wonder now if the lines/excitement were because they were the "cool" (read with dripping sarcasm) defense contractor among the stodgy ones (LM, Raytheon, and all the other beltway bandits).

I don't recall an Apple booth, but I do remember a Google one. IIRC, they were off in a corner.
This is actually a FAQ:

http://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/FAQ-estrange...
I can't pay my hydro bills with shares of a private company either or japanese yen either, it doesn't mean those things have no intrinsic value.
> As they're leaving behind a network, a likely fractured group of friends

I'm not sure how exactly to say this, but I imagine it's a lot less worse for us than it could be if we worked in many other professions. I get the impressive that relative to a lot of careers and industries, our network and even friend group in many cases is much more global by nature.

Of course, you can't go throw a frisbee with your online friends, so they'll have to find new people to do those things with. I guess I'm just trying to say that if there's any demographic that could keep in touch if they want to, I get the impression that we're it.
Why are tech companies are buying media arms?
The knitting thing just doesn't add up at all even if it's kind of clever. Why would you make it from bronze? Why don't you find orders of magnitude more of these made from wood? Why would someone want to be buried with a knitting jig?
Do you want someone who is "self insuring" to crash into you?