skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did you witness lgbtq or people of certain skin colors being run out of town or receiving some sort of prejudice?

Yes. "Prejudice" is a very polite way of describing the treatment i've seen such people experience.

> Are you upset that a specific skin color of people decided to migrate to the Midwest?

No, people can move where ever they want. Its a warning to those people that they may not have the positive experience others had. See point on prejudice.

> due to their specific skin color and life choices they want people with different lifestyles to not enjoy prosperity?

1. StraightWhiteNormal are not life choices.

2. People who are different may not enjoy or be afforded the same experience. See point on prejudice.

3. "Enjoy Prosperity" is very loaded. Not everyone finds that implied life prosperous.
One of my engineering friends devoted a large portion of his life studying the dodecahedron. He believed it was used as a "fluid scanner" to measure the displacement of 3d objects using water.

https://www.eeweb.com/interview-with-john-ladd/
Oh ok so if I were to say San Francisco might be livable "if you're gay and black and "abnormal" this would be acceptable?
CVE doesn’t have much credibility at this point as far as I’m concerned. It can mean anything.
> This is an inspiring series of writing.

Check out his other writing, too, like the "Rebuilding the Spellchecker" series: https://zverok.github.io/spellchecker.html. And "Wikipedia as the Datasource": https://zverok.github.io/blog/2021-11-30-irregular1.html
Moving cities is not boring.
One method which helps reinforce a States existence, is to define action, like in this case, https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/14230159990754959...
We have michelle tandler saying all females have been assaulted.

The beauty of words and law is they can be incredibly absolute and incredibly vague, so people can project their feelings into this domain and then go to the state to justify its existence. Its just another form of religion in a way and no doubt uses the same techniques religion uses.

Plus how many sock puppets exist, has anyone every met anyone featured in the news and witnessed this sort of crime, or is social media an amplifying echo chamber?

Who would have thought AI on social media could be such expert trolls?
Ok, we've debaffled the title above. Let's stick to the topic now please!
> I also pay for pet insurance. Again, not required to have it but when I considered cancelling and self-insuring I filed a claim and was immediately paid out hassle free. That convinced me to keep it.

Don't get rid of it, the cost of healthcare for pets is quickly reaching the cost of healthcare for humans.
Is this Peter Pan? If you just believe in the power of BTC it will never go down in value?
I believe these dodecahedrons come in a whole variety of sizes, and aren't particularly consistent (i.e. there's not 3 standard sizes, just a whole range). That undermines a lot of potential explanations.
Agreed. Anecdotal evidence coming from a suburb of a large city says absolutely nothing about diversity living in the rest of the US.
ok I thought parent comment meant to say it only changes your private maps, not for everyone. I see what you mean
According to TFA, it's about 10-20% of engineers, and only on certain teams. So this isn't really that significant, all things considered.
Identity that solves Zooko's Triangle, Censorship Resistant Storage, P2P/Decentralization (separate from blockchain), alternative funding models for all kinds of SaaS and Open Source projects.

Look it up yourself, or don't.
This article quotes `Twitter users` too much. Twitter users are not representative of the populace at large all too often.

The interspaced boxes with emojis make the text harder to read.

"I think it’s now officially more inconvenient to live in San Francisco or Oakland than when I lived in Chennai or Bombay growing up." - I definitely don't think this is a fair assessment objectively.
> Most app server configuration files allow you to load and run arbitrary code

I do not understand this. Configuration files allow you to load and run arbitrary code? Is this actually a thing? What are they using for configuration files?! Tcl?
Take a city like Columbus, Ohio. Home ownership is relatively cheap and easy, school are great, healthcare is no more messy than the average in the US. Crime is negligible, it's clean, has tons of great restaurants, good sports, very cool and unique neighborhoods with easy access to everywhere else. There are so many cities like that around the US that people on the coasts seem almost blind to.

The main downside is winter but aside from that it's a pretty great area. Especially on a tech salary. People say, "Yeah but... Ohio". To which I say, they really, acutely and deeply don't know what they are talking about.
https://podman.io/getting-started/network

> By definition, all containers in the same Podman pod share the same network namespace. Therefore, the containers will share the IP Address, MAC Addresses and port mappings. You can always communicate between containers in the same pod, using localhost.

I'm a noob here but why wouldn't you use IPC?

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-run.1.html#...
>Not on Discord

Ah ok that makes sense....not
I am from Indianapolis and regularly have people not know anything about it so I dont find this to be an exaggeration. The anecdotes really ring true for me so sounds like you arent from the midwest.
One of the ringleaders of this sort of stuff on Twitter posted a screenshot of one of her tweets being seen a million times and remarked that she never got engagement like that before she started tweeting about how terrible SF is. It didn't stay up long; I think she realized she was giving away the game.
Isn't this dramatically over-engineered though? Here's what they use today: https://static-numista.com/forum/images/58fa1df58e689.jpg
I do. I treat them as a kind of cache and use pass as my password master.
That could also be based on a difference of expectations in skills for a job family at Google vs. Amazon.

An Amazon Sr. SDE (L6) is expected to have strong leadership skills, which means interpersonal tech lead abilities - including mentorship of others, communication with stakeholders, etc.

This person may not have had the abilities or interest in having this so they went to Google which seems to focus exclusively on leetcode-esque abilities. (My data is ~5 years stale, but I interviewed with Google a few years back and didn't get a SINGLE "behavioural" interview question, or anything about my prior experience. It was 100% "solve this problem on a whiteboard").
Could someone describe what this collection is? Is it a museum?
Holy moly, how was that ever a good idea. Just like routers being able to be configured via the manufacturer's website, config by someone other than you seems like a big red flag
Ultimately the root cause of SFs problems (and Bay Area in general) is lack of housing. It’s a city that should be as dense (or more) than NYC considering the amount of economic activity it generates, but the existing landed Gentry has opposed any and all measures to remedy the situation since the status quo increases their wealth.

If SF built enough housing, it would mostly solve the homelessness crisis, but also generate even more tax revenue for investing in better social services, transit etc. As a resident, it feels like a lost opportunity: the pandemic has made remote work common and fewer people will want to move to the SF in the future.
I feel like the young, single person's American dream is still alive and well in SF. If you're willing and able to bend your life around work, there are few better places to do it.

And for those with families, especially those with young children, I think life is pretty hard right now, just about everywhere.
I’m a big ol’ hippie but one sticking point I always have with my friends is that to have upward mobility there must also be the chance for downward mobility. There can be no success without a chance for failure. And I don’t mean this in a zero-sum sort of way.

Ideally every person would be able to invest in themselves and their community to the fullest extent. Teach themselves and others new skills, start their own business, sell themselves and their talents to others, and create a robust ecosystem of success and opportunity at scales ranging from the individual to the mega-corporation. I dream of a culture (both interpersonal and governmental) that strives for such an ideal.

In practice this does not happen though because it is a lot of work, not all people are able, not all people are willing, not all people are as open, sinscere, and imaginative, “the system” is not really favorable to being so self-starting, and the reality is that most available jobs are awful and it is very hard to have such a clear and vivid imagining of one’s own future when bogged down by a series of dead-end line cook jobs.

When I see things like the anti-work meme/movement I get where it’s coming from, but I also wonder what such a person would do once their goal of anti-work is achieved.
It's always 80°F inside my jacket. Like the saying goes, "no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing."
Discussed at the time:

LuaTeX Comes of Age - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15146300 - Sept 2017 (28 comments)
Yeah, I just hit 4YOE. Been working mostly with early stage companies and learning a lot, but it's time to buy a house and lever up - hence time to enter the leetcode gulag for a while and earnestly see if I can pass a FAANG interview screen.
Native-born Californians are a minority of San Francisco's residents. Most people who are leaving are more likely relatively recent migrants to the Bay Area following the tech boom; social connections for these people do not run particularly deep in the city.
The joke there is that every driver in the US still needs to carry uninsured driver insurance because so many don't have any and there are no checks. And of course the coverage minimums are utterly laughable; put a kid in a wheelchair and you are looking at many many millions of damage, $100k isn't gonna cut it.
I used to use Keepass + syncthing. But I switched to Bitwarden and haven't looked back. You can selfhost your own Bitwarden server if you're extra paranoid.
I’ve spent years doing engineering work in both Silicon Valley and the Twin Cities and the anecdotes are apt. This take on Minnesota life (and peoples’ reaction to it) is spot on.

It was hard for me and my partner to get over the passive aggressiveness and silent racism so we left the Twin Cities but it still sure as hell beat living in Bay Area from a quality of life standpoint.
https://twitter.com/nas_bench/status/1475940057924222977?s=2...
Author spends a lot of time discussing the social contract and then laments an elected official calling out a billionaire for disobeying a public health mandate during a world historic pandemic to reopen a factory.
The comments talking about the amount not being enough etc is what I really hate about this place. The amount of money referenced can be life changing for a lot of people and even the concept of getting a bonus for many people is just not part of their reality. If you don’t keep your feet, this place can very easily make the ordinary developer feel like they’re doing something wrong in their career and question why they also aren’t earning exorbitant amounts of money. Not that I’m projecting!
I second Bazel. People keep on mentioning how steep the learning curve is, but the conceptual model is really simple, elegant, and intuitive.

What is steep is the technical know-hows:

1. When things don't work as expected. For example, while it worked flawlessly with languages that it natively support such as Java, that wasn't the case for other languages such as Javascript or Python.

2. When you have to do something advanced such as building custom Bazel rule. You'll need to understand Bazel internals and unfortunately the documentation isn't very intuitive and also somewhat sparse.
Yup, the political train-wreck is what caused the Bay Area issues.
For one, I'm not using `podman`. I'm using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on top of the Fargate compute layer, so I don't have to manage much beyond my application.
>airlines hire essentially customer service reps to face the brunt of people's anger while the company changes nothing to prevent the problems is a classic corporate strategy.

I'm sure airlines do a lot behind the scenes to make sure they don't lose their luggage. Even if they didn't, I don't see why a worker co-op wouldn't have the exact same incentives.
I meant SSE registers but (typically) scalar instructions. That is, a 64 bit op is always executed with 64-bit arguments and no risk of extended precision sneaking in. The .NET Jit has that guarantee on x64.

> Using different optimizations ('Debug'/-O0 versus 'Release'/-O3 mode) will possibly produce different results, unless you are very careful.

Yes. But .NET I think is much more predictable in that case as I don’t observe differences from optimization either. Having a spec and a decent memory model and no undefined behavior makes the compiler worse at optimizing things but better at consistency I guess. If the language spec strictly defines what math operators do and prevents reordering and similar, then there isn’t much outside transcendental functions that can go wrong. On 32bit .NET this did go wrong because whether or not something was in an 80bit x87 register or spilled to a 64 bit memory value seemed to depend on the moon phase. Those were bad times.

> If you want results to be reproducible across different CPU architectures (x86, arm64 etc) one option is using fixed-point arithmetic.

Luckily I never had that need. .NET (C#), x86-64, Windows. In that target, things look extremely stable now.

Step outside into 32bit or non-windows or C/C++ or even non x86 then all bets are off obviously.
I guess I'll volunteer to be the sacrificial ... thing.

I have no idea where Minneapolis is. In fact, I know you just said the state, but I already forgot. (I'm going out of my way not to read it while typing.)

Okay, I remembered it was in Indiana. And Indiana is to the right of Illinois. That's pretty much the extent of my knowledge of Minneapolis.

I live in Missouri.

</shame>

Oh god, I had this nagging feeling before posting this comment, so I went and looked it up. Not only did you not say the state (it was the article), but Minneapolis is in Minnesota, not Indiana.

... And I don't know where Minnesota is. At all.

The final nail in my coffin is that apparently the article starts with an image of precisely where Minneapolis is. I didn't consciously recognize it.

Okay, I figured out why I thought it was Indiana. My knowledge of U.S. Geography comes from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSvJ9SN8THE&ab_channel=BillS... and "Indianapolis" rhymes with "Minneapolis". I'm not sure whether to feel better or worse.
Correct! https://twitter.com/nas_bench/status/1475940057924222977?s=2...
Distributed systems were already a thing in early 1990's timesharing systems, Sun used to have "The network is the computer" slogan for a reason.
Health insurance is a terrible product because it is usually not insurance at all.

If you are an alcoholic with a history of OWI/DUIs and you have a pre-existing car accident and no job, no one expects you to get free car insurance paid for by the government that will fix your already damaged car and make sure you can drive again as a human right.

In Healthcare, we assume that product should exist and we demand that it be called insurance for some reason.

The alternative to health insurance is free Healthcare. It isn't insurance at all.
Turning Bad SSRF to Good SSRF: Websphere Portal
Fabrice Bellard is a CTO? Are you talking about this guy?: https://bellard.org
> Why is there confrontation at all? Why not simply ask for elaboration while withholding judgement? Maybe the person you are providing therapy to is still worked up from the events and unable to explain things clearly.

1. There is confrontation because the statements were to mutual acquaintances of Joe while Joe wasn't present. He just starts to notice that people are asking "let me know if you need help" and suggesting he go to AA meetings and such. Then sometime later he finds more out, the group is divided into people who believe Joe and those who think he is lying to cover up his drinking problem, and the person who stirred up all this trouble can claim guilt-free that they never lied.

2. Again this is about a pattern of behavior. Everyone speaks unclearly from time to time; bad communication is everywhere. This particular person would do it regularly and the miscommunication mysteriously seems to always themselves in a better light. Your original reply is a reasonable response to one specific occasion. It's also why people like this can maintain superficial relationships for so long. If you encounter it just a couple times a year you will think nothing of it and give them the benefit of the doubt.
Right there with you (although I’m introverted). WFH has sapped me of all work motivation and has definitely had a negative impact on my mental health. I have flippantly considered changing careers but that may be a bit drastic…
This is the most enlightening thing I've read regarding narcissistic parents in... a lifetime I think would be a good word to describe it.

It just perfectly nails my observations and comes to similar conclusions that were brewing in my mind for the past few years. It's really ... I don't know how to call it - relieving? To read it similar way I would put it in words, but from totally different person.

It also bases many arguments on actual situations that happened on some group - it's not just someone talking about "theory", it's dissecting actually happening discussions and giving insight into what these people might have thought. It helps one to think that this are real people who exist that share similar traits to what one might have experienced, and not just someone making stuff up to make you think that you're right.

Truly the best read I could have.
> All the alternative build systems wisely choose to tackle only some of these features.

But why should all of these features be tackled by a single piece of software? Especially seeing how Make, in itself, has proven wildly insufficient already... what, 30 years ago, when GNU autotools came onto the scene?

More specifically, why do you find combinations such as meson + ninja, or CMake + ninja, or even CMake + make as superior to just-Make?
Discussed at the time:

Palantir’s User Manual for Cops - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20421490 - July 2019 (150 comments)
But x86_64 ISA is smoke and mirrors; proof is the large increase in performances that can obtained when one is aware of these tricks.
California has the highest or second highest poverty rate in the country when you account for cost of living.

California policies are an absolute disaster for poor people. This is true for most other big cities in blue states as well. Although California and Bay Area are far and away the worst offenders.

I live in Seattle. It’s not nearly as bad as the Bay. We’ve made a lot of the same bad decisions. And a handful of better ones. But the trend line is very bad and getting worse.
Another article from the same SF crowd that voted in people like Chesa Boudin. Now they are wondering why you can't walk down the street in peace. All this without once acknowledging their responsibility.

Sleep with the dogs - you'll wake up with the fleas.
Hang about. You may have misunderstood what CVE is. CVE doesn't mean 'world ending vulnerability'. It means "common vulnerability and exposure".

It is merely a way of tagging security vulnerabilities through multiple products. Before CVE it was difficult to reason if a product was insecure because it had a an insecure component. CVE speaks to nothing of the severity (that CVSS), just that two products that have the same CVE suffer from the same root vulnerability in their components.
Why do none of them make a PR to change the original repo instead of maintaining forks?
What are the advantages of using a case-sensitive file system? I cannot imagine a situation when you need to create two files that differ only in letter case. This also would make program that create such files not portable.
How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico (2017)
I grew up in Minneapolis and then the suburbs and left as soon as I could... but returned to a small town about 2 hours drive southeast in a small town called Winona. It's the home of Fastenal, Peerless Chain, and a ton of other "startups" from the last 50 years. I work "remote" for my own consultancy turned Electron-based software company making apps for label printers. The cost of a home here in Winona, circa 10 years ago was about $100k and even though prices have nearly doubled the houses are still affordable. You don't need to make much to live here, and we love the beauty of Minnesota... especially southeastern Minnesota. It's MN "NICE!"
The stereo type of "Coastal Elite" did not materialize from no where.

Personally my impression is this narrative has gotten worse not better of the last few decades as the political divide between "red states" and "blue states" have deepen, even if you live in a midwest "blue state".

Also by "are there buildings there" I would assume that a person on the east coast would be referring to Skyscrapers not just generalized building, which are quite rare in the mid-west.

My encounters with Coastal people generally result in them believing that the midwest is just farming and retail, Tech Jobs or other high income white collar jobs like Finance are not associated with the mid-west region...
Only if you work in tech, and only if you're a software engineer or PM. It is straight up not possible to live in a reasonably safe area in SF on a salary less than $100k before tax. And the biggest reason is the toxic cost of living caused by refusal to build high density housing.

I know software engineers who went from living with roommates in a tiny apartment in SF to paying less for a penthouse in other big cities.
I don't understand that, because nobody I personally know has felt "stuck" in SF. I know many people who genuinely like the Bay Area, many people who hated it until they moved to a different tech hub after a their first lease was up, and a few people who didn't like cities in general but wanted to save up for a dream house back home. I could be in a social bubble somehow, I don't want to rule that out, but the phenomenon of having to live here despite hating it is something I've only ever encountered on social media.
A single payer system?

Or a hybrid system with Medicare for all with income limits, above which you must either get third party insurance or pay a small tax is how it was done in Australia last time I was there. It seemed to work well when I was there, and I did have need of it. I had to go to the ER when I was peeing blood after being kicked by a horse directly in the kidney. Fortunately there were no blood clots and it passed after a day or two, but they had to do tests to verify it all and also an MRI I believe. I never got a bill.

I had more medical expenses from mandatory screening fees for visa applications there than from a potentially life threatening medical emergency. And it was included in my yearly taxes with no fees at the point of usage for anything I can remember offhand.

Meds were cheap because the whole country’s Medicare board bargains with the pharmaceutical companies directly, and if your meds are too expensive, they will just go with a competitor and leave that vendor out of the Medicare coverage schedule. This is not unequivocally a good thing, but those meds are still available on the market, but you will pay more for them unless you have third party coverage. Generics are also available just like most places.

Not sure if it’s changed since, as that was like 15 years ago.
I think that ultimately, very few users care about the file layout outside of ~, and perhaps not even that.