skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might not be as efficient, but it probably isn't going to stop on the highway with a load of chickens in the beating sun because the diesel was contaminated (at least not right away).

You might not be able to brick your combine if someone steals it, but nobody can brick it while you're trying to get the harvest in either.

Bureacratic enforcement suffers, but who cares as long as the bureacrats get paid, right?
Hyperoptic, FTTB so only in cities and perhaps only London - I think might only be flat blocks too (copper to each individual flat) - but if you can get it it's great, I'd definitely recommend. Pretty sure you'd get your 1Gb symmetric for less.
To me advanced means has an caloric surplus through which they get separation of skillsets. Civilization arose from this.
I second this

My friends seem to be moving to Washington, Florida, and other parts of California (away from main cities)
I have what you have, but voted a little sad. So much is based on our outlook and attitude. I wish I could figure out how to acquire your attitude. Good luck continuing forward :)
Just pointing this out. This post was quickly up +4 and then instantly went down to -1. Someone seems to be brigading here.
I wonder how many of the homeless residents tech people complain about were part of that art scene and counterculture but got gentrified out of their homes with nowhere else to go.
This isn't just a rural problem. I live in a city that is home base to a major regional telco. They wouldn't deploy fiber and let their copper rot. I had 4Mb DSL some years back that went bad so I was moved to a new pair that could only manage 2Mb despite being relatively close to the CO. These companies DGAF.
It's a general problem searching for programming documentation.

A search for "StringBuffer javadocs" turns up a random version. "JDK 17 javadocs" hits the mark.

That link that you're calling a "redirect" is just a human readable link, it doesn't have any official semantics so Google would have to really care and code up something specific if it wanted to do the right thing.

I've thought that programmers would be a good market for a specialized search engine: show it your POM file and it automatically gets the right versions of everything.

Unfortunately

https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-dont-use-software-that-cost...
Well the drop in valuation has more to do with interest rates than with Zoom's underlying business.
A person having to pay the intrinsic cost of usage does not affect whether they are adequately paying the extrinsic cost of their usage.

There was some minor fuel tax benefit to the state, but with ultra-heavy electric vehicles like a electric Hummer, there's not really any penalty/paying of dues for having obnoxiously sized, dangerous vehicles.
They'll likely gut your renos and paint over it all anyway because that's what people do.
I agree, but... I mean, it's the same awful suburban sprawl as most North American cities just with better weather (and higher property values.)

To me it seems like a place whose best years have passed many years ago now. I suspect we'll look back at 2019-2020 as being "peak Silicon Valley" and the time after as the years in which it began to lose its status as the centre of gravity for our industry.
Who said homelessnesses and mental illness have solutions?
Blaming liberals.
Failing as a person is if you betray your friends, if you kick someone who is already down, taking advantage of people, etc. THAT is failing as a person.

You are not failing as a person. Do not define your self-worth as you having a job or money. You are going through hard times. Everyone goes through hard times. That doesn’t mean you are failing as a person.

Take a short break from job hunting and pick it back up again. You tying your self worth to your job may be what’s causing undue stress thsts making it harder on you. It’s a job. It’s not who you are as a person. Understanding that even if you get a shitty job that pays the bills, it doesn’t decrease your value. Get any job you can, just use it as a breather, collect your emotions and thoughts and when you feel better level up to a new job.
I didn't mention this in my comment as it was more about the broad trends in every city rather than SF/NYC specifically.

Typically for a group that got tired of a city and moved out, there would be a new group that is ready to fill their place. Thing is no one wants to move to SF given the situation (crime, COL, homeless, etc). Now for all the folks that will say "it's not that bad" I say that it doesn't really matter. If you're moving to a city, your opinion and view of the city is largely dictated by what you see/hear from friends, relatives, on the news, etc. Even if SF wasn't "that bad", it still doesn't matter, because the perception is more important for gaining residents than the actual situation IMO.
I hate the fact that OpenSearch divide in a bipartite the human resources allocated at improving elasticsearch, which is a tragedy.
The hypocrisy is strong at amazon, they have allocated a lot of engineers on OpenSearch and yet their number of contributions pre-fork drama was much much lower (although they were still an important contributor though). But once the management has control and developers can have their own NIH dopamine release, humans are eager to work..
For this human resources reasons, I hope the OpenSearch distraction dies in darkness.
However, beside my utilitaristic goals, I am also one of the only person caring about the technology. And it happens that the technology is generally not found in ElasticSearch but in the much more salient project: Lucene, which it uses.
However, despite its big humans resources, ElasticSearch does a great job at NOT exposing Lucene features and optimizations...
Lucene especially has developped 2 major optimizations the last decade unexposed in ES, one being about shards (don't recall the name), the other being concurrent search. And it happens that the NIH syndrome at amazon allow them to at least reconsider those frozen choices in ES.
https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/1500
And I am eager to see the performance implications it will have although the ES approach has some pros too.
In this issue, I descibe what ElasticSearch would do for parallelism, in an ideal world:
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/80693
That sounds like a terrible film experience.
Superscript Generator
The number of total deaths has gone up a little more than the number of known covid deaths. You do the math.
Kind of, but a bit different. Both are cases of unintended consequences, but one involves something that was deliberately made or set up a certain way, and the other involves a state of affairs that existed essentially by accident. This is how people get away with arguing that changes to the status quo, under shifting technology or the demands of business, are "natural", so efforts to preserve the status quo are "unnatural"—because the prior state wasn't made that way deliberately, and absent coordinated action it may be demolished by changes, even if most people would prefer to retain some or all of the prior state, at some shared cost.
Where can I read more? Also, can you point to a movie/scene that used mocap? Would love to watch that.
The conservative solution is to move to a place where they arrest the poopers.
Thank you! I am going to check out the quest 2.
I've been here almost half a century now. The city has turned to shit.

Prop 13 is part of the problem, but there are lots of confounding factors.
FWIW, the lack of housing is largely artificial: there are lots of empty units, they are just priced out of reach of the folks who really need them. I live in Park Merced, on my block there are at least a dozen empty homes, yet a few blocks away there are families living in RV's parked around Lake Merced. The corporation that owns PM won't lower the rents. I don't know why, but I suspect that doing so would mess with things like the appraisal value of the property?

Last month a group of squatters moved into the townhouse across the street from my house. We thought new tenants had moved in, but a couple of days later the staff were there throwing them out. (The squatters had changed the lock on the front door!) A staff member told me that this same group has been breaking into units all over the property. The police were called, but they never showed up.

Last week a van parked in the garage here was broken into and items were stolen. We've been here a quarter of a century and that has never happened before. There are video cameras in the garage, but again, the police did nothing.

That's before you get to the tent camps, the rampant and open drug abuse (literally folks shooting up on the sidewalk), the raw lawless anarchy that the Tenderloin has become, etc.

Unless you have a shit-ton of money and can afford to live in one of the nice enclaves SF is a shitty town. It breaks my heart to admit it, I grew up here and I (used to) really love it here, but the city that SF has become is sad and dangerous.
Hot money in - hot money out
I suspect you've never been a technical liaison to an offshore team. I believe your vision is to replace all satisfying work with soul-crushing work. If all your work is done by people who don't want to work there, including the supervisors, then what kind of quality can your company expect?
Our lips are sealed.
Unprepared for New Prospect Meetings?
Amazes me how much this occurs. Prospects sniff it out and hate it. This free gizmo may help
RacOS
Apparently using jpeg2000 to store video (which is redcode) is enough to violate these patents. Too bad Apple couldn't demolish this patent.

Nikon has 100s or 1000s of their own patents, I would guess that they will counter sue for random violatations by RED.
Taking a look and it looks like current minimum cost (us-west-3 / Salt Lake) is around $1,090 per month (4vCPU / 32 Gig * 2 instances).
Here's how I was able to understand it. There are 100 doors, you choose 1, then host opens 98 doors with goats. Do you keep your door or take the 1 remaining?

In the original, the 3 doors muddles the odds. But with 100, you're choosing between the 1 you chose on the first try, or the 99 you didn't choose.
I'm sure there are lots of diseases that could dehabilitate you; my wife has brain fog from her multiple sclerosis and is still brave enough to go back to regular life because she understands that the risks of serious outcomes from the extant strains are incredibly low, and somehow she manages to be a successful professional with the brain fog.

Life is a risk. You have a lower chance of serious outcome -- assuming you're relatively healthy and younger than 80 -- from the extant strains than you have risk from driving. You can choose to face the risks of life and live, or grow old and die sad and scared.

I choose to be inspired by my wife's courage in the face of her brain fog. Our time on this planet is limited, and spending it afraid is a waste.
Relevant question: why did they fall?
I'm saying SimCity isn't the real world, it's DOS-based entertainment. So you can't jump from "SimCity behaves thusly" to "the world behaves thusly."
It is so sad, and infuriating(!) that you have to do this. It seems that an immediate action the federal government could do is devote funding toward 'fortification' of schools. Others know better that I how best to do this but it seems like something realistic that could happen now (unlike almost any gun control measure, or even something foolhardy like arming teachers (IMO)).
I know someone who graduated summa cum laude at Harvard. I'm not usually one for ranking people by intellect, but she's not one of the smartest people I know by a long shot.

Meticulous? Sure. Does she present herself as if she's a Harvard grad with the economic status that usually entails? Absolutely. But I know several people who graduated from a small directional university who are absolutely smarter than she is. Same with grads I know from Cornell, Penn, and Yale. Maybe the mystical "school where everyone is actually super-intelligent" exists somewhere, but if so, I don't know the name of it.

Unless your professors are so lazy that they're grading on a bell curve, there's no need to be afraid of any class. Test scores and project grades are based on rote knowledge and level of effort, not innate talent... and Harvard educators are usually vastly superior to those of "lesser" schools.
> I do think discouraging thinking of humans as resources is a good thing

I agree with that. There's a famous rant by a Canadian comic/media personality where he quotes a government slogan "People are our most precious resource" and points out that Canada's approach to "resources" is to clearcut timber and strip-mine minerals.

But we're talking about having enough population to maintain an economy of ideas. If we're talking about "There aren't enough people willing to work as flesh-robots in Amazon's warehouses, or if there are, they refuse to work in those conditions so we need desperate replacements from other countries" there's a whole different conversation to have, and it isn't really about declining populations, it's about things like living wages, labour standards, unionization, and recognition that the end-game is not competing with immigrants, it's competing with automation.
I don't know. I think there's a big space for AI assisted XYZ everywhere in life, but to me that doesn't mean it would replace the more 'genuine'/'analog' stuff like good lenses. Even for entertainment and personal use.
that sounds interesting, do you any potential openings outside the US? (i'd like to learn more about your work and potential options. could you please share a contact or email me at the address in my profile?)
Just like a lot of very specific problems the USA has, there's nothing to be done here except offer good thoughts, and trusting in God.
I went to an Ivy League (recently, graduated in last 5 years). This describes me to a T. Started out in CS, dropped to a libarts major because I felt like I couldn't keep up with my peers.

I still work in SWE, and began doing it in HS when I was 17.

Partner and I discuss frequently that I would have been better off somewhere else.
I think financially literate people in Canada don't pay anywhere near $200. I've always paid around $50/mo for the last 20 years, without ever going out of my way to shop for promotions, and have been able to have all the data usage I could reasonably use (previously excluded watching videos when not on Wi-Fi, but the most recent plan of a few years has enough data that I no longer need to), plus extra bells and whistles like free roaming in the US. This is with both a corporate plan with Bell the last 6-7 years, and a regular single individual plan with Rogers all the years before that, so wasn't even with a lower cost provider.

There are huge promotions multiple times a year because the competition is fierce between the top providers. When long-term contracts that subsidized phones were still around up to a few years ago, the buyouts to switch providers were so aggressive that you could end up with an extra few hundred dollars in your pocket on top of a new phone every 2 years when switching providers, or staying with the same provider and getting the loyalty/retention department to match offers. Yes, there may be better deals to be found down south sometimes, but not by enough of a margin to deal with cross-border banking, currency conversion, and much worse consumer protection laws for most people.

Yes, additional competition might potentially help drive prices down, but the low ROI on the huge amount of infrastructure required for such a small population might also result in worse economies of scale for all players resulting in the need to cut corners on coverage or service quality to remain competitive.

Also, I'm not convinced coverage is better down south. Anecdotally, I seem to hit way more deadspots driving down I5 through Washington and Oregon than I do on Highway 1 across BC to Alberta despite having much larger swathes of populated areas. I'm also shocked everytime I go to New York and get zero cell signal in every subway station including near Wall Street, when every underground transit station in Vancouver has coverage (admittedly Toronto does not have this though).
I don't think this is necessarily true. Consider that the reason many people were in SF in the first place was because their job required them to be there and they didn't have a choice; now that they have a choice, perhaps many of them find SF attractive and stay, while a minority don't and leave.
You do understand that this is why people don't like contemporary movies, right?
This works until you need to have one tiny thing different than the standard path, that a tool implements. Usually the problems come, when you do not want to do the thing "everyone else" does, but want to avoid some downside of that mainstream approach.

The contrast is other programming language ecosystems. Once you understand how they look up modules from which to import things you need, you are set and can deliver a working program. Not so in JS. Multiple half backed module systems and for a long long time no proper support for modules in the browser, so that things like requirejs had to be shipped, in order to have modules working. All of that is a huge crutch and hack. Also it is mostly unnecessary. It is not like JS apps do sooo much more than traditional desktop apps. It is their dependencies, which make the load big. That in itself is a problem, which then creates the problem of "Oh I must minimize my JS files!" and that creates the need for a tool and then we get to a place, where we have things like webpack, which you configure for a day and no guide does exactly what you want to do in your project. You might even find out, that webpack cannot do what you need it to do, because of being "opinionated". Then you might look for the next tool and the cycle starts again. I have experienced very little of that nonsense in any other ecosystem. Most do not deal with the same problems, because they avoided getting into those problems in the first place and they do not have to deal with a badly designed language as a basis.

In the frontend development world you might even run into people integrating things like webpack into projects needlessly, say a plain JS project of a few files under 100kB, just because they always do, and because of silly project standards they have. In some way we were better off when JS was simply in a script tag and you had to put the script tags in the correct order. None of the webpack and similar tool overhead was there. Heck, those tools even seem to encourage people to include more and more stuff into their projects, because they think, that webpack and similar tools will magically fix it all and make all their code small in size when delivered. Over time this grows into multiple megabytes bundled minified unreadable JS crap.
>But the population of the hottest parts could easily move to cooler parts of the world, most of which are sparsely populated.

I would not describe relocating billions of people hundreds to thousands of miles north, often across country borders, as easy.

This article contains some stories of a few climate refugees of today:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/23/magazine/clim...
Here’s a trick I came up with: 1. think of any number! 2. Add your age to the number! 3. Subtract the original number!

magical hand motions

The result is your age!
> The Ruby part is okay, but guess what, dealing with JS sucks in a new, different way. Again.

Struggling with this also. It's crazy how "dealing with assets" has been the weak spot for Rails so consistently all these years (even though the specifics behind it have changed entirely 3+ times or more now).
You're kind of on it.
> One of workers the grabs a message, processes it and then deletes it.
If I understood it correctly, in SQS, a message can only be handled by one worker, while SNS can have several workers processing the same message (let's say one worker ingesting the message for system A and another worker to ingest the same message in system B).
Having helped build the production secret management bits at Airbnb [0], I would encourage most people to buy, not build. It was a large task and I'm 95% sure we didn't add more value than the cost of all the people working on it for as long as it took, compared to buying a solution.

Just like the rest of Airbnb started before VPCs were GA and thus required a large engineering investment to move everything to VPCs, we started on the secret management stuff before there were a lot of good other options available (though arguably Hashicorp Vault was around and mature enough at the time, and would have been the best alternative). I haven't looked at envkey for production use but I've definitely considered it for home use since it's just so deliciously simple.

[0] https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/production-secret-mana...
Not great. I got separated and have been struggling with depression the last couple years. I'm stuck in a foreign, expensive location paying spousal support so I barely have any money left over and no family and few friends. Rents keep going up and I don't see how I'm ever going to buy a place now or retire. My single friends who are junior to me are grinding leetcode and getting into big tech companies, making twice as much as me, which makes me feel left behind. I'm either in single dad mode or spending my free time catching up on household jobs, and preparing for interviews is really tough to fit in (but I started doing it anyways). I feel completely stuck and screwed, now throw the anxiety of interviews on top of that, and I can never relax. Just steeling myself now for failing my interviews due to lack of time to prepare.
While the world has numerous issues that need to be solved - I think we've, for the time being, been able to classify exhaustion of materials as a problem we won't have to deal with for a long time.

The earth has a lot of matter in it - it is absurdly massive - technological advances in replicating necessary raw resources (and your topsoil one is particularly good to demonstrate this) have pushed us from looking at an absolute limit to instead viewing the perpetual creation of new components as a steadily rising economic burden.

One raw resource that is actually quickly depleting is river sand for concrete - our current consumption trends are extremely scary here and some governments (CoughIndiaCough) are doing an absolutely terrible job at properly enforcing externality costs on extraction leading to mass habitat destruction. But, if we suddenly found ourselves without easy access to rough river sand we do have alternative construction materials including processed wood in various forms that can be extremely resilient.

I don't really like the wording of the article in defining all resources as artificial - but the natural components driving the economy are quite abundant.
Well ofcourse it sounds idyllic on paper.

But at a time when we are clawing for reduced sentences for criminals, we are also lamenting the inability to detain people who haven't even done anything wrong.

The real reason we don't have institutions is that people dont want to be institutionalized.

You cannot reform the world to your picturesque ideal. It's been tried and it never turns out well. We can only build society to protect our rights and liberties.
Yes.

Suppose the year is 1770 and I am a sailor on one of Captain Cook's expeditions. A fellow sailor breathlessly tells me about the advanced civilizations with flying machines we might encounter, reasoning that such constructions are theoretically possible according to science and extrapolating from extant technology. I'd tell him that I expect nothing of the sort.

I'd also concede that such technology might one day be created: " This might one day change if we become a post-biological civilization, but so far not a single example of such has ever been seen."

So far? No evidence for it. So far, it's only science fiction.
Bought it on playstore 8 years ago, havent opened it in 3 years, don't regret it one bit. Would purchase again.