skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because they can earn good money for a few years and then move somewhere they actually desire?

Personally seen this play out in Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore for a long time. There's a huge contingent of knowledge workers who have no intent of putting down long term roots there. It's just somewhere to extract wealth from with high paying jobs and housing costs are simply another acceptable tax on that.

Stay a decade, make bank, move somewhere where you can work at leisure. Isn't that the dream?
The iOS app permissions dialog for location already always asks for "only when using" vs "in background", why wouldn't they do the same for PWAs?
And how much of your total spending is that?

My monthly income goes to (very roughly estimated):

* 35% rent
* 10% groceries
* 10% other stuff (energy, internet, subscriptions)
* 10% mobility
* 35% savings

My rent didn't go up. Not sure if savings are part of inflation (how do you measure inflation for ETFs?). So only 30% of my income is affected by inflation, which is less than half of my spending.

Your personal inflation rate will mostly depend on if you live in a new or an old building (e.g. my heating costs are tiny because the building is new) and if you have a car (I only have a motorcycle and I take the bike to work). If you live in an old house and have to drive a fuel-inefficient car to work every day, you are screwed.

I think the current inflation is mostly about energy prices and only very little about money supply.
"As far as I am aware, for every significant UI change we do at the medical device company I am working for, we bring a panel of final users (doctors and techs) to our facility and we have to do some validation tests, and finally show these validation results to the FDA before releasing the product."

I also work for a device company and a lot of these panel members aren't really competent at giving good feedback because they lack the technical knowledge. And the FDA mostly just checks for completeness of paperwork. They look at the actual product only once there is a problem in the field.
Yup. If only there was some way that employees, recognizing that a company cannot easily fire all of them, could work together to demand a seat at the table when companies make big decisions like this. This would allow engineers to win durable benefits when the market is hot and prevent employers from suddenly going back on their word when the market is cooler. Imagine if in order to make a sudden and huge change to working conditions Musk and the board needed to consult with and negotiate with representatives working explicitly for the benefit of the employees.
You shouldn't have to live that way. That is bad and not normal.
You showed that people are leaving but what about crime stats?

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/San-Francisco-crime-Che...

This article goes into various claims about crime rates and most are either false or only partially true.

In my opinion conservative media and people on the right exaggerate the amount of crime in cities in general so they can point to the leadership who are almost Democrats
To be honest, software nowadays is more lacking in other areas. Putting “beauty” as a foremost concern is more of a sign that they don’t see that lack, and therefore are less likely to address it. “Beauty” doesn’t make software more practical or its use more productive. The tools in my toolbox don’t have to be “beautiful”. They don’t become better tools by being more “beautiful”.

(I’m putting “beautiful” in quotes because it’s largely subjective what that means for UIs and software.)
> He's got lots of money, you don't need to save it for him.

I want to nitpick you on this as I know you probably don't mean it but others might be confused by it. There is no way in which Elon Musk personally gets money from this. Elon doesn't have money other than the stock shares he sold. Most of his net value is still in the value of Tesla itself. His announcement of layoffs caused him to lose money.

Additionally if Tesla needed money, there would be no way to provide it as he doesn't have any money to provide it with.
Get your contract. Read it over. Find out exactly what it spells out with regards to your obligations and theirs in this regard.

If your contract allows them to obligate you to work in a physical office, you could be fired with cause. It could allow them to deny you severance. And it's a whole bag of worms concerning unemployment, etc (depending on where you live).

So, yeah. Read your contract. Read that email. Do your best to interpret it as literally as possible. Try to determine what it plainly says. Then interpret it in the worst way possible for you. Then interpret it in the worst way possible for them.

Then go to a lawyer, explain your situation as simply as possible. You were hired for remote work, they are mandating you go back into the office, you cannot until at least January 2023. Give them a copy of your contract and that email. Let them read it. Then ask what are your options.

If you acceptance of the contract was based on the agreement reached in the email, let the lawyer know that as well.
I don't see how there's any way 90% of the recognition and reward of published research can go to the data collectors over everybody else combined, even in the cases where data collection is really that onerous.

Which I guess is why all efforts to try to split up the work in a more efficient manner have failed and the current model persists.
This means that open academic research effectively remains a cottage industry compared to industrial, military, and other research types that can be kept secret.
Andrée Geulen, Savior of Jewish Children in Wartime, Dies at 100
>What kind of morons are in this advocacy group?

Same type of morons which "advised" people to not get to the hospital to get treated for COVID because the doctors will kill them, harvest their organs and send them to the aliens.

This world is filled with idiots.
If it was a larger sum I would prob chase it up, I have recurring payments to Google/Youtube (Mainly YouTube Premium), so not sure why they don't just deduct the balance they owe me from my next payment to them. Guessing with an entity as large as Google, billing is a huge machine in of itself. Just annoying to have a alert in pay.google.com I can't get rid off.
That's true, though the original poster here is a salaried employee, so the pressure level is unchanged for them.
> Outside of the fact that "some people say" (generally anti-fed types) that inflation is an increase in the money supply, why is it you think that?

Because for much of our existence, trade has been facilitated by commodity-based currencies which would inflate when new deposits of the commodity were found.
If Python 3 was just named Cobra 1, I guaranteed that Python 2 would have been “forked”

Increasing the version is a straightforward way to say “n is outdated, use n+1.” As a publisher I don’t want to start a new project with zero followers, especially if the project does the same exact thing my previous project did, just better.
I can't believe you have a PhD in math, can do leetcode easily, but AWS is too much for you.

I will personally show you around AWS if you're up for it. Although, I only know EC2, but arguably that's the only thing that matters :D
Just find another job from a remote friendly company. It is not like it is hard to find these days. You don't need to quit until you have found it, just work as you always did and state that you can't move until next january.

You have virtually no risk anyway, the market is on your side.
ID.me's growth led to frantic hiring, ill-equipped staff and security lapses
You can configure "world" too, and you can compile your kernel/world and packages from a jail or vm, with or without poudriere.

But why so aggressive? No one attacks your substitute religion.
Oh if we are talking since the 1970's like most issues, I've got a site for you. That's when the money printing backed by nothing started.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

>In August 1971, Nixon severed the direct convertibility of U.S. dollars into gold.
Germany to Introduce Bill to Accelerate Wind Energy Expansion
Last I checked, this list only includes domains with a DNS server. It excludes plenty of registered .com domains that have no domain server configured.
Is there anywhere in the country that you think is an actual poster child for progressive ideas implemented well?

Colorado and Massachusetts come to mind as possibilities. I've lived in the latter and it did not seem too badly run, certainly much better than SF. It did still have the unaffordable housing problem that dogs every "blue" city and state, but nowhere near as bad as SF.

The unaffordable housing problem is not just because of NIMBYs. It's also because of a lot of regulation in general including endless environmental reviews that add tons of cost and uncertainty to housing development. When you increase the up-front cost of building anything by tacking on a bunch of compliance and regulatory requirements, you bias the market heavily toward luxury high-end developments in which the builder can recoup the cost. You can't build affordable housing in a high-cost environment because it doesn't deliver the margins.

As a rule any regulation with difficult or costly compliance is a tax, and usually a regressive one since huge corporations and/or high-margin products are less impacted.
> I'd say, though, that if you like Slackware, then you'll probably like FreeBSD more

Hehe, someone saying this exact thing to me was what made look into BSD for the first time, and whoever said it to me was correct.

On the desktop/laptop, I prefer GNU/Linux, because the hardware support etc. is just much better. My home server runs FreeBSD, though, and it hasn't given me any trouble in almost seven years (other than a µSD card dying, but I don't think the OS is to blame here).
Man, I cannot wait for you to tell me about the major conservative metropolis that does so much better for all of its citizens, and does not suffer under the yoke of Trumpism or whatever 'Wokism' (?!) is. I'm scouring a map and I'm sure I'll find it soon, but maybe you could drop a hint?
Continuing the easy click bait money of isht posting san francisco. Republicans love it; progressives hate it. Chesa Boudin recall happened. It's just another easy dollar story you can sell to the rest of the country

Are the problems? Yes - are some getting worse? Yes. We also are two years into a pandemic that has had an insane disruption on cities.

This story is as old as the city itself. Save yourself the bother and don't click.
I feel you, but your statement is true for Estonia, not for the whole EU like you originally claimed.

That's why I said you live in a different bubble.
But that would be a civil suit right? There's no private prosecution that can ask for a prison sentence and no way for you to pursue criminal charges against me directly. Which is what's happening here.
It's reported pretty frequently, although the Fed has put some limits on stock buybacks:

Background (ABC): "The Fed has bought roughly $2.1 trillion of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities since the pandemic intensified in March [2020] That has flooded many short-term lending markets with cash, making it easier for many banks to borrow."

https://www.bankingdive.com/news/federal-reserve-stock-buyba...

> "The Federal Reserve said the country's largest banks can resume stock buybacks in the first quarter of 2021 with certain limitations, after the central bank released the results of its first-ever "mid-cycle" stress tests Friday... JPMorgan Chase was the first bank to announce it would resume share repurchases. Just minutes after the Fed released stress test results, the bank announced its board approved a new share repurchase program of $30 billion."

It's not just the banks, the airlines did the same thing:

"Companies that binged on buybacks now seek bailouts from taxpayers, March 2020"

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/business/bailout-buybacks-air...
> using (ultra?)sound

Phone lines have (or at least had) narrow frequency ranges. I'm not an expert but I'd assume this is just normal sound like any old modem.
As a long time Mac user with a FreeBSD home server… what does homebrew do that pkg doesn’t? I guess homebrew has casks but that’s moot on a server that’s never going to run anything with a UI.

I don’t have much to say about docker except that its dominance can be irritating when you don’t want to strongly couple all your things with Linux (yes, it technically runs on macOS and Windows but not very nicely…). I keep hoping for a more platform agnostic container to steal the show.
That level of casual crime is worse than Cairo.

I couldn't imagine living in a place like that, let alone having kids grow up there.
Cold winters. many would not want to camp out on the sidewalk during nyc winter.

Sf doesn’t have that much violent crime. It’s mostly theft or quality of life related.

Then you have a police force who are forced to release criminals due to chesa (DA).
I’ve been here for 7 years now. The best way to describe San Francisco is that it feels like living in a cyberpunk utopia.

Alita Battle Angel, the movie, is almost exactly how San Francisco feels.

There are actually 2 cities. San Francisco, the tech town, is booming like crazy. New highrises and shiny skyscrapers are coming online almost every month. Areas that were barren wastelands when I moved here in 2015 are now bustling with new construction, street level businesses, full of upper middle class rich people running to and fro enjoying their lives.

The skyscrapers are fast encroaching on the other San Francisco, the poor and troubled city. They’re squeezing homeless people, drug addicts, etc into a smaller and smaller area. In some neighborhoods the concentration of shanty towns and “bad elements” is so high it looks and feels like a slum. Because that’s what it is.

Look at the actual numbers though and, at least officially, it’s not that bad. A city of ~800,000 residents has ~8,000 people living on the streets[1]. Around 1%, same as the ratio for USA as a whole with 580,000 homeless people[2].

What has changed during the pandemic is that these homeless people became more visible because while the upper middle class retreated into working from home. Now that people are coming back to the office, the city is again filling with commuters and the “undesirables” are slowly retreating back to wherever they were hiding before.

As others have said, lots of downtown businesses shut down due to lack of foot traffic. Because few people actually live downtown. Hopefully that gets restored as commuters come back.

Another way to sum up San Francisco is that seeing a person shooting up on the street is normal and seeing a Tesla is about as remarkable as a Toyota Corolla.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/New-data-shows-fewer-...

[2] https://theweek.com/briefing/1013082/living-on-the-streets
> solutions are essentially to forcibly remove people from the streets

Solution is to build more housing. This, however, cuts against two powerful San Francisco voting blocs, and the source of its problems: homeowners and entrenched subsidized renters.
The poor people were basically not punished for crimes and allowed to pitch tents wherever they pleased. Also free housing if they wanted, so long as they didn't use drugs. Rehab if they wanted it.

What part of that seems inhumane?
I live in SF and volunteer in the Tenderloin. I absolutely love it here. No idea what is going on with the public perception of this city. Just seems like a lot of political hot air.

When you get down to the street level and actually talk with some of the people out here, you realize that they are people too. There’s a lot of humanity missing from the discussions about SF.

Things might be dirty or smelly or even unsafe in particular areas, but I wouldn’t trade living here for anywhere else. And I’ve lived in a lot of places.
bs4 introduced some very nice features over bs3, if that's what you were using, and includes the ability to use libxml2 as a parser. For very simple things though libxml2 would be a better fit.
At least for Germany the color in the map might as well be green according to the list later in the article.

Really depends on how each country is counting.
When you think about the number of middlemen involved in a credit card transaction, 1) the credit card networks (i.e. Mastercard, visa, etc…), 2) the credit card company/issuer/bank (i.e. Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc…), 3) credit card processor (i.e. fidelity, square, etc…)…is one more where we draw the line?

It’s really no wonder the average consumer needs to resort to financing their pizza with debt on account 3 middlemen have worked their way into the transaction, all of which are multi-billion dollar organizations that add no value aside from facilitating the very ridiculous debt driven system they created.
I've built a profitable developers tool as a side project using RSS
At the end of the day, the DA was kicked out of office for doing exactly what he said he'd do.

It's a good step, but you'll have to excuse me if I have a hard time believing that the people who have voted for Nancy Pelosi every two years since before I was born actually will learn their lesson.
Is there a maximum size for Windows clipboard data?
Seeing now that this has been discussed several times before. Most notably:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15246348

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22871417
Collecting the data to explore is massively different than using it to evaluate individual performance.
We go up to SF every 3-4 weeks and find it pretty unnerving each time.

The homelessness (mentally ill), open drug use, and theft/vandalism are pretty draining.

I lived for a long time in Cambridge/Boston and very, very rarely had any similar experience.
Yes ofc you can be fired. That not the question. It is if your employer can tell you what they will take as an resignation. For me only a written notice will count. Any employer can tell me that they fire me if I don't show up, they would still have to write me an official firing when I don't show. Being fired is not resigning tho. Non of this has anything nothing to do with at-will or not.
Increasing prices in a market means increased turnover for those who sell into that market. You can easily find examples where increasing prices are worse for sellers than price stability, e.g., if increased costs eat up more than the new income or if the price increases happen in the context of a shrinking market, but as a rule price increases show that the market favours sellers over buyers.
So do you think that most large metropolis are not "cool" anymore?
It's the conflation of "anti-capitalism" and socialism. A lot of people in the US these days seem more anti-capitalist than proactively anything.
I would say in the last generation, we’ve really had a ton of incredible new textiles be developed. Spandex and its blends in particular has added a lot of comfort in clothing, and wasn’t even that widespread ~15 years ago in comparison to the degree it is now.
The crummy.com page includes several suggestions to subscribe to Tidelift.
> The government coddling the wealthy while trampling the poor is not socialism.

It's socialism, just as other forms of government. Nobles vs peasants. Is there a head of state that doesn't live in a palace?
Why not a separate TLS terminator like Hitch[1]? (Why do people in general insist that TLS be built and linked into everything?)

[1] https://hitch-tls.org/
Cash is the most popular peer to peer payment medium. By far.

Most people don’t think about its implicit properties but it’s low trust, instant, final, anonymous, and works offline. If you care about transactions per second it outpaces Visa by a country mile.

That there is no onchain record of your transaction, instant settlement, and the receiving party can’t see your balance are nice enhancements for Bitcoin in certain types of transactions.

Further, most currencies be it yen or dollars, operate mostly electronically but still have a cash form. Now Bitcoin does too.
Socialism, first, is the wrong word - the state is not owning the assets.

And welfare for the rich and for the poor are two very different things

The rich will still be just fine after their assets crash with or without welfare for the rich, although they may lose some power - all this socialism is about assets far above any reasonable survival line - it's all about disposable income and assets.

Socialism for all is ensuring everyone has basic needs to function in a modern society - food, housing, healthcare, education. Above that line of basic functioning and nondisposable income, it should be up to the individual.
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If it's really "ever week or so", for years, I'd be tempted to compile data on the support e-mails and their senders. At some point, you've got a meta-paper on the people who contacted you for support, breakdowns of where they are in their careers, what topics they don't seem to have mastered yet, which parts of the docs they failed to read, etc.

The fun could start when you let drafts of that meta-paper start circulating.
My impression is that they mainly focus on pushing costs to the patient in the form of higher and higher deductibles.
It would suck, and it might upend others. It would not upend my life.
> 14 years for pirating a stream?

I think the sentence is way too extreme, but we're talking about a bit more than "pirating a stream". They ran a for-profit piracy operation for over 10 years, selling subscriptions to "more than 1,000 pubs, clubs and homes throughout England and Wales".
This and all of the posts below show SF as a failed city. I work in tech and I'd never move there. Failed = "good people" doing things to cause more problems, which you illustrate very well
I am french and it is true. When I come back from visiting my family in France I even complain about my compatriots habit of complaining about everything!
The best editor will have no syntax. I'm more into re-visiting structure editor to finally skip lexer and parser altogether.
The ACA started as a Heritage Foundation plan, and it was implemented by Mitt Romney when he was MA gov. Republicans also added over 100 amendments to the bill that were accepted (and which watered it down significantly from what Democrats wanted).

Republicans didn’t vote for it largely as a political strategy to not be seen as giving Obama a “win”.

But the other poster is right that the ACA was essentially the “free market” conservative version of universal healthcare.
That would imply gratis works available not ‘free beer’
What does this even mean? I would encourage you to stop using this word so much lest you find it lose its meaning and impact. Try calling me a racist instead?
In all fairness all these comparisons and all these BSD vs. another BSD vs. Linux OS wars are becoming long in the tooth. There haven't been any news or revelations in a long, long time. Want to try a BSD (or a Linux distro) on a VPS? Good for you. Want to do it on a laptop? By all means. Want things to work out of the box? Get a system with an OS preinstalled (and supported). Otherwise, the differences between the OS you'll find will be minor.