skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Salaries within an industry, like software or electrical engineering, will depend largely upon supply and demand.

An interesting question might be “are the changes in the economy and technology going to affect the demand for software developers?”

I am guessing—-and it’s purely a guess—-that we are near or just beyond the peak demand for software development. We saw a similar thing happen in mechanical engineering and then electrical engineering in the 20th century. Human software development will likely follow the same course.

The economy in my opinion will only be the catalyst for change. I think that a recession will tend to push businesses to find less expensive ways to develop and maintain code.

Again, this is all just opinion based on a macro understanding of the current state of software and experience in business and engineering as a basis for my perspective.

I will spend some time researching this a bit more and perhaps I can find some good backup data for my intuition that I can post here.
Good question. When you look at the original tweet, he said that systems that lack recoverable credentials are not “safe”. From there, it’s easy to argue that if we want “safe” systems, then we need recoverable credentials. Recoverability in a cryptocurrency context necessarily implies mandatory key escrow or algorithm backdoors.

This is my line of reasoning. Whether he dislikes cryptocurrency or not is irrelevant, but the argument that you cannot have a safe system with private credentials was what I found objectionable.

EDIT: Re legal theory: The idea that cryptographic systems are unsafe is likely to result in a weakening of protections for such systems. Cryptocurrency is an easy target because it’s essentially 100% cryptography and because it has no patron. The banning on cryptocurrencies can be extended to a ban on private keys via the safety argument.

Closest analogue might be gun control (Encryption is legally considered a munition).

Last edit, I promise: this creates a situation where a cryptocurrency wallet is simultaneously a munition (2nd amendment), speech (1st amendment), and secure papers (4th). Legislators could use this nexus to move between domains to expand the scope of any bans.
I suspect to weed out people who would catch on during the scamming process.
I'm thrilled to announce that Dave Clark will be Flexport’s next CEO
> Now the artists were priced out and they moved to Oakland

This is the main part of the problem to me. There's nothing even remotely interesting going on in that city's culture. The entire city is split between people who can afford a 2-million-dollar house, retirees, and people who sleep on the street.

Crime is about the same. When I moved to SF in '98 the very first thing that happened to me was my bicycle got stolen, and my convertible car got its top slashed so many times that I started leaving the doors unlocked, at which point people started sleeping in my car, so I sold it.

Violent crime is actually much lower but that's a long-term trend.

IMHO the problems with that city all stem from the inequality caused by the housing crisis. It drives property crime and it's the reason the city is intensely boring.
> If you lose your only iPhone, you lose the keys.

But they're in your iCloud Keychain. You should just log in to iCloud and have them again.
Text Prudent
I think it should be mentioned that Chomsky is a US citizen. Apart from that he doesn't use the perspective of geopolitics which demands to deny your own faults and accuse your opponents, regardless of lie or truth. On the contrary and like many intellectuals he sees values in self-criticism. This is fundamentally different discourse than we have in politics.

Personally I also do not think that Russia is committing genocide. I don't even believe those that declare it as such are honest with their opinion. There are heinous acts that aren't genocide and there isn't a ladder from least bad to worst where there is genocide at the end. Just as it isn't a competition on which country is the worst.

The invasion of Ukraine cannot be justified and will lead to a lot of dead people. There are also heinous war crimes but there don't seem to be signs of genocide. That doesn't make it less bad.
Look outside the USA
https://drugpolicy.org/drugsellers

https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/3914/1/2875-Understandingdrug...

Some data that suggests many get into it to feed their own addictions (which can be a "no other choice" scenario), meant more are collected by police as "dealers" even though they are just holding drugs for personal use. There's lots of research here, unsurprisingly.
Because this BS about crime in SF is just a republican pushback against "defunding the police" which never actually happened. It's a propaganda effort to push the pendulum further fascist. Villainizing and smearing a well known progressive city to let others know that won't fly.

And rich white tech bros complaining about crime and homelessness from their ivory tower is disgusting. You're so detached from how humans actually live that you're threatened by just SEEING them, not even experiencing it.
Could be a contributing factor. As for me I live downtown in Manhattan in a 'nice' neighborhood (though in downtown they're nearly all nice). The equivalent in SF is the opposite.

One thing could be that there are real neighborhoods where people live in the denser parts of the city. Our public schools (in Manhattan) are extremely good, so families do actually live there. AFAIK folks generally leave SF once they have kids.
Both your statement and the parent statement can be true
So they help prevent e waste by preventing people from throwing away cords instead of helping people not to have to throw away phones.

Government at its best.

Next they are going to mandate pop up warnings every time I turn on my phone like the cookie banners.

I doubt people are complaining more about cord compatibility than having to replace an entire functioning phone because it no longer receives even security updates. Let alone operating system updates.
>>The government coddling the wealthy while trampling the poor is not socialism<<

It's the failed, self serving, and corrupt program of "Trickle Down Economics" that's been used by Republicans and Democrats since the Reagan era in one form or another. It brings in the donor classes and benefits the wealthy, all of whom happen to be our politicians. It was BS when it was sold to the American people then and it's BS now.
I skimmed some of Deepkit and looked at your responses here. I have to say these parts of Deepkit really seems solve a major pain point that I have been investigating fairly recently. Kudos.

The places where I consider to use TypeScript are UI/CRUD/frontend centric, because I feel like the ecosystem around JS/TS is really rich and (finally) maturing when it comes to these things. So its really all about coordinating UI/user feedback, validation, serialization/parsing etc. And all that under regular change/evolution.

Now my conclusion so far has been to just try and keep it simple and separated and do the plumbing between all those parts explicitly. There is a benefit to that as well, but it does require more boilerplate and more bug surface. I will definitely tinker with some of the Deepkit libs to reassess this, because I think it might just do the right things in those areas.
Is this a case of the company growing far beyond the capabilities of Ryan? Did the board remove him? I'm just curious, I always used Flexport as an example of a true RISING startup.
You are misunderstanding me. I'm writing about an employer telling employees that an specific action (not showing up) will count as a resignation. It seems so weird to me that this isn't in the contract.
Finally. And yes it will be a good answer to NIMBYsts: "if you don't like to see windmills on the horizon, next year they will be standing right in the middle of your village".
Totally agree. 5% of power plants are responsible for 73% of emissions [0]. That's like 1500 power plants. Rather than fix the emission issue at this small source, many would rather blame the population at large. Rather than fix 1500 big issues, they'd rather change the behavior of billions of individuals. It makes no sense.

0: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/five-percent-power...
As an aside, it feels remarkable how Tesla can be revolutionary and scummy at the same time by trying to make their employees resign instead of laying off. How?
NYC has a lot more aggressive policies regarding homelessness and drug use.

Open drug use and pitching tents are not tolerated.

If you see a homeless person "in need of assistance" (their phrasing), you just call 311 and a team of people will come and deal with the "issue."
And with a little bit of coercing, it can be used the other way: To embed Python in Desktop apps giving you a fairly light-weight Python interpreter.

I used it for a little Windows macro program ( https://github.com/seligman/microkeys ) . I got it to a POC stage to solve the precise problem I have, basically I needed to be able to do some simple text parsing on whatever's in the clipboard and type out the results, so I'm happy. I'm always curious if it potentially fills a need for others as well.
Why Great Things Never Came from Comfort Zones
Is your first sentence a rhetorical device to make the point that it's extremely bad ?

Some level of crime happens in most large cities, but if it became 'normal' something is extremely wrong. It does not have to be like this.
As JumpCrissCross suggests, NYC includes its suburbs. All those colorful folks south and east of Washington Square can be outvoted by Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island.
Unionize software would be a complete disaster. Not because unions are always bad, but because good contracts would be impossible to write and impossible to maintain.

In a trucker's union both sides can somewhat agree on standards like miles driven, cargo weight. With software a login screen could take anywhere between 30 minutes to 10,000 hours to build depending on integrations, scale, testing, language support, competency of the team, clean requirements from management.

You will quickly run into disagreements on who is at fault for a project running over schedule and have to litigate over the contract.
I suppose something like SCIP doesn't place as much emphasis on mutation, but when I think of LISP the last thing I think of is immutability. Obviously Clojure pushes against that a little, but still, what is LISP without a slowly accumulated mudball of small state changes? That's what the magic is!
Thank you. I'm glad you're enjoying it. Sorry if I sounded a bit aggressive here.

I think one of the cool things about Haskell is that there's quite a high ceiling in terms of solutions you can reach for. On many occasions when one get annoyed by something and thinks "there must be a better way", there is one.

You show how one with more knowledge and command of the language can make it do a lot of things for free, and that is very cool! But I can also see how these solutions can look a bit intimidating for people with less experience, and it's important to take this into account as well.

This is kind of a double edged sword. Gotta find the right balance.
Ask HN: Is there a site popular with Gen Z where users can write HTML and CSS?
In the 90's, a number of teenagers made Geocities sites, which awakened their interest in web development and taught them some basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Many of these teens went on to become web developers.

Later, many teenagers learned these skills as they customized their LiveJournal or MySpace.

Later still, many teenagers learned these skills customizing their Tumblr.

Does Gen Z have anything like this, that is creating a pipeline to web development? I know Tumblr and LiveJournal still exist, but they don't seem to be popular with Gen Z at all.
I’m born and raised in SF. I love it here. It’s a beautiful city with a nice temperate climate, great food, and some culture. At the same time it does have a huge homeless problem. This has actually always been a problem, but it has gotten worse in the past few years and more deadly with the arrival of fentanyl.

I cannot stand the majority of the current city government and I do think they are responsible for a lot of the issues in SF. SF was blessed by a huge economic boom. Normally this is a great thing for a region: more jobs and higher pay. But the board of support (BOS) has turned it into a nightmare by refusing to build housing. And the worst part is that the wrap their NIMBYism in a veil of smarmy self-righteousness, oblivious that they have ruined the city. When I was a kid, SF was a middle-class city. Now it’s a city of extremes. It’s still a great city, but it could be so much better.
If you're not getting value from remembering a thing, it's more about the choice to memorize the thing than how you remember it, seems to me.
Spotify Investor Day 2022
What a coincidence. My master thesis "Projectional Editing of Internal Domain-Specific Languages" relies on CodeMirror 6 for its implementation, and I just happen to have handed in my thesis today, on the same day CodeMirror 6 is released. :)

If anyone is interested in the topic, the implementation is on Github: https://github.com/niklaskorz/puredit

Also, here's a demo: https://thesis.korz.tech/
> Discount coupons included free in the biology literature package.

Come on now, your post seemed reasonable until the very end; there would never be a discount.
Yes - it is bad. San Francisco always has bad parts: but the problem now is that it is kinda everywhere. For tourists, the biggest shock is Market Street: they closed it for traffic and that caused that it is very dangerous to walk there in evenings.

I think crime and all problems are caused by drug epidemic. Or maybe because they kept schools closed for 2 years causing a lot of families to leave the city? Or maybe because they terrorized restaurants with COVID mandates cause less tourists and more restaurant closures? Or maybe because they closed street for car traffic causing less foot traffic in evenings? Or because BART is scary to ride so there less visitors from other parts of Bay Area? Or maybe just because offices got closed?

Not sure what is caused this but what I’m concerned that city leaders are doing absolutely nothing to fix issues. Thus all these recalls…
I remember when they added them years ago, and they were okay, and I was happy with them. Then they removed them and changed the lyrics button to say "lyrics will be back soon". Then they removed that button.

Years later, they added back the lyrics button, but it's on so few songs if you don't listen to major artists. I understand a lot of that is on the artist's end, but the situation would be much better now if it was never removed.

I'm being pedantic, but it's one of many reasons I dislike Spotify these days, despite using it at this very moment.
I've lived here since the early 90s, with a break in 00s.

The city has gone down hill, no doubt. Rent increases have chased off my artsy friends, which is the primary reason I'm going to follow - I'm far less fond of greedy nerds than I am artists. San Francisco just isn't very interesting anymore.

Crime is really no worse than anywhere else - look at the stats, don't listen to the hyperventilating. Crime did weird things during COVID and still looks different than it used to. It is no more San Francisco-specific than inflation is US-specific.

That said, my local neighborhood has gone to hell - that's mostly a function of cops deciding to funnel campers on our street. (I'm not going to argue with people who claim the cops don't do this - they do and will admit it is "verbal policy", but only off the record.)

So yeah, on balance, I would not have moved back here today. But that is not because of crime or shit on the streets, it is because the town's character is mostly gone.

Anyone who thinks SF crime was the result of Chesea's policy needs to explain two things about Jacksonville, Florida: (1) why they're seeing murder spikes, and (2) why nobody is calling for their DA's head.

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/like-covid...
Ah! Always struggling with terminology specifics when talking about DBs/SQL.

Sometime when people use the term SQL, they mean DDL, DQL (data query lang) and DML (data manipulation lang), other times they mean just queries (DQL).
I was only involved in one major project that relied heavily on CodeMirror since version 2.something. I participated in moving the project from version 2->3 and 3->4 (but not 4->5 which someone else did), and for those moves, the editor API didn't change very drastically as far as I can remember. Maybe the 4->5 migration was bigger?
SuSE was my first Linux distro back in 2000, and I started using it again a couple of years back. I have one laptop running Tumbleweed and one running Leap, I look forward to updating the latter over the weekend!
Medical mistake literally killed my family member by giving her an IV with the wrong drug. She was dead withing 20 minutes.
Saudi Arabia is petty wealthy rn.
The concern of “shaming” is not a justified ethical reason.
Is it as bad as I see online?

No. There's a weird concerted media push to just vilify the city recently. I don't know if it's new, very rich, residents who shudder at the sight of anything outside their sheltered worldview (like homeless people or people addicted to opioids on the streets, which probably was exacerbated by the pandemic), or if it is a political agenda like the post elsewhere in this thread talking about how bad "progressive cities" are (I wonder how progressive SF really is, given its policies around housing, zoning, taxing, political funds going to non-progressive groups like Grow SF nd Together SF, etc...).

It's expensive and that is certainly as bad as it ever has been, but if you're a social being, there's always stuff going on to do, and it is surrounded by beautiful natural features! Today, there are other great cities where you can work at a start up though, probably because of how expensive SF is.
> I created a new DB architecture that is radically different than anything I have seen. It is a set of performant key-value stores that can be grouped together to form relational tables. The data within each store is optimized for search so you have just one copy of each data point (no separate indexes). It can handle large tables (100 million+ rows and 2000+ columns) and has a flexible schema so it can handle data like Json that includes arrays for each column. The system is in open beta at <www.Didgets.com> so anyone can download and try it.

Honestly ... this sounds like Splunk (which leverages MongoDB, among other things)
Hell no, horrible language, too verbose.
From the point of view of the user, I wish this was more true than it is. Cloud users have a specific thing they want to get done, and ideally, the cloud should do that and get out of the way. And yet, there's still room for specialists to "get close" to the cloud and have an expertise in glueing cloud services together to make a product.

From the point of view of cloud providers, standing up a cloud service is enormously complex, filled with interesting distributed computing problems, especially under scale, diverse tenancy (and the predators that attracts), diverse workloads, and creative consumers finding ways to use it that you hadn't considered.
I am not outraged. I am annoyed. I come to HN to see technical or interesting discussion. Not to see a support/whiner group who don't like Netflix/Spotify recommendations. Or why Google shut down Google reader for that matter.

> We've had multiple threads like this for various companies recently.

Please post one of those threads that reached the top of HN in an hour. If you remove Tesla or remote work, it wouldn't be on the front page. Period.
I don't know what Tesla pay is like, but man, you really have to be guzzling the Kool-Aid to stay employed there. Crunching crazy hours, having some asshole guilt you for PTO, working for the world's unfunniest meme Lord, etc. Somehow, I have the feeling they're going to have no problem shedding 10% of their workforce this year...
I want to read the other article - the one in the can if Chelsea had held on.
Asking for feedback from peers doesn't mean that's the only action he intends on taking. I think it's condescending to assume his process would be "ask HN" -> "follow that advice solely based on what HN says".
> The SF tech workers left in droves. What’s left is the homeless and crime.

It’s still 3k for a 1 bedroom, so I’m assuming there are still some tech workers left
Is the problem that prison in the US doesn't focus on rehabilitation, leading to a revolving door of recidivism?

Decriminalising drugs has been seen by many to have been a positive policy change in Portugal, is it just being done differently? Are there other externalities at play, like the opiod issue being much larger in the US, and states not minding foisting their homelessness problem on CA?
> maybe advancement in imaging and detection could have spotted

It's possible that I have hidden Long QT syndrome [0]. Mine can be detected following drug provocation using adrenaline but under normal conditions it doesn't show on my ECG. It is undetectable on MRI or angiograms because it is electrochemical rather than mechanical in nature. There are emerging genetic tests that can pick up some of the possible congenital causes.

> If you were unconscious and wearing a watch with ECG features

Current watches with ECG features don't detect my Right Bundle Branch Block [1], let alone the hidden Long QT.

[Edit]

> and given you an Implantable defibrillator

They are quite expensive to implant prophylactically, create a small risk of infection in the heart itself and require explanting every few years for a battery change. I had one implanted after the event.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_QT_syndrome

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_bundle_branch_block
To be clear: are you claiming that the official crime rate is artificially low in SF in general, or specifically under Boudin? For all types of crimes, or just property crimes? And do you have a source for any of this? (I understand that official stats will not be a source for a claim that the official stats are lies, but is there something beyond speculation?)

I personally have my doubts. Boudin said he would shift emphasis away from prosecuting individual petty crimes, where the perpetrator would just be out on the street again anyway due to overcrowded prisons, but would still prosecute violent crimes and organized crime. So you would expect reporting rates of violent crimes to be about the same as before, and indeed violent crimes in SF are following trends in other US cities, with a moderate uptick in murder but other violent crime at historic lows.

For petty crimes like car breakins and bike theft, the police weren't going to solve this anyway unless it happened directly in front of them. The nationwide clearance rate for such crimes (of the ones people even bother to report) is like 15% or less. People don't report these crimes in hopes of someone getting prosecuted, they report them because their insurance policies require it, and that didn't change under Boudin.
True. We mention this on the website too. But many people switched to bluetooth headsets because of AirPods thinking they are flawless — to my surprise even tech-savvy people, founders and engineers in meetings. The goal was to have a URL to send to them so they can test for themselves as some didn't believe or know what's the issue.
I actually thought I had missing packages that I use via Homebrew on FreeBSD packages but I was surprised that it's covered pretty well now.

I guess it's only Docker that bothers me then.