skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really true. As a remote developer, my employer is evaluating me against all other remote developers and their compensation. I'm evaluating my employer against all other employers offering remote positions.

Sure, the employer has more power in that negotiation, but it's not like there aren't others out there.
I wonder if your proposed rough scale still applies in 2018. It was much more of an undertaking for 'some idiot' to tell the enemy themselves before social media. Today, I'm sure pictures of the D-Day boats in staging would be all over twitter within an hour - "anybody know what these are? just showed up in the harbour this morning." In the same vein, I find extraterrestrial UFO visitation harder and harder to believe with each year that passes without video evidence, now that everybody carries a powerful digital camera everywhere they go.
Do you get a raise if you move to an expensive city? What if you say that you moved and you just rent an address there?
> Maybe because the barrier to access online advertising was lower, both in terms of cost as well as to the medium itself

You mentioned about this offhandedly, but this is one of the main reasons for current landscape. For companies without a massive revenue/profit and marketing budget, which is most of them, investing a large chunk of money into something that "maybe" works is a hard decision. Heck, even hiring someone who has a track record of delivering good off line marketing result is probably out of reach for them.

Think of it this way, before online ads, how do small companies market their product/service to non-local customers?
Most people aren't evil, so that's not really special. Taking the statement seriously is the power of branding at work designed to drive employees.
Yet another reason third-party cookies shouldn't exist
Why would they need to change the rules? The rules already provided that an EV could not win, and should not even have been allowed to enter.
If you are writing a reviver, what difference is it to instead write a deep clone function?

JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(obj)) !== deepClone(obj)

EDIT: Also, how can you determine if the string should be a date, or a string? Sure, if it fits, you can always convert it to a Date, but if your first object is coming from something that sends ISO Dates as strings and you used JSON.parse with a reviver, you would get a different object.
I saw more companies collapse at that stage because they decided that they are now a new kind of company that needs to scale than I saw companies that collapsed because they did not scale fast enough.
I used to do a lot of online dating and the worst dates were with recent grads.

Usually, they would be either about to graduate, or else they had graduated a couple of years earlier and had just worked steadily since then.

They would have zero hobbies. They would listen to top 40s music but couldn't name a band, sometimes watch a movie (but didn't care much what movie), didn't have opinions on things, had almost no stories to tell. They didn't have ideas about what to do on a date. They were awkward. Our date would almost always be the first they had been on in a long time.

It was like they postponed becoming real people in order to become excellent students and professionals. I get that - their programs are HARD. What a high cost though.
The current approach will end the native population.
I am not. I'm just saying it's a platform for publishing in the same way HN is. If I want to reach Medium users, I'd post on medium. If I want to reach HN users, I post here.
Get a piano teacher. Injuring yourself because of bad posture or habits is not worth it.

These habits and postures are easily picked up by teachers but not easy to notice by yourself.
This, and this sort of thing in general, are why I'm not very enthusiastic about security on the web.

Facebook and Google can avoid security holes like these, sure. Perhaps you will too -- that is, you'll avoid this particular one. What about the fifty others, subtly interdependent sources of security problems?
Thank you for running the numbers. How can we price in the wasted time/effort of the dozens of other cities who put in bids? How about the many millions or perhaps billions of dollars of free advertising and air-time taken up by this charade? I am neutral on Amazon specifically but surely we should not allow big companies to run roughshod all over our desperate cities? Look at Foxconn and Scott Walker for another example of companies harming and exploiting a metropolis/state. It really rubs me the wrong way.
These are remarkably dishonest and bad reasons.

1. This is meaningless.

2. This is FAR more a factor of lifestyle choices than CoL. I've lived in extremely high and extremely low CoL places and there is not a big difference. I have a $1500 mortgage instead of a $1700 lease. Maybe apples are 20c cheaper a pound?

3. "It's better if we pay you less, really!" PS Other remote employers pay significantly more than you.

4. Pay people competitively for the role instead.

5. Pay people competitively for the role instead.
I think it's because software is inherently easier and less critical...castles of shit actually work. Software is fairly unique in that level of quality and reliability needed to have significant economic benefit is very low, and the consequences of system failure are rarely severe. That's not the case in most branches of engineering. The complexity levels are also off the charts, in large part because economic value is so loosely coupled with quality. In many cases more turds are more profitable.
this comment assumes people are poor because they lack self motivation or "grit to pull themselves up by the bootstraps", which in general i believe to be false.
Steve Wozniak: 'I do not believe in auto driving cars' – it's not possible yet
The cars I've driven only disengage cruise control if you tap the break.
You actually can do bullet points if you type '*' or '-' and then a space. For some reason, they have a few markdown-like formatting features that aren't shown in the popup editing bar.

Also, about the recommendation system for self-hosted content, I've seen a few sites that link to HN or Reddit for comments. Upvotes can stand in for "claps", and posting on HN or Reddit makes your article discoverable.
If these inspiring words were more true, you’d see employees taking pay cuts instead of layoffs. Remember, an individual’s loyalty is also to their career.
As someone who lives in Nashville and can see the future location out my office window, Nashville might be getting jobs but we don't have the infrastructure to support what we already have. The post Amazon puts out makes it sound like we have public transit (we basically don't) and the recently downvoted transit bill means we can't readdress it anytime in the near future. I don't really see anything good out of it for those of us who already live here and have no interest in picking up one of those jobs.
It can get into 27 countries depending on their terms for immigration, but then cannot simply use free movement to move to the UK. This is incorrect. As a non-EU national, your rights in this regard are severely restricted.
After five years in the EU, with a means of support, you are entitled to move freely within EU with the exception of some countries, notably the UK.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_resident_(European_U...
Here's my high-level understanding.

You're going to tile (say) the plane with a set of tiles you've chosen beforehand. (In this example, it looks like the tiles are 3d.) There are rules for which tiles can go next to each other---the edges must match.

As you go, there are two regions: a region in which you've settled on which tiles to use, and a boundary region in which you haven't. In the boundary region, you keep track of a probability distribution over the tiles. This distribution is influenced by the neighboring tiles (exactly how is probably the most interesting bit of the algorithm; I don't know).

The algorithm proceeds by repeatedly (i) picking a tile on the boundary that has a very skewed probability distribution, and fixing it to be the most likely tile; and (ii) updating the probability distributions of the neighboring tiles in the boundary.

It's possible that you end up making poor tile placements at the beginning that gets you stuck later, so the algorithm must sometimes backtrack to undo past decisions. You want to pick a set of tiles such that the algorithm doesn't need to backtrack too often, or it will take too long.

Note that the distribution is an ordinary probability distribution, not a sum of complex amplitudes like the name "Wave Function Collapse" would make you think.
Being in Poland, it's hard for me to even consider working for GitLab if the salary for a backend engineer tops out at 25k PLN / month pre-taxes, pre-social (that's $80k/yr for a true expert). Berlin companies are willing to hire mid-to-senior remote employees in Poland for that amount.

It's not about the idea of a salary calculator, it's about the ratios that you set. Not everything scales linearly and while you could absolutely live in a total dump and consider nearly 100% of the salary "disposable income", in order to live at a similar level to Western Europe, the expenses start increasing rapidly.
It meets the definition of a chart, perhaps it isn't your expectation for a chart to represent the title.
Completely disagree that it's a problem or that it needs a solution and completely disagree it should be solved at the national level. If communities want to mortgage certain parts of their cities, that is their prerogative. It's growing tiresome reading all of this non-representative nonsense about wanting to change how other peoples' communities spend their money. This is no different than saying every state should tax income or tax businesses a certain way. The same reasons in favor apply.

The real problem with articles like these is that they say something is a problem and just expect you to magically believe it is. They throw out large numbers given in tax breaks and just say "poof, this is a problem" as though the readers automatically assume paying less in taxes is a problem. There are many people that believe that in many cases money is better spent elsewhere and the taxes are too high in the first place. There are many others that believe it is ideal to give to the job creators. And many others believe companies providing disproportionate benefits deserve disproportionate concessions. Whether you believe this or not is less important than your ability to understand why others do. The absence of that understanding, and similar dissonance across other issues, aptly explains our current political spectrum. But at least, for the time being, those that disagree with this article can still have these kinds of financial choices at the community level.
Discovery via the app store.
1. Excludes basically the top 100 cities in the world. Ruling out talent from New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, etc. seems pretty significant.
Another thing to factor in, if there were no tax incentives given to open/expand offices in the DC/NYC areas, would Amazon have expanded their presence there anyway?

Considering the two areas, it seems likely they would open additional positions there regardless of whether the areas "won" the HQ2 battle, much like they're doing in Boston (and probably other places as well).

This makes tax incentives even less worthwhile.
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I give them 6 months before the SEC comes after them. Their website is a case study of how not to advertise securities/investments to the public: https://www.x8currency.com/
> (won't someone think of the children if the train overturns)

> proliferation due to terrorists dropping from the sky

This is exactly what I mean by a cavalier attitude towards these problems. It is dismissive, uses manipulative phrasing like the president "was told" that removes his agency, paints environmentalists as all powerful agents of manipulation, etc.

France is not a perfect example. Fukushima demonstrated the kind of disaster that can happen despite best efforts and good operating records, and there is much debate in France about the risks of relying on nuclear going forward.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
Atlassian is not blogging about it. Someone else created a Confluence wiki site for RAMCloud using the shared *.atlassian.net domain. Anyone can create a site with a subdomain there.
I was talking about the italian pronuntiation.
Please allow me to show a little bit of national pride (the parent comment it's a joke, I know...).

While absolutely terrible at organizing (on a _fractal_ scale: from the smallest details to the big picture), and affected by a less than optimal state of the economy, we have a pretty good engineering tradition. I have met astonishing engineers in Italy (and in Germany as well, and Russia, and USA, and so on...) with deep theoretical knowledge and a strong hands on experience.

Edit: clarified, not to be taken too seriously
Whether or not the singers were hyped up for entertainment doesn't change the fact that they seriously auditioned, unless you think they tried out ironically for the lulz.

In the first case, rudeness can be helpful and in the second case it won't hurt their feelings. Seems like a fine choice to me.
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It is completely impossible to have a real full time job and take care of a child at the same time unless yours happens to sleep the entire time. If this was possible all those moms could just work from home! I can barely work at home without locking the door if children under 5 are in the house and there is another adult taking care of them.
> Value tends to scale with scarcity, economics 101.

By this reasoning, you'd expect to find the most "valuable" baseball players in areas devoid of professional baseball teams.

Something tells me you didn't completely think this through.

Gitlab is willing to pay high salaries for people living in expensive areas for essentially the same reason Google's dev offices are mostly located in expensive areas.
As a fellow Atlantian, can't agree more about the traffic benefits. I don't have a remote job but live close enough to my work place (~2mi) to avoid the grind with the bad traffic we have in our city.
FTPing HTML was infinitely easier than Git+Hugo+S3+Cloudfront.

And even if you can somehow cut through all the complexity of modern hosting — you still have to make those HTMLs. Only now they have to be responsive, look no worse than whatever is out there, look nice when posted on Facebook or Twitter, render well in various read later apps, and generally work with a wide ecosystem. And then you have to continue to make your site work with all the new stuff, preferably without breaking older pages.

You can indeed be simpler than most websites out there, and not lose anything important. But don’t kid yourself — the web is much more complex than it used to be.
Fair enough.

How do you think we should regulate these tools?

Im worried that lawmakers cannot/will not truly appreciate the imminent danger of having billions of the most detailed psychological profiles in history stored in a hackable database until a major attack occurs.
Blaming someone doesn't fix the underlying issue. Forbidding special tax treatment to individuals and other entities is a realistic solution and easy to execute.
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I am against corporate giveaways, but I also am against making it illegal for legislatures to legislate. Such things shoukd be handled by the electorate voting out the lawmakers who swindle them through taxes with little to show.
Maybe just shelve ML and go back to traditional statistics which focus a lot more on being explainable.
Einstein alleged suggested there will be no WW4.
I interviewed at Palantir as one of their "front line" developers in London.
The office looked like they had taken the concept of a hamster cage and scaled it up for human usage. The recruiter even said people like to hang out and stay late for dinner.

The interview was super hard and didn't really tie up with the expectations of the job.

Needless to say I didn't pursue the application further.
During 2017 they had between 130-170 employees but I agree that the amount of revenue for that period makes me think they started scaling without finding product market fit. $10m in revenue for that size of company is very, very bad.
Ehehe, I see you well: let’s agree Mee-lah-n would be the best and neatest compared to received pronunciation and move on happily.
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I would recommend Apache Ignite if you want a similar production-ready system today, along with extending datasets automatically to disk, built-in messaging and distributed data structures, and read/write-thru cache options.
That carrot is unobtainable for most people. Janitors, teachers, deli workers, city park employees, dog walkers, babysitters, waiters, waitresses, contractors. Doesn't matter how well you "manage your finances" if your salary basically has a cap on it.

The only ones benefitting are overpaid tech workers supplanting people that do actual tangible work that makes the city tick.

Funny that a tech worker posting on the HN playground is addressing people who deal with real life struggles (raising a family, making increasing rent) how to be a "responsible adult."
I think you're extending an analogy to a philosophical place it doesn't go: from a "walled garden" to "the rule of law in a free society." There are a variety of features of the latter that are not inherent in the former.

For example, justice in a free society should not be arbitrary and capricious. It should be fair and equal, and applied with discretion. A society where minor rules are difficult to understand but are enforced to the maximum extent is a tyranny.
And of the 52% that voted for brexit? The problem I've found in politics is that politicians like to 'switch' their mandate depending on what's convenient. Half the time, rebellious MPs justify their behaviour by saying their "mandate comes from their constituents". So what of brexit? The majority of Labour MPs represent pro-leave constituencies. Now the same people are saying it's the "will of the membership" when that means nothing at all over any other issue.

I'm pro-Remain but I think Corbyn has been misrepresented by our media and colleagues so much that he's not going to do well no matter what. Christ, he was criticised for wearing a coat in typical British weather laying a wreath at the cenotaph.

That said, there is a section of the Labour party that has formed a dangerous echo chamber. I was routinely attacked by "friends" after saying Assad is an oppressive dictator. I was called names like "white supremacist imperialist" and, almost as bad, a Blairite. I left the party because it's a festering whole of negativity, anger and irrationality. I have misgivings about those people influencing policy, which it would invariably would via conference if Labour attained power.
Paying people competitively is exactly what they are doing. They are paying exactly as much as they need to to hire the talent they want.
Yeah proper thing to have done would be cancel hearing and have her detained until the next hearing date.

Like in a few weeks or months, or maybe next parliamentary session. Who knows.
But it doesn't materially impact geographic diversity. Does having an employee in the London suburbs instead of the City of London suddenly make for a weaker team?
As someone who works remotely from a low COL area, please do not outlaw this practice. It's the reason remote workers like me are extremely competitive, and if you outlaw this practice on my behalf, I will be in a worse position.
You also have freedom of movement in the US. I am unaware of any border controls between US states.
Great post. The author is polite enough to avoid drawing attention to a mistake of the CEO, but I thought it was worth mentioning. (Assuming the boss already knew the lessons learned.)

Believe the CEO would likely have received a much better response had phrased the same idea as:

- Great job!

- Business is changing, we need to take it to next level.

- Let's improve our Plans, Vision, Strategy

- I've got a coach on retainer to help get us there.

Then Plan B, where early employee can't make the transition and is replaced, can be left unsaid. If it happens the employee will be a lot less surprised, and have a greater chance for retention.