skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>ended up affecting only people with really weird/niche configurations that didn't really make a lot of logical sense

Did it now? afaik if you only had one drive, and one partition, and had Windows installed there, and you didn't have enough free space, you lost everything. That's not exactly niche
All these cities are simply gambling on becoming the Silicon Valley of the East. If they do take off, this $1.5 billion would be a steal.
How can you complain about this (the process described in the article) when you get one of the highest salary on the planet for this kind of job ? I do not deny the hardship that comes with all this but aren't you compensated for it ?
Would you also fail Mondragon corporation in the purity test, because it now hires contractors?
> having enough money controlled by these models could pose a serious systemic risk

This is the part that worries me. For a decade before the 2008 financial collapse, people were quietly saying, "Gosh, there's a lot of activity in derivatives and we don't really know where the risk is going."

One of many factors there was the way rating agencies gave very generous ratings to mortgage securities. Critics note that it was in their short-term financial interest to do that. If people can screw up that badly with models they supposedly understand, it seems to me to be even more risky when working with models where people have just given up understanding and put their faith in the AI oracle. As long as they get the answers that maximize their end-of-year bonus checks, they have a strong incentive not to dig deeper.
Schools were good and the hands-on experience was made from very young age locally before than abroad as adults. Such depth is going lost, though. In that sense, this new AWS region in Milan should bring some operational jobs which will hopefully go to local workforce to keep this tradition going.
> Did you mean "our" or "their"?

He's the CEO.
Something I feel I am seeing more and more lately is the idea of a dragon not only being benevolent, but heroic as well. There has to be an interesting anthropological take on that trope as well.
Back pay only covers the time they were unemployed. Presumably many of them were able to find new jobs before now which means a lot of of that money was for damages.
Of course, another approach to securing data might be to stop using things for purposes they weren't designed to be used for in the first place... I'm afraid I don't see that happening any time soon, though.
I get that it's normal for companies to pay local market rate for talent, but if the entire company is remote then what is "local" really?

I don't see any problem with them paying someone in Canberra less than they pay an equivalent person in SF, but I think it's disingenuous to make it about "cost of living." Someone with kids and a mortgage has a much higher cost of living than someone without (in the same location) but do they automatically get paid more?

The local (tech) job market determines what the workers will accept, not (as others have noted) the cost of rent or beer.
If what you say is true, then it would require that these highly attractive people all monopolize multiple mates simultaneously. Particularly in a gender-imbalanced fashion. Then, we'd notice a steep dropoff in the percentage of people in exclusive relationships, and the amount of time they remain in exclusive relationships. (Stats which one should be able to verify or falsify fairly easily)

If, however, monogamy has remained the norm, then the percentage of people in relationships will probably be about the same, and the only prediction one might be able to make about internet access is that it would strengthen the trend of assortive mating.

If the latter is true, then the decline in sexual activity remains a phenomenon to be explained.
Don't forget that it also prominently features a large distracting photo that was just ripped from a royalty-free photo site and has nothing to do with the content.
I've interviewed about 100 programmers who just passed their 366th day at Amazon and are looking to get the hell out. Further down the ladder their people are pissing in bottles and collecting food stamps. The only person at Amazon with "a good job" is Bezos himself.
> It's the reason remote workers like me are extremely competitive

Do you mean that you're able to compete because your location(hence, your salary) makes you a better value than someone who lives in an expensive region? That makes sense to me. Perhaps my viewpoint wasn't very thought out.

> As someone who works remotely from a low COL area, please do not outlaw this practice.

I have neither the power nor the desire. :)
Good idea and good luck with this, especially the timing. I was just reading Judson Brewer's book on mindfulness and addiction (The Craving Mind) and he mentioned December is the most challenging month for people to quit smoking, not to say you have an addiction, but rather a change of habit.

I just edited my hosts file to visit hn for a little break in the middle of the day. About to re-enable for some focused time this afternoon.
Everything old is new again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
Have you looked at Urbit? It uses this idea - programs are state machines that you give to the runtime, which pumps them with events (IO, RPC calls, etc) that return [new-state events-out]. All programs are purely functional and deterministic, so you can replay events or serialize the app to transfer somewhere else.
Show HN: A (funny) rap song about tech recruiters
Here is the song link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w9taH8Kkvw

Quick background on the project: I'm a full time programmer and I love making rap music. I see a lot of humor in the profession/industry, and thought it would be fun to combine the two.

In terms of monetization, I currently am doing the following:

1. Paid sponsors: depending on the level of contribution, they could get a shoutout/posting in the YouTube description, or an annotation on the video

2. Donations (https://www.patreon.com/stdoutrap)

3. Swag gear (in progress)

I am also toying with the idea of getting proprietary beats and making an album (I've gotten a few comments from people saying they would buy an album).

I would love to get some feedback on:

1. How to get more exposure (currently post on HN, IH, dev.to, Twitter)

2. Song topic ideas

3. Monetization ideas I am missing
Let's offset him with Jim Carrey, perhaps?

It's a very bipartisan issue. People associate it with religious worldviews, but those folks actually make up only one faction.
Absolutely. We all daily get practice in understanding humans, so I think humans are much better prepared to handle a rogue employee than a rogue model.
Or: you recognize that you are a disposable commodity, accept that fact, and focus your growth not along dimensions that benefit your company, but strictly in ways that benefit you and your loved ones.
it's wrong(and illegal) to pay people differently based on their race or gender

It was not always the case though. Good luck convincing people with moral arguments when it goes against their financial interests. Even cutting away the PR bs would be a major win.

https://elsajohansson.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/what-does-a-w...
I see people doing this, but only selectively when it benefits their existing beliefs. They look at the worse groups agreeing with those they disagree with, while ignoring the worst groups that agree with them.
> It's funny, because some years ago when Medium blogs were starting to be posted left and right, people were praising the interface, and nobody listened to the few who objected.

It's the same with OSX, often praised but at some point the UX got so bad that you'd have to install system updates through their music player iTunes.
I mostly agree with your sentiment (as I understand it), but I think your approach is overly simplistic. Specifically, this:

> If communities want to mortgage certain parts of their cities, that is their prerogative.

That (usually) works OK for small communities with residents paying for their decision, for example a condo complex community debating whether to build a pool or a playground. For HQ2-scale projects the decision to mortgage parts of a city is done by bureaucrats that have no long-term financial stake in the result: they are here today, gone tomorrow. Letting them decide such things (often in secrecy) is way too cavalier. My 2c.
That's incorrect. You had to be using folder redirection (very rarely seen outside of corporate environments, and no longer popular in those either), and then placed files in the original folder that was supposed to be redirected elsewhere, which you shouldn't be doing even if you are using folder redirection. (In short, to have this issue, you had to use a feature almost nobody uses, and also be using it improperly.)

Note that the reason that Microsoft failed to address it is because while a Feedback submission had been made, it didn't have any upvotes, because it was so niche that almost none of the Insiders experienced it. Despite the fact that Insiders are the sort of power users most likely to have fiddled with weird features like folder redirection.

Details are here: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/10/09/updat...
There is a correlation between salary and COL: you living in a COL makes you less competitive, as the price of you living somewhere else is paid, everyone in that COL area also wishes to get the same job.

Nobody gets paid on value, its not how exchange works.
Google got me this [0], which seems to fit what you want

[0] https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/901/1/MPRA_paper_901.pdf
>>A blog is a text file on a screen.

A blog used to be a text file on a screen. Like most words in the English language however, its meaning has changed overtime, as people's expectations have changed.

I personally like Medium because of its highlights feature and its unobtrusive comment system. In fact, I often scroll down to the comments first to see what people are saying, much like I (and many others) check the comments on HN submissions first before deciding whether to bother with the actual submission.

Don't get me wrong, medium has a lot of annoying issues. But this whole "let's go back to the stone ages" crap with regards to tech needs to stop.
I think what bugs me most about app review is that these things never come up for 1.0 or even 1.15. It’s some minor update where THEN Apple complains about minutiae that have existed since 1.0. Heck, they once complained about not having a Minimize button in a window (literally all previous versions lacked it).
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In what sense do I have more leverage living in London vs. Manchester?

I can just move to London.

Pay differences across visa barriers might make some sense. Within a country it's just odd.

It's effectively saying 'go and live in London, or we'll pay you less'.

The barrier of entry to 'live in London' is about 6k a year for a flat share. Way less than GitLab's pay differential.

(It's actually kind of funny that a hack would be to subsidise someone living in London, have that registered as your address, and live in a place with a lower cost of living in a nice house.)

Well, guess I'm never working at GitLab now. Oops. :P
High quality? It was web-boys trying to one up each other and bootcampers from toxic work environment practicing how to insult the parent poster without sounding aggressive.
Easy to imagine that generates $6k per job given wages and payroll taxes. Further, halo effects and construction act as multipliers on that.
this is super cool! well done.
Thanks, I did not know about Native Messaging API. Unfortunately it appears to be only supported by Chrome.
Many middle boxes do flow control and such based on deeper packet fields.

I did mention sctp over dtls, but not as a replacement for quic. Only to say that it is a transport protocol that already is being used
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Rather than replacing human workers via direct automation, the Internet has allowed workers in low-wage nations to do much of the work that used to be done locally. Telephone support is a common example.

Even if a bot can't cook burgers correctly, a worker being paid 50-cents an hour in Timbuktu may be cooking burgers via remote-control. At a fast-food restaurant, there may be one human overseer monitoring several remote-controlled bots. I suspect that will happen before direct AI burgers. (It might even be a combo of AI and RC worker to speed response.)

In general it seems pretty clear that the owners of technology are growing ever rich while the rest are stagnating. GDP is growing, but it's not trickling down much since the 1980's. Nobody is sure, but technology appears to be the main "culprit". We may have to adjust our economic systems to avoid log-jamming the fruits of automation at the top.
"It works if you provide your own additional code that loops over and fixes known problems" is not the same as "it works". It's useful, but at most it saves you a few lines of boilerplate code (and perhaps a few negligible cycles) to write your own recurser to do the same thing immediately after the transform.

> Do you want JSON.stringify to keep dates intact ? The whole point is to turn it to a string.

There are ways to serialize data structures to strings. JSON doesn't generally do that, and it's been to its benefit as it helps keep it generic and easily usable from many languages.

That said, there are serialization tools which can correctly serialize and unserialize more complex structures, given the correct circumstances (only core constructs, or the objects in question have serialization helpers, or they are ensured to not have features that might cause problems such as references to outside data).

The point of this discussion is Javascript object cloning, not turning objects into a string. Offering up JSON and then responding to a criticism of it based on its methods as "the whole point is to turn it into a string" is somewhat ridiculous given many of the other options you're espousing JSON over don't use strings at all.
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this is not in the spirit of the worker co-operative movement...
Following your logic, the value of someone in a high-demand market like SF or NYC will be higher, because it'll be much harder to find someone to do the job for the same low price as someone in a non-HCOL area. I mean those willing to work for the same price as a LCOL engineer in a HCOL area are very scarce, so they WOULD contribute good value on average if only you could hire them. But you probably can not, and I agree with the comment above yours.

Maybe compensation/bonuses/promotions are the proper way to reward those who have proven their added value.
Nice. Not really here yet, but the semiconductor physics sounds promising. The device they're actually selling is yet another spinning scanner, not a true flash unit.
Let me see if I understand this correctly. You want to ban me bidding on something because it raises the price for when you eventually win it. No thank you.

Say I'm running a town in Colorado. You think Amazon is going to set up in DC. Well, I want a shot at that. Having an Amazon HQ in my town would be wild. It could reverse economic decline and everyone's life would likely improve with the added dollars to the local economy. I want to bid on that and go all the way up to my break even. What if it makes it more valuable to move here? I want the shot at that.

Either you give me the chance to do that or you give me megabucks to not do it. But if you're using the law to compete economically we're probably not correctly using comparative advantage.

If it gets net negative for you at some point, don't bid! Why use the law to stop me from bidding?
The idea that "we" have the power to prevent software from being misused is nonsense. Most software (and all open source software, by definition) can be used for things the author of the software doesn't approve of.

For services, there is more scope to prevent misuse, but it's a never-ending battle.
Prevent the race to the bottom is the mindset of "there should be one single unified government that has all the leverage".

I prefer to give leverage to the citizens: let them decide if they want to subsidize amazon or not, as opposed to governors and elected officials that profit disproportionately more.
The ‘bribery’ could be referring to the actions of the public servants: offering ‘bribes’ to corporations to entice them to do something (e.g., building a new HQ or factory in that politician’s jurisdiction).
Anything along the line of Rind et al. Not that paper in particular, but anything that is even remotely in the same region.
I am as sad as anyone that medium sold out an began to intentionally mistreat their users for "engagement" (read: money).

But in their early days, their praise was well earned. I was a designer with a focus on typography at the time, and medium's defaults were an order of magnitude better than any other non-custom publishing platform at the time.

Big, readable serifs, intentionally constrained column widths (and corresponding line length), and lots of attention to the details and best practices that ease the pain of reading things on the web. They're cluttered now, but they were intentionally uncluttered then, which isn't exactly typographic but is worth a lot in terms of cognitive burden.

To the extent that this is table-stakes now, and no longer a differentiating factor, medium is mostly to blame IMO. They showed that doing web type the way typographers told you to got slam dunk results. Everyone copied their style and the web is vastly more readable for it.

So while they lived long enough to become the villain, there's some gratefulness due to their former selves as well.

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I personally do things the way you've described (markdown > jekyll > GH pages), but I think medium's value prop now is ease of distribution. You get bolted onto the homepage and other people's articles as part of a graph of other people's work, and writers find that valuable.
#3 is absolutely true for certain classes of employee.

If you live in Omaha where tech salaries for the best of the best top out at $70-80k, but you're making $175k at Gitlab, it's going to take a lot to get you to leave.

Honestly the thing that bothers me most about all this "fairness" stuff if the implication that business is supposed to be fair in the first place. Salary negotiation is a leverage and your/the company's BATNA. That's why software developers can make $200k in certain areas and janitors make minimum wage. Yes, value provided to the company has something to do with it. Yes, scarcity of skill has something to do with it. But all those just flow into the equation of leverage and BATNA and you come out the other end with a range, and where you fall on that range is largely just your negotiating skill and whether or not you're willing to negotiate in the first place.
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Why not :D
I can assure you that the law is very clear and established. Employees are often not very knowledgeable about it, though.

And in any case some jurisdictions have employment at will...
I imagine a huge benefit not covered in the article is fewer HR issues. I work at a growing software house and there are lots of guys who simply have no clue how to interact with women in a healthy manner.
I can't believe you are being downvoted for this. It's absolutely correct and consistent with my point: a system that's abstractly superior but which cannot survive contact with humans is not a good one.
This is tectonic. If it's purely WFC, I'm really amazed and excited. It's not the novelty, it's the perfection of each. They remind me of the Laurentian library by Michelangelo.

https://goo.gl/images/HHQLUv
https://goo.gl/images/njGNLC

Would love to see the output using Gothic architecture as the input.
That's an important point.

One of the depressing features of the 2008 financial crisis was the great number of industry titans who went smoothly from "My awesome insight is worth tens or hundreds of millions annually" to "Who could possibly have known?"

I would hate to see the same thing happen again when algorithms fail to work as hoped. If people build and deploy a system, they should be socially and legally responsible for its effects in the world. And executives should be held responsible by the rest of us. I'd like us to be done with the shrug-emoji-and-cash-the-bonus-check school of corporate governance.
I'm not sure that was the only way for it to happen. I don't have sources, only the anecdote of a friend that got his install ruined and had to reformat. I don't know what he did, but I'm 100% sure he wasn't doing any folder redirection
> The problem as usual is with the users not the system. If anyone in your building turns the valve on their radiator off (because their space is overheated) then the water will condense and when they open it again the entire system will hammer, forever, until the building engineer drains it.

If that's true, it would definitely be a problem with the system, not the user. A heating system that malfunctions semi-permanently if you turn off one radiator is not a good heating system, and it's not reasonable to demand that residents swelter in their rooms to accommodate the system's failings.
It's doggone impossible replicating cities that became central shortly after the creation of the United States, or even earlier. If Amazon had picked Austin or Pittsburgh you might have had a better argument, as those are seen as up-and-coming tech hubs. Instead, they boringly chose cities that are already central to American economic and political life.
This app only redirects DNS, it does not tunnel any other networking. The DNS speedup someone will get by using this app applies to all domains, not just those of websites that pay for Cloudflare.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: there is going to be one hell of a bust-up before this is over.
It's fine if Apple wants to control their store, but that only apps approved by them, in their store, should be allowed ... should be illegal.
These multiformat outputs have come a long way in the last five years, and it's good to see them working. Thanks for the link! The automated approach works best for technical books, just as in your case. There are still some esoteric layout features that are very difficult to automate.