skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why the use of TypeScript in your team could be worthwhile
And again, this board is not capable of reading sarcasm.
Cheap labor abound.
Spoken like a true Psyops-er. :p
What if you start at a low salary because you live in
Mississippi, and later decide you want to move to NYC. Do they automatically give you a raise?
From the article:

At GitLab, we don't force you to work from home, if you want to work from an office, we’ll pay for that. You can probably find an office space pretty close by, so you don't have to commute long. A lot of people when it's their first time remote working, they first do the office thing so that their family gets adjusted to it. And then also enjoy the benefits of your kids barging in on a meeting and distracting you, it's the best distraction in the world.
> I think it's a requirement of remote work. You can't pay someone in Malaysia the rate of someone in Silicon Valley.

Why not?

I understand why GitLab does it, it increases profits, but why can’t you pay someone in Malaysia Silicon Valley wages? If there was an individual contributor they wanted badly enough they’d break policy and I’d be surprised if there aren’t some people for whom exceptions have been made.
The problem is that the "model" story faces the same exposure on TV, radio, news sites, FB feed, other search terms...
There's so much information in this post it's difficult where to begin. If the engineer is good, then promote them. Time in post is not a reason not to promote someone, and it sounds like this manager is just crap. Often the "Time in post" requirements are just metrics that develop over time- you 'expect' engineers to develop at a certain pace, and if you're promoting them too quickly that's probably a sign that you aren't making the right decision. It's not proof that you're not making the right decision, it's just an indicator. When I managed a team I often had to manage expectations from employees that want to be promoted. Partly that was about "Look, you haven't demonstrated X,Y,Z skills" but it's also "You haven't built up the connections across the company - no one comes to you when they need an expert". Very often those requirements come with time more than anything else.

The fact that the manager is having monthly meetings with the employee to check in on promotion is a big red flag. If you're not planning on promoting him mid-cycle then you've not been clear with your communication by repeatedly having meetings at which you're going to disappoint him and re-iterate the same points.

The underlying fact though is this: Large companies stay efficient by under-promoting employees and only paying market rate when hiring since that's the only time there's real competition. As an employee you need to know this, and behave appropriately.
Vim has mouse support. You just need to turn it on in your .vimrc/init.vim with `set mouse=nv` (that specifically enables the mouse in normal and visual modes).
This might be a solution: https://www.carrom.io
London, UK is a 0.628 which is laughable.
How about we just stick to usernames and don't care about pronouns, I don't care about the gender of the person replying to me. Maybe I miss remember but when I started using the internet we were using usernames and being constantly told not to expose personal information. I feel like people were focusing more easily on whatever their community was dedicated to.
As someone living in Europe, I find it so weird that health insurance/expenses should be so tightly coupled with an employer.
hah, i also tend to up the attempts... If you have more than one server you can always tunnel through one of the others if you lock yourself out. Worst case of course VPS console.
We've managed to build the app in 21 days start-finish and it was on of the best development/deploy experiences ever. Let me know if you have any questions for me.
why not? why should my work be paid less, just because i live in a cheaper place? maybe the life is cheaper here, but i end up spending more money to get things that aren't local.

in particular, if i want to keep my european lifestyle, malaysia ends up being more expensive than europe. same goes for most other asian countries. it gets worse with kids. education is very expensive in asia if you want to get the same quality as europe. and i also need to factor in expensive travel to visit family back home.

average cost of living is meaningless.

life is only cheaper if you accept the local living standards and if you don't have any family on another continent. so you are telling me that me having to accept a worse standard of living than you is fair?
To be fair, the affair is only the scandal because it may have caused a conflict of interest. Boris has had plenty of them in the past, to the point where nobody knows for certain how many children he has.
Because in that hypothetical situation, the company can hire those individuals at $150K and $100K respectively. Sally won't accept $100K given alternatives in the Bay Area and her unwillingness to move to $MIDWEST_CITY. And to Bob--who is very happy in his less crowded and expensive location--$100K looks pretty good, especially relative to local alternatives.

"Shouldn't" has very little to do with salary offers.
“Leak”...

Zuckerberg plays out much better when there's no footage of him sweating it out or testifying [0]

0: https://youtu.be/nXrKKwHmPz4
> I also wonder, what is the point of doing this?

This is answered in the article:

"The project, known as Insta Novels, is part of the NYPL’s goal to reach beyond its walls and convince more people to read books."
Swedish navy returns to vast underground HQ amid Russia fears
What I think it doesn't matter.

He was arguing using the science of the time.

Darwin believed that "males are more evolutionarily advanced than females" and manyany anthropologists contemporary to Darwin concluded that "women's brains were analogous to those of animals," which had "overdeveloped" sense organs "to the detriment of the brain"

Should we judge them for being wrong at the time, without knowing it?
California allows college athletes to earn endorsement and sponsorship money
I've had this happen before, and it was just a little bit very creepy indeed, and did make me wonder.
I recently started adding Points of Interest to OSM using OsmAnd during my holidays, and the biggest obstacle for me was the number of available categories. The list is huge! I haven't started tracking my GPS position full-time because I was afraid of draining the battery.
I find this incomprehensible. It's a disease. What does it matter if it is bacteria, eukaryote or virus? Medicine involves killing things that interfere with us and hopefully eradicating them completely.

The whole "mosquito extinction" fears are really overblown. Nobody is proposing to eradicate all species of mosquito - only the ones that carry malaria. And the normal
system of eradication (removing standing water) is much more invasive than the proposed method of genetic engineering.
Basically, having two ways of interacting with the file: one mode lets you execute commands to edit the file, the other mode lets you type like in a typical GUI editor.
Weather forecast accuracy is at risk from 5G wireless technology
A Quick Start Guide to Query Strings with React Router
I recently attended the State of the Map conference (OSM's annual, global conference), and that inspired me to start improving the map around my area. I discovered a lot of small details I assumed would have already been mapped. There's a lot left to do, even in a fairly well-covered area of the world.

This helped me plan better for when I go out mapping—all of the apps are slightly wonky to use, so you have to develop your own custom flow to be efficient.
Development of human limb muscles – links between ontogeny and evolution
There is also the not-insignificant cost of simply rebuilding the specialized health care infrastructure to manage the new outbreak. Particularly difficult if the area of concern is already challenged by remoteness, poverty, conflict, etc. See: resurgence of polio.
Several people in this thread clearly are. "Work colleagues suck", "I want 0 colleagues" etc. Some people apparently do want literally zero human interaction in their work.
32 port 400G (12.8 terabit/s) 1u routers already exist today, the conversation is about the NIC at the server <-> network boundary not switching ASICs. The only reason you don't see 400G NICs in servers is the lack of the servers ability to put that much bandwidth over PCIe (the real bottleneck location).
SEO. Despite all the AI buzz, Google's search is pretty hackable with tricks like this.
Am I the only one that's skeptical of the claim that "300,000 people are reading books this way"?

That there are 300k people who are now suddenly "reading" books that have been available in a huge variety of formats in the public domain for years because they show up on Instagram?

Show me the actual usage data. How many of these 300k got past page 3?

The design is nice, the presentation is good, yes, but I doubt very seriously the existence of this hidden, neglected population of bibliophiles.
> Frontend development without the use of Javascript is no longer an option today.

Huh? if anything it's the easiest it's ever been to do frontend development without javascript.
The leases are sold at auction, so they go for what they go for. Remember, on top of buying the spectrum rights, companies have to invest a ton of capital in actually building networks. (It’s like leasing land to build a hotel. The land lease is going to be a small fraction of the hotel revenue.)

As to attaching “basic services” and other riders—these are outmoded, disproven ideas. Unfunded mandates and conditions invariably (1) reduce competition; (2) cost the public more money; and (3) produce opaque markets and trade offs that are impossible to quantify.

Granting license based on “public interest” type analysis is what got us into our current mess, with broadcasters holding valuable spectrum for low value television and radio services. (Likewise with the idea of granting cable monopolies in return for the public benefit of serving areas that would otherwise be unserved, which was such a bad idea Congress had to make it illegal.)

Almost every developed country has copied the US model of spectrum auctions. It was one of the foundational advances in the regulation of public goods in the 20th century. See: https://www.chapman.edu/ESI/wp/Porter-Smith-Hazlett-RadioSpe....
RetentionForce
So clearly sally is not worth being hired, all things bein equal. It wouldn’t make sense for the company
I work at GitLab. I work in NYC so my salary is "NYC based". If I moved to a lower cost region my salary would drop. So would a lot of my expenses. I'm okay with this. Do I move? No, because I like being in NYC.

I have coworkers in Nebraska. They make a different amount than I. They also have and own a house on that salary. Do they move? No, they like it in Nebraska.

It is not GitLab's job as a large remote company to "fix" global economics.

GitLab is a "small multinational". If you look at other multinationals (or even large nationals) like Google Microsoft, GE, Comcast, etc, I'm 100% positive you'll find that they don't pay the same in different cities.

It's no different. One step at a time. GitLab is offering remote. In 10 years, if local economies level out more due to globalization, this can be less of an issue.

Until then, I'll just keep reading this argument on HN...
It's a mix.

There are certainly people who are convinced that they can only find meaningful work in a handful of tech hubs--first and foremost the Bay Area. I'd argue they're mostly wrong but you won't convince many of them.

However, there are others who genuinely like the Bay Area in spite of all its downsides for reasons that I even somewhat understand when I visit. The culture, the lack of snow, etc. Others are like New Yorkers who consider every other city a provincial cowtown.
I do not think that it provides much more value than other simpler solutions already do. I might be wrong, so please correct me, but the main problem styled-component solves is already solved by css-module. In this light, styled-component seems an unnecessary abstraction and a whole new set of APIs to learn for no tangible benefit.
Understanding Processes on Linux
Heh, yeah, from two perspectives: how many people are covered under an insurance company translates to leverage over medical billing (the insurance company wants to pay the lowest amount possible, and the more insured people they have, the more leverage, or so I've heard...) as well as the fact that paying for insurance out of your own pocket entirely is unfeasible, when I was contracting I was paying like $400 - $600 for health insurance I barely used (I can't remember the exact number, but it was a hit), just in case, now I pay less than $200 which includes my spouse. With $600 I could pay for so many expenses I actually use monthly.
You'd need to install the right Python version though, and even with something like pyenv you might need to install system packages.

It really isn't as portable as one might wish.
We Are Living in “The Era of Python”
This statement seems to assume the same shipping of raw materials isn't taking place elsewhere.

Ore goes from the mine, to the forge, the raw steel goes to the manufacturer. That probably requires a bit of shipping, doesn't matter which country it takes place in.
I don't prefer being at the office. After 5+ years of predominantly remote work, I'm not going back to regular office hours. It's not even the commute, it's being at the office in an environment that does not promote getting work done.

I work for a 10k+ employee company with locations worldwide, so online communication is a must in the first place. In most projects I work, my closest collaborators aren't necessarily even in the same timezone as I am.

My work/life separation is simple: I have a separate laptop for work, and when it's closed I'm not at work any more. My remote work arrangements have tremendously increased my quality of life.

The difficult part is that many employers don't offer the possibility of mostly remote work. I tried looking for jobs elsewhere for unrelated reasons, but I ended up turning down the offers I got because it was 5 days a week on-site.
Mm, no. I have clients running Docker Swarm in production. So your claim that "everyone" is running Kubernetes is incorrect.
As an American, Me too. A lot of the 20 somethings want that to change in America, but it's slow going.
Not adding a source, but Chinese investment on the African continent is huge right now, and has been for years. It has gone largely unnoticed by western media. However, many African nations now owe huge amounts of money to China from large infrastructure projects.

Anecdotally, when I was in Zambia every construction company was Chinese, and every job site was a Chinese foreman with Zambians doing the work.
Our study confirms the transient presence of several atavistic muscles – present in our ancestors but normally absent from the adult human – during normal embryonic human development, and reveals the existence of others not previously described in human embryos. (linked article)

Strikingly, some of these muscles, such as the dorsometacarpales shown in the picture, disappeared from our adult ancestors more than 250 million years ago, during the transition from synapsid reptiles to mammals. (https://phys.org/news/2019-10-million-year-old-evolutionary-...)
> It's about the value you deliver for the company.

Well, yes, but $1 in Malaysia goes a lot further than $1 in SV. So "equal pay" isn't really equal at all.

COL-adjusted salaries are perfectly reasonable in my opinion.
> we claim that people are reading again. Of course they are not. It's a whole different experience. It can be nice and it can add to the experiences that we already knew, but it is definitely not the same as reading a book. It is more like seeing the movie adaptation of the book.

This really sounds like you just don't like it because it's not how you would like the reading experience to be. Are you open to the idea that someone can have a meaningful reading experience that's wildly different to yours?
That's what I assume as well.

But maybe that's also what it feels like to become as relevant int he tech world as the US. There is no shortage of US-bashing in international tech discussions. As long as it stays good spirited, I don't mind.
While editing a file in VSCode, I can press CTRL+P, which opens a small command box in which I can type to find a command with autocomplete - like a souped-up version of vim's "colon prompt" (not sure what it's called!) - does that count?
Urban economists have identified many agglomeration benefits from living and working close to others. One of them is knowledge spillovers and benefits from randomly bumping against each other. Not just in the same workplace but people working in different companies etc.

If you have a local meeting the immediate aftermath can be more useful than the actual meeting. You talk a little more and one-to-one with someone and exchange ideas and maybe you quickly go over some difficult issues.
And it takes 2 years for most students to meet the MSc requirements (basically they need to complete the coursework), not 4 years, barring some special cases. Again, I'm talking about the common practice, not the handful of exceptional universities in the US you're referring to.
High price? He got to keep his professional integrity and self dignity. He's an SV tech worker - He will bounce into something else. It's not as though he had a special needs kid on a ventilator to care for, while working in a job where there was no equivalent for 100 miles away.
Out of curiosity, what type of feature are often left to improve?

I've been mapping my area as there was quite some drastic changes to my local park, but aside form that and the occasional post box I struggle to find meaningful edits.

Granted I live in London so it's fairly populous.
Doesn't Gusto handle that? Is the person updating their address there? I know they handle this at hiring time
And the right way of reading Harry Potter, I presume, is with two-year intervals between books, as God and Rowling intended.
>Hacker News generally considers itself liberal but actually holds very conservative views...

I'm not sure that's entirely true. We're(1) a bunch of programmers. We are very sensitive to unintended consequences in complex systems. I think we just tend to be a little more careful with feel-good regulations that might produce these, along with being more evidence based in judging success.

(1) With all of the usual caveats about the monolithic "us".
Living Near a Coast Linked to Improved Mental Health
TL DR; The author wants a modal editor (like vim) that's also "modern"/graphical.

My view: this is largely a religious issue.

Editor design is like QWERTY keyboards (or beer): preferences are more dominated by your muscle memory and what you're used to, than any objective notion of "good" or "best".
I understand why it happens, I was replying to a post that says “everyone should earn the same”, which I disagree with.
I agree that electric airplanes is a highly desirable goal.

I don't, however, get the point about propeller efficiency, as is it not about matching the pitch to the airspeed? Fixed-pitch propellers have a maximum efficiency at one particular airspeed (and maximum thrust at, in general, a different particular airspeed), regardless of what sort of motor is turning them.
EU Structural and Investment Fund allocated £8.4bn for UK
for 2014-2020, £1000pp in Cornwall & West Wales alone.
Similar funds for 2007-2013 are estimated to have created 70k jobs in the north of England, and 80k in Scotland & Wales. [1]

I wish I had your casual nonchalance about how these regions will be affected post-Brexit.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/01/mapped-where-in-...
Which makes sense when the largest trading partner in the world which happens to be 90 miles from their shores won't do business with them.

The USSR did business with them as a middle finger to the US. The US doesn't do business with them as a middle finger to...the cuban people, the majority of which weren't even alive during the revolution.
I enjoyed this, it is in the list!
The making of a side project – Culrs
Denying remote work is a common policy even in cases when nobody wants to manipulate you anywhere.

It's really not hard to imagine that a gentlemant's agreement is not upheld when said gentleman is not around to push your agenda anymore.
I have said that at every step in these regulations: even a law that can't easily be applied and that has loopholes is a progress as it gives judges, engineers, decisions makers and users a notion of what is wrong and what is right.

Want to make a startup whose business model relies on the impossibility to repair? Have found a loophole that makes it possible? Well investors may evaluate the risk this loophole gets fixed and will not see the plan as particularly safe.

It is not just about changing the rules, it is about changing the ethics around them.
I'm OK with coming over and being productive, it's taking citizenship in a deceptive manner that I object to.
Where are you getting your clothes? I have some pretty cheap shirts and I've never had one "break in the most awkward time". They just start developing holes, especially on the collar.
https://medium.com/commitlog duh ;)
> Remember the era of woodstock are now those 70 year olds voting for brexit and trump and burn the foreigners. Will today's Extinction Rebellion, or Occupy Wall Street from 10 years ago, change at the same level?

I understand what you mean here but I think even back in the days when woodstock happened, the hippies were a minority even among their age group.
> How about we just stick to usernames and don't care about pronouns

There are some stack exchange sub-sites that this would be reasonable to do, but many others that aren't. That's why. It's pertinent information for a lot of questions that are going to be asked.
nm here I’m guessing is nautical miles? Nanometer range missiles would be tricky to wage war with.
Have you seen a variation on this comment from someone who left gitlab? I'm curious how much people's affinity for remote work depends on the way the company does remote.
They do have a single GPU API (wgpu-rs) and only one version of the shaders - SPIRV.
Only collectively so, when you have both GL and D3D11 backends.

OpenGL is not portable.

Technically it works on Windows, but that’s only true if you’re happy with 11 years old version of the standard, OpenGL 3.0: https://github.com/Const-me/GL3Windows#building-and-running GPUs have changed dramatically over these 11 years, i.e. that version is way too old.

Technically, OpenGL doesn’t work on majority of ARM devices. They use OpenGL ES, not quite the same thing.

Vulkan works on most of these, with the only exception of Windows devices who have Intel GPUs older than Skylake, i.e. older than 2015.
> it is likely

There's no basis in that assumption. In fact, I'd argue that it's possible that this format (interspersed with graphics and with a user base tuned to ingest content in a certain way) may actually aid retention and understanding. Instagram users have gotten very good at quickly gleaning information from the format. There's a huge userbase and they are not likely carrying around a physical book or eReader. This book format is essentially on them at all times and takes advantage of the potential to "hook" a user at an opportune moment.

Instagram users aren't expected to "drop their habits". Their habit is one of consumption - this just fits into that habit.
I think that applies to American in a more general sense too. There's a real culture that regulation is bad for business and capitalism should trump all over priorities.
Stein's Paradox: better than average estimation [pdf]
US telecoms costs are insane though. Paying less than $50 is basically impossible for a decent amount of data (5+GB). Google Fi for example is $70 + tax

In the UK, it's hard to spend more than £20/month (for sim only at least)