skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a manager and software engineer,

Seniority is also implicitly more about _independence_ than _capability_. This is something Junior engineers are often confused about.

Its easier to hire, or let a senior work at home, because generally, they have a much stronger track record of "not becoming blocked" and "not needing someone to prioritize tasks" etc.

In short, its less about "forcing" preferences, and more about managements have seen this person execute with less oversite. Which is almost definitionally seniority.

A lot of you will respond to this "I don't need oversite to get things done" and a lot of you will be wrong. Because a lot of engineers need oversite to get _the right things_ done.
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A notable exception to this is uranium and modded Factorio. In particular, Angel's Petrochem has a bunch of those loops. If you're interested in trying it I recommend Factorio SeaBlock.
Practically, you can’t. Not only is the breadth of the things they work on staggering, there’s a number of secret projects that you might be falling afoul of as well.
In EU we have a conformity warranty which basically gives you the right to return the product (or demand a partial refund) if it does not meet the advertised specs. [1]

Does it apply in this case? IANAL but my guess is that it should apply, as it meets two of the prerequisites:

- are not fit for the specific purpose required by the consumer, of which he/she informed the seller at the moment of conclusion of the contract, and which the seller accepted;

- are not fit for the usual purpose of goods of the same type;

[1] https://www.europe-consommateurs.eu/en/consumer-topics/buyin...
I stopped using Google maps for turn by turn directions on my bike after every unfinished road told me to make a right followed by an immediate uturn for 10 miles. Maybe they should buy Garmin. They have the best data set in the fitness industry.
Looking at the submitter's post history it's clear they only have an account to submit links about this one product.
It is worth noting that even with this upgrade, Google FI is still just a T-Mobile MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) on the iPhone. The Verizon, Spring and US Cellular networks are not supported on the iPhone.
AMD Ryzen: new low cost quad-core Zen 2 CPUs from $99
Ah, customer support, the /dev/null of technical complaints.
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WD bought out Hitachi's storage business in 2012, so those Ultrastars are still their own, albeit different branding.
Nice, I like the website. What did you use to create it? Currently evaluating new framework/tools to speed up my side project quality/workflow.
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This is interesting. I know of places where it's dangerous to ride in my city (for one of two reasons: 1. more accidents happen there statistically or 2. narrow shoulder / no bike lane so it's unsafe unless you occupy a lane of traffic) - but what do you consider "death traps"?
Here is a list of known SMR drives [1].

The newer WD##EFAX ones are SMR but if your drive is a few years old then it's probably a WD40EFRX which is NOT a SMR drive.

[1] https://www.ixsystems.com/community/resources/list-of-known-...
>Third — and related to both of the above — figure out an investing model that is suited to outcomes that have a higher liklihood of success along with a lower upside. This is truly the most important piece — and where Andreessen, given his position, can make the most impact. Andreessen Horowitz has thought more about how to change venture capital than anyone else, but the fundamental constraint has remained the assumption of high costs, high risk, and grand slam outcomes. We should keep that model, but surely there is room for another?

I'm puzzled that the above paragraph was written by Ben Thompson with his background including an MBA and the writing of insightful articles about startups.

The reason VCs don't invest in other non-VC things like "boring" and "low-return" city infrastructure projects, or small/medium businesses to help communities -- is because that's not what the people who put money into their fund expected them to do.

Some folks seem to forget that VCs are ultimately managing other people's money. Pension funds, university endowments, charities, some wealthy families, etc. The investment officer working as custodian of a teachers' pension fund didn't give money to a VC like a16z to build a new sewer system. The pension fund is looking for 15-20% returns and looked to a16z's expertise on evaluating startup founders. That's what they specialize in. Previous comment about the complexity of different investments leads to specialization: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21365966

I think Ben's idea is that Marc A (and a16z) is influential and so they can put out a prospectus for a new type of fund with a different investment thesis that avoids YC software startups and focuses on low-risk low-return low-margin "hard" projects. Well here's the problem, the pension fund officers will not think it's a good use of their money and will invest their money elsewhere. Therefore, the VC fund using Ben's ideas does not raise any money.

The customers (Limited Partners) with the millions to invest is the constraint that any person raising a new fund with "feel good" ideas faces. E.g. let's say you want to create an investment fund that "feeds poor 5-year old children nutritious meals and reads books to them because children are the investment into our future." Ok, it sounds noble but when the investment officer of the Firemen Retirement Fund asks how it makes money, you need to have a credible answer. Otherwise, your fund gets no money and the feel-good investment thesis goes nowhere.

My previous comment on why alternative investment ideas don't need essays about it. They just need financial mavericks to pursue it and everybody will copy them. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21588264)

However, Andreessen Horowitz is probably not the financial maverick that can prove the alternative investment idea will work. Their firm and their staff are built to understand software startups. Somebody else has to lead with Ben's ideas.
The Power of Fuzzy Things
There still don't seem to be any plan changes. At this point, Fi is pretty expensive compared to competitors. Fi only makes sense if you are an incredibly light data user, you are one of the few people who both live in one of the specific areas in which network switching helps and have one of the handful of phones that can take advantage of it (the iPhone is not on that list), or you are a frequent international traveler. No one falls into that last category at the moment, but this eSIM support would potentially make that a slightly more favorable option for a future iPhone user who travels, but I doubt it attracts many new customers.
Expensify to start charging interchange fees if you don’t use their card
I'd really love to see a similar approach but applied to games much older, like the ones you have to pull out a DOSBOX to play, or a Win95 virtual machine. The Win95 games are going to be much more difficult to set up because the VM needs a bunch of stuffs to work properly (sound, video) while the DOSBOX does everything for you.
They weigh 19kg. Their range varies from 60km to 150km. Based on my commute, I would have to carry this bike upstairs about once or twice a week. That just seems highly impractical to me.
Based on the reports a week or so ago:

Earlier models (WDx0EFRX) were not SMR.

Newer ones (WDx0EFAX) are, up to 6TB.
Yeah, this. The experience with overseas calls I was referring to was talking to my then-girlfriend who was spending a year studying in France. Saying "over" all the time is not very romantic.
The Big Will Get Bigger Because We Need Them To
> At this point, the Telegram and Signal desktop clients are fairly basic

This is not true.

While I would never trust Telegram with sensitive data, their desktop client is by far the best IM desktop client I have ever tried. It's feature rich, native and beats Slack, Teams and any of the web/electron based clients.
Have you ever thought about a life beyond CRUD?

Not that I would blame anyone for settling into a life where you CRUD from 8:30 to 5:00, then go home and enjoy your life. There are many jobs out there that are more interesting and better paying with the exact same quality of life trade-offs. If anything, I've found that more challenging workplaces hire people who are more interesting to be around.
Whenever this topic comes up HN reacts first with disbelief, like you're lying. Nice to see this awful practice getting some exposure from the Twittersphere. As someone who's worked in large companies for most of his career, this has been a major trade-off of accepting the offers: You need to shelf your open source work and any hobby programming you think you might one day release. Period. These companies have armies of lawyers vs. just you. People here will spout off a bunch of simple solutions like "just negotiate, bro." You may be a whiz at negotiating your salary, but you are likely to not get anywhere negotiating legal terms like this with a FAANG company. If you try the cute "strike through the clause in your employment agreement and initial it" trick that HN will advise, I guarantee you will get a stern letter from Legal in 2-7 days telling you to sign it unmodified or GTFO. Ask me how I know.
I wonder when they’ll bring visual voicemail or Wi-Fi calling.
> Well that tells me some of my earlier assumption are infact going to end up being correct in that your political and economic positions lean pretty close to Authoritarian Socialism vs my Libertarian Free Market views

LOL! You're funny!

> I think there was and is a better way to handle pandemics. Better than simply shutting down the entire economy, locking people in their homes, putting millions out for work, shutting permanently thousands of business, destroying Families, etc all the while expecting fiat currency printing and debt to get us through.

There could have been, but many groups without foresight worked to fuck it up. You can thank them for your stay at home order, which is now necessary and reasonable:

How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared for Coronavirus (https://www.propublica.org/article/us-emergency-medical-stoc...)

The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-v...)

> Government officials and executives at rival ventilator companies said they suspected that Covidien had acquired Newport to prevent it from building a cheaper product that would undermine Covidien’s profits from its existing ventilator business.... In 2014 ... Covidien executives told officials at the biomedical research agency that they wanted to get out of the contract, according to three former federal officials. The executives complained that it was not sufficiently profitable for the company.

Before Trump’s inauguration, a warning: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918’ (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-...)

‘It’s Just Everywhere Already’: How Delays in Testing Set Back the U.S. Coronavirus Response (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...)

Not to mention the inept response and denialism at the federal level that wasted the lead time the US could have used to prepare for this pandemic, and that have continued to the present.
Author here

Thanks, yes this is an important point which I cover later in the analysis:

"Even once I control for various observable factors (including age, experience, hours worked, size of employer, programming languages, and more), fully-remote software developers earn 9.4% more than developers who never or only rarely work remotely."
I don’t think network switching works on iPhone.

Edit: oh, and you’ve added that above.
> Why is the author afraid of "sanctions" in a first world democracy with strong freedom of speech protections?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Jap...

"Many Western human rights organizations alleged that the high conviction rate is due to rampant use of conviction solely based on confession. Confessions are often obtained after long periods of questioning by police as those arrested may be held for up to 23 days. This can at times take weeks, during which the suspect is in detention and can be prevented from contacting a lawyer or family."

https://www.tofugu.com/japan/sued-in-japan/ alleges truth isn't an affirmative defense in a libel/defamation suit like it would be in the US.

I'm pretty suspicious of any system with a 99% conviction rate.
What are your goals? It’s hard to give you actionable advice without knowing what you are trying to achieve.

It sounds like you’re just copying others; that is not a good way to be good at most things that aren’t commodities (which social media is not).

Copying the techniques that you see on trending pages, without copying the (unseen) techniques that got people on trending pages will, predictably, not land you on trending pages.
Ha, fixed. Thanks
Yes. Most remote positions, clearly state the "prior remote work experience" is greatly appreciated or even required.

Remote usually means more not less work, so there's that too.
I guess we are boycotting WD now or voting with our wallets saying how garbage a response this is. What’s a good alternative to WD reds?
It sounds like you had a project that really benefited from updating, and that's great! Some of mine have as well.

It is not universally applicable, however. There's a lot of old code that, as I said before, is just fine. Adding a 100 line feature in the old version is easier than porting the whole 10,000 lines over. Just ask COBOL programmers what they're up to right now - it's not porting to a modern environment, it's maintaining the old one.

The other major issue is that Python 3 really didn't fix the major issues with Python that persist to this day. Atrocious byte code performance, a really awful deployment story, and perennial favorite: the GIL. Had just one of these been tackled in Python 3, the migration probably would've happened a lot faster. You might not care about those problems or they may not be problems for you, but they are for some of us and they persist to this day.

I will concede that on the whole, Python 3 is a better Python. But it's not 2x or 3x better. It's 10-20% better, and that's a tough sell to a busy engineer who has better things to do. I can't justify spending time on anything that is a mere 10% improvement when I have a pile of 2x improvements to work on.
Apple doesn't provide any of those in your opinion? I can imagine having everything you pointed and then ban on side projects (paid or not). And yes, working on OSS might actually be even more exhausting than a day job.
On the other side of a list of small mods, here's some cool modpacks I've enjoyed:

- Space Exploration (go to space!)

- Industrial Revolution (intermediates galore!)

- SeaBlock (Start from nothing!)
reverse SEO?
This seems a bit over-the-top. Sure, maybe Japan isn't testing and is just treating pneumonia cases as pneumonia cases instead of the cornavirus cases they actually are, but if that is allowing society to function mostly normally and isn't changing death rates all that much I don't see the harm. Arguably that is a better response than shutting down your economy and creating massive debt problems that will need to be resolved later.
In this case, I do not mean individuals. I mean businesses.

> For healthy people under 50

This is not their choice: in the US you have completely unnecessary businesses forcing people with conditions, elderly people, etc. that could be transacted entirely online forcing people to "go to work or get fired and we will refuse any unemployment claim because you decided to no-show", "you are not allowed to wear masks because you will scare customers, even if you buy masks yourself", -type of bullshit. It does not help that unemployment is also rather broken or overloaded and people are not getting paid that need it the most.

This is unacceptable. And yes, you can argue that the individuals for this can eventually win in court, but they are also generally from populations where knowing how to navigate the complexity of the legal system is rare.

This comparison would be a lot better if certain portions of the US were not under situations where they are stuck between a rock and a hard place with regard to work availability, workers' rights, etc.

> But curtailing others’ freedom due to their own fears is not OK.

It's not only fears of individuals, but also a rate limited healthcare system. The people making the risk assessment as an individual to go out and gather should also consider "you no longer have access to medical care" as part of the risk assessment.
The article now claims a "504Wh-capacity battery," which agrees with VanMoof's page for the S3.
This is exactly why WD's "selling for the use case instead of by specs" model is so frustrating. How am I supposed to know if my use case really falls within the boundaries of their specific definition or not?
True, it was cool to see how much solar production has spiked in Germany because of smog reduction.
No, games marked as Linux on the Steam store do not use Proton (by default) but are native (either ported or in some cases wrapped with Wine/whatever by the developer).

Black Mesa uses the Source engine for which Valve created their own ToGL wrapper but it's compile-time and much smaller than Wine.
Unfortunately not. For years people wanted gcc to output a nice parse tree for C++, which would have been plenty useful for open source text editors, but was banned by RMS as it would also be useful for closed source systems.
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This was already reported in China since the very early days of the infection. People would come in with critically low spO2 that seemed to have no problems breathing but would then rapidly collapse.

China switched to a system of centralized quarantine where people were put under medical supervision no matter how mild their case was and their spO2 was checked twice a day[1]. Anyone with spO2 < 93% was put on supplemental oxygen immediately rather than waiting for clinical signs.

The American practice of allowing people to recover at home and make a self-determination of when they require hospitalization is likely causing many more excess deaths.

Here's a Rachel Maddow video from March 12th explaining all of this: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/how-a-country-seri...

[1] Page 72 of https://gmcc.alibabadoctor.com/prevention-manual/reader?pdf=...
In my opinion from the previous price fixing scandals and no real competition between the few major suppliers there's very little driving innovation in this space. Perhaps the major suppliers will get better deals or bigger drives but there's no reason for the players in the market to make a product consumers can buy more appealing. We're such a small part of the market and have such little choice.
Agreed, it would have been better if they posted nothing.
I wonder if this has anything to do with an explore/exploit trade-off where you might not always do the optimal thing to see if something changed?
While I agree with you, I also find Joel Spolsky's blog post on the subject to be a thought provoking view of “side projects” from the employers' perspective https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...
Is (2) motivated by using aggregates which do not commute or by trying to do distributed modifications on a single value?

One common technique if you have commutative aggregates is to have each writer just write to their own spot and then do a range query on read to re-join. If your aggregates don’t commute this, of course, doesn’t work and you’re stuck in “single threaded” land. I do remember reading a paper that avoided this, but i can’t remember the implementation / trade offs (If I can find the paper I’ll post it here)
Why phrase it as "other than to prove it can be done" if you already know there are good answers? I think the following obviously do apply:

1) much easier for Rust community to contribute to the compiler from end-to-end.

2) lower coordination cost with LLVM giving complete, Rust-focussed control over code generation/optimisation. Think about e.g. fixing noalias.

3) lower maintenance cost for LLVM integration/fork.

It's also obvious that this needs to be weighed against the loss of LLVM accumulated technology and contributors. This is easy to underestimate (although I think 2)/3) are also easy to underestimate).
No problem at all. Thanks!
>Reliability is most important and the way you get there is volume.

Is that really true? The likelihood of unrecoverable sector errors goes up as the number of sectors increases.

Reliability is only solid if you have a good backup/recovery plan being practiced. Multiple copies on multiple formats in multiple locations. Original content on SSDs? Make a back up on HDD and/or recordable disc formats. Keep a copy at a friend's/parent's house. Keep a copy in the cloud (Backblaze as an example). If the data is worthy of backing up, do it right.
> thought they only needed 1 space, but it turned out they needed at least 2.

It has a lot more to do with historical post WW2 urban planning models which were designed to make room for increasing household car ownership, which did happen over the decades as public transportation systems were either dismantled or never built in the first place.

Consumers of the time readily bought into that model. We are only reevaluating it today in light of its failure modes.
GitHub is degraded/down
very cool! any thoughts on where that premium comes from, since we're controlling for the standard stuff?
Can we change the link to: https://www.githubstatus.com/ ?
Or, I just want to build something.
Regarding alternative forms of currencies, have a look at this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_(currency)

This approach tries to avoid hoarding of money by decreasing the value of hoarded money. The concept is part of the idea called "Freiwirtschaft" (German, literally translated Free economy):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiwirtschaft
Because there are much more senior positions than junior ones in remote space.
Oh dear...

https://github.com/asrp/flpc/blob/master/precompiled/flpc-ge...
It's nice that the article controls for many reasonable variables.
Of course, there could be other confounding factors (like the employer's trust, perhaps location, etc.), but those may be hard to quantify.

I think, it's interesting to think about the reverse.
"Developers that earn more are more likely to work from home".
I'm curious whether this still holds for the very best payed and very worst payed? There could be other effects kicking in the tails of the distribution?
4-5 seconds??? How is that even possible (with 1990s technology)? Even round-trip light time to the moon and back is less than three seconds.
FTA: ”The S3 and X3 models are essentially the same under the “hood,” differing only by frame types and wheel sizes. The S3 is designed for riders ranging in size from 170 to 210 cm (5 feet, 7 inches to 6 feet, 11 inches), while the compact X3 fits riders from 155 to 200 cm (5 feet, 1 inch to 6 feet, 7 inches)“

IMO, the only weird thing is that the wheels of the smaller model are only 24”.
There are various lists all over the interwebs. It will be interesting to see the manufacturers responses in market segmentation and product lines in the future.

> The easiest way to detect whether it is a SMR drive is the cache size. Old drives (WDx0EFRX) had 64MB cache whereas new replaced drives (WDx0EFAX) feature 256MB.

This information will become less useful as newer drive models come out and cache sizes for non-SMR drives are bumped up.

Source: https://nascompares.com/answer/how-to-tell-a-difference-betw...
The S3 and X3 are the same bike in two different frame sizes.