skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer working in an office, but do work somewhere that I have the option of WFH when I want to (pre-COVID, we’re all remote now). I felt I had my choice of company when I was job searching last. Its just not universal that talented people want to WFH. I live 1.5 miles from the downtown of my city, in a residential neighborhood. We have parks and space and I can still ride my bike to work and engage with colleagues face to face as I prefer.
I suspect the increasing dominance of open source and free (as in beer) software for the last decade is at play, too.

Companies selling development software/libraries can pay for teams of content developers and evangelists. They also would serve as single source of truth for the canonical way of doing things. And they would give away the content in order to get license sales

The rise of the free (as in beer) software doesn’t have the same incentives, culturally or economically. The documentation of the better libraries is often great and better then the what I remember from closed source vendors in the past, but it normally stops at the boundary of the library. It’s rare to see teams of evangelists/content on OSS projects directly creating integration level content (although some of the bigger projects see that).
If you have side projects that you want to keep ownership of, your options are limited.

California Labor Code 2870 and similar laws in some other states protect you under certain circumstances. However, you basically cannot go work for one of the bigs, for two reasons.

First, these laws only protect you if the project doesn't relate to the business, and the bigs operate in so many different spheres that basically any software project can be argued as relating to their business.

Second, it doesn't matter what the law is if a huge company decides to sue you — they will throw lawyers at you until you are bankrupt.

What you can do to minimize your risk is work for a small company which does not overlap with the space that your side projects are in. They still might go after you anyway at some point (companies can get bought and new owners may have more resources and more inclination to sue), but for open source the odds that it happens are very small.
> Roads bridges

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%E2%80%93private_partner...

> healthcare

The large healthcare providers are already run like private businesses, because they are private businesses.

> education

Please no.

This is a favorite pet issue of the rich and powerful. Their ranks are littered with failed school reform activists. Sometimes those folks even have the self-awareness to realize they failed, e.g., the Gates Foundation. More often, they keep on proposing the same old ideas that are continuously tried and fail, while sending their own kinds to expensive private schools or public schools in the priciest zip codes in the country. Schools that are, aside from their wealth, operated in a quite traditional fashion.

If you look at education outcomes by country, there's really only two things that stand out as invariants that separate education systems that work from those that don't:

1. degree of heterogeneity in schooling (school choice without some strong equalizing effect on quality just rearranges the deck chairs on the titanic), and

2. level of respect for educators (pay != respect).

The "rich people can fix this" attitude is truly both a symptom and a cause of the biggest issue with America's education system: teaching is a low-status job (even places where it's well-paid).

When it comes to education, Americans respect literally anyone's opinion more than the opinion of educational professionals. Hell, even random people who were literally born into wealth get more voice than the professionals who spend their lives in the classroom. If that doesn't change, nothing else will.
As an owner of Red drives, it’s surprising WD would trot out a new acronym for in device features to a group already literate in acronyms.

It just makes me wonder how easily they believe their customer base can be placated.

Had I known I was not receiving what I thought I had purchased, I would have likely purchased a different drive.

The least WD could do is unilaterally extend the warranty of these misrepresented drives to easily deal with any fears, if they really believe in their products as such.

It will be interesting to see if the MTTB on these drives is in a smaller spectrum of time.
If it helps, I have negotiated with companies in the US and the UK to have that clause modified to be more liberal so that I could continue to work on open source stuff.

It's easier when they offer you the job but all large companies will have lawyers who know what to do. It just takes willingness on their part.

Smaller companies might just be using a boilerplate contract so you might want to suggest alterations.

Basically the company wants you so they should bend.
In 2nd / 3rd world countries a developer earns a good salary when they're paid (depending on the country) something like US$1500 per month. If you can charge US$25 per hour remote freelance to US clients instead you're earning 2,5 times as much and then you're still dirt cheap.

Also most employment is in NY or SF, people that work remotely for companies in those cities usually don't say "oh just pay me less because I'm dialing in from Nebraska" unless their CV's are weak.

Working remote means having access to the best paid jobs while the local market is only interesting if you're living in a select group of cities.
That's ridiculous, why do people like high DPI screens then?

8k on a 55" TV would have lots of real estate and lots of DPI for very nice fonts.
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This article frankly sounds like the rambling of a crazy person with all of the attempts of secrecy and defensiveness.

> A distant secondary consideration, but a real one, was that choosing to publish could bring down heavy sanctions, through predictable pathways.

Why is the author afraid of "sanctions" in a first world democracy with strong freedom of speech protections? A much more interesting and useful article would be an examination of the authors exact fears and why he feels afraid of publishing publically in Japan.

> Some have advanced a theory which starts from the observed timeline and assumes the behavior of very many people was motivated by a sporting event.

Normal people simply directly state their arguments about what is obviously the Olympics. Why is the author playing a game by pretending to be circumspect?

> I will broadly refrain from comment regarding that organization, for predictable reasons.

Oh please.
I am not a lawyer but my guess is their fear (no idea how plausible) would be a situation where an employee creates an open source project and uses it at work in a way where it becomes critical to the business, then later leaves the company and demands some sort of royalties/licensing
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I understand that but when I apply to a job I want an employer, not a mother. I'm still able to decide for myself what I can do and what would burn me out. And even if that becomes a problem, I wouldn't want my employer to (more or less) own me. If I'm not productive enough for my company it should just end the employment relationship (or try to help me first because that could be mutually beneficial).

Also there's a large gap between "starting an open source project" and "working on your side project full-time".
Join a YIMBY group in SF! We have to fight for equal opportunity. Zoning is the new redlining, and Silicon Valley is the epicenter of the problem.
With anonymous authorship, I don't see how this rises above the level of disinformation or propaganda.
Yes, because you have to have a proven track record of being damn good, hence too valuable to let go, in order to get the leverage to ask your boss to work remotely full time.

Most of us coding schlubs will still be expected to show up at the office at 9 a.m. sharp. That won't change, barring something like coronavirus.
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It's no more risky than anything else an already infected person may ship, which is why the parcel delivery companies likely already have sufficient mitigation efforts in place.
I would never hire anyone who doesn't want accept non-competitive restrictions.
Of course. Remote developers tend to be more senior. Once you control for that, I'd be surprised if this still holds true, given that the FAANGs tend to pay a high share of the highest salaries and they tend to not allow remote work.
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Steve Jobs worked at Atari and Wozniak at Hewlett Packard during Apple's inception. Do you think Apple would even exist today if these two hadn't been able to work on their passion project while off the clock??
By default it's not. However, if you join FAANG, chances are that you'll be required to sign a contract that basically says "I waive my rights of doing side-projects to to the greatest possible extents under the laws of California". When speaking of contributing to open source, Google generally has a more positive image, but there are still occasions that something could only be released after being reviewed by the legal department if it's work-related. On the other hand, Apple is known to have strict restrictions.
I have to agree, this instance that "Google" has to do better is silly. There are alternatives that are dedicated to cycling and mapping of cycling routes. Why not use one of them?

Nobody needs a single entity corporation to do everything for them, it's really time people see that there is shopping experience besides Amazon and search/map experiences besides Google.
Author here

Agreed, which is why I didn't say,"working remote causes developers to earn 22% more", only that developers who work remote earn 22% more, which is an interesting fact in itself.

Early in the article I adjust this for various controls to better get at causality. This includes observable factors like age, years of experience, hours worked, size of employer, programming languages used, etc.

As I note in the article:
>Much of the apparent premium earned by remote developers is in fact driven by seniority and tenure. These are older, more experienced developers who either prefer to work remote or whose organizations grant them that privilege.

However, controlling for manually selected factors doesn't imply causality, so I use principled covariate selection to select the best set of controls and get closer to something that could be called causal. You can read more about this method, called Double Lasso Selection, in Urminsky, Hansen, and Chernozhukov [0].

This results in an adjusted pay premium of 9.4% for remote developers relative to those that never work remote. Hard to know for sure if this is causal either, but it's likely much closer to whatever the true causal impact is. Unsurprisingly, it's a lower number.

Thanks for reading!

[0] http://home.uchicago.edu/ourminsky/Variable_Selection.pdf
Ok ok, you're taking this way over the top. No engineer ever invents a new optimization that will give Apple competitive advantage and they don't know this is important and "accidentally" put it on OSS code. I don't believe this for a minute. Inventions that give companies technical competitive advantage are created via multiple iteration by a team of engineers, by them doing research. It's never the case that someone wakes up one day and writes code that can be considered an "invention". It usually starts with an engineer finding a problem, another engineer doing research on this problem for some time, and then to improve found solutions, a group of engineers discuss viable solutions.
Absolutely but the OP was talking about development of the software.
Your employee creates your direct competitor.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/blbebq/ethi...
wow LMAO
Wow, this is a horrendously bad response, no apology, no admission of guilt, probably written by the legal team.

I am a total layman w.r.t Hard Drives, but it seems pretty simple (please correct me if I'm wrong):

- They used a technology that impacts performance, that allows them to make higher capacity drives for cheaper.

- The technology used prohibits them from being used in certain application context (citation needed/general consensus?)

- They marketed the product as being suitable for those certain application contexts, when they aren't.

- They come out with a blog, telling consumers to buy their more expensive drives instead?
Would that proposed option disable PSP main memory access? It’s access to system memory + access to PCI devices (networking) that most concerns me.
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$119 [0], since it's not mentioned in the article.

Also, not yet available to the masses:

> With limited quantities of kits available, Pixel by LabCorp is currently prioritizing healthcare workers and first responders, consistent with guidance from the CDC. We plan to make kits more broadly available soon so please check back.

[0]https://www.pixel.labcorp.com/
Even as a noob it plays out that way, I've only been coding for a couple years.

First I was in the office all the time, then I started working from home maybe one day a week....

After everyone got comfortable with me and I proved I could produce my pay increased dramatically, and at the same time work from home turned into 3-5 days a week.

Trust, pay, and working from home and / or remote all are generally related I think.
You sure about that? I remember reading comments like this when drives seemed to be "stuck" in the 300gb range, and again when 1-2tb was about as big as you could get for a while. Now we have 16TB drives; so is there really some issue for those who want to hoard?

Honestly, how big is your personal hoard anyway if a few 16TB drives won't cover it? Isn't it the case that at some point you will have amassed more media than you could possibly consume?
I didn't have any background on this and didn't know what SMR was. Apparently the background is: people try to add these things to RAID arrays, and when they do some rebalancing, the RAID software rejects the disk. The reason is because they use "SMR", which severely hurts random-write performance. The controversy is that it's pretty shady to sell a drive as a "NAS Drive" when the drive is too slow to be usable with any RAID software.

(I will spare you my rant on how bad RAID software is. But this is yet another interesting edge case that RAID software doesn't handle and reacts by just blowing away your data.)
Are you familiar enough with Baumol’s to comment on why we don’t see this effect in, for example, medicine vs basic biochemistry? Presumably there is a lot of overlap in these cohorts, but most research jobs pay significantly less than research jobs.

Both industries seem to be “more productive” these days as well, with massive gains in biological research techniques over the last 20 years.

I guess it is easy to see something and give it a name, but the wikipedia description didn’t leave me with a very solid understanding.
> Also most employment is in NY or SF

Is this true?

This article says over 4 million software developers in the US, and less than a million in the entire of California and New York state.

It says there's more employment in Texas than New York.

https://www.daxx.com/blog/development-trends/number-software...
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> To me, MOV is not atomic, except in specific cases

it seems that you are in an extremely small minority. Mov is atomic for all properly aligned accesses. All valid accesses in C++ are de jure properly aligned, hence a plain move is always a safe way to lower (non-seq-cst) stores and loads.

You would want the compiler generate extremely pessimal code (locked instructions for all atomic load and stores ) for something that never happens in sane code.
Trying to keep track of what's trending tires me out.

Are you suggesting that posting about things that are trending is what you would consider to be "good at social media"? That's not what post people would call it.

Look at what are generally considered good social media accounts - they don't follow trends. Some times they might happen to post about something that's trending, but most often the good accounts are ones that have an authentic voice about a topic they find interesting, and they don't deviate all that much. Occasionally a good account might also have a mix of a topic they care about and 'everyday life stuff' because people are human after all. No one who's really good at social media is posting about lots of disparate topics that happen to be trending at a given time.
I thought the same, like he's walking on eggshells? Maybe it's his assocation with Stripe or due to someone else in the working group? The memo doesn't read as particularly controversial nor did it recommend much concrete action.

I left Japan in early March, by personal anecdote masks seemed pretty ubiquitious (and all public facing employees were wearing them), hotels were screening guest temperatures, warning signs everywhere, etc.. Time will tell, but I still think I'd have been better of staying there than returning to the US.
For those who don't know, Seaborgium is the 106th element and is named after Glenn T Seaborg.
You may be onto something. Before Covid managers at my place considered remote work a reward for good behavior and delivering results. Needless to say, those people also tended to get better reviews and salaries.
Yes, due to certain provisions in California Labor Code which allow for curtailing what you can do in fields that compete with your employer (in a large company, this generally means anything could fall under this).
I think you overestimate how complex this is to purpose-build once you have the basics of DPI in place.

Also you don't need a precise measurement. Just measuring a random 10k users in 1M network daily will give you more precise viewership measurement than anything Netflix publishes.
Even adult noses are different sizes, the depth is a relative measure.
Great example on why such clauses should be there. This didn't really ended well for Atari.
Japan is a country where at the best of times, a lot of people die at home and are not discovered for some time. If you remove social contacts thanks to lockdown, this is going to become more common.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodokushi for more.
Ours just fired everybody and moved roles to india, linked in posts for our positions but in India.
That's not how Japanese immigration or prosecution work. What law or immigration requirement would he be breaking?

Also, tons of people have been saying that for months, both native and foreign.
Yes I am.

> but something tells me one must have at least a million in assets

" Rather, they are the faceless independent contractors of the hotel business, except ones which have a bit more capital than your lunch delivery driver."

I acknowledge that. I don't deny that the Hilton owner/operator has larger numbers on his balance sheet. I am just saying that the dynamic is similar between a Hilton operator and Hilton and an Uber driver and Uber.

> probably hover around zero assets on average at any given point in time.

No. They have a $10,000 (around that to get approved for Uber) car instead of a million dollar hotel. Or more likely in both cases, they have a million dollar car loan rather than a $10,000 car loan.
It's complete enough to compile C11 programs - to me, that's as good of a benchmark as anything. The main thing qbe is missing for cproc's purposes is inline assembly and VLAs. DWARF support would also be nice, but no one seems to care enough to do the work yet.
This is pretty much correct, yes.
Class action lawsuit in 3... 2... 1...
Pure speculation but: "Zeit" is a super common German word. So if you want to protect your brand internationally but there's a major newspaper in one of the biggest economies that is also called exactly "Zeit" - that's kind of bad. Vercel is much more unique. You can't get https://twitter.com/zeit because it's the newspaper. You can't get zeit.de because it's the newspaper. You could get zeit.com but you'd compete with the newspaper for it. Picking a brand that doesn't have as much baggage could be convenient down the line.
I've noticed this in myself and others. There is so much novel (no pun intended) stuff happening to everyone now that, I think, there isn't the downtime needed to effectively pay attention/think the way we're used to.

At the end of my day I can usually switch out to side projects pretty easily. But now, that's MUCH less productive.
How does that change things? I think small landlords are especially exposed to the dilemma because they have fewer resources at their disposal.
Could you please share how the clause is written on your contract now, as opposed to how it was initially? Just to get an idea of how something like that is worded. I could go to them and request my contract say "this" instead of "that" and see what they tell me.
A lot of cycling routes are obscure and labyrinthine, meaning you have to constantly check your phone to ensure you aren't lost. While riding, and in direct daylight I have to stop to be able to read the map. It ends up taking a lot of time. I wish cities were more clear about signage. I experienced obscure and labyrinthine bike routes in my own city, and I usually bring a bike with me when travelling to other cities and have experienced the same thing pretty much everywhere.

The thing I would much prefer is clear signage. The lack of it is common.
It strikes me that in at least some of these examples, the subject may know the best decision, but they might not know that they know it.

For example, you might have prior experience that your gut is more reliable than your conscious thinking.

Or in the example of Main Street and Spruce Street, the subject might have taken the new experience that the Spruce Street route was faster than expected to wonder whether they _really_ know that Main Street is usually the better route.

Anyway. If you liked this article, you may be interested in looking up experimental philosophy or epistemology.
Wouldn't US present the same problem? Remote worker in Montana for a SF based company is likely to make more than its peers working in Montana.
Novel compiler backends are a super cool idea, but I don't think it's going to help Rust compile speeds as much as this posts suggests. The complexity of Rust's type system puts a pretty high lower bound on compile times because of work the front end needs to do. Plain C compiles quickly even with an LLVM backend, for example.
I expect a degree of epistemic humility. "We don't know how bad it's going to get, but we know that the worst case is very bad, so let's go to extreme lengths to make sure we don't hit it" - no objections to that message. But in my local area, and from what I understand many others, people were saying in mid-March that it was already too late and there would surely be bodies in the streets.

Which hasn't been that bad until now, but it's going to be an increasingly large problem as most countries pass the peak and try to reopen. A lot of people have been convinced that reopening can never happen, that if people are allowed to go to school or restaurants that'll be what tips the health care system over.
I'm talking more along the line for Map/Filter/Reduce support and why those weren't included in Go originally.
Thanks, what browser/OS are you on? I definitely don't have this experience. Sounds concerning though.