skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time I've posted a remote job listing, I've been buried by a flood of low-effort applications. Remote work has been a hot topic for a long time now. To be blunt, there are a lot of people out there looking for cushy remote jobs where they can fade into the background and do as little work as possible. I've had a lot of negative experiences with digital nomads and "4 hour workweek" followers. One person even tried to keep their old job and the new remote position so they could get two paychecks (He couldn't keep up, didn't last long).

Instead, our remote hiring has been via outbound recruiting only. The bar for selecting these candidates is much higher, and we're also prepared to offer higher compensation to secure those candidates.

Candidates who have a proven track record of delivering quality work in a remote working positions are (or were) hard to come by. They definitely command a premium in the market.
Not sure why you've been downvoted, it's at least partly true with my idealised understanding of transmission lines
Thanks for nice article!
Hoping the author reads the comments, I would like to leave an, hopefully useful, feedback.

It would greatly improve the reading experience of your blog if you could make clickable the footnotes/references.

For example when you say:

> I’ve taken the chart from the 2016 MIR blog post[3]

I have to scroll to the end of the page to find the blog post (and then scroll back to resume reading). If [3] were clickable it would be great. It would be even better if [MIR blog post] were an actual link itself.
> They used a technology that impacts performance

I feel like this is an understatement. In certain scenarios for which they were designed, because of this performance issue, they fail to work at all. Maybe that is covered by the following points but I feel like "stops responding" and "impacts performance" are very different things.
Extending the warranties on SMR drives does _nothing_ to solve the performance issues. The drives were marketed for use in NAS RAID systems, but the abysmal performance (due to the drives' SMR) in many cases will cause the NAS or RAID system to kick out the drive as a bad drive.

Given that RAID rebuild times are increasing as the size of the drives are increasing, and SMR exacerbates the longer rebuild times, these drives should not be used in the NAS or RAID systems for which that they were marketed.

By obfuscating the use of SMR in their WD Red line, WD willfully and intentionally harmed their customers.
Ambiguity is a primary feature of product differentiation from WD's perspective.
My favorite biking accessory is my Quadlock - https://www.quadlockcase.com/. Having my phone securely mounted on my handlebars is a game changer. If I want maps, I have those up. On longer rides, I have my phone playing music directly from the phone speaker which I actually like more than using headphones. I also have my heart rate monitor connected to my phone so I can see those stats if I want them. My bike feels like a Tesla with a touchscreen on it.
These are possibly "controversial" posts tagged as such because of it received a variety of positive and negative reactions.

And no mystery as to "why". They want you to click on that conversation. Perhaps you visit the news site generating a click. Now you're all wound so you scroll some more, see some more ads, and get stuck posting another comment, more ads, more clicks, etc.
I'm a huge fan of Zeit/Vercel's products and design. I've interacted with their team on a few occasions and they've always been nice. Plus, their mechanical keyboard is super cool... [0]

I absolutely loved the name "Zeit", although I've read in this thread that it could have branding/SEO issues. I'm hoping Vercel will grow on me – right now, it sounds like a combination of "incel", "Verizon", and maybe some kind of geriatric medicine.

[0]: https://vercel.com/keyboard
It might also be covid related. People are working from home, people responsible for system upkeep might not be immediately responsive, more demand on the servers for whatever reason, etc.
I'm amazed nobody has mentioned Komoot https://komoot.com/ yet. They have an excellent route planning tool for cycling, at least in Europe. I can't vouch for other areas of the world, though.
Ah thanks, should be fixed now.
Bangkok Smoking Kid
I love rocket league for this reason. There are players of all skill levels, and the game tries to match you with similarly skilled players so you can have fun on day 1. Even if you don't intend to get better, you automatically get better the more you play. Plus, games are 5 minutes long, so if I need a distraction I can play a game or two anytime and feel refreshed.
Author here

I think this is a quite common story, or at least I've heard it a few times now so it feels that way:

(1) Senior, important developer decides they want to change locations.

(2) Boss can't afford to lose them.

(3) So boss let's them work from wherever they want.

This of course leads to natural correlation between working remote and skill, which would further correlate to earnings.

Replacing a good software developers is non-trivial.

That said, to quote from 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’m wondering if we’re living on the same planet as these people. They literally put NAS in the name of the drive??

Does NAS drive arrays exist outside of a RAID? Is there such a thing in consumer, prosumer, or professional setups?
I mean, no they're not, though. They have the same battery and motor etc, but they're obviously different bike frames. Imagine how your body will be positioned on each.
Git pushes are going really slow for me, but they do work after a few tries. If you normally use a credential cache and it's asking you for your password again, hit control-C and retry the operation. That seems to have gotten my last few pushes to work.
Azure is also refusing to allocate me capacity - I'm wondering if this is a general MSFT outage?
A good recoding system can do it in software and be acceptable. You can even do some filters on the output (recommend because the right over feedback to singers improves them) and get good results. You are allowed just over 5ms to do all of the above, which is possible but not easy.
Just replace Rails with Clojure.
That's my biggest problem with Google maps for cycling in London. They somehow always want to send me via Regent's Canal even if it's farther. I get that there are no cars and it's theoretically a nice route, but way too crowded to cycle during the day.
Greens have been rebranded to Blue for a few years now, which leaves the Blue line a confusing mess. They've also apparently included SMR drives in that line too. So the Blue line includes standard drives (no power saving, normal cache, not SMR), green drives (aggressive power saving which results in higher latency for non-continuous usage, less cache) and SMR drives. It's very hard to know what you're getting.
I'm amused by these morality screeds from rich tech thought leaders.

"Why don't the talented sacrifice easy money in software by getting into [insert super regulated, low-margin business]?" says profit-maximizing tech capitalists who ignored said businesses for a decade.

I will make the best decisions for me, and you will make the best decisions for you. If you want to charity-fund a business that helps society more than your profit margin, then pay me the same amount of money and eat the loss on your end. I'll keep working at what pays me the most, as will 99% of everyone.
have you considered the actual employment status? A lot of remote workers are employed as freelancers and therefor need to take care of health care / pension themselves with could increase their gross salary
I would agree that the coronavirus could be a factor here. At the same time, I've been noticing issues since probably December or January (before the coronavirus started being a real problem), which makes it seem like maybe there are multiple issues.

Of course, I'm not actually internal to Microsoft or Github, so I have no idea and it's all opaque to me.
Sorry, I edited that in immediately after posting since I wasn't initially clear that the iPhone is not among the handful of phones that support network switching.
Except that the benefit is not yours, but your employer's. Let's take a look at the frontend landscape where every framework lasts 2-3 years at most. By the time you master something, you can start it over. And most employer does not support learning on the job. So you have to learn it in your spare time. The benefit is the employer's, the cost is yours. I can understand when people say f*ck it and they simply protest by not playing by their employers' rules. If they get the salary without investing time, they also reap some benefit at least.
Reddit and Rocket League servers were degraded simultaneously yesterday, and if I recall correctly they both host on Google Cloud (I may be mistaken there). My paranoia of a high impact state-sponsored cyber attack have been high!
An interview with a 1960s mainframe programmer
Why not make two versions of GitHub, one free and one paid, having professional-level uptime and support? Is that the idea behind GitHub Enterprise (https://github.com/enterprise)?
I've ridden a lot of electric bikes. To me, the hub motor is superior because it provides snappier acceleration which (to me) makes the bike more fun. The extra "kick" helps overcome the extra mass of the ebike and makes it feel like a normal bike.

try both kinds. I found the central-motor style pretty dull and sluggish.
SEO Content Conversions Ideas
This is a more useful summary than the headline:

> 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 wouldn't get too attached to any theories of causality or why, but as an experienced remote worker, I'll speculate, FWIW:

* Generally (not always, just generally), employers tend to be hesitant and uncomfortable with remote workers. So the people that get and keep those arrangements tend to be those that have proven to be more trusted, capable, and indispensable. (Which all help with higher pay too, of course.)

This, BTW, describes my anecdotal experience at my company. Over the years we've collected a decent sized group of people who work remotely, even though the company doesn't generally allow it. The specifics of various cases have been different, but generally something happens that would force the issue (often an office move -- don't know why we need to do that so much), and some people either need to leave the company or work remotely. In those cases, accommodations were usually eventually made for people seen as indispensable while others were let go (in one way or another). This is across various management regimes. One time there was a hard-line stance, "move or be laid off". There was a months long game of chicken, but in the end it was the management that was replaced. (Not necessarily for that -- they made various counter-productive decisions.)

* I think another reason for the higher pay may be that (IMO) you really do need to be a better communicator as a remote employee. I think most people working remotely become significantly better communicators, over time, and that translates to more senior positions and pay.
I think the worst part of this fiasco is that the drives may appear to operate normally until the moment when the raid is most vulnerable.
Well, I can't say Signal vs. Telegram, because despite I do have Signal, I use it extremely rare (well, almost never, - there are not so many contacts in there), but comparing WhatsApp vs Telegram is easy - TG is infinitely more convenient and well-thought. Just like a good old shoe, that fits you perfectly. However, I'm quite concerned about its security (though I have no facts or evidences) and that why I'm looking into Signal...
Right, which seems like the point: it is time to build, but not in the way that VCs build things.
How did Amazon replace you reading a book in your house? It didn't alter the underlying fundamentals but it changed the way we think about it, and again you miss my point, most of us can't figure out things like that, we can't see how we would do that. Some people can, make it so they have the freedom to build and create and they can do things you've never dreamed of.

Also a healthcare app won't replace those things but robots, computer vision, and ML could. Or they could make it so that a Dr. instead of doing 8 surgeries a day could do 80, or a Radiation machine that is totally self managed. You pop in it runs the test then it can interpret results with a 99.99% accuracy. There are lots of ways tech can augment and improve healthcare.
Fake news. Facebook communiqué actually reads "theories like physical distancing is ineffective" is now considered "misinformation". https://about.fb.com/news/2020/04/covid-19-misinfo-update/ Facebook goes too far. Communications company should not be forming its own opinions on heartbreaking policies necessary during an emergency that academy is still working to fully understand. If economy is asking people who didn't have 19b cash on hand to make sacrifices then nouveau riche sysadmins should not be denying them voice to express feelings online to friends and family too.
While the type system does add to compile times, profiling generally doesn't show that it's the current limiting factor for compile times. Additionally, tools like rust-analyzer will give you type errors pretty much instantaneously, though of course that work is not finished.

Also of note, this blog post isn't speculation; they posted numbers from actually doing it.
Yes. Enterprise has an SLA (when GitHub hosts it) and an option to self-host.
With different agreement. Less perks and probably you need to pay for some stuff on your own. To sum it up sometimes they earn less
Maybe it's the demand side? With remote work, the intensity of usage went up at least in our company as we rely more on written communication. At the same time, some people will use the time to start side projects or get into programming.
This is why I stick to tools that have existed since the 1970s. Emacs ftw!
I view the Raku vs. Perl split as schizophrenic conflict resolution.
Here in Minnesota, several coworkers and I are having trouble with our ISP. And a website we host is (apparently) being DDoSed. And now GitHub's down, and you're reporting some Azure issue. Is something going on...?
Super happy to see this; having more low-price desktop processor options is great for anyone looking to build a desktop. Also excited for the B550 platform; it's been a while since they updated the mid range motherboard options.
The latest embeddings/networks like BERT can handle encoding this logic. They take the surrounding words in context when they're encoded.

Google can do this now, for example in a prototype. The tough thing is to get it to consumer-grade quality without messing up other searches. The QA process is utterly brutal because one weird search can be a scandal.
> native apps don't look any different from Web/Electron apps

But they feel way better. Electron apps have insane resource overhead and many minor imperfection in behavior. I have never been willing to sacrifice aesthetics and ergonomics for performance yet Electron feels bloated beyond all reason even to me. The reasons I believe I could prefer a native app to a browser-based web app are performance and intuitiveness. Browser based often are too slow and have hard-to-find parts. Obviously wrapping a web app in Electron doesn't solve that.
I like the game and think it's fun and interesting but the graphics are a big turnoff for me. I find it a lot harder to see what I'm looking at or if parts are lining up just due to the overall brown / ugly colors. If it had something much easier on the eyes I think I'd be more interested overall.

This is why I'm looking forward to Satisfactory coming to Steam within the next month or so. 3d Factorio with much better graphics.
OCSP is broken by design. Should turn it off for server applications. Maybe even disable it entirely when compiling openssl if possible.

OCSP is to query random CA web servers when opening a SSL connection to verify if the certificate in use was revoked. It's broken by design because servers simply don't have internet access.
What do you mean with "re-implementing the hard parts"? Matheminecraft is an "adventure map", playable in Minecraft 1.12.1.
Yeah, I bought a Faraday Porteur too, it's hands-down the smoothest ride on an e-bike I've ever experienced. The electric motor on the front wheel while you pedal the back wheel as normal is a unique configuration that means the different drive methods don't interfere with each other at all. On the lower setting the electric assist feels like a gentle breeze is blowing your direction. It was also my first experience with a carbon belt drive, which was a revelation.

It's really a shame that Faraday got bought out and stopped making bicycles, yet doesn't make it clear on their website that they've gone out of business, which is crucial information for anyone thinking about buying one. Some of their custom parts, like the internal battery pack, will be difficult to replace once they run out of inventory.

Today I use a Tern GSD instead (in part because of the cargo capacity, in part b/c of standard Bosch parts), and I'm trying to sell my Faraday, although the pandemic has interfered with that somewhat. If anyone is in the Philadelphia area and wants a Faraday Porteur, please take it off my hands :)
Or their data centers are just full. Teams had a tremendous growth, so did their O365 suite and probably also Azure itself. At some point even the largest vendors run out of servers.
Github being down, that is
This looks really neat! How does screen brightness/battery life/sound quality compare whilst biking? Have been keen to try something like this.
Near the top patio11 writes: "Our choice to be anonymous was a considered one and is discussed in more detail below.".

I cannot find where it's discussed in more detail below. Can someone point me to it?
> HN may find this unpalatable, but it’s still legal and permissible.

It's obviously legal and for obvious reasons, but it's both hostile to the culture of the profession at large AND counterproductive.
> 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.

I completely agree. Where is all this weird expectation of political persecution in Japan coming from? Both from Patrick and a lot of comments in this thread.
People are generally bad at probability without training, if you introduce random chance into any process it’s really going to throw most people.

Also, it’s a black box. You try something and it gives you the best rewards. You try it again and it works again! Then it fails. Your immediate reaction is not “let’s run a long experiment and see what the p value is”, your reaction is “I guess it’s random”
Awesome, if you want to talk about that kind of thing in more depth, or if you want some more reading material recommendations from that particular community, feel free to shoot me an email. $thisusername@gmail.com

Also I just realized I linked you to the wrong article: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/06/asymmetric-weapons-gon...
I'm amused because I remember typing on an 8 bit computer over a 300 baud modem to a different 8 bit computer that was echoing back and it was always able to keep up. Like you I find anything that can't do as good as the above setup unacceptable. Too bad I can't get It to put some reasonable selection criteria in the system
I had never heard of Microsoft Teams until yesterday when I saw it on a TV commercial.
Google maps does give you elevation information. In the route selection there's a drop down that shows an elevation graph.
In my experience, nothing is correlated more with downtime than code changes. Github has been pushing a lot more features since the Microsoft acquisition, and has felt down a lot more often since then.

There has been one major outage a month the last several months, with sprinklings of little outages (I recall webhooks down quite a lot). The cadence of these outages is rapidly changing my perception of Github as a reliable service.
No, I don't think so (and I'm also in Minnesota). I'm going to guess that the increased load is just pushing services over the edge.

Edit: Also, interestingly enough, I am now reliably hitting Cloudflare's ORD (Chicago) datacenter instead of MSP. If you visit https://snazz.xyz/cdn-cgi/trace (or any other Cloudflare-backed website), what comes after the COLO= for you?
Joshua/WOPR: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
bluray quality video is about 13GB/hr for 1080p or 33GB/hr for 4K. it's cost prohibitive for people to accumulate a huge amount of this content legally, but torrents are still a thing. it adds up really fast if you aren't willing to prune your collection.

there isn't currently a ton of 4K content available, but there's lots of 1080p. if you rip/download enough bluray 1080p to watch an hour every night, that's almost 5TB per year right there. if there were enough 4K content to support your habit, it would be more than 12TB a year.
My Romanian StartUp Story – AppSeed
Single-drive NAS exists. Apple's now-discontinued Time Capsule is probably the most famous example.
Given that Apple would be the primary beneficiary of a strong Swift ecosystem and seeing how they treat developers on their platform - maybe they should rethink their stance or at least bring all employee projects in-house.

Are there many developers out there that only program for Apple platforms?

I suppose if you want to be one of those developers or if you want to work for Apple, it might be not be a bad idea to contribute.
got my push to go through, unfortunately downloading packages from https://codeload.github.com was timing out
That was a lot more powerful than I expected. The drive chain part is interesting, I always assumed it was simpler than that. I like how sturdy it seems.

I want to try one of these out now... I wonder if I can rent one now to see if I like it. I'm curious how it rides in slow speeds in traffic w/ lights, see if I miss the fine control of fixed gear at slow speeds.
The past few years, I've been doing a lot of side-project type stuff during the train commute. The lockdown has made me realize how valuable it is being forcibly isolated from the internet by a daily train ride. With the internet at my fingertips, there are way too many distractions to productively work on writing a paper or reading a book.
I strongly suspect your mental model of “a first world democracy with strong freedom of speech protections” is based on your experience living in a Western country, quite possibly as a citizen of that country. I wouldn’t presume to understand how that differs from the experience of living in Japan as an American. Patrick should have earned enough good faith in this community for us to trust his ability to navigate this kind of situation appropriately.
Go in with a playful attitude. It will help you balance being open with also being decisive. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=play+and+learning+resea...
That's the joke. Reading is harder
If it is all about business decisions, then why is a lot of open source software having the same kinds of problems?
My 10 year old TomTom seems to manage OK and is pretty under-powered in most respects.
i managed to run diablo2 (release 2000) on wine in a docker container. with ffmepg streaming it as a video. Was a real eye opener moment to realize what can fit in these things.