skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These sort of people see every trade-off or compromise a person might make in life as systemic oppression. If someone decides they don’t mind earning less if they get to work from home that’s their decision! No one is making them do this.

No one goes to the car dealership expecting the premium trim for the standard trim price. This is no different. Like it or not we sell our time, attention, and effort in exchange for money. Different types and manner of work are worth different amounts.

Our culture (sans pandemic) has begun to place more value on their life than their work so they make choices like this. It is a good thing to let me people do what works best for them.
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> I'm sorry, but I really dislike the "whatever works for you" sentiment.

It's your right. No need to apologize.

> It's antithetical to the spirit of engineering / technical discussion, which are predicated on the idea that there are better and worse ways to do the thing in question.

Sure. But that's the point. There are better ways ( as in plural ). Meaning there is more than one right way.

> It's not the case that any method is OK

Nowhere did I say any method is OK. You are building a strawman here. I didn't just write "Different strokes for different folks." I wrote "Different strokes for different folks. If it worked out for you that's all that matters." The key being "If it worked out for you that's all that matters."

> because it worked for some European dude on the internet with poorly concealed anti-American feelings

Nowhere did I sense any "anti-American" sentiment from OP.

> (I'm from Europe, I'm allowed to say this :)

So maybe it's a language issue. English as a second language is great but leaves open the possibility of misunderstanding. Honestly, I still don't know why you got so upset about such an innocuous comment. I think what we had here is a failure to communicate.
Which area’s salary will they pay for new hires though?
A long time ago, WANOPS put a couple racks of machines in the parking lot of the (former) Building 11 on Microsoft Campus.

We had a lower failure rate across the board, for all components. I think the only protection that was in place was some blue tarps and a chain link fence.

I can't find a public reference, sorry.
Berkeley is graduating 900+ undergrads every year in EECS/CS.

https://eecs.berkeley.edu/about/by-the-numbers
Is ethereum a scam? How about MakerDAO?
https://medium.com/@joelleparenteau/why-are-restaurants-so-f...

> it wasn’t always this way — margins used to be double, if not triple, what they are now. But for the past couple decades, while menu prices should have been rising to keep up with things like inflation and rapidly increasing rent, price wars instead drove them down ($1 value meal anyone?). All this eroded margins til restaurants were left with nothing but bread crumbs. This failure to manage expectations has simultaneously obliterated margins, all the while skewing and reinforcing our perception of what food should cost.
Duplicate thread, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23161623.
Maybe it's the other way around: due to increased supply, total package of FAANG engineers will drop. That's not necessarily a bad thing though. We've been enjoying unprecedented packages for many years. It may be a good time to distribute some of the wealth to other parts of the country.
It wasn't an accident.

https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/05/unred...
In your example of qualia (Colors, tastes, feelings), how is that not awareness? That is what is the difference between awareness and consciousness here?

In your example the abstractions of qualia (thoughts, imaginations, dreams), how are they not labels of experience? That is what ML does, after all.

Today ML may, for all intents and purposes, have roughly the intelligence of a bug, but it has to have awareness to label data. Where does consciousness come in beyond labeling and awareness that ML does not have today?
At SendGrid, years ago, we suffered an outage and did not realize as fast as we should have because our alerting provider used us for notifying about outages :p. This situation can no longer happen, but it was eye opening.
manual ssh operation looks not better
You should add a popup that requires you to type in "network" correctly and then issues a Ctrl+Z.
Let me just nod in the direction of stackoverflow and how it developed with regards to quality of content ...
Your response is a non sequitur.

Also I don't understand what your point was. I don't disagree with anything you wrote in that post, nor does anything I wrote previously imply disagreement with any of that—which I suppose is unsurprising given that it was a non sequitur. For the sake of completeness, let me enumerate all our agreements:

1. Touch screens are bad interfaces for a car in motion.

2. Removing physical buttons saves money and is great marketing.

3. There was an aesthetic aspect to the choice of factory floor colours.

4. Tesla factories have a poor historical safety record.

Anything else?

None of that detracts from the fact your original post was monumentally stupid and (despite your pre-emptive assertion) an entirely ad homenim making conclusions about Elon's motivations and Tesla's decision-making processes based on nothing more than one link to a tabloid-quality sensationalist report.

We don't even know who actually designed the factory floor colour schemes—and I doubt some rando fired line worker knows either. I suppose we just have to assume that Elon is soly responsible for bike-shedding every single nuance at a 40,000+ employee company.
Guess if "better" means a worse deaths-per-million stat than even the US.
While some hassle of paying someone in another country is real, this level of pain seems to be pretty extreme. I am sure it depends on the country (good luck hiring in North Korea :) ), but for most countries there are enough options, from the employer opening a subsidiary to hiring employee as a contractor and everything in between (e.g., a local organization handling paperwork for a small salary cut which is a lot less than US recruiters would charge). My 2c.
I hope more localities/jurisdictions do this.

More price transparency in everything, plane tickets, medical care, these third party tack on services that shame people into tipping... Bring it on!
I would like to see much more work on "Generic Scripting Hosts", like ActiveScripting (MS) and OSA (Apple)? But since everybody develops into the cloud, goodbye elegant user experience...
Go can easily within a year fade away to be replaced with something else. Remember MongoDB?
It depends. Many engineers will run elsewhere once they start getting paid less than they deserve, and the company is cutting paychecks for profits. The more extreme the difference, the crazier it will get.
What with the virus and how it played out in nyc I wouldn't be surprised to see a large migration out of cities in the coming years.
You might be misinformed; according to https://medium.com/flutter/hummingbird-building-flutter-for-... Flutter for Web uses HTML & CSS where it can, and falls back to Canvas where it can't.

Flutter for Web is still on Beta, so lets see where it lands. Today, it seems to implement some PWA practices and lazyloading to try and get some performance.
But Flutter didn't come out until 2017?
You can send requests directly to each bureau if I remember correctly. Some cost a bit more to do it electronically, but it's all pretty low, 5-15 bucks I believe.

Then they each have a similar but slightly different way of unfreezing it. And some allow it to be unfrozen for a short amount of time, or for 1 request, or for a specific merchant.

Seems there's a lack of standards there and I wondered if it works.
I verified it did when I tried to sign up for a new cell plan in a mall once and they said it was frozen. Said I would need to unfreeze 2 of the bureaus if I wanted a chance at passing their credit check.
RN's been available for many years, and little interest has been shown in providing first class support for desktop targets. That said, it wouldn't surprise me if:

1. the recent FB messenger desktop apps are RN.

2. they leverage work done in forks (like this one from MS) to achieve that.
I dunno.

In the one Dawkins book I read, the mathematical part definitely gets addressed. It may change your mind about the mathematical part.

I once read elsewhere that almost all the specific details Darwin came up with have been overturned by other scientists. But the new scientific results prove evolution and natural selection even harder.

My own personal speculation is that there may be many simple proteins that have some type of use or another. I would be interested in reading about how they came up with that 10^77 number. Sounds high to me.

On the other hand, I've read scientists make comments similar to your comments. Not in papers, but in casual interviews. Some agree with you and say that even given the current theories, there just wasn't quite enough time on earth to create life from non-life.

It's not an accepted scientific theory at all. More like a crackpot idea that will probably never be proved or disproved. But take a look at the panspermia theory. Small seeds of some kind move from planet to planet. Maybe one landed on earth long ago? It's a crazy idea. But it does address the issues you brought up.
Treat Design Like Trash
> This can go two ways: either the local software business will have to compete with FAANG salaries, or there will be jumps from senior developers, experienced developers, and many smarter/more capable developers from smaller software business to FAANG due to salary/perks attraction.

I think if it's widespread it would be a little of both with some extra effects to consider. Not only will FAANG organizations get a wider pool of applicants which will drive down salaries for FAANG orgs, AND other businesses will how have to deal with the fact that their technology workers are part of a much larger market than they were previously, which will drive up salaries for those workers remotes, but there could be some very interesting delayed effects. How many FAANG workers now would opt to move farther away and keep their position, which will depress (that is, realign with reality to some small degree) the real estate market in areas like Seattle and San Francisco? What does that do to salaries later (likely a much smaller effect, but maybe non-negligible)?

Telecommuting has been hailed as one aspect of saving the suburban and rural life for a long time. Maybe we'll actually see some of it now.

What happens if there's a net reduction in people living in San Francisco and surrounds over 10 years, say 10%? I mean, it sounds unlikely, but so didthe idea of so many people staying inside for months at a time, and everyone switching to telecommuting so fast. All these things are related, and with major changes in one, relatively rapid change in things that related to it can be expected. At this point I'm actually thinking it's possible we could shift to UBI of some sort, and just a few months ago I didn't see any way that could happen without a major economic disruption, but hey, we've already got that.
It is easier. If you wanted to create a web application from the dotcom era, you could probably knock it out faster by one or two orders of magnitude. It will probably look neater too, and you won't spend days or months tuning it so it will look decent in IE. We even have amazing CSS capabilities now.

If you wanted to create something that's better than the pages we had in the Geocities era, you can do that in 5 minutes (download some static page generator, add a theme and voila).

When it was unveiled, the GMail frontend was a remarkable feat of engineering. Nowadays? Polishing to that extent (also scaling, etc) will take time, but creating a knockoff UI is no longer a revolutionary job. Most web developers would be able to single-handedly replicate the basic functionality ('ajax' and lots of client side javascript are no longer arcane).

As web development progressed, so did expectations.
Yeah, The procedure is outlined in RFC 2549
HTML is half of the problem, the DOM is just fundamentally unsuited for app UI rendering, and CSS is a nightmare when applied to UI controls rather than text documents. What we need is a cross platform well-thought-out scene graph like Flash had or Flutter (kinda) has.
The browser is where the hundreds of megabytes vanish to when you use a JS app instead of a native one.

That might still be better (I'm undecided, personally), but it's worth recognizing that heavy native app is still there, just shared with a lot of other JS apps.
Every software system used at Gitlab
The law trumps your opinion.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/02/25/28...

> In 2001, the Supreme Court held in Kyllo v. United States that police officers violated the Fourth Amendment when they used a thermal imaging device to detect marijuana plants growing inside a home. "Where ... the government uses a device that is not in general public use, to explore details of the home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a Fourth Amendment 'search' and is presumptively unreasonable without a warrant," wrote Justice Antonin Scalia.

> To make his point, Scalia added that the device can tell you things that the average person would not be able to tell standing outside the house. "[F]or example, [the device can reveal] at what hour each night the lady of the house takes her daily sauna and bath," he wrote.
"Supported" in a sense of patching security holes, sure. Not so much in a sense of writing new apps in it, or using modern tools to maintain old apps (support was dropped in VS 2017). So in that regard it's very unlike MFC or WinForms, which both enjoy continuous tooling support, and fixes and minor enhancements outside of security.

FWIW, I think your criticism is broadly valid, in that it's more of an exception for Microsoft, but much more common for Google. It's not hard to look at the Windows dev ecosystem, and see which parts of it are very stable, and likely to be around long term - because they have already been around for very long indeed.
you can also use espanso: https://github.com/federico-terzi/espanso
If the disaster involves your connectivity from within your infra to without, it could be advantageous to have backup communications hosted internally. For e.g. an internal IRC for panic situations. The advantages of this might vary depending on whether your response happens from the office, home, or wherever. Pandemic might have changed the equation.
Why is this controversial? It's the truth, however unfair it seems.
Surprisingly, your visual perception of something can actually be affected by how big you think its image is, even if it is not live.

The "vertical-horizontal illusion" is an optical illusion where a vertical line appears to be longer than a horizontal line of the same length. It turns out that this illusion is more pronounced in larger images, even if the image has the same content. In fact, some researchers used monocular VR to show that your perception of horizontal vs. vertical scale can be altered just by making you believe that the image you are viewing is scaled to a TV vs. a movie theater screen -- even when you are constrained to view exactly the same pixels in both cases.

I have a pet theory that this may be why film stars thought that TV cameras "added ten pounds"... Viewing a face at smaller-than-life size could make you perceive it as a little more squat than it really is.

(I learned this from a talk by Dennis Proffitt... might be from this paywalled article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/p3053 )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%E2%80%93horizontal_il...
Not according to a16z, this is the primary method to determine adoption and investability ;]

They have a recent YouTube video explaining their thoughts
Not meant to disparage, but how lucrative is that market? How much do Windows users (outside of business) actually spend on software (regardless of business model)? It's a leading question, but a sincere one.
I'd love to see some dog-fooding on this. Maybe a branch of VS Code for RN.

I mean, say what you will about the quality of even Apple's own Catalyst apps, but at least they eat their own dogfood (although with the unfortunate consequence of making us eat it, too).

There are so many different competing projects at MS to do practically the same thing, it'd be great to see RN for Windows and macOS used for something major from MS.
European nations may be hesitant to trust AI for cybersecurity
Wouldn't Flutter be the killer app to Dart as Rails was to Ruby by your analogy?
Farm in SE Australia is growing native grains for flour and bread
Revery comes to mind here.
Running is hard.
I've been at both an average school (undergrad) and a top school (grad). I somewhat agree with your parent.

I don't doubt great undergrads exist in an average school, but the chances of randomly running into one are much lower. I did not run into any.

I'd also disagree with the characterization of "top" students. A lot of the top students at the average school, while great at academics, were still a lot less "well rounded". They had few projects that they worked on outside of class, etc. Not that they weren't interested - just that there was not enough "critical mass" of such people for it to become natural.
The unfortunate reality of only using sales tax is that it's entirely regressive.
The Mythical Man-Month

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

Parkinson's Law, and Other Studies in Administration + The Peter Principle

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
+1 for rustlings, it's fantastic, I went through it right after reading through the book. The books are good, but it's hard to compete with being hands on like rustlings is.
The AI that you talk about should be used in traffic lights. They should affix cameras to every single traffic light and have AI figure out the traffic flows. Then they can make traffic much more efficient throughout an entire city. It should be able to track a car through its entire journey through license plate recognition, and then adjust traffic throughout the entire city so that it's the most efficient for the amount of traffic.
It's not "just" running JS, it's also running JS. Part of the control flow into and out of the native widgets is JS, and part of it is abstractions over scripting bridges employed by RN (and its various forks).
Your fault for having Borish Johnson as PM.
Q1 data breaches down, but exposed records reach new high
Change 'engineering' to 'law', and you have a similar situation in Brazil. There are 1,500 law schools in the country. Most graduates today never end up practicing it.
Just playing devils advocate: is it ethical to pay someone SF salary despite them living in a third world country where they are essentially richer than kings and can wreak havoc on the economy/culture if they themselves aren't ethical (paying off government, etc).
Salary is not a number, its a "standard of living". But paying two engineers in two different zip codes the same number, you are technically paying the person in the cheaper location more. They have a much higher "standard of living".
The hypothetical here was to become a monopoly in professional audio software tools.
The Supreme Court disagrees with you.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/02/25/28...
This is similar to the price of water. Yes water is essential but it is readily available and so the price is low. Same for many essential jobs. Turns out a lot of the work necessary to keep civilization ticking is menial and requires no specialization. This is not a statement of the value of the workers (though indirectly it unfortunately often is), only the work they they provide.
I don't think so, if RN or similar is a viable option then it makes far more sense than juggling large Java and Swift implementations of the same app.
Haha. You are much better at psychology than I am. You are so right that logical arguments just make people cling to their old beliefs harder.

But then...

What is the purpose of the book?
Is it just to give scientifically oriented people a playbook of arguments to use against anti-evolutionary bible thumpers when debating school curriculum?
I'll accept that.
There are tips here about how to present your work as a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638. Take a look at those and, once you've absorbed them, email hn@ycombinator.com if you want to and we'll try to help.
> my question is: in this hypothetical, did my skills somehow lose monetary value to the company because I left the west coast and bought a house in Indiana? What’s the calculation on that one? Let’s talk numbers.

It’s a bad idea for a company to pay you significantly more than you could earn at a different job. Because then you’ll never quit even if you’re miserable. You’ll stick around and be a toxic presence.
To be fair, not all of them were like that. E.g. WPF is very similar to WinForms, in that it doesn't see any major new features, but there's constant ongoing maintenance (including fairly big items, such as getting it to run on .NET Core), and all the development tooling is fully supported as well.
KB is kilobyte. KiB is kibibyte.
And thus the treadmill was born - running became slightly easier.
I think you are overestimating the size of the eligible labor supply increase. Just for Google, for 2017-2019 the number of H1B workers sponsored was 22k. For the same period the increase in number of full time employees was 40k (couldn’t find the figure for US only but fair to assume majority is US-based). So more than half of the new employers are supplied internationally. Does the geo-unlocked US supply pose a substantial competition to that? I don’t see how. FAANG salary is a pretty damn strong incentive to overcome that geo-friction to begin with.

If anything, if the twitter trend follows, FAANG salaries will lose heat. For the majority of the employees, a good chunk of the paycheck goes to housing costs. Wider WFH adoption will ease the overly localized housing demand, even with several days of WFO, longer commutes will be much more tolerable and the housing spread will increase. That would mean acceptance of lower salaries and lowering of housing costs over time.

One competing factor; as the seniority increases, the say on WFH policies increases, also the possibility of housing ownership increases (whether as primary residence or also with rental properties). That creates a perverse incentive to not let people go away in aggregate. Not saying individual managers will think this way explicitly, but might have an indirect influence.

Edit:

- Previously I stated 22k as H1B + green card numbers. In reality 22k was H1B only and 6k was green card. Source: https://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Google/225093.htm
XBox Live and YouTube probably don't run on AWS, but also experienced a peak. This is a neat site, thanks for sharing it.
Is it WebGL?
Personally I would not move away from west coast. Mediterranean weather is gift from god. Plus it's so close to many good ski resorts. Being able to enjoy outdoors throughout the year and being able to go out to ski every week is priceless.
They're both pretty popular to wrap; I'm surprised that whatever language/ecosystem you're using doesn't have a wrapper lib already.
I don't think the cash vs stock thing changes the calculus much. You could just sell what stock you get anyway (I have mine at Google set to autosell at vest).