skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully it's not exploited too much, but yes Taiwan is basically perfect place to live with reasonable comfort on the cheap.

I don't think you mentioned gyms. The Taiwanese are an oddly sports-oriented people. Throughout asia I can't think of an equal in terms of availability of cheap gyms. Public sports complexes are also sometimes good enough (but I've also found myself working out in a cramped room with a bunch of senior citizens on occasion :)).

I think you also didn't mention proximity to other countries for visiting. It's a very good location, and EVA is one of my favorite airlines.

Edit: Note that the things that make Taiwan great for living also, almost by default make it a "boring" country to some types of people. #1 for remote work possibly, definitely not #1 for thrill seeking, nightlife-type interests.
I think the largest change will be that we, as a global society, have discovered that there is a lot of things that are easier and better done remote, and that we will keep doing those things remote once we're done with the pandemic (whenever that will be). Working remote, as you mention, is one of those things.

Other things are clearly more efficient face-to-face, and in those cases things will probably go back to normal when it's possible.

Tourism will be... changed. At least here in Europe, the authorities are already talking about less international flights, focus on the train network, and so on, in order to see a more environmentally friendly post-COVID world. People aren't going to stop vacationing or something like that, but there's a chance that things like two-day train rides to Italy will become a thing again. My personal anecdote is that people seem to be restoring their old caravans and going camping this year. The main roads here have been with filled with caravans and RV's the last couple of weekends.
I see them in search results often enough (sometimes even before the SO post they've scraped) that it seems to be working, and the search engines (both DDG and Google for me) haven't caught on.
Zoom is a US owned company.
I’ll agree that is a valid concern, if your threat-model includes sensitive / secret data and state-level actor.
> you're saying it's ok to engage in risky behaviour - as long as it doesn't result in maiming/killing somebody?

No. You evidently lack basic reading comprehension, so I suppose it's futile to ask you to go back and re-read what I wrote to see that I explicitly contradicted this.

> People are very bad at judging risks - and everybody things they're cleverer/more careful/better than the average.

First of all, speak for yourself.

Second, evidently you have no clue about how people who actually are good at judging risks get that way. Hint: it isn't by "thinking" anything. It's by objectively evaluating your own behavior the same way you objectively evaluate other people's behavior. Everybody can see when someone else is doing something dumb. All you need to learn is how to look at yourself as the someone else. This is a learned skill.

Third, if it's true that "people" are very bad at judging risks, that's just as true of government bureaucrats and lawmakers. Why should I trust them to properly balance all the risks vs. benefits of various laws and policies? Let alone "look out for society as a whole", to use your phrase? All the historical evidence we have says that they suck at it.

Fourth, drunk drivers don't kill other people, if and when they do, by magic. And they don't do it purely on their own. There is always a chain of events, and there are plenty of places to break the chain. For example, you describe a drunk driver killing a mother and child walking across the road. How did the mother and child come to be walking across the road when a car was coming? If they had waited, they'd still be alive. If you say "well, it was a blind turn and they didn't see the car", why weren't they taking extra precautions if it was a blind turn? And so on.

Similar remarks apply to other situations where irresponsible actions by one person harm others. Everybody focuses on the harm to the victims and the badness of the irresponsible person. Nobody spends any time teaching themselves, or their friends, or their kids, how not to be the victim. But knowing that there are some irresponsible and dangerous people in the world, and learning how to keep from being harmed by them, is supposed to be part of being an adult human being in this world. Certainly an adult human being is not supposed to expect the government to make sure no bad things happen to them; no government can possibly do that, or even come close. But that's what our mentality has become.
You run untrusted code every day you browse the web.
Study indicates asymptomatic carriers of SARS-CoV-2 are not infectious
I... did not know this. It's good to know that Google is also responsible for killing the non-corporate web alongside Facebook and Twitter. And perhaps more insidiously.
You misunderstand: You are not Google's customer. You are their product.
The Past We Can Never Return To – The Anthropocene Reviewed [video]
I'm happy in Madison WI right now, but there are not very many places in the US where I'd want to live, and I'm not sure the US would be my first choice of country if I didn't have roots here. I have family from Berlin, and might like it there. I liked the people in Scotland.

It needs to be a place where there's a good music scene that I can participate in.
I'm curious, what happens if companies non-stop file DMCA requests every two weeks?
Same reason I now trust Dell even though the did the same.

Besides, the Thinkpad line was never affected.
I'm personally not into conspiracy theories, but from time to time some conspiracies turn out to be true. I saw video on YouTube the other day, which showed how CBS news gathered random people around hospital to make the hospital look more busy than it actually was and the hospital head even had to admit it later on. Then I read news, where the COVID test results were double counted per person. Then you see videos of doctors talking about the virus and showing the inside of the hospital and they say it's nothing unusual. I don't know what you call conspiracy, but this thing seems to be greatly over exaggerated. The virus is definitely very real and killing people, but it's absolutely disgusting for news companies to waste resources on mask and other gear to just create scene for themselves on TV.
Is your company also located in Taiwan?

I've been studying Mandarin here for a while after being a software engineer for a few years. Been thinking about what I'm gonna do once I feel comfortable in the language. Working remotely would be great if I could pull it off.
definitely Thailand. Vietnam is nice on the coastal cities.
The China tea trade was a paradox of global capitalism
Why is it illegal?
Currently, no specific advantages over IFTTT. But one day I'd like to add other features in future, to grab content that isn't available through feeds (like Instagram), along with custom CSS.
> There's companies out there that value output at what you're worth

In any auction the selling price is not the value of the item to the winning bidder, it's the second highest bid plus $1. If you move to a LCOL area the competing offers are all going to be garbage unless you can find a second high-paying company to extend you a remote offer (which may or may not happen, depending on how widespread remote work becomes). Facebook has no reason to unilaterally raise their bids unless you can secure good competing offers as leverage.
Are you commenting on every thread and linking to your site? How do you spam a forum? (Genuinely asking)
Considering your name is "Consultant32452" - and not "RegularEmployee32452" - I presume you do consulting. How much are you earning? You said you're not bounded - so I am presuming you're at like $400k+/yr as many FAANG engineers are. Would you still get that if you turned into a regular IC instead of a consultant? I don't think everyone who goes remote wants to be a consultant (or can be).
The trouble is there are people who are highly paid because they are legitimately good at what they do. And then there are people who are highly paid because they live in an area where high pay is the norm.

The former are going to be fine either way.

The latter are in for a rude awakening.
What stops them from doing that already?

Facebook has offices in Brazil: https://www.facebook.com/careers/locations/saopaulo/?p[offic...

Why didn’t they close down the Palo Alto office already?
KL (my hometown) is great. There's reliable gigabit internet, which is important to remote workers I reckon. Dying to convince tech folks to come here instead of Singapore.
I actually don't call either of them preferences. Preferences are something I set, not something the phone decides for me.
The hospitals losing money part is complicated because most of them are losing money because of lost elective procedures. In many hospitals, especially private ones, those elective procedures are the main source of profit and underwrite the acute/ICU cases. So you could have a hospital that's at occupancy with intensive/acute care cases, and still losing a ton of money if electives are being canceled either to quarantine orders, or due to patients canceling them out of fear.

There's also essentially a U-shaped curve between intensive care occupancy and profitability. As ICU/acute care cases decrease below some point, profits decrease, and as they increase they increase, but at some point the cases become overwhelming and the hospital loses money again.

Beds are not all equal when it comes to profit/financial solvency at hospitals.
Most (not all) places in SE Asia have air quality that will have health ramifications that aren't worth the upsides of living there. I unfortunately recently had to move my family out of there because of it. Air quality aside, it can be a great place to live.
Anyone from HN who wants to can drop by on the way to a more traditional tourist spot like Mangawhai or further north (although over summer I'm often away at the weekends racing stockcars). The phone number for the library redirects to our house if it's not open.

The cheese shop is fine! I know Keith and Marita who have owned it for many years, they are good people - Ad Clarijs who founded it still occasionally runs cheesemaking classes, his place is not far from mine. Also worth a visit is the amazing Cafe Eutopia next door - https://g.page/eutopiacafe?share - which is a marvel.

It just boggles my mind how US firms don't realise how poor a value proposition - especially to people of an age to have a family or strong community ties, like the roots I have here - they offer to developers in AU/NZ when demanding that people relocate to work for them, and I'm not really optimistic that COVID-19 will really bring any significant change to their corporate cultures. I am hopeful that perhaps more firms in AU may cotton on to the fact that there's a substantial pool of exceptional veteran talent in NZ who are really underutilized, which really represents an opportunity for them if they were to make a serious attempt to hire here and let people work remotely.
I live a few hours north of Philly and while there have been bad years, the last ~4 have been generally great. Generally mild winters and only intermittently unbearably hot and humid summers.
For the gold card, do you not need to be employed by a local company? If not, that's a pretty good deal.
how would you compare the experience in these locations?

Im a US citizen - lived in Mexico and the Islands of the South Pacific
I do it for this reason too. I use IM apps with my friends, and links that take up an entire screen are difficult to read for the recipient.
Isn’t there a global talent pool already? All these companies already have had international offices for a while

They are still filing for visas, why didn’t they just hire the employees in their own country
Honestly, if it were not for the rent, I'd continue living in SF. It's just so lucky geographically.

If not SF, I'd move out of the US entirely to avoid the healthcare disaster and increasing anti-intellectualism.

With these criterions and bay area pay, I'd move to a coastal town in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia or India. All cheap, all developing countries and all with decent internet and healthcare.
It may not be fully untrusted, but it's good to have barriers as well.

Also, this problem is fundamental and not limited to a single core, package or machine. Any time you are making opportunistic optimizations (of which caching is one), and the opportunities available depend on what happened outside of a privilege boundary, you can have this problem.

A similar thing happens at a higher level of abstraction with, for example, btree operation timings in a database.
(I'd edit the original comment, but that's past due)

One thing I use the service for is to receive notifications from HN replies, by subscribing to the https://hnrss.org/replies?id=cameronbrown feed. It was the original pain point I wanted to solve.
It’s true, this was never a valid DMCA complaint in the first place. The fact that a company with the resources of Microsoft went along with it unquestioningly shows exactly what we can expect from their “benevolent stewardship” of all the developer resources they’ve recently acquired. I’ve already started moving my projects off of Github and will no longer use it outside of an employment context.
Federal salaries have cost of living adjustments.
Isn’t that what your salary is for?
Attacking MSI RGB Lighting from the Browser
I've heard great things about Taiwan and Ben Thompson of Stratechery often talks about living in Taipei.

What I'm wondering is how worried are the people of Taiwan about China encumbering on their sovereignty in the near to mid future? Or is this something that people over there do not give too much thought to in their day to day lives?
Totally fine on my iPad
I've heard great things about Guadalajara, anyone in tech has experience to share?
Dang that’s a good deal. How much salary do you get for 15 hrs/week? Is the rest and vest situation?
I have 2 Dribbble invites
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Incase you need an invites, send your profile URL to my email hieunc(at)saltar.co. I'll send you an invite.

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Cheers!
Cape Town is the most beautiful place I've ever visited.
“why didn’t they just hire the employees in their own country”

- now much more of that will come. Obviously not an on/off switch.
> If they set remote pay at a level that makes them attractive to people in Georgia but not to people in Connecticut, and at that level they can find all the remote workers they want, why should they care that Connecticut engineers aren't applying for remote Facebook jobs?

Presumably because there are not enough people in Georgia alone who meet their hiring bar to fulfill their staffing needs. So they also need to hire people in HCOL areas with better competing offers and more leverage to demand more money from them.
> This one is the real one

Are you sure? I think this idea has been explored in several novels and films over the past several decades.
My answer is currently basically the same, but with local wilderness. Somewhere in the norther part of southern ontario or the southern part of northern ontario. I.e. wilderness, but not so wild that I have to fly in on a float plane.

I really do want to visit Norway though, and it might well sell me on switching the dream to there.
I thought this piece was really interesting.

His thesis seems plausible, but I’m far from convinced. It seems equally plausible to me that as software gets easier to write, we just write more software. Industrialization of clothing meant the amount of labor required to create clothing dropped drastically. However more people are employed in clothing and fashion related industries than ever, because we now just own and wear more clothes than ever before.

Won’t we just write more software?
WFH & get your wage cut cos you're in a cheap area...
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/135/883023.page
I would someday love to live there but language seems like a challenging issue.
For anyone interested, Scott Alexander wrote a longish review of Seeing Like A State: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...

Personally I found the book a bit long and repetitive: although the examples were varied, each was used to restate the same basic point. But that may be my own problem. After all, if you're trying to support a generalisation using case studies, it's not enough to breeze through one or two and assure the reader that others exist; you need to go into detail about as many as you reasonably can.
Interesting that "zuck" is disallowed.
Scientists baffled by decision to stop a pioneering coronavirus testing project
I’m happy they finally moved to 4K. Now, if they’d just center the keyboard and trackpad under the screen (by getting rid of the number pad), I’d be sorely tempted to buy one.
> The people living in LCOL areas don't hustle. They aren't the type to do 100 hours of leetcode

I think this hits on a very real signal that is sent by someone being willing to relocate cross-country for work. I know people from college that moved out to the coasts to work for big name tech companies. They were probably "above average", but none of them were terribly noteworthy.

The thing they were willing to do that the rest of us weren't was uproot from the midwest and go to the coast.

That's a signal that you're willing to tie your self worth to your job in a way that is very valuable (exploitable) to a company.
I just gave writing "hi" a try, and someone added a V to the end
I would love to live in Las Vegas for at least 6 months!
The difference between an email client and an RSS reader is that an email client can parse message/rfc822 entries in a feed and an RSS reader has a prominent Mark All As Read button.

I patched Thunderbird for a friend back in 2005 to enable it to show the email UI for message/rfc822 entries in RSS feeds, so that you could receive your email by RSS. We got it working end-to-end with SMTP delivery to the feed, which was pretty cool. It looks like he published a whitepaper about the idea: http://mengwong.com/rssemail/rssemail-006.pdf
It was Android.
It’s _arguably_ not allowed by the DMCA, but outside the scope of the notice-and-takedown provisions which only provide for takedown of specific infringing works. Statutory infringements outside of that very narrow scope would require a traditional lawsuit with actual court oversight.

MPAA is not stupid and they knowingly abused the process in this case because they wanted to put Microsoft in a tight situation and gauge their response. Of course it went exactly as planned with Microsoft rolling over like every other tech company that won’t stand up for its users’ rights.

This is _exactly_ why we need decentralized P2P tech btw.
You obviously haven't used C++${CURRENT_YEAR}, React rand().rand().rand(), and (define-new-silo functional-p). They are so amazing, it's like the software writes itself. Too bad they are not compatible with each other, or we wouldn't even need programmers anymore, they are such an innovation.
This sounds like it was written by someone who hasn't worked with ERP systems, to give an example of where software will never eat software. "Can we make A work with B?" -- a lot of businesses tie together Salesforce + 8 other systems, and that's how their business ticks. And a whole cottage industry forms around it: consultancies, etc. I need to see a clear non hand-waving explanation for how all of that complexity melts away.

The industry has already tried commoditizing by off-shoring. What we learned was high-performance teams require psychological safety and trust. The human factors involved in creating software are why engineers are not plug-n-play. Because that reduction of the problem doesn't describe how the software is actually made: product solicits customer interviews/data to recommend new features, architects brainstorm a high-level solution, and the IC engineers implement the vision. Human factors, through and through.
If you apply via salary, you need to be employed by any company. Freelancing income doesn't count. You need to justify it with employment letter, and tax return.

The other way is to qualify for any of their "talent" needs. Blockchain, VR, IA, and have proof it it (publication, work, projects). They have 8 categories of people that can qualify: https://foreigntalentact.ndc.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=128B875DE9C...
> Would it be reasonable for them to adjust salaries depending on what city an employee lived in?

Companies pay people less in LCOL areas because the local competing offers they receive are lower and they don't have to pay as much to outbid the competition. Not because they actually care about how much you're paying in rent. If two suburbs are in the same metro area, then they are part of the same local hiring pool so there is no reason to offer different compensation based on the average local rents.
I agree in theory, they improved and surely the result of improvement should be a stopping of the punishment, but I still can't make myself click the links.

Anyway when I know exactly the method I want I just add mdn to the search to make it come up. Especially because if it is a specific method I probably want a deep dive, not just some examples.
If only that were the case... But actually there is a service Credit Card companies offer which will automatically update your number with merchants who charge you regularly.

Very helpful /s
Firefox still has "view image" option, fortunately.
Thai Database Leaks 8.3B Internet Records
Impartial.app says: yes
Lived in logan for 4 years. Hate the brutal UTah winter.
illegal software
illegal tool
illegal math
illegal opinion
illegal thought
except literally not.
Why would they disallow every language name? This list says it's for "security concerns"... are they trying to curb social engineering by just disallowing words?

[append]

Hmm, I guess this list should be declared as "should not be allowed to be created by users of SHARED email hosts".
California has no say over what FB pays its employees in Ohio.
This proves too much. Consider

> You can enjoy black pepper and that’s fine. Nothing wrong with that. But it is a drug. Your body does not need black pepper to sustain itself, like it does nutrients.

A definition of "drug" that counts spices as drugs is probably not a useful definition.
200 Million.
Let’s hope the data disappears after you’ve collected revenue but before you paid the expenses. Crap product, shady company, sleazeball salesforce.
"Say software one more goddamn time!"

I don't really agree with the point that because we're creating things that allow us to use less or no code, there will be less code to write. We make things easier for ourselves so we can then build upon it and then write more complex things to solve more complex problems. It's the continual layering of abstraction that's been going on for decades.
> when my first child was born and we were on the verge of starving

Damn, that sounds horrible.

> Subject line: "Price reduced by 30%".

It sounds like a part of sales is about lying to people then? Or obscuring relationships/sources?
If you're already drinking that much, your tolerance is so high you could probably down a double before bed and still sleep fine.
In the US, state and local taxes can cause a huge variance. Certain states are in debt for multiple tens of thousands of dollars per taxpayer more than other states, and those taxpayers will have to pay far more for debt service.
I have both a Thinkpad and a Dell. I prefer the Dell hands down. The Thinkpad has multiple compatibility issues on linux where things occasionally just stop working. I have never had similar trouble with a Dell laptop. Everything just works. Always.
To download the code from glitch:

git clone https://api.glitch.com/git/multiuser-sketchpad