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> I live in a van.

>> What state(s)|countr(y|ies) do you report as your location for tax purposes?

I live in my employer's semi truck. I report my "home terminal" as my tax paying state, using my son's apartment in that state as a mailing address. I pay taxes in that state.

Other truckers maintain an actual physical residence of their own. But there are many like me. It's sort of like living in an RV, wrt taxes.
This post says that mdraid bitmap solves write-hole problem but is it really? I thought that RAID journaling solves the problem.

https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Write-intent_bitmap

https://lwn.net/Articles/665299/
You've convinced me that there will be lawsuits on this issue. But do you think there will be lawsuits where the plaintiffs win (and not just an isolated win here and there, but mass wins that force large policy changes by employers)? That still seems fairly far fetched to me.
Probably somewhere warmer like Austin or Dallas, Texas or Florida like Miami or Orlando area. Kinda also think it'd would have been cool to have a cabin somewhere in Tennessee like around the smokies.

Full time RVing has been an interest of mine too, but with the COVID thing and RV parks closing and some RV people feeling a bit misplaced. So seems owning land somewhere could be beneficial... Full time RVing seems to have it's pros and cons, but I think maybe part time RVing would be a little less stressful.

Also if you lived somewhere with cold winters, maybe RV a bit in the warmer months for a month or two then during the winter head off to Arizona or something... Like I think Utah would be a cool place to vacation in the summers since a lot of beautiful places to visit like Zion, go off-roading, mountains, etc... But probably not the first choice to live year around since I'd love to escape cold depressing winters but if I did could use the RV to do a bit of snowbirding to like AZ, TX or FL. Otherwise I think Utah is a near prefect state as an outsider prospective in general and sounds like in the future they might attract more tech but if more and more companies go remote then moving to an area based on jobs but other things in life you care about is a bonus, and might even make other places compete more for gaining more residents who are looking to find a new home town.

I think snow is pretty but haven't had much snow lately just cold and after a while it gets old quick... Always wanted to try snowboarding too. There's someone from Utah I like, so that kinda makes me change my mind a bit, and seen that Salt Lake City is on some list for startup hubs haha but I don't think they are as successful as say maybe Austin, Texas is at this point.

I kinda want something different, since bored of where I'm from and not as much opportunities as I'd hoped, seems to be a problem in the midwest in general and people call it the brain drain problem. Like there's a company in Philadelphia I'm a fan of and thought of relocating since they even offer a bonus but seems almost the same stuff just another state over...

If you could get decent internet, working from cruise ships sounds interesting too! But I think being a nomad and working a regular 9 to 5 job online wouldn't be enjoyable and hard to balance work and play... That might work better if you manage your own company remotely or some other passive sources. I know there's world cruises that are like half a year along that sounds fun, only have to unpack once and see the world but some sea days multiple in a row so that'd be some downtime to get some work in since being a longer cruise you'd probably already seen most of everything the ship has to offer anyways.
I have have worked as freelance contractor for most of my career. In my country 80% of decent IT people do this. We can demand higher income because our contracts only last 3 months so it's easy to lay us off when we are not needed (we have strong labor laws and employees are costly even on top of their salary). Due to this we can demand more salary too. My price goes up for short term prospect contracts, long distance of travel, I'm not particular interested in the project, ... In good times that works great but you better save some of that money for bad times.

I have build a good reputations so employers were ok with me working remote. So I could discount a bit as I didn't have to do long distance travel and because it was better for me. I also took the time to move to a lower cost of living country. Was nice, but the timezone was not that interesting.

Currently I don't work for my home country anymore. I work locally, apparently they pay well for my expertise here. Still I could edge out a few percentages more in my home country. But with the lower cost of living I still have more money in the bank at the end of the month.

If you can't do som form of paycheck arbitrage why would you move? Doesn't mean you need to have same salaries like you had before, you can take a small haircut. But just making the same as people locally? In my case that would be the salary I had when I just came out of school 23 years ago.
Drinking coffee without adding l-theanine has always made me jittery and hyperactive. I recommend trying it. It's what makes the caffeine buzz from matcha/green tea better than coffee's.
No, because people are trying to “hack” the system by getting SV wages living in Des Moines IA. This will introduce upward pressure on cost of living everywhere else. No, you don’t deserve a 6000sq ft mansion that a doctor living in the same region cannot afford. Besides not making sense, since as I mentioned, there are people willing to make half as much who live in these areas.
I think part of our frustration with Amazon is that there is a sizable amount of clearly fraudulent behavior in their marketplace; addressing even the lowest hanging fruit (huge upswing of 5 star reviews across narrow time windows on a single product for one) would show good faith on their part, yet they don't manage their marketplace.

Another issue that adds to the confusion: a combined five star rating scale on a product that has 12 different variations is meaningless. They could treat them individually, but choose not to.
The issue with BURS is that lookup tables can be 10s to 100s of MB. Most code generators will use dynamic programming, but hybrids have been considered: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1133255.1133988 (Fast and flexible instruction selection with on-demand tree-parsing automata)
Can this be explained in more detail for those outside of physics...
You can also create a custom browser search command with this. Pass it into your search engine of choice.
If caffeine is so good for us and not simply the drug that it is why do I feel so lousy for at least 2 weeks after giving it up? There is most definitely a withdrawal effect. Furthermore this article muddies the water between caffeine and coffee. How many of the listed benefits are due to the non-caffeine elements within coffee?
As my father pointed out to a younger me, 'Evolution is lazy. It would always rather repurpose something already created than build something new from scratch.'

So, why base64? Because there was already a nice base64 library in the evolutionary repo...
It’s also a matter of culture. For remote employees to be fully productive, the company’s culture needs to be heavily geared towards remote. You can’t have 50% of the employees in the office having impromptu hallway conversations and whiteboard discussions while the rest of the team that is remote is half-isolated, separated from the in-office idea generation, and only gets to hear about what was decided by email. You’ll effectively end up creating two classes of employees: the in-office superstars and leaders who are highly paid, and the cheaper remote workers who have a glass ceiling on their career progression and are mostly relegated to the execution of the in-office team’s vision.
I've heard Tasmania is pretty bogan, but have never been. How does it compare to Melbourne? That'd probably be my ideal wfh location.
This sounds like something Firefox should fix.
They are all localized Google domains.

https://github.com/davidahmed/wiper/blob/master/manifest.jso...

EDIT: Even better, they're also listed right on the extension's page:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wiper/

Left side, "Permissions" (click to view all)
I do too. And I don't understand why you think it is unethical to strip off the url params. I feel like it is unethical on the companies part instead to abuse the tech illiteracy among general populace.
Hews works pretty well on Android.
Slovenia has pretty-much opened up everything (masks still required indoors, nightclubs still closed, public events limited to 50 people, but everything else, from stores to gyms open).

We did lose like 2 months of business, so if we knew what to expect, it might have gone better (but italy is our neighbor, so we went 'better safe than sorry' way).

Closings should basically be linked to number of cases in that area.
You can live well for that cheap in Moscow or St. Petersburg? I'm surprised, I figured they were a bit more expensive. How is it for speaking English (or do you speak Russian?), making friends, etc.?
While tying paychecks to cost of living may appear to be equitable at a surface level, in reality you end up rewarding some workers who insist on living in an expensive area and, in a sense, force those who are willing to live in less expensive areas to subsidize their colleagues’ expensive lifestyles.
Depends- I’ve seen studies like that for supplements, but not for antioxidants obtained via food.
That's funny, because I found the transportation in Wellington to be lightyears better than what we have in LA. Granted, the trains were older at the time(I think they've since been replaced), but I remember being able to get everywhere pretty easily by train and bus, and walking was a cinch. But I guess all public transit elsewhere seems pretty good when you're coming from LA. haha
I lived in San Francisco between 1998 to 2002 and loved it. In my memory it is a Fantastic city. However, almost all of my friends have left saying it has changed dramatically for the worst. I rather hold on to how I remember it, and really hope that when I visit again one day it will match up to how I remember it.
Here we go again with this thread (dang was talking about HN cliches above)...

My friend is an intern at Facegoogle and is making 800K a year, excluding bonus.
But my friend working a prop trading shop, with two years experience, is making 2M in a good year.
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This is a great idea! I don't know why I hadn't thought of it beforehand! I looked through your code and it looks like you replace the HTML of the page. Have you considered appending "-site:<blacklisted url> -site:<blacklisted url>...etc" to the end of the search query instead? This way, the user still gets a full page of relevant search results.

I'm not sure how flexible extensions are, but maybe you could intercept all request attempts to google search, append the blacklisted URLs to the search query, then hide them on the loaded page so that the user doesn't have to see the long list of appended, blacklisted URLs.
Even better for you then that you don't have to get a remote gig to live in Boulder.
Oh man, back during the few years I spent there, I got this amazing tan. It didn't even take that long. Now I know why. :/
Intel knew their security was broken, and they were still selling those affected CPUs.

Products were recalled for smaller issues than that.
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Yes, absolutely. Do your homework and find a reporter/ blogger that, based on past reporting, you think would be interested in your company.

Email them and keep it short, make it timely (what have you accomplished recently, how is it relevant to a current event or trend) and offer to provide other pieces of the story (e.g. do you have a customer or investor who’d be willing to speak to the reporter? Do you have photos, graphics, data you could send the reporter). Offer to jump on a call and speak on the record.

One mistake I’ve seen founders make is they treat the reporters as a marketing channel. I.e they want the reporter to help them “get the word out.” That is not a reporters job. Their job is to bring their readers timely, interesting and novel stories, so your goal is to help the reporter accomplish that.
Ahh, thank you! Good point. I’ll change my rhetoric on this. I just checked the minimum thresholds and the lowest one I found in Europe was Finland at €10,000, with almost every country having a different threshold. So yes, unless it were a very expensive digital good, then one sale wouldn’t do it.

I think the logic still applies, in that when I sell it here from my home in the US, I’m supposed to track and monitor who in which countries are buying how much and then stay up to date on all the tax laws of all those countries.
I know I first came across BLNS about 5 years ago because I was 20 years old when I first saw that.

Suffice to say it scared the shit out of me!
I live in Chicago, and to be honest, it's not that bad if you own a car. (Chicago is relatively car friendly).

Winters are harder for those who don't own a car -- and many don't, but they manage fine by just bundling up.

Anecdotally one hears of people leaving Chicago for a warmer climate, but it's more common for people to leave the city to move to the suburbs (better schools) or to neighboring Indiana (lower COL) -- where there are no weather advantages.

For most of us who live in the northern parts of North America, winter is something we're used to and is not the push factor so many believe it is (those who do see it as a push factor tend to be outspoken about it, so their voices are amplified, which skews perceptions).

If winter was indeed that terrible, the northern North America would have been depopulated. But if you talk to the locals here, many would tell you they prefer to live in the north. (of course some won't but not as many as you would think)
I thought it was weird to feature Clubhouse when the app launched fairly recently. Feels like this article is a way to market them?
The full WFH also means your talent pool to hire from is more global, and, on average, cheaper
Interestingly, the security content for Xcode 11.5 is out already.
RE homeless people - when I went (several times as I lived across the bay in Tallinn) the only homeless people I saw were refugees or pretend refugees (someone told me it was an organized crime thing but I have no knowledge of whether that's true or not) and I'm not even sure those people were truly homeless or just panhandling
Are there two different definitions of the marketing function in everyday use?

Some people seem to equate marketing with the promotion of existing products. Some others see marketing as helping to determine the products / services the company should build.

Are there better terms for these different functions in an organization?
The main potential savings is not from avoiding office leases, it's from hiring engineers for 1/3 of the cost or less from places like Europe, India, and Brazil.
I don't think it's unethical of companies to include them. But I do remove them in places where you can see the URL, like an email, because I think it looks messy. I like reading URLs before I click on them and extraneous parameters make that more difficult.
You don’t get paid based on the value you bring. You get paid based on supply and demand. Once they can hire from anywhere in the US, the supply increases.
It looks like that's just updating Git to a new version to address an already-public bug. I guess they figured that there's no advantage to waiting to release that information.
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I was wondering that was "modern" about it, given that fmt(1) has been around since 3BSD (1979?).
I'm just going to hook up on your example of the document and the deadline, and state the following: You're assuming a (very) pessimistic scenario (that you likely justify with your experience of IT systems and their bugs, but Apollo 11 had IT too, and got it done, and everyone back).

Allow the benefit of doubt that a "software-based" system would only be implemented, if it were superior in such a way, that such a situation doesn't even occur in the first place. That is the benefit. It alleviates the necessity for the "human-wiggling-around-laws-that-actually-make-it-illegal-what-you're-doing,-but-those-laws-are-stupid,-so-whatever,-we-don't-care-about-that-specific-law".

It's most likely a very unknown concept for anyone presently, since it doesn't yet exist, but I believe, if human civilization works more on the aspect of creating a universal law that is language-agnostic, we would have a better solution than the ones we currently have.

Also, tax filings and the like are basically automated. It's just about expanding such automated concepts for more efficiency as well as removing the language-bias laws exhibit. I'm fully aware of the shortcomings of automation, and also do believe that a human "arbitrator", or judge, is required and preferred.

But in essence, my goal in stating my opinion was to plant the idea of language-agnostic law, for which maths, code and logic can form a solution. It's philosophical pondering towards a global government policy in a very long-run.
I even strip 'www.' if it automatically redirects. Marketing tracking parameters add no value for me or my readers.

On HN I've seen a marketer or two who added tracking parameter in comments. It was something like &utm=hackernews&&utcampaign=betalaunch&utsource=comment. That's a bit much IMHO.
And pinterest, expertsexchange and a bunch of others. Right now I blackhole them in the DNS, being able to strip them out of serps is a great idea, it puts the lie to Google serving you what you want though.
Or maybe virtual airbnb with onsite vpn ip per unit in the residential area split across different employers?
That is a help, thanks.

Even if the risk of being “caught” is small, it is still important to understand risks. If one does get in trouble for some other reason, then suddenly one can find the book thrown at them for multiple reasons.
I really dont get how they've gotten away with it this long. Google killed off eHow relatively quickly after we started doing our shady SEO practices but yet...
Thanks for clarifying this. I agree with this, one hundred percent. I think that if you're not an education expert or enthusiast, you'd better go look for problems to solve somewhere else — which was the premise of my original comment. It pains me every time I see someone building a business without the passion to help their audience.
My point still stands. None of that prevented the post from reaching the front page and bringing a lot of good insights. This is a good reminder that we, as humans, sometimes focus on irrelevant things.
Thanks for taking the trouble.

I felt tricked, since posting a link directly to the video would have sufficed. I suppose a submission that links to Wikipedia attracts more clicks and upvotes. However, the article has very little substance and looks to be essentially a wrapper around a YouTube video link.
Everywhere. Me and my wife would love to just travel, staying in a place until we feel the urge to move on. Not being tied to one specific location. When my kids are older and self sufficient we'll probably do just that.
Your assumption that the start of life was like what we see today is the problem.

We know that RNA molecules form spontaneously, and many such molecules exhibit enzyme activity. We know that an astonishingly short molecule suffices to copy other RNA sequences it encounters.

All we need, really, is for two of those to encounter one another in the right conditions, and in short order the seas are filled with really excellent copiers. (Better copiers, as they arise, reproduce faster, and soon dominate.) So, the starting condition of life is an environment brimming with RNA replicators, and numerous copies of whatever aids them. Any sort of encapsulation event is likely to include one or more replicators.

Encapsulation is necessary to preserve improvements in interaction between molecules, so we need spontaneous closed-membrane formation.

Curiously, there is no known instance I know of where a cell produces a membrane de novo. It always starts with what it got from a mother cell. Arguably it is not the nucleic acids that define life, but the membrane.
I'm saying the death count is much lower than originally expected.
As somebody who just started a remote role and is in the process of signing a lease in Philly, this is good to hear :)
When dealing with Health or Military systems installing or updating a native application could result in months of delays (e.g. quarterly OS image update cycles). However running within Chrome, Firefox, and other typical software preinstalled, this becomes <days for implementation.

Without WebAssembly I wouldn't have been able to ship 2 products pro-bono within intensive care units and operating theatres directly helping with COVID.

I understand your dislike towards WebAssembly (albeit Web stack trends / flavour of the month esque development). I am not the largest fan of modern web development. Nevertheless love for WebAssembly is not due to developer productivity. After shipping 20+ WebAssembly products (alongside native counterparts) I am yet to meet an Engineer who enjoyed the WebAssembly/Emscripten/Blazor pipeline. However what WebAssembly has achieved for me is: Do people use your app? and within certain markets it allowed me to grow, do good, and say yes. This is the only real reason why someone should go down this route.
Nope.

The cost would be right if the cache was usable after context switch. Since it is likely stale, the new context will be pulling new data into cache as if nothing really happened.
Sorry, I made a mistake. I edited my comment to add "don't" to "I don't think think that there will be many Foolabs that pay one rate."
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> So, you want to work remotely for Facebook? Great! All you have to do is figure out your own office space (much like how an Uber driver is responsible for the upkeep of their vehicle)

This 100%. But also - my own economic ideology position is that employees should be as self-empowered as possible. If your employer owns all your tools, your workspace, your IP, etc. then they completely control your access to the labour market. The means of production should be as widely distributed as possible to prevent huge power imbalance in favour of employers. Remote Work will mean that people can move companies easily (which means putting up with less shit since you can just move), be setup for freelance work already if they need extra income or want a break from working for somebody else, can learn more about their toolset due to being responsible for setting up an environment to work from home, etc. While there are some downsides, I think this is an overall positive.
Well, the question is how many of those lines are already stale because of the work done by the other processes during the context switch.
Thanks. No that has the potential issue of assuming that results from your blacklist are complete crap. That'd be equivalent of removing the search results based on the blacklist entirely (right?). Based on a comment here on HN as well, I think that's not necessarily a good idea. You don't know what you don't know, so may be a blacklisted website may return a valid result (unlikely but probable, so I'm letting that assumption be there).

And feel free to contribute on Github if you like :)
I've also been working remotely from NYC - lived here for about 7 years now. Agree with everything you've said. The people and the level of ambition and energy here is unrivaled anywhere else I've been, save for maybe Tokyo or Hong Kong. I'm also optimistic that things will return to some semblance of normal within a year or two. I'm also hopeful that the coming months will provide a bit of a reset with lower prices that will allow residents or businesses that were previously priced out to return.