skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understood Hasura is planning to support other databases to like Mongo and/or MySQL. If you run Hasura with something like AWS RDS most of your scaling issue on the data side is resolved. You can still run multiple instances of Hasura itself to horizontally scale it.

Have to admit I haven't had this issue yet and I think it's a nice problem to have at that time as means too many paying customers :)
>a company could pay women less since it knows they are less likely to demand an equal salary

Except they couldn't, FB is forced to pay equal salary.

>is not charitable act it's a responsibility

Depends on which perspective you're looking at, if I'm facebook or fb shareholder, I consider it act of irresponsibility.
I made a video explaining the details of this paper if you are interested! https://youtu.be/H8F6J7mYyz0
Can anyone explain why companies do this, but still hire from the expensive areas? If they pay less for the same level of skill in Texas, why don't they stop hiring in SF full stop and only hire in Texas? Is it just a bluff and they'll cave if you challenge them?
It's not quite as playable as the full pacman game, but it is more than an animation since it's conditioned on the action taken
C++ templates are not usefully complete: which would mean that they can calculate any possible unit of C++ syntax (the relevant representation in their domain of operation).

Turing Complete means that any general recursive function can be computed; but not necessarily with a useful representation of inputs and outputs or reasonable use of resources.

Analogy: suppose you can compute any function over the domain of the whole numbers, but these have a goofy representation likee SSSSS0 (successor of successor of .. zero). Your system cannot actually compute "42", only 42 S's followed by 0 which is interpreted as 42, so if the requirement is to calculate the actual digits "42", the system fails to deliver. Moreover, the representation it works with is tremendously time and space wasting.
This might be true, but I haven't felt it that way. My experience the past two months has been that my avg meetings/week has spiked from about 30 to 45, with avg time spent in meetings per week at 30 currently. The result is that I don't have any time to do Real Work(tm) because I'm constantly in meetings.

Why has this happened? My estimation is that it isn't "because I'm a manager" or "because I'm trying to create artificial face time to indicate my value", but because the broader organization hasn't matured enough culturally to know how to handle itself when everybody is WFH. Examples of things that haven't happened yet:

1) Top down declaration of any core hours, to reduce need for early morning and evening meetings
2) Adjustment of business objectives
3) Formal recognition that there is inequity across sub-populations when it comes to WFH effectiveness/capability (type of work, family situation, living situation, infrastructure access, maturity, mental state, ...).

The perception most within the org seem to have is that, while we pressed pause on some activities (proactive sales outreach, for example), we are accelerating others, and this is coming without much regard for human experience.

Imho, there's also a difference between normal WFH -- as a previous commenter noted -- and this cv-forced WFH. I think there's real fear, that well-founded, from workers who know they can't be 100% productive right now, but don't know if that fact will be adequately recognized by their employer or have clarity around how it will impact future performance ratings, compensation and promotion decisions. As a result, many folks are struggling with balance because they feel obligate to structure their lives in an unbalanced way.
Is it? says the model keep track of user input to generate appropriate frames.
What is the context here? This doesn’t describe the test at all, it’s just a bunch of numbers.
One important point is that this is people that _willingly_. move from Bay Area to cheaper areas, not expatriates.
Terminology, mostly.

WFH just means you're at home. Usually there is a policy about it, e.g. "only 1 day a week" or "3 days a month" or "with Mgmt approval" etc.

Flexible is just a WFH policy that's a lot more open. I'm 100% remote but my coworkers are local and are obligated to go into the office at least once a week, sometimes more for big meetings or sensitive discussions.

Permanent work from home & remote are more or less the same thing. There may be a contextual difference, depending on if there are expectations that you're near an office, or if you can just piss-off to Estonia or Indonesia or wherever. I'm remote, but with a clear expectation that I stay in country, mostly for security and access reasons.

OTOH, I knew a Swedish dev who rented a VW Van and packed in spare batteries, a mattress, and good satellite internet, and then worked remotely driving across Australia -- that's about as remote as it comes.
>> He at it that night...

> No way he ate it all that night.

He ate it does not necessarily imply he ate it all. I ate chili last night, but that doesn't mean I ate all the chili.

But, anyway, those weren't the actual words of Forstall in the video.
GameGAN Explained
+1. All the snowflakes will cry about "unfair" whine whine. And ignore reality. As per usual! There is no logical reason why they wouldn't pay based on location.
Only posts can farm reputation, the number of authors doesn't matter.
To farm reputation from posts, you would need an automated post creation algorithm that passes the Turing test (or an algorithm that creates useful content for the community, which would be legitimate).
Ultimately, authors that already have reputation decide which posts receive reputation.
I believe that would be difficult for a small number of malicious authors to take control of the community trying to be smart, but I don't have any strong evidence though.
You quit cos of this? Did you change your mind yet? CSS in JS is pretty good for performance and organising of styled components. Give it at least a day or two of learing before you throw 10 years work down the drain ️
IBM Watson has been an abject failure. I think IBM dumped a billion dollars into what were essentially 90% shell scripts sed'ing and awk'ing datasets.
> I think that's why I'm surprised I don't hear that more. The size of someone's back yard or height of their fence (to a reasonable extent) seems like it wouldn't harm someone else, but they're strongly regulated in much of CA's single-family zoning.

I'm not sure what you mean, but to clarify: the libertarian position is that if the fence harms no one, then there is no one, not even governments, to have anything to do with said fence besides the fence's owner, as that is the owner's right.
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Yes, that’s something I tried thinking about but computing the intersection of two or more quite large regions turns out to be harder than using the symmetry to only look at one region. There are also tricks one can learn for eg dominos.
This is just marketing spin, I’d like to think that the people in this discussion are talking about the merits of a pay differential, and the way you phrase it is not really the point under discussion here.
This makes sense for the average worker.

But these are Facebook devs, surely they demand more knowing they have mobility. At that level signing "fuck you" contracts shouldn't make any sense.
I am surprised to see comments on HN accusing the company of theft and greed for doing this. Isn’t the cost of living in an area the biggest factor in the salary? If so moving to another area will automatically reduce the salary. I don’t think they are being unfair or greedy. You don’t want the salary structure to in a remote area to be the same as the Bay Area. That will be unfair to the rest of the companies that want to hire in that city.
Don't forget about Psychological Projection...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
you can compile with -std=c++20 and still use the C++03 ABI (of course std::string will not be compliant then). The two flags are unrelated.
By that logic, the adjustment should not be a percentage of gross pay, but a fixed dollar amount based on difference in average cost of living.
Just so you know, that name won‘t fly in Europe. Google „SS“ if you want to know why.
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Experimental charting library for Svelte

Key word being "experimental". This is the description of the Github. It's open source and they don't owe you anything––they are doing this for free.

If anything, it's more amateur to document an experimental API you know will be continually broken until a stable release in the distant future.

They don't want people to start relying on it.
Its probably wonderful cover for them to continue shedding older employees
Unless those authors are specifically trying to get you to adopt their work for whatever reason (sales, good will, etc) and in which case they'd likely have documented it, you are not doing them a favor by adopting their work. You're just benefiting from what they've released.

It's like going to a free buffet and complaining there's no napkins. Sure, you can complain, and you're technically correct that there should be napkins. But it's still in bad taste.
Thought experiment: Is my brain also generating reality without a physics engine and is filling in details that it thinks should be there? If true, what are the advantages/disadvantages of it?
I agree we haven't seen the Apple "Blockbusters" everyone got used to. Although many (like yourself?) are looking for leadership in creativity and higher risk endeavors, Tim Cook certainly has more business acumen which should not be undervalued. Does that lead to a boring company? Possibly.
Are you only allowed to affiliate your Apple ID with one country’s app store? If I moved to Japan and switched to the Japanese app store would I just lose all of the apps I purchased via the US store?
Heh, I remember a case of a telecom thinking they owned a phone number and assigned it.

It worked as expected on their PSTN and cellular network, but not from any other network.
Your mental model is all wrong. There's no moral calculus being used to determine how much you earn. If you want to think like that, then you'd have a hard time justifying differences in pay for different lines of work, especially since they don't correlate with how much or how hard you work. You don't make more than the guy laying tile because you work harder than him. It's because there's a lot more people who can do what he does than what you do.

Labor is a market. It's supply and demand. All of that stuff you're talking about--the cost of eating out vs. cooking, rent in Silicon Valley vs. Wisconsin--doesn't need to be calculated. The market price for labor in a city is how much you need to offer to get enough qualified people to work for you in that city. People’s preferences, for eating out, for living here or there, are factored in to how much they’re willing to work for.
...... what? This is an example that capitalism does work. If someone wants to live in Random City A then Facebook will still have to compete with the local wages there to get people to work for them. The labor market is supply and demand driven. And of course Facebook decides the wages of their employees, how else would it work? The employment agreement is two sided, if people don't like the offer they can go work somewhere else.

Massive caveat: Facebook is an absolutely garbage company and the world would be better off if they didn't exist. But paying less based on location is reasonable.
If someone doesn't know what AM means, they don't know English anyway.
> It's odd to see Valley types, in light of the FB WFH news, debating whether comp should follow a 'cost plus' or 'fraction of value added' model.

> In my experience it's always followed the Goldman Sachs bonus algorithm: Exactly $1 more than your walkaway price as an employee.

https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1263586217183965184?s=2...
Because IBM Watson is essentially a billion dollar bet on 90% shell scripts sed'ing and awk'ing datasets.

It was a sales and marketing ploy to sell global services contracts
Failing to consider that your customer base could be international is the definition of blinkered irrationality. You're not just losing goodwill, you're losing potential profits.

There are obvious exceptions, like fresh food or anything else with a limited shelf life, and any product that has a distributor chain providing sales and support in a different territory.

Beyond that it makes no sense at all, especially for software and other non-physical services.

Other countries, including China and the EU, understand this. Companies in the US that fail to adapt will lose business and be left behind.
Advertisers will always have power, and platforms will always decide to publish different types of content.

If an advertiser today wants to advertise with pornhub, that is a different editorial decision than choosing to advertise on YouTube

I shouldn't have to spell this out because it seems pretty obvious.

One can imagine a world where YouTube complies with your regulation by providing YouTube, YouTube for kids, and maybe a couple political niches that capture their most popular creators

Now advertisers are effectively still making the same decisions that they were, YouTube is still the preferred advertising backend, and nothing changed except that you made it harder for smaller sites like Vimeo to attract advertisers

Your regulation idea is reckless because you haven't thought it through
My age might be showing, but tests back then were rarely open book and largely based around memorization and essay writing.
The plugin is itself called “rust-analyzer.”
I’m aware it’s a single installation of Chrome. But it runs a second copy for the other other profile. That’s a lot of resource overhead.

Also requiring another window is a lot of extra mental overhead to keep track of all the windows.

For example right now I have 12 Firefox containers running. They are 15 tabs in a single window.

With Chrome profiles, I’d need 12 windows, most with just one tab.
WFH makes a lot of sense when you have a team of people that are used to meeting in person and are on the same time zone.

Daily stand-up meetings? Easy.

Weekly team and one-on-one meetings? Easy.

Knowing when your coworkers are working? Easy.

My team is mostly remote, diverse location, diverse ages/demographics. Getting everyone on Slack was hard enough. Having people report when they are actually contactable is impossible. And now that Slack removed presence from their API I have to rely on every more metrics to measure my team.

I should be using many metrics all along? No that's stupid, the reason I have employees is so I can build relationships with good people. If everything was metrics and work whenever you want that's called programming, not managing.
Don’t you need to have a minimum (substantial) amount to be made before a fab will do anything for you?
I want to agree but this problem is kind of weird.

If the situation was reversed, would you still say it’s fair because a worker gets paid for his/her value to the company?

For instance, let’s say you were working for a company in a rural area. Your pay is perfectly average for your position and others in your position at other companies get an equal salary.

Your company asks you to relocate to their office in central NYC, for the same job you’re doing now. Your cost of living doubles as a result. (Hypothetical amount) Should they increase your pay to account for this?

I sure do, but then why would the opposite be so wrong? I agree that you are paid for your value to the company, but we also can’t pretend like CoL is the same everywhere.

Edit: After posting this I remembered this was a big discussion in politics in my country recently. Dutch Call Centre’s were relocating to Spain during summer breaks and offering Dutch students jobs there (advertised using the fact that it’s Spain and you can party). As a result the companies would offer the students a lower wage since Spain’s minimum wage is a lot lower than the dutch one.
I guess they cannot cut your pay if you keep the contract conditions, if you willingly move to another area... why not?
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Interesting to explore how this can be used. You still need to develop a game with an actual engine first, to generate all the samples for training the AI how to generate frames without an engine.

But maybe if training sample size can be considerably reduced, game making can open up to far less technical people. Instead of developing with an engine, game makers could show the AI "when I press this button, change the scene like this", and the AI could try to figure out the rules from given samples.
FWIW the abbreviation has been around a wee bit longer than slashdot.
Because they don't pay people based on how much they're worth. They pay based on how much you'd say yes to.
The Stein and Shakarchi Real Analysis text is a great read for learning measure theory
Kinda-sorta like a mashup of a DOS PC and a Japanese game console of the SNES / Genesis era.

It's cute and retro-cool but also very Japanese, and thus almost entirely unknown in the west.
You are correct it needs to happen and it is pretty simple. Just ban the C-suite, VPs and BoD from being compensated in stock. Now the only way to keep the gravy train running is to build a solid company and not spend all quarter jerking the numbers around to make the disclosures look good.

That being said, it will never happen.
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I opened 12 bank accounts to benchmark their UX
The problem with the "lottery factor" is that if someone wins the lottery, you can still theoretically go to their new mansion with a wrench and beat the information out of them.
Not at all. Just pointing out the bias. I fully support authors being compensated, people have rent to pay and food to buy. I do not support authors attempting to subvert fair use (when copyright law is tilted so heavily in their favor already: copyright for life plus another 70 years) in the naive belief that might add a few extra dollars to a royalty check.

Would authors take so much issue with the Archive's Emergency Library effort if code was written so every public library could delegate their "copies" of books to the Internet Archive, so that demand could be programmatically and dynamically allocated (think shuffling software licensing around in a large enterprise)? Or would they be dismayed to find that there were enough copies in the national library system to meet peak demand?

The longer conversation is that the mechanisms by which we compensate those who contribute to culture (like writers, or pennies per song stream on Spotify) is fundamentally broken. This is one of the symptoms.

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with the Internet Archive besides being a recurring donor, but I do take it upon myself to vigorously defend public goods.
I feel that I'm in the minority here, but this appears to be a somewhat understandable move. To be able to live in the location you most desire is, frankly, still a luxury for the time being and while I hope that's not the status quo forever it's definitely the case now.

And, to attempt to refute the points made that the worker a value adds to a company doesn't depend on location, I completely agree with the basic premise - but I feel that salary should be adjusted so that all employees can share a similar quality-of-life across the board wherever they're geographically based.

Maybe I am a little bit biased because I'm currently on the other side of this coin. I work at a company based in the US South, and managed to get into their more cutting-edge and innovative NYC office. Plus, I'm from NYC and love the city, it's my ideal location to live and work.

Yet, while their NYC office is "cost-of-living adjusted" for salary, I am certainly worse off than the employees based out of the HQ. The difference in pay to provide the same quality-of-life between a huge global city and a mid-sized regional city can be staggering.

And obviously, I know I could live way out in an outer borough or in Long Island / Westchester / NJ and have the same overall costs associated with someone in the HQ, but then I'm 60+ minutes from the office and my ideal life/work location anyway.
I have a similar situation but much more mundane. Someone listed my number as theirs on a county clerk of courts website and now I get all of their phone calls regarding their delinquent properties.
Is low-code development a fad?
This is reason enough for me to use 2020-04-05 exclusively. Lexical order is a bonus.
> There aren't many "pure" RISC designs left

True, from the point of view of the "user" (i.e., the compilers). Internally, most CISC machines nowadays are essentially RISC machines with a CISC-to-microcode translator, so you could also say that there aren't many "pure" CISCs left either :)
When developing on/for mainframes and minicomputers of the day, developers were sometimes able to use higher-level languages

ISTR hearing that MS had a VAX that they developed on then cross-compiled for 8086
This.
Tbh even recently we have had something similiar in our city about a companie moving there and the pay was ridiculously above the median, golden handcuffs was of of the topics of the discussion, specially by colleagues that were part of a consulting company already working for them before them moved in.
It's not a nice feeling knowing that if you leave a job, there is no way you can get the same payment. One of the nice things about being a programmer is that I can leave my job whenever I need, as employment is abundant, but if there is no comparable paycheck, then that perk goes away. And that is a very nice perk that lots of people here take for granted.
> not using insurance for low cost routine care, which makes the patient price sensitive

i would argue the patient cannot be price sensitive. The utility of staying alive is infinite - therefore, a patient will pay _any_ price for a procedure that saves them.

I don't want to see a world where going to the GP for a cold is not free. But that's the world we live in today.

The insurance efficiency, if any, is just a drop in the bucket i suppose - because the main issue i'm talking about is socializing healthcare, so that even healthy people pay a cost. And insurance _doesn't_ help with that (and having an insurance industry certainly prevents it from existing as well).
One argument is that, especially for large companies like Facebook, if you exclude the tech hubs, it's hard to hire enough people with the skills they need.

I think it's also the case that there are probably quite a few employers who don't necessarily try very hard to outbid the big companies in places like SV.
As I said, the file data was likely popped off the stack automatically, no need to write any extra code.
I'd say dividends are the one thing that makes stocks feel like a real investment vehicle.
Thank you for the feedback!

This is also my impression, the developer experience of electron is just so great!

On the other hand, looking at the Qt website I believe there is a misalignment between the need of the developers and what the Qt Company is pushing.
Not the same person but I assume it is related to the issues discussed under "Scaling up issues" here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBurst_(microarchitecture)#S...
I remember when Bill Gates released his terrible BASIC for homebrew computers. It was implemented in ROM (because nobody had enough RAM to hold something like an interpreter). It was terrible, bug-ridden and unambitious. I recall thinking at the time "I could do better than that!".

If only I had :)