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I don't see how anyone can support this from a moral perspective.

Firstly, if we are not producing enough "talented" people, then we should be investing on producing more "talented" people rather than bringing them from overseas. If companies can just bring in foreigners to undercut american workers then what incentive is there for companies and local/state/federal governments to invest in american workers/people.

Secondly, if we are stealing "talented" people from other countries, how fair is it to these countries that need these people to develop. Isn't it amoral for a wealthy nation to steal resources from a poor nation just so that some billionaire can get cheaper workers and/or suppress wages? And if poor countries realize that their "talented" people are going to be taken by wealthy nations, then what incentive is there for these countries to invest in and develop their own people?

If politicians supports this, then I propose we also open up these elected positions to foreigners. Let foreigners run for the senate, house and presidency. Lets see how they like it. Let them also bid for the wages as well. Don't see a downside from where I'm standing as it can't get any worse than the current political class we have.
This bugged me about Atlassian when I worked there as well. On one hand, one of the key marketing messages was about working from home, and additionally, they had an evangelist talking about the "future of work" being remote. On the other hand, only a couple teams out of probably 50 allowed remote work. Signs are showing the pandemic is changing attitudes, hopefully permanently.

I guess the saying "the future is here, just not evenly distributed" can apply to companies as well as society as whole.
Maybe it's time to hit the brakes on selling overpriced sweatshop made clothes with a luxury brand slapped on top and a 2000x markup.
I visited Taiwan last year and can confirm. It's a beautiful, modern place full of absolutely super nice people. The stories are true.
I do not disagree, but that’s where the FOSS structural incentives tend to fail. WiFi chipsets have the same “institutional problems”, but everyone needs WiFi so enough hackers will pour over the problem and generally find decent solutions. That’s generally not the case for power management, because most people will be ok with keeping “the brick” connected most of the time. Every once in a while, this or that company will throw a bit of money at the problem and solve it for a few models, for a few months... and then we go back to square 1.
Cant have the GOYIM saving cash/silver/gold

Better ban CASH and outlaw gold

https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/land-of-the-free-stas...
You do know that PostgreSQL had issues with not fsyncing data as well ?

See, you can name just one Postgres bug, and they held their hands up to it straight away. Whereas the MongoDB "bugs" are countless and by sheer coincidence, they mostly skew to improving performance in benchmarks and demos. That's a pattern.
This reminds me a lot of Carp: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
And then there's the "invisible programmers", the ones who might cross-train as IT technicians, who write internal-only software on an as-needed basis. Need a report? Need a webapp so people can work with a business process database? Need to integrate a CRM into Jira by pulling information out of its backend database nobody has a schema for? Not the kind of stuff they teach you in school, bucko, but someone has to do it.
Just a nit pick. I think you got the bank assets a bit wrong. The deposits are liabilities to begin with so cant rally fund any mortgages. The mortgage is deposited into the bank as a liability to start with though I guess. It’s just the other way around mortgages begets deposits.
That's what I'm trying to ascertain... is this an identity or not? (Note, I changed my comment to 'potential identity' rather than 'identity').

That, and are there any simple(r) identities for phi in terms of e, and e in terms of phi...?
I currently live in Seattle, and I'm seriously considering somewhere in Idaho or Montana.

But on top of the corona situation I also have some pending life stuff that's still to be resolved. Depending on the outcome of that and my company being cool with full remote (no reason not to bring it up), I really wanna move somewhere cheaper.
> but Apollo 11 had IT too

So did the Mars Climate Orbiter.
Battersea and Castro aren't comparable. Inner areas East of Shoreditch or north of Regent's Canal are consistently dirtier than SF's worst.
The mismatch is expectations about what would be known from sequencing DNA doesn't speak to the validity of the analogy but to the poor mental models about the reality of code, computation and systems we have.

Though I agree that the analogy doesn't really buy you much useful leverage when seeking useful understanding.
The source of truth for these partitions is not that code. It's the endpoints.json released in botocore (and replicated into every other sdk):

https://github.com/boto/botocore/blob/a0e22400396eabd5a58e4b...

To quickly list all of them, you can use a simple jq expression, such as the following:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/boto/botocore/a0e22400/botocore/data/endpoints.json | jq '.partitions[] | [.partitionName, .partition, .regions]'
"Pay for what you use" in the case of roads would be the incremental amount of road damage caused by each vehicle, rather than the total road cost divided by the number of vehicles.

The large majority of road maintenance costs are attributable to weather and semi trucks. (Road damage from vehicles is the fourth power of vehicle weight, so one semi does as much damage as thousands of cars.)

Moreover, the problem with allocating the fixed cost (weather) portion of road maintenance to cars, or the cost attributable to large trucks, is then you over-deter use of the road. You don't want an inefficiency where you deter someone from using the road even though they value their use of it more than the cost to the state of allowing them to, because then you waste idle road capacity for which the fixed construction costs must be paid either way. Doing that also requires the amount of the toll to be even higher, because then you have to amortize the fixed costs over fewer vehicles. You end up with tolls much higher than the efficient level per vehicle even if the tolls do only pay for road maintenance, because of the over-deterrence.

The better solution is to pay the fixed cost portion from general taxes and only charge the marginal cost for usage.

But if you charge only the marginal cost for "light" passenger vehicles then the amount is so small as to not even be worth collecting.
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It's a false dichotomy, that because software is getting easier to write, less people will be writing software.

Yes it's true that software in the future will be easier to write, but we will not be solving the same problems as today.

In the past (20 years ago), developing a TODO app was relatively difficult and could of been a valid startup idea. However today it's a trivial application to develop and is the equivalent of a "hello world" program.

The reality is; Writing software gets easier, While the problems software solves get harder...
According to the Alabama department of public health as of 5 hours ago there are only 571 people in ICU.

https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/covid19/assets/cov-al-ca...

According to CDC data, 81% of deaths from COVID-19 in the United States are people over 65 years old, most with preexisting conditions. If you add in 55-64-year-olds that number jumps to 93%. For those below age 55, preexisting conditions play a significant role, but the death rate is currently around 0.0022%, or one death per 45,000 people in this age range. Below 25 years old the fatality rate of COVID-19 is 0.00008%, or roughly one in 1.25 million.

I am sure some hospitals will come close to capacity in some areas due to some case clusters, but Florida, Texas, and Georgia have been largely fine after opening up even in rural areas.

I expect over the next two to three weeks we will continue to see drops in deaths.
That would definitely improve the lot of the H1B employee, and probably have an indirect effect on the companies involved to discourage H1B's (though I imagine they would recreate the ties with contracts, using things like signing bonuses and relocation reimbursement to keep people stuck in the current job). But it doesn't do anything to address the goal of this bill which is to prevent abuses of the H1B program, and "protect American workers".
Can you recommend an area in Manila or elaborate what you like about it? When I was there for two weeks I experienced it as a suffocating concrete block. I love big, vibrant cities but couldn't really get the hang of Manila.
My general issues with the immigration system aside, I've been a proponent of this positive change for some years now.

Another method, that I think would be more acceptable is to just allocate the visas based on pay. Hard to argue that H1Bs are being used to undercut US workers when there are no H1Bs making under $200k.
You don't have to answer this if you don't feel like it, but I always wondered if "-site:food.bar" is a search signal against that web site when Google ranks domains.
That kind of misses the whole “tipping point” aspect of climate change, wherein crossing a certain threshold is an (essentially) irreversible act.

One could argue that any realistic scenario for WWIII would (unfortunately) involve a broad thermonuclear exchange, and therefore a probable “nuclear winter” scenario, but that global chilling is temporary and the climatic system would revert to its warming trend shortly thereafter (after at most half a decade or so).
> The result is less code.

No, it's more code with a greater value:code ratio. It's lower code for the same delivered value, but no one stops at the same delivered value that they'd have without whatever tipped that ratio, because the incremental value for the next unit of code is higher.

Increasing the value delivered per unit of code increases the volume of code purchased.
Jira -> Offers structure for bug findings, requests, ideas.
Confluence -> Permanent place for information.

Slack is greatly helped by integrations with tools like this. Otherwise you would only have chaotic discussions and then try to find messages in Slack to remember things.
All of these points are easily resolved by not living in the biggest city in your country. Bangkok is the New York City of Thailand. You could have all the same delicious food, but great air, no traffic, and more if you went to say Chiang Mai
Caplan utterly overlooks culture and politics, and his analysis ends up extremely shallow as a result: https://www.vox.com/2014/9/13/6135905/open-borders-bryan-cap...

> Not necessarily. "Low-skilled" is actually kind of a misleading term here. Even American high school dropouts have at least one key skill that immigrants generally don't: the ability to speak English. That makes it possible for immigrants to complement the labor of low-skilled, native-born workers, rather than replacing it. "Low-skilled Americans who are fluent in English in a place like New York City wind up supervising the low-skilled immigrants," Caplan says. "They wind up being the bridge, or the people who train immigrants in jobs that they wouldn’t even know about from their home countries."

The problem with this hypothetical is that Caplan overlooks that libertarians wouldn’t have any political clout in this new world order. Reimagine all of Caplan’s hypotheticals, except the Squad is in charge of everything. How long do you think they would stand for English language skills being a determinant of whether someone was entitled to a supervisory role?
Note, despite their names, secret and top secret regions refer to the data classifications which they can have access to, not to their existence.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-the-new...
It looks like they don't need the aggressive idle timeout anymore, now that they have ProxySQL for connection pooling:

> ... ProxySQL, which is responsible for connection pooling ...

https://github.blog/2020-03-26-february-service-disruptions-...

More worryingly, it looks like they just rewrote the authz functionality from ruby to golang, and have both the monolith and the microservice accessing the same database?
Sounds like a big hassle. Might as well just open an office in Vancouver, Bucharest or Bangalore.
Open-source analytics tool for smart contract transactions
I'm personally considering starting the nomad life now at 24 or next year at 25. I'm South African and Greek, so I get the EU passport benefits. Grew up in both, been studying & working in SA for almost 7 years now. SA has a decent climate and stunning natural beauty, but government and other factors here make it a bit unpalatable.

A good way to describe Cape Town is San Francisco Lite - The same tech, central rental price, homelessness & drug problems (with crime too!), just cheaper. Pretty place, but not sure I want to keep dealing with that. Then there's also the general wanderlust. Ideally, I want to do the digital nomad thing while traveling through Europe, then decide on a "permanent" place to have as a base, then maybe keep traveling and see what else there is. Currently eyeing Amsterdam, Lisbon (local salaries are only slightly higher than CPT though), Talinn. Athens also has quite an urban flair to it as well, and coming back to it with a fresh pair of eyes for a few weeks last year made it enticing to go back. But alas, I'd rather not waste 9 months of my life in conscription.
RAID 5 is a reasonable way to add redundancy to three or (worse) four drives, sourced from different batches (or vendors).

Sometimes it's all you can afford, or could until ZFS became available for Linux.

For bigger setups, definitely other schemes are better.
Enter VPN. Trivial to setup after some research.
I have been working remote from home as a dev/sysadm from a small tropical island in Asia for the past 7 year while having a employment contract with a company in Northern Europe. I will keep staying here.
Haha, just imagine if an AI faces Chandler
1. We have no-code already. It is called WordPress and its hundreds of thousands of plugins. Is WordPress eating everything? Nope. Is it destroying web development? Nope.

2. This entire post does not align with the existence of SAP, IBM, and Oracle. Vast, vast, vast, amounts of code are highly customized for a specific domain. These companies would already have lapped up these synergies to boost their own profits. I really want to know how no-code solves the processing of custom contract objects.
C++ is also older than Rust by, oh... a few years.

I'm not aware of any plan to not stabilize Rust's ABI, it just hasn't happened yet. It's completely fair to label that a deal-breaker for using Rust, but trying to draw a hypothetical box around it with the label "its ABI will be difficult to create and/or use" seems a bit unwarranted.
So, they can't find another job? You can be fired the same way and replaced with army of junior developers too.
So give them more freedom to move around so that companies will bid up the wages of people who are worth it, to levels comparable to those of people who wisely chose to be born in the US.
Yes, exactly. It's this line specifically that pretty much drives that home:

> Specifically, the bill would prohibit companies with more than 50 employees, of which at least half are H-1B or L-1 holders, from hiring additional H-1B employees.

The only companies I can see hitting this requirement are the Infosys/TCS types. I highly doubt most of the rest of tech has > 50% H-1B employees.
UI customisation, app sideload, possibility to use iPhone as mobile storage (like Android phones) are good reasons
Tip: IMHO the name you've chosen might not be great.

Both words are homographs and at first glance I bet most people skipped clicking because this ambiguity doesn't draw attention to the purpose.
Are you saying that the AMD stuff doesn't do hyperthreading?
Most of the comments so far are about his take on there potentially being less need for people to write software in the future. The more interesting part of the article IMO is the bit about salaries:

> Most people would like to believe salaries are determined by a cost-plus model, where you get a tiny bit less than the value you add to the company. However, in reality, they are really determined by the competition. Companies are forced to pay as much as possible to keep the talent for leaving. In a competitive labor market, this is often a good thing for the employees.

He goes on to concisely explain why people get paid so much for working in the Bay Area, and why they won’t get paid like that elsewhere.

I think this is a keen insight, and should be sobering to the large cohort of HN that is clamoring for all the tech giants to go full remote.

As we saw already this week, when Facebook decides they don’t actually need you to live near Menlo Park anymore, that also means they don’t need to pay you Menlo Park wages any longer.

I think there’s actually a significant risk to Silicon Valley here, which is the following potential vicious cycle:

- Big Tech decides all/mostly remote is the future.

- Big Tech mostly stops hiring in the Bay Area because why pay more for talent when they no longer “have to.”

- The COVID reset layoffs continue, resulting in a lot of Bay Area engineers looking for work at the same time.

- Supply and demand mean that engineers wages start dropping as smaller companies no longer have to compete with the giants (as a hiring manager in SF I’ve already seen this start happening).

- Engineers who can no longer command crazy salaries to justify the rent start leaving the area (this is also already happening).

- Rents start to drop, and the housing market softens a little.

- Tech workers who have relatively recently bought homes get nervous and look to exit before they get underwater on million+ dollar loans.

- The housing market softens further...

At this point most of these things sound like a much needed reprieve for the insane local housing market, but the funny thing about bubbles is the way they get hotter and hotter for a long time, and then tend to pop relatively quickly. Sometimes these things can lead to vicious cycles that take quite a while to come back from, where a bear market feeds on itself.

I love working in software. I loved it before I moved to the Bay Area and quadrupled my earnings. I’ll love it even if it all comes back down to earth and is just a “normal job” again.

But I think that could really happen, and I think Big Tech embracing remote is a great way to pop the balloon in the Bay Area with the result not being a utopia where people get to make Bay Area wages and then live on the beach in Cancun, but rather they get to make Omaha wages and live in... Omaha.

I haven’t really seen this community wake up to that possibility yet, which is surprising to me considering it’s a fairly obvious conclusion to the top paying companies all opening up the floodgates of worker supply by truly embracing remote work.
He didn't mention p2p, did he? I can go years without touching p2p, while still pirating everything I want to watch.
> HSR was never about commuting, capacity is too low

It initially doubles capacity and ultimately triples it https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... (figure 4.2, p76)

What would "proper connection to Europe" have looked like to you? HS2 ends in London where eurostar begins. If HS2 terminated in say, Milton Keynes, I'd wholeheartedly agree with you.

> Linking it to a program of speed improvements on connecting commuter rail would have been a cheaper vote winner

Do you have any evidence for this? Any publicly available report showing even outline calculations? HS2 has always had cross party support.

> before covid19 made public transit irrelevant

In one way or another, the threat of covid will eventually pass. We'll still need public transport when it does.
So the hypocrisy is strong at Slack...
A lot of people in the discussion disagree with the article's first point about no-code/less-code. While I do think the argument is a little fatalistic, the scoffing at the idea in the face of him bringing up evidence such as AWS and other IaaS/PaaS reducing the number of in-house server engineers that companies need, and how the proliferation of open-source libraries/frameworks has made creating software easier than ever, reminds me of economists pooh-poohing the notion that modern forms of automation will lead to unprecedented levels of job loss just because previous waves of automation didn't. Even in the face of self-driving cars and automated receptionist/call support agents that James Watt couldn't even dream of.

But whether no-code/less-code is inevitable, I think his first argument can still be substantiated from a different approach, at least in the near future: we're coming at the end of a tech bubble, the money will start receding, and organizations have already been realizing they don't need so many coders (and other staff) after all. Did Uber really need to build their own in-house version of Slack? Did Airbnb really need to pour so many resources towards adopting, even contributing heavily, to React Native, only to do an about-face and have to rewrite their mobile apps in their native platform? Did either company, like so many gig/sharing companies during this bubble, have to invest so much in hyper-growth and expanding to so many markets before they were ready? Did so many of these companies have to fall prey to Not Invented Here syndrome and waste so much time in engineering boondoggles?

To some extent, yes, it's what's the investors wanted, or what corporate leadership thought would make the investors happy. And so this boom has led to massive hiring on a lot of busywork that doesn't actually have tangible economic benefit to these organizations, and may have even led to worse outcomes due to unsustainable or reckless behavior.

Going back to the article, whether the first point can be explained by inevitable no-code/low-code eating the world, or by the fact that a lot of software generated were due to the frenzy of a bubble, it still leads to the same point:

> Anyone who’s spent a few months at a sizable tech company can tell you that a lot of software seems to exist primarily because companies have hired people to write and maintain them. In some ways, the software serves not the business, but the people who have written it, and then those who need to maintain it. This is stupid, but also very, very true.

And the article's subsequent conclusion about how widespread WFH will lead to cold calculated culling of a lot of unnecessary or redundant personnel, aided by the the emotional detachment of not having to see the faces of the people to be let go, still follows.
There's always risk of having your visa denied when changing jobs and plenty of situations where you get in a really bad place with something out of your control.

I know plenty of people that stick to a sub-optimal job out of fear of being stuck out of the US.

Changing jobs is very stressful on an H1B visa.
It's really interesting. I remembered that Linux KAISER(now KPTI) patch appeared before Meltdown disclosure.

https://lwn.net/Articles/738975/
You should try living a winter where you have to shovel the driveway and scrape ice off your car and then see if Florida has more appeal.
How could they realistically lose money?

The idea behind pinterest is that unsuspecting users grant it legal immunity and full worldwide free distribution rights on everything that they "upload".

So basically, it's a convenience plugin for copyright infringement. Add some ads to other people's content and you're making money.
There are other options than torrenting.
No. We are not even allowed to bring a monitor home temporarily during this phase. Explicitly forbidden to take any kind of working equipment.

So I guess we're expected to work in the 15" laptop? No wonder productivity goes down.