skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ray Peat is an interesting researcher. His ideas tend to be original (as in he does his own research & analysis). Yet, I find a lot of things in his writings that don't gel with my research or the broader research. Namely, he does his own selective reading and comes up with a theory---just like everyone else. E.g. he doesn't recognize hormesis (benefits from fasting or occasional nutrient deprivation). He also espouses a heavy sugar laden diet such as drinking orange juice on a continuous basis and avoiding fiber and starches. He sometimes paints a very black and white picture: XYZ is good, ABC is bad, ignoring the context or the nonlinear dose response relationship.

Long story short, he's a curious character. I would take his writings with a grain of salt.
Some non-compete agreements with binding-arbitrage by a employer-chosen arbiter. Employers will try to limit options for labor. Whether it's enforceable is another story.
In 1998, 900 UW Profs Protested Governor's Vision for Distance Learning in 2020
Oh gosh yuck, I didn't know about this. At least, the cert seems to be installed at OS level (https://duo.com/assets/pdf/Dude,_You_Got_Dell_d.pdf) instead of BIOS (like on Lenovo) - but now I'm as wary of Dell as I am of Lenovo =/
I basically just read this to learn: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/

and watch patio11's talks on microconf.

I don't feel like qualified enough to give advice (also these are short term results, they say SEO takes ~6 months to yield results), so you should refer to his stuff.
When satellite broadband internet becomes a real deal, I'm thinking about buying a sailboat (or catamaran) and travel around Europe: Scandinavia and Netherlands in summer, Spain, Italy and Canaries in winter.
Complications of Shunt Systems
I'm curious as to why you moved back to MI. Was it a desire to be around family and/or friends? While I'm not a software developer, I feel that my options here are limited, and will be looking to potentially make a move next year.
Location-based salaries is offensive and just plain wrong.
Monitoring where employees login from, so the company can cut costs, seems typical of a company like Facebook.. but still makes me mad.
I have a feeling it's not SEO, but that Google themselves are favoring more domains over another based on a hidden factor. If you search for recipes you get the same thing, a bunch of results from big media organizations but very few (or none at all) results from smaller forums, self-run sites etc.

If I were to put my cynical tinfoil hat on, I would say Google has optimized a lot of search results to be favored towards sites which heavily advertise/track their users. Google results are no longer "search term" being matched to "content" but there are additional layers which do more magic, like "is this publisher considered favorable or trustworthy to Google" and "will this result generate a positive ROI for Google".
> I have made many interesting and creative friends here who are from all over the world. I get to work on mobile games, but there are many other opportunities around. Among my coworkers are digital artists and painters, musicians, engineers, hip hop dancers, drag show performers, people who party all night in the Castro, a muay Thai boxer, mixologists, and more interests than I can list.

Being mostly in Seattle for about 6 years now, this is what I enjoyed the most about being based in SF and is what will likely make me return to it.

Seattle feels to be a town now comprised of corporate campuses and the suburban neighborhoods in between. It's also great if you love outdoor hobbies, but I prefer the vibrance of cities. The creative culture here feels substantially more lacking than it is in SF, and it feels extremely challenging to make new friend that aren't in technology. Of course SF has its tech-bro startup culture; here it seems most people that live around me work for Microsoft, Amazon, or Facebook. At least there were easy outs in going to galleries or clubs or art/makerspaces or various meets for non-tech things in SF and I have never been able to find enough of those in the Seattle area. The COVID-19 crisis will likely choke them out further.
You mean, squirrel obstacle course.
I was in Kaohsiung from 2014-2018, which city are you in? I worked for OSE in the Nanzi Export Processing Zone, making USB, SD card, DRAM - so many good memories.

There's a good community of hospex (was CouchSurfing, now hopefully BeWelcome), including weekly meetups in Taipei, Hsinchu, Chiayi, Tainan, and Kaohsiung.
It is generally-expected behavior for an automaker to shift production to the cheapest labor market. Well, maybe not the absolute cheapest. Cost of goods transport, e.t.c. also factor in. But it doesn't surprise anyone for manufacturers to open factories in locations that lower their costs. It's an obvious thing to do.

So it has always baffled me that tech companies do the exact opposite. They motivate the most skilled people to leave low-cost areas and move to the most expensive. They pile them in higher and higher and keep driving their own labor costs through the roof. And VCs exacerbate the problem by refusing to fund anything in less expensive locations.

It's easy to dismiss this as irrational. But is it really? Are there benefits to this that are so huge they outweigh the costs?

If you could pay $10,000,000 to move 1000 devs to Kingman, AZ, then cut their avg salary from $250,000 to $150,000, why wouldn't you do that? What is the downside to saving $90,000,000 after moving expenses in the first year alone?

The obvious first argument is reduction in the standard of living would cause the talented to refuse. I'm sensitive to this, but also skeptical. People making 150 in Kingman would improve their SOL.

I could be wrong, but I think there are more important factors. I think there is too much money at stake for these employers to have not thought it through. When a common behavior looks insanely irrational, it is more likely that you haven't seen all the variables.
Do you make changes to Unreal's source? Or have middleware that makes changes (Havok and Fmod)?

Your effort estimates line up with mine, but I'm not sure about the ROI (but it's been a few years and I was pre-fortnite).

We made limited changes to Unreal source, but I think we made more changes than we had to. We had our middleware, we fixed bugs (none upstreamed via github due to company policy), but we also introduced new features varying from necessary for the project (instanced mesh rendering) to unnecessary (fancy logging). Every upgrade, I regretted most of the changes we made.

But also, it seems like every upgrade our data assets and blueprint script would get less stable and cause weird infrequent crashes in the blueprint/uscript interpreter.

Do you use bleeding edge features? I recall being wary of anything that hadn't been around for a few updates.
BTW if nicotine were such a powerful mental booster, nicotine patches would be vastly more popular. They provide all the upsides of nicotine without any of the downsides of smoking (harmful byproducts of burning, the smell, the need to go outside, etc).

I still think something else keeps smokers smoking: the taste, the ritual, looking cool, etc.
For me it's Kratom. It's helped me out of deep depression and also does more to help with migraines than any painkiller I've tried.
I've been using it regularly for about 5 years now (with occasional cycles to reduce tolerance). So far, I have found no downsides except for the taste.
When I stop taking it, there's one day of grumpiness which I would say it of similar strength to effect of stopping coffee after a regular habit.

(EDIT because I'm not allowed to make a new comment for some reason, this is a reply to the comment below)

Every person is different and you must take care of what you put in your body. I take kratom because it's a double whammy that reduces two problems - depression and migraine - to manageable levels, while having low potential for addiction. I have so far encountered no negative effects from taking it, only positives.

However, I would prefer _not_ to take it. I would prefer _not_ to have depression and migraines and not to need any drugs to maintain a normal lifestyle.

I work on this by maintaining a healthy diet, exercising regularly, sleeping well, meditation, and maybe I'll get there someday. In the meantime, kratom has increased my quality of life a lot over the past few years. This is not intended as a suggestion that anyone else should take it, just an anecdote about my experience.

Regarding constipation - I have heard this before, but never personally experienced it. I mix each dose (<1tps) with a full cup of water, which probably helps.
> 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 went remote a few years ago, and last year, without even asking permission, I dropped the lease on my overpriced DC tiny condo and moved a few hours away where rent is half the price, and eventually I'll buy a real home for half the cost of DC.

While I definitely had more opportunities to network and hobnob with management while in the office, the reality is it didn't matter in the long run. My salary hasn't gone down since moving, and I save money on tolls, lunches, gas, and now especially rent which is pretty significant.

As a developer, I've never once been offered any sort of 'path' to anything other than continued code grinding and JIRA tasks. At best, I'm often give pseudo-promotions to 'team-lead' which includes more work on my end for no extra compensation, respect, or authority.

There are so many people who CANNOT code, I've never seen any company I worked for helping their developers move towards the business or management teams. In fact, it's almost as if they actively oppose it and gatekeep any knowledge that's related to sales, customers, revenue, etc. After all, what would they be needed for, if we could do their jobs, too? And if we knew what value we provided, we might get a bit more uppity when it came time for raises and bonuses.

Furthermore, most jobs of mine last less than 4 years or so, and if you don't move on you're not getting raises, nor are you accumulating more required buzzwords for the resume.

I kind of gave up on moving up the corporate ranks into a management or more respected, higher paid position years ago, and now I play for myself. That means I continue to accumulate money in investments, and hopefully, by about 45, I won't depend on any company's promises or continued raises, and instead can opt out of the corporate system, go live on a beach, and start my own small business. The odds that the stock market will continue paying 8% are far more likely than any company I end up working for will provide opportunities for more pay, authority, and respect, especially for engineers, regardless of how good of friends I am with management or happy hours I attend with them.
It's like guitar endorsements

AMD is Fender, Intel is Gibson
honestly as a front end dev, I don’t think what I do is that difficult and I’m overpaid. I feel a little nervous that with remote work I won’t be overpaid in the future
Only some slurs are erased. Ones against other groups are left up. It shows it's PC conditioning, not anything genuine.
Honestly, I don't know why this isn't mentioned yet -- I wouldn't live anywhere. I'd be a nomad, spending a week maybe in a place, ideally ones cost friendly (see https://nomadlist.com for some ideas).

When you get older, or have pre-college kids you have to think about a nest somewhere. If there is one thing this COVID-19 crisis has shown me as well it pays to live near good medical systems. But for now I want to wander!
nice, I'd quite like to work remote in a similar location . Currently on the edge of Auckland (Henderson Valley area). I'm hoping with this lockdown more firms are going to be way more open to remote work. Current workplace didn't consider it an option pre lockdown, but might be more open to it now as working remotely has gone pretty well for us (other than the manufacturing side of things).
It's only about 15% faster...not really worth it.

https://www.servethehome.com/amd-ryzen-threadripper-3990x-re...
I've been running Fedora (21 - 32 as of now) on HP MicroServer N54L Gen7 since 2014, it has a relatively weak AMD Turion II Neo N54L Dual Core processor but it's been working reliably over the years, still strong (not really when compiling, e.g. ZFS modules via DKMS).

DIYed a AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton) + Epox 8RDA3+ (AVC 112C86 fan) desktop, overheating was a headache, overclocking even made it worse, finally that motherboard didn't survive overheating problem (so AMD CPU cooling has always been my concern lol).

Good to see consumers are more willing to accept AMD after all those Intel Meltdown & spectre, etc. drama (I was working as Tech Lead for XenServer support team, to some extent I knew how bad it negatively impacted from that specific PoV). Personally I'll prefer AMD when buying new hardware.
I've found this [1] screencast on the low-level principles of async in Python an amazing resource to understand async at a deep level.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Gt3Xjd7G8&list=PLKLmIMXskJ...
Some bad reviews here, so I'd encourage people to look into some of the AMD APU laptops from Acer and others. I have an Acer Swift 3 with 2700u APU and it runs Linux (Ubuntu) flawlessly apart from the fingerprint reader. Suspend, function keys, everything works well, performance is absolutely unreal for the pricepoint (paid 900 something CAD when it came out).
Yes, it was a part of Google search. I guess they removed it because not many people were using it. Too bad I was a big fan of this feature.
I've worked and lived in China. If you think China hasn't changed then you should have seen China 30-40 years ago when everyone was wearing the party uniform and carrying Mao's little red book in their chest pocket. And I mean that literally, not metaphorically.

Today you have women running companies, Starbucks and makerspaces in every city where people sit and talk in English. You've got to be kidding me if you think China hasn't changed, it has changed faster than virtually any other place. Beijing (the only city I can personally speak of) has a surprisingly large gay nightlife. It's astonishing how much that country changes even year to year.

Sure, it's not liberal in a political sense yet but it has liberalised dramatically, in virtually all aspects of life. Same goes for Japan, it's a much more open, global country now.
According to the site on Firefox Add-ons [1], it tells you which websites it is not showing, which I think would not be possible with your suggestion.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wiper/
Core count is not that important for games.
I am russian and grew up there, this is why I genuinely wonder.
Of course my experience in the West might be wildly different than yours. In the same way, maybe your experience in russia will be wildly different than mine, because starting as an expat right away instead of navigating russian society from the inside might be extremely different.
I am curious to know and interested to hear your side of things.
> We had to write a ton of logic around their poor implementation and I was shocked to see the code underneath.

Just wondering, did you submit a bug report to them about this? If so, any response?
w3schools.com used to be crap but recently it just gives you what you need to know right away with a couple of examples without delving into the epistemology of what each object, unlike mdn, w3c and the like. It's the next best thing after stackoverflow when it comes to getting the most likely answers quickly.
Same here. It’s interesting that they won’t know who never bothered to apply. A more typical company which doesn’t make their salaries public would notice if candidates repeatedly drop out of the hiring pipeline due to inadequate pay.

On the other hand they seem to be doing well as a business so recruiting evidently hasn’t been a big problem for them.
I, too, have had this experience, but how is this possible? So much other experience has taught me that hardware is better. The main downside I've had with ZFS (over hardware RAID) is performance, but it's been incredibly reliable.
Reminded me of one conversation long time ago:

- We're offering you whopping 3.5%. How cool is that?

- Do I hear it right that you want my contribution to your company be 3.5%?

- Blank stare.
I mean, he wasn't about to splash for an AMD9080ADC...
When I started drinking coffee regularly in college, I decided I would only allow myself to drink it black to avoid sugar and milk (I can't digest lactose).
It didn't take long at all before I preferred it that way. Now I love a back espresso with no sugar.
Somehow I'm thinking of IBM mainframes reading this.
I'll second this experience. Bing news has become markedly more curated recently, imo. But it's still miles ahead of Google with respect to treating you like an adult capable of critically engaging with information.
This might seem like a dumb question, but is it possible that "not even charging that much" leads to "can't seem to get taken seriously"?

The reason I ask is that over the years, I've been on both the buying and selling side of technical products and services. And I've noticed it's common that extremely price-sensitive customers won't take you seriously no matter how little you charge.

On the flip side, customers who understand the ROI they'll get from your work often won't balk at prices higher than you think are reasonable.

But I know that it's not always possible to just start charging more, depending on what you sell and who you sell it to.
Any reason you chose to do this as a Firefox plugin rather than a Greasemonkey (or similar) script? Not judging, just wondering.
True but there’s a balancing dynamic in play.

Living in a high CoL area is an advantage to you because you win when paying fixed expenses and world rates.

Living in a low CoL area gives you an advantage because you will cost the company less and are more likely to get the job.

Big brain play is to find a company that has a policy like this and move up in the world.
I used to be like that but it completely changed once I hit my 40s. Now coffee (even decaf to some degree) makes me anxious and causes sleep problems. Going off coffee improved my life a lot.
The fact that the word starts with 'mordid' somehow made me associate with 'mort' and that was not good :"D thanks for clarifying.
Personally I'd rather be paid less and avoid the stress of getting found out, plus it's not ethical. However life has shown me many people who would not share this perspective.
Is he still working on the kernel?
Someone who's paid 400k can afford to buy a bunch of phones and laptops, install whatever survelliance software on them and leave them at a rented trailer.
I am anti-tracking in general, although it feels like that is a losing (or already lost) battle.

Many on here make their living directly or indirectly through being able to track traffic, so I was curious to hear if there were any arguments (ethical or otherwise) against my approach.
I'm in North Shore, which has fibre (100 mbps down, 20 mbps up). 5G is also good. There are cultural activities, but those are mostly in the city.

As a young, unmarried guy, there's no need for me to get a mansion. The homestay family I live with have taught me so much about living with young children, it's been a blessing to learn whether that's a challenge I'd like to take on.

Most people who want to make lots of money moved to Australia, so those left in NZ usually care about more important things in life.

I also have high hopes for Starlink, not just for NZ (we have enough submarine cables) but for other countries e.g. Zambia, Georgia.
What about product analytics?
The ability to simply filter by length would be awesome. Sometimes you just want to find something on the shortest side possible, that isn't a jumble of letters.
No, it would not. There is nothing preventing Facebook from paying employees of certain levels the same salary range regardless of location. The only reason Zuckerberg even has to clarify that they will be checking to make sure employees are where they say they are is precisely because he announced that Facebook would be paying location-adjusted salaries. This creates the perverse incentive for employees to claim they are living in high CoL areas when they are not, which in turn has repercussions because it negatively impacts Facebook’s ability to fulfill its legal obligations to the governments of the countries in which it operates.

However, if Facebook simply detached compensation from location entirely, there would be no incentive for anyone to lie about where they were, which also makes it easier for Facebook to file correct information. This only “works” for the tech employees Facebook currently employs in high CoL areas of Facebook set universal compensation levels at or above current levels. Otherwise, those in the Bay Area would be negatively impacted when Facebook adjusted this new universal pay scale down.

The issue with doing this from Facebook’s perspective is that labor expenses would not be able to be cut, which seems one of the significant drivers of the policy. Fewer colocated employees in the bay would lead to much lower capital costs, but this way they save money in two ways.

The actually more significant issue with a universal pay scale (though if I were Facebook I would not care about this) is that it would likely create a massive exodus of tech employees from the bay to other areas of the United States as people sought the highest amount of bang for buck. The tech employees themselves would not likely suffer in this scenario, but the region—which has built up enormous social infrastructure assuming the tech industry’s semi-permanence—would be hit hard. A lot of service jobs would disappear, for instance.

Personally I don’t think the diffusion of talent across the continental US would be a bad thing, though. 31 counties in the US account for 33% of GDP and a sort of geographic would relieve a lot of social and political tension that has been building since the 1970s. We also leave a ton of GDP on the table due to geographic concentration of firms in the US (working on finding the NBER paper I read on this recently). Encouraging tech workers to spread out would then be a utilitarian social good. However, I’m not sure Facebook really cares about this given the stated policy, and this is sort of a third order concern from “how do we decrease capital and labor costs” anyway.
Taipei. Expat community here is pretty good and the locals are great.
Skehans in London
My company is still keeping me employed. Sounds good enough in my book
...to make it legal to pay someone on the value they bring, rather than where they live? Pretty sure there no obvious laws against that. ETA: as long as the value is high enough, at least.

Probably you meant "to not have to know where they live", but that wasn't what the GP's post was saying.
That's just not gonna happen. I currently work remotely as a software engineer at a BigCo (not a tech company) and the company policy has consistently been to great weekend work & long hours as a team & company failure.

I just don't see an every-waking-hour workday dystopia ever happening if the industry goes more remote.
Your analogy isn't the best. This is like someone renting construction equipment to build a house on land they own, and finding out that the construction equipment phones home to the owners about how it's being used.
You're right, that there are plenty of people who will complain no matter what. I think its reasonable from the perspective of someone who's say, a schoolteacher in San Mateo of 30 years that has to live and commute from Richmond or Tracy?

Building lots more housing would be the best way to make things equitable at least.