skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely only meant it for the TSA, and I'm glad you pointed this out.

However, I suspect that in these countries that have the financial constraints you describe, opting out may not always lead to decommissioning them because installing alternatives requires significant expenditure (which is why the US could afford to get rid of them in the first place). I don't think this is universally true (i.e. I expect some countries ended up with old backscatter scanners but would choose to replace them if many people opt out) but I don't know that this intersection is very large.
There's lots of biological knowledge we have that existed before formal studies. What I said about photosynthesis applies to claims by non-scientists observing plants informally.
Why is it defrauding though? They want to lower your salary despite you having proven that you're worth that salary.
Most of the places I order from are on only one of these apps.
Is it required by law so the employer pays the appropriate payroll tax and abides by local labor laws?
What's the alternative if you're going to scale salary based on location while hiring? If you only scale while hiring, you'll encourage people to "move" to Silicon Valley for a month or two, then "move" back to their original location. There would be an enormous financial incentive for that behavior.
NYC in particular might not be a good location for this, since if your W2 lists NYC you are subject to three income taxes (fed, state, city).

Seattle would probably be a better choice, as a high-wage, relative low-tax city.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23290506

https://coaxion.net/blog/2017/09/exporting-a-gobject-c-api-f...

https://hsivonen.fi/modern-cpp-in-rust/

http://hansihe.com/2017/02/05/rustler-safe-erlang-elixir-nif...
I can smell the next SaaS offering: pobox.me, rent a po box and real address and take your salary to the next level!
Is it also a dick move to raise someone's salary if they relocate to a more expensive location but stay in the same role? (This is super common with international transfers, for example)
> where people will sincerely claim it's their God-given right to drive over the speed limit and kill people, to take drugs and kill people, to shoot guns and kill people, and other such things.

I have made no such claims. I did not say anyone had a right to harm anyone else. I explicitly said that people who cause actual harm should be punished.

You are simply attacking a straw man here. And you should definitely not be judging the US by what you see in the popular press.
I must admit I skimmed the post the first time :). I too have run a book group for the last few years, and we've toyed with this idea several times. The advantages are clear in terms of not having to hit a tough deadline, and being able to tackle longer books. I think it can work with anthologies of short stories and essays, but for longer narrative works I wonder about the following (perhaps you can provide some insight):

- Will new people be willing to join in the middle of a book?

- If people don't like the book, do they just have to stick around for the next N meetings? If not, does it lose its place in their routine causing them to forget about it?

I think these concerns may be specific to more "open-access" book groups that anyone can join, rather than long-running groups of existing friends.
Facebook is afraid of a Facebook Boise office , Facebook Salt Lake City office, Facebook Houston office, etc. Their office locations are based on the political preferences of their board members and management. With no offices, they can't control the political makeup of the company.
That's the essay. I think it's interesting because he's mimicking the way I've been writing firmware. I've found most of the issues with memory safety disappear when you use static and centralized resource allocation, avoid monkeying with pointer arithmetic, and avoid making temporary copies of pointers 'for later'.
For many people, caffeine causes high blood pressure, anxiety, and in extreme cases heart arrythmia.
but... you can see people gaming it though

Claiming residence in SF or NYC during the hiring process, then starting working somewhere else...

The best way about this is for FB to split the difference. Eg. if your average tc is 300k in SF, and it is 200k in North Carolina, if you decide to move there, you will be slotted down to something in between so it becomes a win win.
It'll be tricky for employers to enforce too - surely you'll have people who "live" in SF but travel 60-70% of the time to Colorado.

Flying back to the bay for 2 days a week is probably a reasonable CoL arbitrage if you only need housing for 2 days.
VPN to a computer, on a cable modem, that is physically located in SF. Make sure to never use your personal phone to check email.
How will this work for digital nomads? Same as wherever they pay state taxes, I guess.
I’m currently living rent free at my parents place in Palo Alto. Can you imagine how much more Facebook would pay me than someone renting in a poorer neighborhood?
Sarcasm on Offshoring is only allowed for corporations, not for employees. What did those pesky peasants think? Sarcasm off
In a perfect world where there were no managers - maybe this would be true? I can imagine this being more true in a flatter organization or in one where everyone has similar authority inside the company. But, in a more common place, I don't see this being sufficient. The effect a manager/skip-level-manager has on the psychological safety of an environment heavily outweighs any contributions an IC makes (or even a group of ICs).

I'd like to add: High level of skill isn't sufficient to say someone is less likely to feel nervous about looking bad or trying to cover up a deficiency. It's entirely up to management and how they punish/reward you. If you are perceived to be high level but make a simple mistake that a lower level employee would make - certain kinds of management would punish you for it. So, you might be nervous because of how management treats you - not because you're bad in your abilities and lack some years of confidence thing. There are certain skills I have that are in the top 1%. You can bet your ass if someone is evaluating me - I get nervous. But if no one is evaluating or I don't even know they're evaluating - I'm not nervous. My point is: I don't think high of level skill is sufficient criteria to say you're less likely to be nervous... It's very environment dependent and not skill dependent.
Does it work both ways? If so, here is a cheat sheet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

Enjoy!
We are flawed.
A very reasonable heuristic for life is: you should not be concerned about non-ionizing radiation (like 5G), unless in doses that could burn your face off. You should, by default, be concerned about ionizing radiation (like x-rays) in any dose above the natural background.
I don't understand what you're saying - did that study not exist?
I’m pretty sure you pay taxes to the state you physically are in while doing the work.

So if you leave NY temporarily and work remotely from FL you will no longer have income tax while you are in FL.
This will accrue many negative comments here. I have to say that I can understand the reasoning behind this. I think it’s fair. I would expect that they increase the salary if you move to a more expensive place.
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You pretty much have to do this if you want to maintain different salaries in different geographic reasons. Otherwise people would be highly incentivized to move to SF/NYC for 6 months to get hired then move back to their cheap COL permanent location.
Exactly! Suppose you have four HDDs: two 1 TB HDDs and two 2 TB HDDs. A single 1 TB partition is created on the 1 TB HDDs. Two partitions (1 TB each) are created on the 2 TB HDDs. A first RAID array (what you may call a slice) is created using the first partition of all four drives (4 x 1 TB, RAID5 = 3 TB). A second RAID array is created using the second partition of the 2 TB drives (2 x 1 TB, RAID 1 = 1 TB). Then the two RAID arrays are assembled with LVM (= 4 TB). SHR is basically LVM over MD.
Well a Swiss court just ruled that companies need to compensate (including part of the rent) employees if they are home officed. [1]

Companies taking advantage of this and thinking they can save money should think again.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nzz.ch/amp/schweiz/arbeitge...
So no working for Facebook and moving to Vietnam to live like a king then.
Markets Shape Values and Political Preferences: A Field Experiment
Workers of a known unscrupulous Human cockroach are going to be affected by the unscrupulousness of their employer.

Full story at 11.
I’m not talking about the proper application, I mean only the popular usage.
In some countries (at least in The Netherlands), it's also plain illegal to lower one's salary based on just location. In fact, over here lowering salary in general is difficult to do. But this being the US, I suspect it won't be much of an issue for Facebook.
My mom doesn't recall even hearing much about the 1956 flu.
They end up having to pay NY state taxes since that's what your employer is reporting.
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Current employees moving to conservative areas would result in those places becoming more liberal.
What you say here is certainly true. Many stories are oversimplified, and stories are a good way to fool ourselves.

However, I'd like to push back gently on the idea that we should never use narratives.

It is true that _traditional story structures_ don't necessarily reflect the real structure of historical experience/occurence, but they _can_ fit, too. It really depends on the occurence. And more importantly, stories can be infinitely granular and complex (just read _War and Peace_ or _In Search of Lost Time_, for example), complex and granular enough to capture actual historical experience without distortion.

As for people not describing their lives as a mess, that's because a mess has no structure - whereas a journey or a battle has a structure; life does not necessarily have structure, sure, but those people who choose to describe their lives in structured ways do so because they are _giving_ it structure. If someone's life is structured (by them) as a pursuit of some goal or state, where everything that happens either helps that, hinders that, or acts as a side-quest, then they may well describe it as a journey. A fractally complex journey, but a journey nonetheless.
Hey there HN,

I've been working on Portabella for the past 5 or so weeks after I left my job. It started out as an e2ee todo list https://encrypted-todos.netlify.app, I then thought a kanban board would be more useful and it has spiralled since then.

Happy to answer any questions, I'm still a beginner in the design world and it's just me working on it at the moment.

Tech stack is: React/Grommet (styled-components)/web crypto API, Node.js/Postgres and Netlify for hosting. I'll be looking to move off Netlify in the next week or so as I transition to a collaboration model powered with websockets.
I would imagine that because the company is withholding (and reporting) tax at a state level, you'd have to end up paying tax in whatever state you were claiming to live in anyways?
It probably is illegal due to issues with taxes. If I put my address in Seattle,wa but i am residing in Astoria, Oregon. I owe Oregon income tax
Is there a fallacy name for the concept of "yes, that's a plausible story but it's just a story and you have no evidence" ?

For example, it's insanely easy to come up with lots of nice sounding stories about how something might have evolved in humans but you still need evidence to know which stories are true.
Thank you sir, I tip my hat and raise my Caffe latte to you~
Replication is read only, so at worst there's only delay when it is set up asynchronously, but ultimately it will be the same as master. The sharding part, do you mean FDW? I don't think PostgreSQL gives any consistency guarantees if you use them.
Taurine, [1].

Or eat a banana, [2].

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...

[2] https://www.hindustantimes.com/health-and-fitness/overcaffei...
what's the downside of that?
Because by doing this you have misrepresented the truth in order to extract more money from your employer than you agreed (presumably, in your employment contract).

(As I commented elsewhere, whether you think paying by local cost of living is the right policy is valid to debate but isn't the point here.)
This is an extremely important point. Everyone will rush to the cheapest part of the most expensive areas.
Are we going to see a exodus of high-income newly-remote workers to lower-income locations? This seems devastating to cities that have become dependent on the economic power these workers bring, but at the same time, it could bring new life to poorer areas of the country.
It isn't a dick move. Your salary isn't just determined by your performance. It's also partly determined by your cost of living.
I doubt it.

Edit: thinking about this more, possibly? Although, to me, Occam’s Razor seems like a strategy for making the best use of one’s time, not as a direct method of finding truth.
No one registers a business address in Delaware to take advantage of their low taxes. Companies, like people, must pay state and local taxes based on their physical location.
FWIW, 200mg of L-Theanine is included in my workout recovery supplement. Research seems sparse but here's what they say about it: (scroll down, click ingredients tab) https://athleanx.com/athleanrx/reconstruxion
I understood that - I was just speculating on what the correct usage of it is, as opposed to the popular usage. I'm not actually sure what the proper application is and what its relationship to the popular usage was. Thought I could add to the discussion with that. (:
It is being proven that 100msv radiation was directly linked with cancer comes from data from Chernobyl, so 50msv I'd still being concerned this is like having 500k X-ray scan at one take, the greter rist doesn't come from the high dose itself, if comes from a time factor, the question needs to be, in how much time you get 50msv? It you tell me in one day I'll very concerned, this is a very high dose for rapidly changing organs like the bone marrow to absorb in one take (causing caners like leukemia ...)

https://xkcd.com/radiation/
The usual suspects are always good (market wizards, one up on wall street, trade in the zone, etc) but my favorite was probably this one: https://amzn.to/3glY1Co

I'm on the road right now but I'll gather a list. The docs are all over the place so I was just picking parameters out and noting certain aspects I could automate with software.
That's a really interesting idea that cosmic rays caused the chiral asymmetry. Any biologists want to chime in on how this fits in with other ideas on the problem?
If we’re moving to a remote first world, long term it will flatten out salaries regardless of location, but short term, companies will stop hiring in expensive locations as much.
When you sign an employment agreement, location is part of that agreement. If you decide you want to work in a different location than was agreed upon, that’s you indicating you want to amend the agreement.

Facebook isn’t saying: “you have to move and these are the terms”. Facebook is saying, “if you want to move here are the terms”. If you don’t like the terms you can always stay put or find a new job with terms you prefer.
But then you have to prove to NY that you were in FL. States like NY and CA will claw every dollar they can from you and if they see you're getting paid to an in-state address, good luck proving you weren't actually in-state. You likely won't be able to get back the money your company automatically deducted from your paycheck.
The difference between a VPN and a proxy
When I moved from SF bay area to Austin, my employer didn't lower my salary, but for a few years my yearly increases were small compared to my performance review until my pay grade was right for my pay grade and location combination.

This was a nice way to do it because my salary has always been monotonically increasing, and I wasn't offended that my increases were small for a few years because I knew why it was happening.
This is how prices are set. If you think labour is "value added less some employer fair cut", think again.

This also feeds directly into high land costs making industry less competitive or even infeasible, requiring for example offshoring.

This entire thing is quite interesting. For example you might want to live in the middle of nowhere out of choice, however it might be more economically beneficial, after you subtract rent costs, to live in a suburb or near enough to a major city to qualify for the higher pay due to the higher median salary. Or it may be the inverse, getting too close is a problem. Part of this would depend on how FB choose to compute this.
> I would expect that they increase the salary if you move to a more expensive place.

lol
Salt Lake City and Boise are pretty liberal and both vote blue. Houston is overall pretty split, but has voted for a Democrat mayor for more than 30 years.

What "political preferences" are you suggesting Facebook is afraid of from that focuses on the 3 named regions?
For tax purposes, that is already illegal. I.e. most (all?) states determine your residency based on where you actually sleep a majority of the year. My guess is that FB will base it on where you claim residency for tax purposes, so if you lie about it you're committing tax fraud.
What a great way to make people rush to the cheapest and least convenient parts of the highest income areas, further displacing poor people.
Why do we _need_ to figure that out? Humans _need_ real in person interaction for health. I don't want to live one hundred percent of my life remotely.
Of course not, but if I inject you with 2 L of peanut oil, it will kill you. If I do the same at 1 ml to 2000 people, maybe the statistics work out so a single, hyper-allergic person is dead. That’s all the linear approximation is saying, and that lecture series says it has held true. The interesting thing about it, is the dose for a single cancer is above the lethal dosage.
Here in Washington, a Seattle salary of $150k is worth around $315k in Spokane. And that's in the same state.

https://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/spokane-wa/seattle...
They use a combination of algorithms and human intervention, to generally good effect.

No clue if this "downweighting" in this case is an algorithm or a manual thing. I would assume algorithm for the downweighting and human intervention for reversing it, but that's sort of a guess or inference.
You pay state taxes based on where you actually lived, not on where you say you lived, not on where you identify as having lived, not on what you perceive to be your main residence, and not on where you own a PO box. You pay state taxes based on where you actually lived, as in where your physical body was in space and time. And your employer obviously has this information for tax withholding.
Because it's lying. That's what fraud is. "But I had a good reason for lying!" is not a defense.
>they increase the salary if you move to a more expensive place.

At the moment, they increase the salary if they require you to move to a more expensive place.

Why will they continue to pay you more if it's no longer required?
Nice work! Is this first made in blender and then exported JS HTML5?
> Zuckerberg said Facebook will monitor adherence by checking where employees access its VPN.

bundle that with a VPN as well.
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of course they do? given the quality of discussion here it's a hard requirement to preserve high snr.
I feel someone is setting up a company that provides a virtual location in SV for a small fee, but you really live say in Vermont.
In a round about way, is this not already illegal? If I live in Ohio but I represent myself to my employer that I live in NYC, am I not committing state income tax fraud against Ohio? NYC would probably love this since people who don't live in NYC and don't use its services pay NYC taxes, but Ohio would hate this because the person lives in Ohio and pays no state taxes.

EDITED:
Also, you could not get a driver's license in Ohio since you have to live there to get one. Forget about registering cars, owning property and paying for anything with a credit card in your own name.
Does the value you create for the company depend on location?

I don't think it's fair for businesses to extract more profit from me because I live in a cheaper area than my coworkers
Agree. I used to do enterprise storage for a living and I deployed roll-your-own ZFS storage servers at home in the past. But these days I just use a Synology box. I have ~40TB spinning on 5+1 SHR and the thing has been rock-solid for years.

I tend to not run many apps on the NAS but I do use HyperBackup for local and remote backups, and it works pretty well.
All that act does is say the US will not cooperate. My statement still holds true, ICC has not given the any immunity for ignorance of the law for war crimes.
Facebook managers, who a large portion of are foreign nationals, prefer foreign nationals manage US offices. US citizens might not be as in favor of that and probably prefer US nationals manage US offices.
This is literally how gentrification starts.
Acute high-dose is indeed worse than cumulative. Less than 100 mSv acute has never been shown to cause (or not cause) harm or benefit.

I bring up background just to point out that radiation is very natural and our bodies evolved in a radioactive world and have repair mechanisms that appear to be totally capable of handling low doses relevant to these machines. I can see that that's confusing to a degree.

I may be mistaken, I believe you're confusing milli-Sieverts (mSv) with micro-Sieverts (μSv). The machines are spec'd at 0.25 μSv/scan, or 0.00025 mSv.
That is fair. If I'm using my personal car for work, I'm reimbursed. Same thing should be done for business use at home.

My increase in electricity and internet usage should be covered.
This is essentially what Delaware C-Corps do in order to avail themselves of regional regulations.
From the article:

"Zuckerberg said Facebook will monitor adherence by checking where employees access its VPN. Facebook also uses its own apps' to track employee locations"

Allegedly because:

"Employees who attempt to wiggle around those compensation adjustments will be subject to “severe ramifications,” he said, as the company needs to account for employee locations to avoid violating tax laws."
Good article. Expected a bit more content.
South Korea turned an urban planning system into a virus tracking database
> the app owners are making twice as much as the person who does all of the actual work

If you look at GrubHub's financials, they're not getting rich: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GRUB/financials?p=GRUB

2017 was their best recent year. They had a 14% profit margin (which is OK). They lost money in 2019. CNBC says GrubHub is the only profitable delivery service: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/13/grubhub-uber-eats-and-doorda...
> No details were included, neither emotional nor technical nor interests.

Which worked out great, because otherwise most answers would have been specific to OP's emotions and interests and probably wouldn't be that useful to other people.

Questions like this don't get upvoted because of the effort put into them. They get upvoted because of the answers they attract. I'm fine with that if it means I get to read some interesting answers.
That was exactly my point. The molecule is not novel. It indeed existed and we had the opportunity to evolve with its ambient presence. If the laundry list of advantages were that important, it would have created selective pressure on those who didn’t consume it. But it didn’t prove itself as indispensable while other nutrients did; that’s why they are nutrients and caffeine isn’t.
Maybe https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal?