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I think the argument is that things like Wix put web developers out of business. Instead of real estate agents hiring a local webdev to make their listings site, or whatever, they can just use Wix.

Those webdevs are out of luck if they can't flex into something else. But, generally, I think you're right. When those jobs go away, in their stead we do other things with software. So instead of building websites for local real estate agents, SWEs are building systems to make virtual RE agents using ML.
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I'm in Tauranga -- I have gigabit fibre, reasonable taxes, an amazing Prime Minister and a 3-5 hour time difference with Silicon Valley depending on the season. I am fortunate enough to have a remote job for a distributed company but I hope one of the few plusses to come out of the current state of the world is the tech industry taking its blinders off, finally, to remote/distributed work.
> Perfect under every aspect.

The display is 1920x1080 and 167ppi.

4k content is common now, as are vector fonts.

I feel like to be called “perfect” a laptop display should be at least 200ppi, and at least 1500 pixels tall.

Historically “PC” display standards seem to be closer to 2000 than 2020.
Do you really believe B Gates and W Buffet made their wealth without armed bloodshed? I find it hard to believe that we are supposed to solve problems simultaneously adopting high moral accountability while also turning a blind eye to those who invested in and profited from the defense industry.
I am studying master in Taiwan. Chill, cafe, convenience stores are certainly the best three things I loved about. Btw transportation is only top notched in Taipei, so if you are free you should take some time to get a scooter license.
Current home is lovely in Vancouver, but don't come here. I've been a nomad living out of my car as well, and that was cool. I'm from Central Canada and it's a miserable place most of the time. Hoping to move abroad soon, but would like some physically social aspect to it, because work seems like an impediment to good travel.
This is crazy, Virgin gym in Bangkok is almost £100/$121 per month
Can the golden ratio accurately be expressed in terms of e and π?
True. Why hire an American dev for remote work?
Hell even park Merced area by SFSU is nice. I have a few friends who love out there.

Aside from the limited parking it is a decent area that does not smell like “San Francisco”
I agree with the writer. Microservices have already made it possible to commoditize many of the services that we used to re-implement over and over again in the past. We can now buy them as cloud services. But that is just the beginning. Our development work is still mostly non-business-logic effort and smart companies will figure out new ways to eliminate more and more of it.

The important point is that non-business-logic development work is never eliminated completely. But if you eliminate 50% of work, you need only half of the previous human effort. Then the other half needs something else to do. Preferably enjoy the increased productivity by gaining increased free-time.
Unusual richness of bad Russian words is, I believe, mostly a myth from our stand-up comedians based on the loose facts that (1) there's not one central f-word, but several equally important roots, and (2) technically a lot of Russian words can correspond to one English word due to heavier use of prefixes ("fuck off" is written without whitespace in Russian).
Great point, thank you. The main site is offeo.com, from there is it better?
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Have you fact checked yourself?

* On 30 April 1905, Einstein completed his thesis*

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#First_scient...
Having spent the last few months stuck in Singapore's awful lockdown, I'm pretty convinced it's not the place for me. Can't wait to get back home to HK. I'm starting to miss the smell of teargas.

That said, wasn't the biggest fan of KL when I visited. It gave me "trying too hard to be Singapore and failing" vibes. Was much happier chilling in Langkawi. For a big SE Asia mega-city, BKK or Saigon are far more livable than KL, Manila, or Jakarta (and the associated crime, traffic, etc.)
To be fair what the hell are they supposed to do with all their remote workers when Slack (frequently) goes down? Do they put everyone on Skype?
Probably move back to my home town.
I also find that sites like Wix are rarely used as a replacement for an in-house dev team or professional consulting, but rather by businesses that wouldn't have had an online presence in the first place.
Good question. We have an interesting situation developing, for sure. In Person will be valuable for the foreseeable future. While it is the pipe dream of HN crowd to be able to work from anywhere / WFH, there is still value in face to face meeting. I manage a cross-country team and can attest to the value of meeting In Person and bonding. Our meetings online are less effective.

In Person will still be very important until technology (4k cameras, better audio, etc) improve significantly.
> we will have more software written by a smaller number of people

This was the past IMO. Future will have larger number of people writing even more software.

I wonder if the author has met people working in non-software industries, but most software is still unwritten. What we have nowis most amount of software for software developers.
There are a couple of initiatives to this. Here's one (git over secure scuttlebutt): https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQoy...
How do you work remotely from Thailand for any reasonable amount of time? They are incredibly strict about these things. Sounds like an extended holiday and no stable way to live.

Apart from applying for an education visa and learning Thai (unsure that actually grants work rights?) or an actual work visa with associated FT job, you'd be on 1 month tourist visas with repeated border crossings and in legal grey zone at the whim of regulators.

Vietnam you can apply for extensions up to 1 year and everyone leaves you alone if employed remotely or running your own business abroad. Central Vietnam is a beautiful place.
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>Put another way, the technology industry will soon get a taste of what has been going on in other industries.

Well, we can always "learn to code"... oh, wait...
Hahaha yeah, I used to buy a bunch of domains thinking that I was gonna do something with them only to end up letting them expire in a year :'(

But don't worry, you'll find a viable business idea/business model for it soon, I believe in you!
Goodbye Amazon!
I like this. On a more meta note, does anyone have any generalist advice on picking up the basics of a new field? For instance, I'm looking into hobbyist electronics, but it's hard to know where to start.
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I've been as far North as Molde/Ålesund. I hated it.

Yeah, the fjords are desperately pretty. I had a great time driving around Geiranger and the Atlanterhavsveien. Trollstigen would have been nice if it weren't rammed with caravans.

But otherwise, no thanks. It's extortionately expensive, there's nothing to do there, it's a breeding ground for billions of mosquitoes, and there's nothing good about such extreme seasonal differences in day lengths.

After having lived in Scandinavia for seven years, I think there's an enormous delta between expectation and reality when it comes to Scandinavian Winters.
I'll be based in Taipei for the next few months as a refugee of SG's repressive lockdown. A frequent visitor on quick trips, will be an interesting experience to get a bit more of the local expat experience.
I've drunk the cool aid. Never drink the cool aid: iPhone 11 Pro, Magic Trackpad and Keyboard, AirPod Pro and Bose QC35. If you search for these issues on the community forums or web in general you'll see that it's quite common, and it all started with Catalina.

Some brave people that were running the public beta reported these issues to Apple, but we're now four point releases in and still no fix. Apple seem to not even want to acknowledge the issue, they just send users to their FAQ which sums up to "have you rebooted?"

The issues seems to start if you have bluetooth devices connected and your laptop becomes memory constrained. And after that it's in a broken or bricked state it seems. You can do tricks like killing coreaudiod to get audio devices to connect, but trackpad is still broken.
I used to live in Western Michigan and the winters are surprisingly mild due to the winds from the West being warmed by Lake Michigan.

It snows a lot, but it's often hovering around 32F, so the snow on the roads melts fast. A really cold day might 15F, but it's not that common.

Summers are gorgeous and I miss them living in SF. Being able to go out in the evening in shorts while it hovers in the high 70's is fantastic. Super lush and green.
Project Rho is an amazing site with completely horrible navigation. It taught me as much rocket science as Kerbal Space Program, but every time I visit it, I can never find what I want on the table of contents (bottom of the page) and have to search the site. It has some nice sections like this page on pre-electronic computers and nomograms: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astrodeck.php#i...
There is no scientific distinction between what is scientific and what is not.

Ref: Kuhn, popper.
Oooh, I love this idea! Can totally see how this could replace random number generators and make the whole user experience - however brief it might be - 10 times as amazing! Great choice!
You still came up with it independently, and that's something.

What is interesting is how someone in 1986 was thinking about the same problem and came to a similar conclusion.

I used to think my ideas were unique, but then I realised that we're all absorbing similar information, and the likelihood of an idea being 100% unique is rare.

But if you thought it up and someone somewhere else had a similar idea, you still thought it up on your own.
They did! Then of course killed it.
Lisp's big strength is that since the program itself is represented in the same form as the data structures, you can very easily generate executable programs by just slapping lists together. I'd recommend going back to the Scheme version-- I initially didn't understand the cool factor of Lisp either, until I used it for a while (and found macros).
https://hackaday.com/ is a great community for learning hobby electronics.
At other companies I've worked at ops teams fall back to IRC if the main comms infra is down.
It's not feedback, it's innuendo and grumped at in 9 different ways in the site guidelines, especially for a legit Show HN post.
This seems hugely overblown verging on nonsense to me. Since when is it easier for your employer to surveil you outside their office than within it? There are more and better encrypted messaging tools than ever before. No-code tools are a long way off from being able to replace most software. We’ve been hearing this about the technology for at least 30 years at this point, and now it makes “most” software development irrelevant? In a lot of ways software engineering is better than it’s ever been, but there are huge swathes that don’t follow the “best practices” that newsboard technologists are known for promoting (myself included) and their software is going to need work forever.
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>We make things easier for ourselves so we can then build upon it and then write more complex things to solve more complex problems.

Only with SaaS most of us aren't needed to "solve more complex problems". The SaaS team can already solve them and sell them...

Most companies don't have "more complex problems" anyway, just problems stemming from bad software integration, which affiliated SaaS services can also solve...

So while there will always be coding work (at building SaaS and at building highly customized solutions), there will much less of it...

>It's the continual layering of abstraction that's been going on for decades.

It had been going on for decades, until it got reversed with the Cloud and SaaS offerings. We just haven't seen the full impact of those yet. But that's what the article is about.
Auto workers have a skilled tradesman classification and other classifications and most aren't skilled tradesmen. They still perform pretty complex tasks. It's just a term, like how in insurance contracts you'll read "Act of God". That doesn't mean that State Farm is a theistic organization that believes that supernatural beings are imposing earthquakes upon us.
I really like the idea, but 2.99 for Pro plan for updating every 15mins and a dark theme? Doesn't sound right. When I see such options(e.g dark theme for paid plan) for those simple tools I always wonder how many open source products people have used to create the product in first place.
There actually is a measure on the ballot to modify prop 13 this year: https://ballotpedia.org/California_Tax_on_Commercial_and_Ind... — as you said, this is the year for it to pass.
This potential identity looks interesting:

phi = e^((i(pi))/5) + e^((-i(pi))/5)

(From user A. Rex on the referenced Math StackExchange web page...)

I don't have a calculator with enough precision, or a mathematical proof to know if this potential identity is exactly correct however... any comments?

Also, are there any simpler identities of phi, in terms of e only, but without i or pi?

Or maybe an identity of e, in terms of phi... I'm particularly interested in the relationship between phi and e, or vice-versa...
I think that's just a shift. It's not that the market for the functionality dried up, it just all moved to the internet. And that market is everbooming.
Those are good reasons. To add to that:

1) Companies are still paying for office space right now, even though people aren't using it. If they reduce their physical spaces in the future, the capital will likely go into hiring more people, which I'd rather see.

2) It's tricky from an accounting perspective, though I like the one-time stipend idea mentioned in the comments here.

3) Not having a commute saves time AND a lot of money, I've personally spent a few hundred dollars upgrading my desk / accessories to get comfy, but saved many times that on commuting and misc expenses.

4) Adding to the above, there are many things that companies generally aren't expected to pay for, like wardrobe, transportation, food, cell phone, etc. It seems like home office falls into that bucket as well based on precedent. Maybe that will change, but I don't have any expectations that it will.
If you didn’t have to earn money to live, you wouldn’t need to have a company or whatnot - that is my point.
I suspect that more people will be writing software as part of their job. They just won't call themselves developers. As the underlying software becomes more powerful (I'm thinking of Microsoft's recent demo of AI writing software) you need to be less skilled to build something we consider a complex app in the current time, relatively easily. Many professional developers will find them selves migrating to solving harder more advanced problems.
One of the recent times where I pointed this out somebody retorted that the browsers got rid of js access to high resolution timers, making a timing attack infeasible. Is this true?
You'll recall that I also have CF. For whatever reason, I don't fear delivery (though I'm more and more sensitive to how exploitative it is for businesses)
How do you find their emails on HN? Just by clicking on the username?
Well if we built housing for those people they wouldn’t have to live in tents. And if we provided mental health services to all people there would be fewer people who slip to homelessness in the first place.
It's really hard not to wonder if there is a political motivation to break the Federal government so that even the U.S. left would seek to devolve it.
I don't buy the argument that we will have such a leap in software development productivity that we need way fewer people to solve all the things that need technical solutions. You can unravel abstractions we build on all the way to the bits and bytes and 90% of software is just gluing libraries together. Infact, you could probably describe the entirety of several of big tech cos as "just" gluing libraries together.

Anyway, the other argument about salaries is more interesting. Most people seem to agree that there's a huge untapped crowd of qualified developers in small / mid sized US cities who would love to join $BIGCO but the only reason they aren't is because it involves relocation. As an example, a Sr Dev in Orlando, FL makes $100-120k in total comp while one in SF / NYC makes $350k+. I limit my search to Sr Devs because I assume college kids are happy to move to exciting cities like NYC / SF / Seattle on fat relocation checks.

My suspicion is that supply and demand have converged already and big tech has mined out the supply of talented devs in the US already. The other datapoint here is that companies have made it as easy as possible for folks to move by opening dev centers wherever there's talent - NYC as a tech hub wasn't a thing in 2012, but it's huge now for all the people who don't want to leave the east coast. Boston is pretty big. Colorado, Austin as well.

The only way supply of devs is increasing here is if:

* Sr Devs who did not move to tech hubs because they preferred to stay where they are. (Personally think this is unlikely)

* Qualified Bootcamp graduates

* CS Enrollments hitting pretty high numbers, so maybe we'll start graduating lots of CS folks.

* Immigration reform / Outsourcing

* Interviewing change so we skip the algo problem solving shenanigans.

I personally think if big tech wants to hire in the US and still pay lower $ than they currently do, the only lever they have left to pull is the interviewing format / bar.
And yet, business that now use Wix used to pay good money for an "online presence" in 1997-2005.

Even your local real estate agent or plumber paid for a website...
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This is what everyone I know does but that's because they're all smaller companies and each individual is pretty valuable. At Facebook, each individual is just a statistic at the margin. They cease to operate as individuals and more as a market for lots of labour.

That can't be helped. If I had a 100k size org, I wouldn't hesitate to set (overall) compensation targets at regional top prices with instant adjustment.
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Sorry to hijack this thread but does anyone know of any extension that blocks / strips certain kinds of content.

Use case: I am as guilty of mindless browsing as the next person but seeing news / click-bait headlines about certain celebs like the kardashians makes my blood boil.
It's interesting that the different components are separated into Leaf, Leaf MVC, and Leaf UI. Would an apt analogy of the targeted niche for leave be as follows?

Leaf is to Laravel as Flask is to Django

It seems like the components of Leaf are more independently silo'ed and can be used separately.
I am legitimately unsure reading the other comments in this thread whether you (or they?) are being serious.

In my mind a book club was a group of middle aged women drinking wine and talking about Fifty Shades of Gray. And even that I thought was just a cliche and not an actual thing.

Are book clubs actually a thing that people regularly take part in?
These people ostensibly have no other place to live. Why should the state or anyone else destroy what little housing they have?
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Thanks. Though don't many forums treat links as nofollow and thus don't contribute to page rank?
I am pretty sure IPFS handles git, or at least understands it in some form or another, as I can browse git repos in my IPFS browser.
It's also tax fraud unless you fix that part.
> An FDA spokesperson explains that anything that requires a person to take samples themselves, at home, raises concerns. For example, the agency wants to ensure that samples remain stable if they end up spending a long time in a hot vehicle on the way to a lab.

Not exactly a baffling secret. At home sample collection wasn't included in the guidelines, sounds like FDA is evaluating and may still give a go ahead.
The Precisions can power from either the barrel plug or USB-C, I just plug in a C connector in the office and it's got power, ethernet and monitors. Tasty.
You misunderstand. While salaries are relatively low in London, the cost of living (i.e. rent) is relatively high.
> the EU needs the UK more.

If that were the case, would they not be negotiating hard for the UK to stay in the EU? Or is this a case of "they won't know they need the UK until it's too late"?
On reddit I found that following questions. I would be glad for some possible answers.

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That was a good post.

I wonder if the tech stack still uses Common Lisp after these 5 years, considering all other languages described in the post?

Are there any new lessons learned after running Common Lisp for another 5 years, if it is still actively used?

Would you pick up Common Lisp again or something else, if you can go back in time and get a chance to start fresh?

Thanks!
Covid brain.

Kindly note though that the distance from the point I chose to the state of Kerala (not the city) is roughly the distance from Miami to Boca Raton.
^ This. You get people who will scoff IRC for its simplicity, but ultimately the up-time is near 100%. I've communicated on it effectively all the way for to a 5kB/s internet connection and it was still quite responsive.

A similar story using Jazz RTC - it used to go down every week or two weeks or so. It was so bad that we had quick dial to their call center. The joke was, we used to switch over to a Raspberry Pi hosted locally in the office running a Git Server - and there was zero downtime on that.
Would you like to work together on this? This is very interesting stuff.
I respect what Purism are doing, but I really wish they wouldn't resort to this sort of hyperbole to sell their computers:

> All other laptops use hardware chips coupled with software that can betray you. News stories have shown how these chips can surreptitiously transmit voice, networking, picture or video signals. Other chips are used to install spyware, malware or viruses.

This advertising copy implies, without basis, that other computers are deliberately designed to be insecure and contain hardware that is intended to "install spyware, malware or viruses", and that their computer is completely free of any firmware vulnerabilities (or, by another reading, contains no firmware at all).

I don't think that either of these claims stands up to any real scrutiny. At best, it's a wild exaggeration of the facts that 1) computers have network hardware which can be used to transmit information, including audio and video recordings, under the command of software; 2) driver and firmware vulnerabilities exist; 3) there have been a small number of incidents where computers have shipped with a BIOS that triggered a Windows feature to automatically install software from the BIOS.

None of these are problems which Purism can claim to have solved with their computer design. Hardware "kill switches" are at best a clumsy workaround -- isolating a computer from the network severely limits its utility -- and using open-source firmware is not a guarantee of safety.

Besides, if they're so proud of their hardware choices, surely they should be willing to go into some more detail about the hardware they decided on, and the reasons they made those choices?
All the developers need to do is spin up a Gitea server hosted outside the DMCA jurisdiction. Git in itself is decentralized.