skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you work and FAANGM+ and you have an awesome cafeteria where they feed you every day and your commute isnt long I see how you would feel that way.

However if not and especially if you have a commute WFH is great. I agree with other comments in that fully remote isn't always ideal though.

I've done both (ex-LinkedIn) and I currently run a tech consulting firm.

I think the right mix is a choice.

I prefer 2 or 3 days in the office and the rest of the week from home.
Absolutely. But I apart from a very few trivial cases I wouldn’t recommend anyone to use any of the BLC serializers.
Everyone can be at risk of dying from cv? no, for a young healthy person the risk is similar to shark attack or lightning strike. However everyone is at risk of dying in traffic accidents, even if they never get in a car.
If the right to private and personal property is in place (basically having some money) and trading. Then the right to build a house is a consequence.

As long as you by land that doesn't have a lien on it you can build a house.
That's a tricky number to tease out. One must ask how "actual amount of crime" is measured.

Oftentimes, one finds a feedback loop between arrest rate counting and instances of crime counting that means all kinds of confounding factors enter into the number (including distribution of police patrol resources and likelihood police will let an infringement off with a warning).
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Sneakernet

P2p internet
I guess only companies are stuck on it nowadays?

Regardless, sure, use a chromium browser for that task if you absolutely must. It is good separation anyway.
Can you talk a little bit about how you've managed your RabbitMQ infrastructure? Also if you've done any comparison to Azure Message Queues and what were the pros and cons against Rabbit?

I'm looking to pitch adding a message queue to our infrastructure (at a .Net shop on Azure), and I'm sure there will be some questions about the comparisons between the two. Unfortunately, that's been tough to really track down.
Are you qualified to decide whether someone with medical expertise can discuss medicine, health and policy?
he has no business speaking outside his field

I agree with everything you wrote, except the above. He is a doctor, speaking on health issues, so he isn't speaking from outside the field of medicine. And I'd challenge that a specialist within the field of medicine can only offer valuable information or insight with their own speciality. Specialists on all fields are prone to group think, so people with related training from the outside should be welcomed to challenge the orthodoxy.
This seems reasonable but I don't think it's a significant contributor to the price of construction.

None of the developers seem to mention it as an issue, and there are plenty of employees that exist in San Francisco that are paid wages that are similar to construction workers.
People do that in games all the time. Finish the game -> restart

As long as the ride is good, people don't mind having to step down and queue again
That's not a problem unique to governments, although the consequences in that realm tend to be worse.
Saw a stat from ICBC the public insurance auto insurer in British Columbia. There's usually around 15,000 "accidents" (let's call them car crashes folks) a week in the province. With Covid, numbers are down 60% some weeks to ~9000.

Really shows how incredibly dangerous our automobile oriented transportation system is, and how effective removing cars from the road can be.
This sucks :( having a little mini battery powered computer with insane capabilities like running a separate operating system was a great entry into tech for many of us
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My memory too ;) - Left middle of 2017, here is some article that mentions it - https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/01/15/spanning-the-databas...

also some bare mention here - https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

"... The effort to standardize our own implementations both covers gaps in the SQL standard where details are unclear or left to the implementation and covers our own Google specific extensions. Before defining our own SQL dialect, we did consider other options. Using the front end of an open-source SQL processing system, such as Postgres, would have accomplished several of the same
goals including filling the gaps left by the SQL standard and ensuring uniform syntax/semantics across our systems. We ruled out this approach because internal systems at Google make heavy use of Protocol Buffers in their applications, and we wanted Protocol Buffer message and enum types to be first class types in our SQL language"
What's Yang's answer about that? If he had a FAQ that would certainly be on it.
I never realized how many people relied on work and school to reduce contact with their family until this pandemic started.

I don’t know where we go from here, though.
Failing a test because the upload used the wrong image format is the 2020 version of failing a test because you used the wrong type of pencil to fill in the Scantron bubbles.
Absolutely crazy. 53 parking spaces for 10 units? Every unit gets 3 spaces and 2 guest spaces?
Not at all. I'm holding the government responsible for its action to remove (make illegal) a choice.
Amazon does this, but everywhere else save New York (including Detroit, Austin, Boston+, Arizona offices) is on the same scale as Seattle.
There are some gems in the conclusion :)

> In this paper we introduced WysiScript, a formatting-based programming language that streamlines the programming process by removing the awkward necessity of writing text. We gave an overview of its main ideas and a tour of its built-in features, demonstrated its simplicity and ease of use with several examples, and proved rigorously that it is equally as powerful as other languages and significantly more colorful.

> In particular, we believe it will appeal to many types of students who may not have an interest in traditional text-based programming, including painters, graphic designers, and the illiterate.

> An obvious limitation of WysiScript in its current form is the restriction, imposed by the RGB color model, that a single program can have at most 16,777,216 different user-defined variables and functions. This hinders the use of WysiScript for census-taking in the Netherlands, for example, because the Dutch population is 16,979,729. Future versions of the language may relax this restriction by adding support for additional colors not representable in RGB, such as ultraviolet, infrared, and plaid.

> In order to support quantum computing, which makes use of value superposition and probabilistic algorithms, future versions of WysiScript may make use of the alpha channel in color specifications.
> Companies doing this at large will probably realize that remote work is not popular as it made out to be.

But will they care once the cost savings are realized? Similar things happened with open office floorplans.
> Basically, only Apple (and, more recently, Samsung) use the HEIC format — most other websites and platforms don’t support it. Even popular Silicon Valley-based services, such as Slack, don’t treat HEICs the same way as standard JPEGs.

This is the key part. Many in the software industry still believes that the start-up mindset of break things move fast applies to us. The economy depends on software, governments depend on software, education depends on software, lives depend on software ... but we treat software as a toy where a new fancy image format is a reasonable change to make because our platform gets a little more fancy and for sure a little less compatible to lock-in users.

I am all for regulation, and it is coming, as the software industry has shown to be an immature risk-taking mess. But, it can be a more bearable amount of regulation if we exercise some level of self-constraint on how we break each new release of software.

If we keep blaming traditional business (education, accounting, grocery stores, etc.) for not "updating fast enough" to new trends, they are going to justly react to our demands on their thin margin profits and ask the government to stop us. When you do not know if your business will survive another month, to have to invest non-stop in new software without any tangible benefit is an unreasonable demand.

Software has become too important the past twenty years. It is time that as a industry we realize that and act accordingly.
This seems like the very definition of play stupid games, win stupid prizes... Obviously I have zero capability to make a morality judgement here. But I do know that the 2-ton hunk of metal with hundreds of horsepower and foot-pounds of torque is going to win that physical fight every day. Just take the damn license plate number, get out physically unscathed, and let the police do their job.
This is basic supply and demand. Compensation isn't based on "worth" or "value", it's based on market competition. This is the way that your compensation is currently decided, and it's the way that most goods and services in all of existence are priced. People want to have their cake and eat it to, but that's not how the world works.
> Does anyone know a good empire building game that doesn't have this problem?

Stellaris, lets you put colonies on autopilot. It's ripe with other problems, but handling late game scale isn't an issue unless you like to hyper optimize.
> there is no reason to live in the city with no office

Then why do so many Google/Facebook/Apple employees live in SF and commute for over an hour to the suburbs?
The kind of users that are going to use the mainframe are not going to hit the back button.

Also, in mainframe-using orgs, there's often this weird idea of giving people training. Sometimes it's over a month of training where you have to sign a loyalty contract that you're going to work at least X months or repay them before you're allowed to take job with competition.
Cool, so the point "FreeBSD because zfs on FreeBSD is better" is bs, I guess.
They can get the absolute best talent in every market across the world WITHOUT paying Bay Area salaries - just pay double whatever the local average is!

This is THE reason driving all these companies to announce the shift to remote: it’ll be a massive cost saving. Access to talent that can’t live in a center where they have offices is nice, but hardly justifies the overhead of remote work
The Google model is better though, in my view. The problem with the older style "lab" approach, typified by Microsoft Research, is that it basically recreates academia inside a company. There's then often huge difficulties integrating resource output into actual products. MSR does OK but is still quite notorious for producing long term expensive research projects that never get integrated into any product (Singularity/Midori being perhaps the most famous), whereas the Google model doesn't have that problem. Google has an extraordinary high rate of incorporation of research ideas into products.

This is better for a lot of reasons, obviously, it makes it easier to justify funding the projects. But it also ensures that the researchers truly understand the nature of the problem they're solving. Seeing actual translation queries on Google Translate helps direct the next piece of MT research towards what kind of things people really use the tech for. Building actual big data systems helps train the researchers in how to work with huge data sets and puts them on research paths they otherwise would have been unable to explore.

Basically it recognises that a hard division between research and practice doesn't really make sense when working at the cutting edge of technology. You want the constant feedback from real world practice to guide the theory.
If I were a tort lawyer, I'd be salivating right now.
It's a market-clearing price. If Google is willing to pay more for remote workers in Pocatello, Idaho, then they'll be able to poach them. If not, wages will fall.

Tech companies have always paid less to staff in cheaper cities like Pittsburgh, but the ratio usually still favors the employee (i.e. they make 90% of the Bay Area base salary and their cost of living is 20% as high). Workers can also hack the system by getting irrevocable, long-term RSU grants and then getting transferred to cheaper markets.
The latitude offered researchers at the labs is missed, but the main corporate role of labs was to draw in and divert the attention of the most innovative researchers from activities that might upset markets. Innovative results were collected, patented and systematically shelved.

Thus, RISC was developed at IBM in the '60s (the 801) and shelved until the '90s, as it would have outperformed the 360/370 series. Xerox PARC created the key components of modern personal computing, but Xerox management saw no reason to bring any of it to market.
Opt out of Windows.

My last Windows 7 machine broke down, and the few Windows programs I needed to run are now running under Wine on Linux.

I've never used Windows 10 except in a store demo. Decided I didn't want it.
That sounds like a contract. An oral contract is still one.
I think many people agree with you, maybe even just on a subconscious level. But I’m not sure that it’s a good argument. Doesn’t that logic imply that you have a duty to bestow life on as many children as possible? It’s not just your first and second child that are owed the gift of life that only you can bestow. It’s also the 14th and 15th and so on, right?
It suggests that they didn't even bother to try the app on an iPhone, which is what probably half of their target users reach for when they need to take photos. That belies a significant degree of laziness and/or incompetence.
Companies already pay different based on location for the same job today.
snazz posted the actual code downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23261598

My guess is that the JavaScript manually checking the filename's extension is screwing up the automatic conversion.
Companies (e.g. Mozilla, Gitlab, now Facebook) often forget another side of the coin - "less expensive areas" most of the time means worse quality of life.

Also, all of those companies say "less expensive areas" while they really mean "lower wage areas" - which doesn't necessary align with the former preposition.
I might be in a minority here, but I really don't feel like full time WFH is more productive. It could be indicative of my work place's culture only, but I feel like there are many more meetings now & communication is much harder. Also, it's nice seeing everybody at work, getting lunch, having a coffee break with people, whiteboarding, etc. There is a huge social aspect that is lost with WFH that zoom can't replace. Imo that reduction in socializing has reduced my work performance because I've noticed I just sprint ahead for 4+ hours straight and burn out really hard at the end of the day.
The idea is to not come into work as you're WFH permanently in this setup.

Listen I am not advocating doing this. I don't even live there nor do I work at Facebook. I just feel like this is easily gameable.
Even if the bad actors found the same nail polish to re-apply after tampering, the pattern of glitter flecks would be different. The recipient could compare a high-resolution photo of the nailpolish to a reference image to determine if the screw had been tampered with.
remote work in the current COVID conditions with outside restrictions, home school, 24/7 juggling between work and babysitting for parents is not the same as your usual remote work conditions. I think the numbers drawn from this COVID WFH are far from the reality.
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The last time I used an 83/84, all the functions and keywords were strictly token-based, so you went into menus to pick them out. Variable names and strings were directly typed, using one of the modifier keys.

The 89 let you either type the names of functions or get them out of menus at your leisure.

It's not the best experience in the world, but it's not significantly worse than typing on a touch screen. Remember that people tolerated typing on phone keypads for years, and this beats that by a mile.
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The _votes_ aren't manipulated though. The content is exactly the same even if the person "stole" it. It's immoral and scummy, certainly, but I wouldn't consider it vote manipulation by my definition.
And both of them have now brought their games back to Steam.
One thing I've found is that it isn't worth it to "win" and be able to afford living in these places, because nobody else can.

In expensive neighborhoods there are good connections from neighbors, but right now - and I have no way to quantify this - it seems like that doesn't apply to places that now become expensive. People with connections are just part of a different generation and live in already wealthy neighborhoods.

The up and coming trendy neighborhood don't have the connected's trust fund children nor a bunch of VCs. Only airbnb speculators, transient corporate housing and some TikTok influencers chasing status.

Everyone has been resigned to imagining their dreams of certain zip codes, and just doing something else that happens to be way more practical. If you actually get into those zip codes, nobody else is there.

So doing extra things for the goal of keeping up against all odds seems to be a fools errand, for housing location at least. Other fun things you can do with your net worth.
Surely you realize that your current compensation is already decided based on market forces and not some inherent "value".
You see Fein around sometimes with finish carpentry. The drills are excellent.
How does it deal with code blocks normally defined by indentation? (As an aside, indentation being part of syntax is the only thing keeping me disgusted with python - I like the language otherwise.)
Cost of living is higher if you live in a major metropolitan area. That higher SF salary gets you the same amount of goods and services as a lower salary in Utah. This is a pretty basic concept.

If you want to get paid the big salary, move to the big city. Don't complain about higher rent and cost of food. Or live frugally.
you are right in a certain sense. The point of lockdown was to avoid triage deaths, ie deaths from a lack of hospital capacity. We have not had an issue with running out of capacity so it looks like we could have kept triage deaths to zero even with basic preventative measures like masks. On the other hand we are actually saving lives due to reduced traffic, because of lockdown.
Wouldn't that be 60% are not interested. 100% - (20% very interested) - 20% (somewhat interested). People who are somewhat interested do not count towards being not interested.
I would be perfectly fine with 800-1000 sqft and little yard but nobody builds this anymore. And if you have a basement for storage you need less garage too. Why do US houses rarely have usable basements?
EDIT: Didn’t take much reflection to realize a lot of awful stuff liberty wise happened during the cold war, so scrap my comment.
Because you, the laborer, begin as a fungible commodity to a company that very much operates on a short-term, quarterly basis. But with that said, it's certainly possible that Facebook will need to functionally do as you described and "keep salaries the same and get the absolute best talent in every market across the world" because otherwise, they won't be able to effectively recruit. They'll get outbid by startups that don't attempt such hare-brained schemes, and maybe they'll dislike it enough to raise wages where required.

Secondly, it's not likely the case that Facebook needs the "absolute best talent" across the board -- it's more likely that they do for some positions (and will pay appropriately) and not so much for others. And for where it stands there, I'm pretty sure Facebook knows what that Pareto frontier looks like -- at least in recent history, they have generally outbid their weight class competitors [1] in terms of total compensation.

[1] https://www.levels.fyi/company/Facebook/salaries/Software-En...
> Ten bucks says College Board programmer(s) failed to do the most basic and standard filtering.

Why is it a failure of the college board to put "accept="image/jpeg"", instead of iOS which failed to default to the more standardized jpeg format when HEIC was not specified?

HEIC is a newer format which fewer systems support. iOS / Safari should default to JPEG in this case.
This seems to be a trend for medium density construction projects now. In our rapidly-gentrifying suburban city, new buildings above a certain height are only approved if they include public parking spaces, regardless if it's residential, commercial, or mixed use.
There are also custom scheduling policies in the XBox One IIUC. I agree that a “custom version of Windows 2000” for the original XBox is wrong, but it is not extremely consequential in this article, I can see where it comes from, and I don't think its erroneous enough for it to be a big deal to be presented like that to the public; only experts will find the distinction interesting.

Saying it is a custom version of Mac OS, I would call it absolutely wrong. Here, just wrong is enough :p
So if I get a remote job working from a high COL area and move, and then I move, do I get my pay reduced? If so, I might as well reduce my effort accordingly ;) you get what you pay for

EDIT: And odds are, the employer won't notice enough to fire me.
Not really, that'd break the cryptographic requirements of a hash.
In that case, wouldn't it correctly be conjugated as 'In animō apparati iacet victoria'? I haven't touched Latin since boyhood so I'm likely completely wrong, but I am eager to understand this.
It has significant operational load and complexity. Five node types, communicating with zookeeper
You can be identified by the wall-of-text you just wrote [you switched recently from arch to gentoo...]
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I think the Epic store offering doesn't support Mac, but...

Switch back to OpenGL. It's an option available in the Aspyr splash screen that pops up when you try to launch the game from Steam.
Until you’re senior enough that most of your job is communication, then remote becomes difficult again.
WFH now and maintaining Work/Life balance is really difficult when most of your time is spent sending emails, reviewing code and proposals and answering questions in a global company.
Writing code at night happened occasionally before, but it required leaving my family and pulling out my laptop so it had to be for good reason. Helping an overseas team out over Slack with something at 11 pm can be done from my phone, “it’ll just take 5 minutes”.
> Housing seems to me to be one of the most government-planned markets due to the strict zoning laws, but I've only seen fairly lefty orgs advocating for relaxed regulation. I'm surprised there isn't more movement from libertarians along the lines that property owners should have more rights for what they can build on their land.

Not sure about what anyone here considers as libertarian, but if you were to ask a libertarian what they would tell you is that if you own property you are free to do as you please so long as you do not harm someone else.

Also not sure what you mean by lefty orgs, because labor unions, public unions and environmental groups are the biggest lobbyist influence on the high price of housing. When it comes to affordability, housing is generally (ahem - not "always") less affordable in blue states and least affordable in the bluest regions of the blue states.
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