skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my company, they fly you out to train with your boss/senior dev for a week-long intensive. After that, it's easier to get the rest of the knowledge transferred remotely. But I have no doubt you could train someone remotely if you put a little more planning into it (automate environment setup, good written documentation, good video chat software).
> Finding representative portions of your userbase that will actually talk to you is pretty difficult.

Finding developers that will listen to users is even more difficult. And Microsoft with its telemetry is one of the worse. They just collect user data and ignore every bug report.

> I've worked on a couple different products with millions of end users and we frequently discovered a subset of our userbase was having big problems and we simply weren't hearing from them.

How can people report bugs or express dissatisfaction with your program ?
Did they?

> reveal, v. ts., 1. make (previously unknown or secret information) known to others.

If I turn on a flashlight in a dark room, I reveal the contents of the room; but the flashlight also reveals the contents of the room; and at the lowest level, the light from the flashlight reveals the contents of the room. One could go even deeper, and say that the objects "reveal themselves", as the pigments in the objects react to the light by transmitting information about the objects to my eyes (unlike stealth planes or dark matter, which do not reveal themselves in response to light.)

A server can "reveal" information by transmitting it to you, in response to your request for it. A server reveals itself when it responds to a ping. A server that ignores pings and portscans is avoiding revealing itself.

Basically, any entity in the causal chain for information being produced—even a non-agentive one—seems capable of "revealing" in English.

(Perhaps you're thinking of "unveil"? That word implies that there's a thing external to the information—a veil/curtain—and requires an agentive entity to act upon it.)
As a founder who works from home, I noticed that some days my step count was under 1,000. That is terrible. I started going for walks (before it was covid-cool) most days. I try to take my calls while walking, and I find that my most creative ideas come while I'm walking.
I think OP is talking about people caring about their own careers (i.e. growth, promotions etc).
HEIC is a ISO standard that has a free codec.
Those things are not mutually exclusive. Politicians ask for things that make them look good, companies ask for things that benefit their bottom line. As long as conspiracy theorists are not youtube's cashcow and tax cuts can be sold as improving the economy for everyone both sides benefit.
I'm a contributor to Epsilon and Omega. It's too early to guess how much of a backlash this will generate, but calculator forums are extremely pissed right now. TI completely destroyed any goodwill they had remaining at this point.

I'm not sure how this will unfold, but they've pissed off a fair number of smart people that know their calculators inside and out. I expect jailbreaks, boycotts and people switching to other platforms fairly quickly.
That blows. Seems like the company was wholly incompetent and rotten with comments like that. And as a contractor, you should always bill overtime so your unavailable time isn’t abused.
Here's the spec:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#attr-input...

> Authors are encouraged to specify both any MIME types and any corresponding extensions when looking for data in a specific format.

> User agents should prevent the user from selecting files that are not accepted by one (or more) of these tokens.
It seems like the top end would drop a lot more than the median would rise. Given the poaching it seems clear SF has a scarcity of developers that satisfy FAANG, and scarcity drives price up radically. If remote work becomes more widespread, the scarcity condition would presumably evaporate.

Socially speaking it could be a very good thing. Many of the big challenges we are facing (wealth disparity, political polarization, housing crunch) can be tied to the gross disparity in economic opportunity between places like SF, Austin, NYC, vs everywhere else.
Being remote means you always have access to work, thus often resulting in you working much more than you would in an onsite only role.
That's not the comparison as far as I understand it. The analogy is of someone that dedicates all their time to becoming the best at their craft, like Chopin. It's not about being a genius.
Not sure of the best implementation, but couldn't it be behind a permissions dialog like the ones users have to accept for webcam access or notifications?
> my value to the company is greater than $150K, and $150K is a price you're willing to pay to leverage that value

Now change the second "is" in that sentence, to "was".

Offer and demand are (largely) what determine your salary. The value you create is what sets a ceiling to that price.

It's that simple. FB becomes willing to hire people who live anywhere, and stops believing that candidates in SF or other expensive locations provide more value. They will have a way larger pool of candidates, and they will likely find people who provide just as much value for FB (sorry to burst any bubbles here) but are willing to do so for less money than currently happens.
Half-serious startup idea: Telemetry Escrow, where I send data to Escrow, can inspect what it is, then Microsoft pays per datum. Escrow holds all historicals / some samples, depending on tier.

Does the data have value?, after all? How much..
I mean it's not that odd when you think about how software is typically written. The parsing logic probably threw an exception that was never handled and just pops everything uploaded off the stack by default.
I did as well, but with the TI-85. Learned Z80 assembler and have loved it ever since.
Do you think it's probable that they exposed Reality Winner intentionally?
How do you do the cost of living adjustment? I've used a few just for fun before and have gotten wildly different results for NYC vs Chicago (+21%, +51%, +75%) from the first few listed on Google.
All those things you mentioned LA and NYC has in spades, while SF doesn’t even come close.
Of No Party or Clique
> What if I could pay on a per-article basis?

You would probably fall into the trap of picking and choosing (and paying for) the articles that say what you want, and so they would pander, and here we are.

We need people to carefully choose a lower number of sources, that they believe are of high quality and who they will try to hold to that standard, and then read their articles even when they don't pander.
Yes, but you’d better have a big checkbook: willful violations of the GDPR scale up to 4% or €20m of annual global revenue - whichever is higher.
That doesn't make it a "self contained economy"
I don’t follow. When you protest at Walmart you aren’t guaranteed an audience either (people can ignore you and walk away). And when you make a video you don’t get granted an audience either. Why should YouTube have to help you out?
Counterpoint: as a late 20something software engineer, I'm taking the opportunity to work remotely as motivation to move to a (cheaper) city and live right in the heart of downtown. Now that I can choose where I work, I can move to a city I love that's a bit cheaper than my current location, own a house in an awesome neighborhood, and hopefully take much more advantage of what the city has to offer. As of now, I've done very little exploring in my current (very large) city because 1) I live on the outskirts to be able to afford my rent, 2) I had to drive almost an hour each way to get to work, and 3) I was so "busy" due to my commute that I was exhausted in the evenings and busy with keeping the house in order on the weekends.

Frankly, working remotely is giving me the opportunity to actually participate in the city culture I wanted so badly, but on a scale that's much easier to digest and enjoy.
I am using classic shell [1] start menu which includes launcher and works so much better than the built in start memu.

[1] https://coddec.github.io/Classic-Shell/www.classicshell.net/
I went to a Jesuit university and was required to take a certain number of credits in religious courses, so I looked over the catalogue and chose the most interesting and less mainstream options, like classes on Yoga and Buddhism. One of the classes I chose was about the history of the Old Testament from an archaeological perspective, which sounded very Indiana Jones and turned out to be quite interesting. The professor was an archaeologist and had dug at some of the sites we studied in the course. The only thing I remember from that class was the story how the Bedouin were shopping the scrolls before the location of the caves were exposed and the Western archaeologist (who couldn't immediately travel to the site and wanted to obtain the scrolls at any cost) offered to pay them per piece. This is very likely how many of the scrolls were torn into tiny pieces, as Bedouin were looking to maximize their payout. I didn't find any reference to this in the linked wiki and I certainly don't know how true the story is (IIRC this story wasn't in our official class texts either), but it's something to consider that we could have a more-intact set of scrolls today had it not been for a terrible decision made in haste.
As long as you can host your video on your own website, that's not the same. If you own website, you have all rights to do any censorship you want. Now if your government will try to fine or arrest you because you hosted some video on your website, that's censorship. You can avoid youtube, but you can't avoid your government.

That said, I agree that huge websites like youtube, facebook, instagram are something more than just another web resource and probably some regulations should be applied to them. But it's very sensitive subject.
I'm pretty surprised how well the bodycams thing is working out overall.

Of course there are rare cases where they "lose" the footage or whatever, but the sheer volume of videos coming out makes me believe that it's working in most cases (even high profile or controversial cases).
They will remove anything that doesn’t tow the WHO line. Aka globalists.
AZ salaries, when factoring in COL, are more than most tech jobs in California. This is leaving the allure of non-valued startup options but on average the salaries I’ve seen (yes, n=1) are in the realm of the upper curve of Bay Area salaries .
The culture is fairly different between the South Bay vs. San Francisco. South Bay is largely full of immigrants living the American dream: they work hard at a FANG during the day, buy an expensive suburban house to go home to at night, take their kids to parks and cultural attractions on the weekends and do their best to make sure they get into a good college, and otherwise mind their own business. Basically like the rest of America but less white. SF has many more people who like to stick their nose in other people's business to enact radical social change. It also has more genuine diversity and weirdness. SF is where people like to do large-scale social experiments, the South Bay largely sticks to large-scale technical experiments.

This same distinction also applies to the type of startup that gets founded in each place. South Bay attracts more companies that are capitalizing on a technical change in the world - Google, Apple, Netflix, hardware companies like NVidia and Memorex, drone startups, large scale enterprise software like Cloudera or Palantir. San Francisco attracts more companies that are capitalizing on a social change: AirBnB, Uber, Lyft, Stripe, Zynga, Bird, Lime, Twitter, Medium, etc. Notable exceptions are Facebook (social change but in the South Bay, though they've also built a top-notch technology org) and DropBox (technical, but in SF).
The rate of budget increase increased dramatically without an increase in revenue.
You need a lot of available land to live off the land. This may work in Alaska but in other states this can’t be done on a large scale.
Do you mind being specific on how there are no longer hard engineering problems to be solved?
One thing that stuck out to me is how consistent the numbers became between each other under WFH. I am not familiar with the metric or scrum, but I wonder what the cause is?
All business decisions are cash grabs.
Well I could turn that around and say if you develop a phone and the image format it exports to is not accepted by 99% of websites maybe then you majorly fucked up.
The $150K is so you can have certain lifestyle there but not save enough to leave and become competition, it's the cost of labor reproduction. In Tulsa your cost of reproduction would be lower, paying you too much might allow you to leave the shackles of capitalism.
Atlantic is left wing, as are Vox, Buzzfeed, and numerous other troubled properties cited in the article. I remember actually enjoying the Atlantic a few years ago, but their unfortunate editorial decision to focus on partisanship has crowded out other, more substantial topics for which they were once known.
"This page aspirationally left blank."
Maybe Mongo if you don't need ACID transactions [1].

https://twitter.com/jepsen_io/status/1261276984681754625
This more or less exists already in https://scroll.com/ that charges a flat fee and distributes it to publishers based on your reading behaviour. In return, you get reduced adverts on sites that support it.
"Not everyone can move to optimize their relative adjusted income"--

Yes and not everyone can get married, and have a partner to share the load with either. So does that mean a bachelor and a married man should be paid different salaries?

Not everyone can find the time to run a side business. So should those who can be penalized?

You pay your employees what they are worth to the company and forget entirely about what they are and are not capable of doing outside of the company because it's really none of your business. If that means you can't find employees because you aren't willing to value an employee correctly than your company will fail, end of story.
I released dozens of TI-basic and TIGCC apps back in the day and this is a very, very sad turn of events.

The biggest advantage TI has for attracting new developers is that their platform is ubiquitous for high schoolers. This is really amazing for adoption and it's how I got started with programming back in the day.

I hope this trend doesn't continue. https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/authors/78/7869.html
I think we're on the same page. She has an immense amount of power which she is wielding in a legal and fairly conventional manner, but one that I consider ethically wrong.
> However, a higher velocity of capital without commensurate economic value being created ~= massive inflation.

This is a good point. Money maps to stuff and services. But there is ample surplus production (and unused capacity) in our economy.

Every year 40bn+ pounds of food is wasted at the retail level (on top of all the waste that happens before retail in production), while ~11% of the American population is food insecure.

Nearly every clothing company — H&M, Nike, Burberry, Eddie Bauer, and so on — destroys billions of dollars of unsold clothing every year in order to preserve their brand.

We have material abundance thanks to highly optimised mechanisation and more recently automation in agriculture and manufacturing. UBI can allow the poorest parts of society access the surplus that we would otherwise destroy.
Yes, just hardcode what is hopefully the magic bytes for the formats we expect, what could possibly go wrong /s

The biggest joke here is that this wouldn't have helped the students either. I don't think any of them will pass the "there is a minute left on the timer and the website tells you your picture isn't JPEG or PNG" challenge.
Gradually, Then Suddenly
The problem is that we already don’t care about the learning, just the credentials. Everyone making these accommodations is doing so because they know that there’s no point on holding students back when it doesn’t help anyone to do so. Certainly not the students, but also not the school systems, the colleges, the future employers, and not even society generally.
Relocating for most people is actually a bigger deal than it may seem.

I personally have no problem with it and did just that at least once, but after returning I asked around and most if not all of my friends and family would not do the same even for - and this was especially shocking to me - 4x the salary.

Apparently flexibility is rare and sought after.
> UBI feels like a way of addressing the incoming loss of jobs due to automation.

A better way of doing that would be to allow automation to make the necessities of life drastically cheaper, so that the amount of work required to obtain them is drastically reduced. In the limit, if automation can produce all the necessities of life for everyone at essentially zero cost, then those necessities should simply be free, the way air is free now.
>Having "UBI" in US would create a skyrocket inflation because worker who are paid 10$/Hour would drop their work and stay at home and do something that is more profitable for them.

Unless you have some hard data, your argument doesn't seem very convincing. The numbers could easily work out in any way, and it would probably depend on the actual amount of UBI you use, because the effect on the workforce and the spending power of consumers would be important for determining the amount of inflation. Studies are useful in situations like this.

Also, I mean, this subtly doubles as an argument against a minimum wage increase. In the same sense that a UBI might slightly decrease the workforce and lead to higher wages for those remaining (and inflation), a minimum wage increase would also. Do you have a proposed tool to increase the wages of an immiserated 20% of the population that doesn't also have the potential to cause inflation?
It's already super easy to charge for single articles. They just need to throw a stripe or paypal instant payment button on there.

The problem is there's no real money in the a la carte model. If a startup wants to be a middleman for online news, they'd have to be some sort of subscription aggregator.
Nice book.

This looks like a good opportunity for someone to create a website for this, and animate it with some JavaScript code.

And insert some ads: Please click here to buy some protractors for 25% off.
My biggest concern with UBI is the massive inflation that it will cause.
I’m not so sure people in Eastern Europe or parts of Africa and Asia would have an issue with this kind of stratification, but you may be right, it might go against cultural norms.
Lowering salaries all of a sudden for a large % of their workforce who are currently very productive, would be a bad move, destroy value instantly that would take long to recover. It makes sense to pay to keep that value, at least for a while, and let market dynamics slowly do their thing.
That doesn't mean they stopped being profitable after she bought them, or that she "changed the mission," as a previous poster put it. Just like many other businesses, an infusion of cash allowed them to expand.

It's easy to criticize them for that now, but there's a real sense in which that critique amounts to, "Instead of expanding, they should have used that infusion of capital to restructure their finances in a way that let them survive a dramatic collapse in revenue that happened virtually all at once."
>She does not have $22B in cash.

The idea that someone worth $22B can't snap their fingers and have a few million dollars cash available is ridiculous. Do you think there are no buyers for Apple or Disney stock?
They did spin up staff numbers and who knows how much was spent on business facets like advertising. I'd atleast agree that it might not have been the best investment decision given the large amount of "competitors" in Atlantic's space
You are appealing to a concept of justice. Zuckerberg sees it a different way: how little can he get away with paying? If he can make a profit paying you $150K, he can make even more paying you $90K. He'll take it if he can. Whether he can depends on whether you have competing offers. If the economy tanks, maybe you won't.

If all their employees work from home, that's going to tend to equalize the salary levels across regions, and the number they settle to likely isn't going to be the SF Bay Area number.
Facebook is not in a position (and shouldn't need to be) to determine who has what rights to what images. They deferred to the governing bodies on this issue, and the courts decided that the parents had the right to demand the photo(s) are taken down. The parents could presumably now go to FB with this ruling and have them take the photos down.

If FB did not defer to another party, they would have to determine if the accusing party has the legal grounds to demand the pictures are removed.

How would FB know that those are the parent's kids? Or that the parents have custody? Or any other nuanced edge case?

It's best for everyone if FB defers to the bodies that defined these laws for judgement. Otherwise, you'll end up in a system like YouTube where copyright protections are easily abused against small organizations that can't fight back.
> What happens if I rename a CAD file to MP3?

"This kind of file is for a [computer-aided design system]. It is not an [MP3 music] file and so it cannot be used by [music playing software]. Would you still like to rename the file?"
In the US...

Commercial documentaries have images of people who didn't give consent all the time.

>For IP law reasons, people don't have a right to distribute pictures with your likeness in them, unless you explicitly grant them that right.

Of course they do. Every newspaper does it every day.

>(If things didn't work this way, the modelling industry would collapse.)

People can nonetheless charge for sitting for a photo shoot. And the use of images in marketing/advertising contexts (e.g. in an ad, in a company brochure) does indeed require explicit permission. You also get into publicity rights etc. of famous people.

But if I take a street photo of you and illustrate my blog with it or publish it in a book of my photos? I absolutely don't need permission for a photo otherwise obtained lawfully.
You mean to tell me that companies in the Bay Area never pull employees from schools outside of the Bay Area? I get the feeling there is a much more valuable reason for being based in the Bay Area than that.
I hope this isn't indicative of larger business troubles.

They've provided some of the most quality editorial over the years.

Thankfully John Oliver, podcasts, paid individual-contributor newsletters, and documentaries are taking over long-form investigative journalism and news-aggregator sites and social media are increasing their reach, but I still feel there's value in "traditional" editorial institutions.
Next month Google will have reeducation camps for Uyghur involving rape and torture. Google is _exactly_ like the CCP in intent and its cover ups

Edit: was /s. The parent comment is a ridiculous comparison
Patents are separate from copyright, so even an independently developed freely licensed open-source software is illegal to use without a patent license from patent owners.

https://www.hevcadvance.com/pdfnew/LicensorList.pdf
How This Founder Is Experimenting with Roboticdatascience After Accidentally
Perhaps beneficial to companies utilizing multiple clouds wanting 1 tool and 1 process for auditing across clouds
Counterpoint, it allowed me to be more productive and invest time into learning and career growth that otherwise wouldn't been spent in meetings or commuting.
Yes, there are loopholes that need to be closed. The same as any short description of a complex economic policy. I'm not sure why you think this problem is insurmountable: states already have regulations around who may be considered contractors.
Is the price of a disposable gadget not based not the price of the labor that went into it? They're both subject to the same forces.