skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is a huge bet that productivity in the long run is equal to or greater than the savings in rent.

And also, that not every potential employee who can add value to the organization wants to relocate to the same place. I think that’s a more important bet in the long run.

> Oh, and if you give your employees a bunch of money to fit out their home offices and start paying for their internet at home and give them money for lunches and whatnot,

Isn’t this called “salary”? I don’t expect my employer to cook and feed me lunch and I don’t really need a special lunch stipend either.
I know I am a barbarian, but I'll probably just continue to use my own std::string sprintf( const char *fmt, ... ); function as implemented here;

https://github.com/billforsternz/retro-sargon/blob/master/sr...
There wasn't Twitter or Facebook in 1918, but the 1918 flu pandemic was headline news in every major newspaper. There were massive shutdowns and ordinances to require mask-wearing were enacted. Parts of the US came to a standstill. That we've forgotten about all of that says more to our biases and the quality of our education system, rather than lack of precedent.

There are many lessons to be learned from 1918, despite all the changes since then. Probably the most relevant one is just how forgotten it had become. If we manage to develop and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine, a few years from now we'll reminisce: remember 2020? Gosh, how weird that was!

There are other lessons too. Like that social distancing works.

Or that rushing to lift restrictions too soon just leads to outbreaks.

America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918, by Alfred W. Crosby is on Kindle and is interesting reading.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E3UR4EI/
Notion is being blocked in China
Yes, this is probably another coordinated disclosure where we see evidence in Linux kernel commits first. I noticed that Apple hasn't released the security credits page for iOS 13.5 yet; is that a normal delay or are we waiting on the disclosure of another processor bug (that presumably also affects ARM)?
That's really odd. I'm not disputing what you see on your end, but in my install of Divoom for iOS, I can't see those artworks, even if I search for "nazi flag" from within the Galleria screen.
Looks like... Delaware! https://www.delawareinc.com/blog/facebook-is-a-delaware-corp...
When you search for a file extension, almost always those useless sites pop up that are just advertisements for a ``driver manager" or ``registry cleaner". The justsolve wiki[1] is a pretty good resource for file extensions, but it's not popular enough yet to rank high in search results.

[1]: http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/
So you figure Zoom lied to ordinary users saving all the money and effort needed to do it properly, but they made sure to also build a special secure version for their "paid" users who have an official certification?

Let me suggest a question you'd be better off asking. Imagine that to your astonishment they just pocketed the money and gave you the same crap as everybody else, who do you think pays? Have you seen anywhere a pile of money you get as a prize if they'd just lied? No? Because there isn't one.
Reference for those interested in reading more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_interaction
I think it effects people differently.

Coffee/caffeine doesn't stop me sleeping, it makes me not want to sleep.

The difference is, I can drink a couple of coffee (long black, strong) then go to bed and sleep soundly. But I have to argue with myself all the way to bed... because now I dont feel like I need it :-P
Thanks for the feedback.

Usually can't find the price/spec/performance balance we want. Light bulbs was just an example -- we wanted BR30 lights (and lots of them) with 3000K color. Everything at HD/Lowes was either 2700K or 5000K. And 3x the per-bulb price. Same issue with just about everything home-electronic: we can't find the same thing locally and online has been gamed.

Plus with Covid-19, we're relying on delivery more than ever- we have a immune-compromised family member so try to take reasonable measures.
Do interrupt handlers cause context switches?

Presumably more of a problem if all cores are busy, which is more likely if there are few cores. Also dependent on the number of interrupts (e.g. high network traffic of small packets etc). Presumably not a problem if there is an idle core that can run the interrupt code.
Show HN: Monster Train, a deckbuilding card game in the global top on Steam
> hell, a large portion of the SWE crowd is willing to distribute their labor /for free/ in the form of FLOSS

that's an incredibly un-nuanced view of the economics of FLOSS. even at just a first approximation, if you consider the existence of Linux as a "fully fledged" platform to be of economic value to you, then participating in the advancement of that goal represents participating in an exchange economy, not "distributing labor for free".

and there are other ways in which FLOSS developers receive benefits from their work on FLOSS, too numerous to mention here.
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If the 48 kB of cache has 64-byte lines, then it has 768 lines. If a line takes 5.3 ns to fetch from the L2 cache [1], then that's ~4 microseconds to fetch all of them. It's not as if the processor will stop and do that after a context switch (and it can overlap the loads with other work etc), but that's roughly the order of magnitude of the cost of an L1 cache flush

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/4087331/116639
IMO, this and the child comments are some of the best articulated descriptions of the balance a moderator must make in today's online community. especially the part about fear's impact on your decision making. Thanks for you transparency and moderation efforts. Keep up the good work.
I WANT TO GO TO THERE
So long, w3schools.
I bet this is a thing a union would help with!
I had the same thing happen!
I bought a domain a long while back, it auto-renewed and charged me more than $500 for 1 year. I've never used the domain properly and would have just let it lapse, they did warn me of the pending auto-renewal but I ignored it thinking it would cost $30 or something.

This was for a `.club` TLD.
Hi all - I'm Mark Cooke, the CEO of Shiny Shoe, the creators of Monster Train. We released on May 21 and have been in the global top seller list on Steam since. The game currently has a user rating of "overwhelmingly positive", the highest possible rating on Steam.

I've been a reader of HN for years and I've seen some members of this community mention it in Tweets that they are addicted to the game so I figured I'd post it here and see if there is any interest/questions.

AMA!
You think the US government isn't "at the scale" of Facebook?
Companies already effectively do this, but frame it as a perk for those who live close. IIRC Facebook and Palantir paid 10k to people who lived within 1 mile of the office.
I moved to Nashville in 2018 from San Francisco and love it here. Yes, the weather and storms are absolutely insane and still shocking to me. Thunderstorms, sheets of rain, summer heat and the occasional tornado. However the people, southern culture and hospitality, outdoor activities and lifestyle are much better suited to me than SF.

I own and run a DevOps consulting company, so the lower cost of living and zero state income tax is all just gravy. What area of Nashville did you grown up? I am in Germantown.
I was about to ask the same question. I didn't even know this product existed!
> I run a company, but I've found a way to do that with very few meetings and very little email. Most weeks I just have one meeting and many days I don't send a single email.

I'm very curious to know what your secret is!
How do you have HyperBackup setup? I want to use external USB drives (so I can store copies offsite) and from what I've read it won't span backups across multiple drives - my Synology capacity is 20TB and the external drives are 8TB. So what I'm doing now is doing old-school file copies across to a desktop machine, which isn't ideal.
Evidence of Italians' extraordinary genetic diversity dates back 19K years
Your place of domicile (a tax and legal concept) cannot be updated daily.
I traveled the whole world for years, including a RTW and Antarctica trips, somehow while I was still formally employed but my managers never thought remote work would be productive. Now that finally I work 100% remote, for real and not just during pandemics, I cannot be nomadic as I had always wanted because now I have a big sweet german shepherd dog that requires special care. She's everything to me I am okay with just working remote from my place in the very city where I've lived for 15 years. Life is weird :-)
Is there something like this for Chrome?
I would love this but unfortunately this permissions request is too broad: https://files.terriblefish.com/2020-05-24_17-27-15.png

The Firefox UI won't let me see what the other 195 domains are.
This is all great, but what is also important here is, how many of those 99.7% of people need hospital care to survive?

As far as I understood all the "flatten-the-curve" motions, the plan was to keep hospitals in a state, where they're able to process the patients with complications, so they don't become the 0.3%++.

My country (Slovenia) has pretty-much zero new cases per day currently, with 2-4% of people (there was a study) with antibodies.... in a potential second wave with exponential growth, our hospitals are basically fucked.
I see 1 being a really hard sell, even if the taxes are just income taxes and not all taxes. While some states don’t have income taxes, I’m sure others rely strongly on them.

In 2, I just thought that while a large company like FB may be able to navigate all the tax and legal implications of having employees in numerous jurisdictions, I wonder if smaller businesses will be able to compete. I mentioned elsewhere that if I sell a digital file online right now to people in four European countries, I have to collect and remit VAT at four different rates, which seems more menacing for smaller orgs than larger ones.

In your last point, I think people would have different opinions on whether it woikd be fair or not. I agree with you in that the wealthy should pay more, especially when the wealth gap is large. I’m not sure if income tax captures it that well, especially for someone who already has the wealth accumulated, and that consumption or property tax might do a better job, but I’m really not sure, I’m no expert in that.
I don't think you're getting it right.

> So the employer punishes people that cannot afford to live close to the office?

This already happens. If you aren't local, you can't even get the job.

> if they need to travel to conduct business, their pay is decreased?

Yes and no. If you're talking "I need you to go to China to meet with investors" no, if you're talking "we're having an all hands meeting on the first Monday of each month" then yes, but the employer is paying for your airfare and lodging as well.

> If the company __needs__ to hire talent that lives far away, why should they be punished?

Needs? Who said that? They just need employees. I'm talking about how much they need them in the office. If you don't need them in the office at all, then no pay differentials. But if you do need them in the office, well obviously there's different utility for that employee and should pay not reflect utility, as opposed to locality?

I mentioned in another thread the following scenario. Office in SF, one remote worker in Phoenix, another in NYC. How does the one in NYC have more utility than the one in AZ? (which is how pay works under current remote schemes) I'd argue it is easier/cheaper to get the AZ employee to the office. The AZ employee also shares the same time zone half the year and is only an hour off the rest of the year. How is that fair? So why not make it a function of distance and how much you are needed in the office rather than where you live?
He was hugely popular when he came into office and made some significant improvements the cash subsidy for farming program. Nevertheless, there sure are power-consolidation moves evident.

https://www.as-coa.org/articles/approval-tracker-mexicos-pre...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/amlo-is-me...
I never said that I only care about money. As a manager, you could make a positive impact on your subordinate's lives. It can also matter to people how you make your money (fuck lawsuits).

That's a brazen statement. How can you assume that everyone makes tons of money?

Also, where did I say that we shouldn't do something useful with our money? If you make more as a manager, that would open up an opportunity to make more of an impact.

In my experience, less managers just means pushing management duties down to people who have neither the title, nor the compensation, nor the training.
I had a similar experience on a long flight. I figured I'd avoid caffeine so I could sleep better, but I just woke up a few hours into the flight with a bad headache. Headed back to the galley to get some coffee, then slept halfway well.
> It's Facebook. You already know they use hundreds of sources of information to track and categorise people. Zuckerberg and CNBC just mentioned two.

To be fair I once interviewed at Facebook and to my surprise the CV the recruiter pulled was one I’d applied with three years ago, so the system isn’t all that foolproof.
One thing we've run into is that for older products, if you sort by New vs. Popular, the reviews can be a wildly different experience. Frequently we're seeing quality in the older reviews, and more and more complaints in the last year or so.

They don't build them like they used to? I want to say something about kids getting off my lawn right about now.

So, not that a handful of responses are much to go on yet, but as I write this, the sentiment is that avoiding Amazon is the solution, rather than navigating its murky waters. Food for thought. Thanks.
TLDR cost savings for the company
Well SWEs are plain old labor and they’re compensated as such because big tech (and startups) recognize the value provided by productive SWEs. They wouldn’t be paying those astronomical wages unless the returns were about as high. I don’t think anyone is rationalizing that it’s not labor; it’s well compensated labor. The current high compensation was driven by the market: senior engineers get poached by startups with similar base pay but higher equity, so FAANGs raced to match that. Keep in mind that some of the FAANGs themselves were startups not that long ago and used similar tactics to poach labor from other firms.

To address what you’re really getting at though: tech comp could absolutely take a hit if there is depression that hollows out demand for technology based products. It could happen if the unemployment persists for too long or if the Government stops providing Unemployment benefits. Remains to be seen.
The top end afaik is the Cisco telepresence gear used in eg the White House. There’s a spectrum in between, but $280 is definitely near the lower end. Maybe portal is really good, though?

But honestly, it could be the best teleconferencing gear, I’d never put a camera from FB in my home.
The new model media star is only famous to you
I'm not aware about other similar tools. But I'll be soon porting and submitting on Chrome as well.
You can even rent a trailer in the Seattle area and hire lawyers to explain you how to game these rules in the most legal way. When 500k/year are at stake, employees will be very creative (and, afaik, they are hired precisely for their creativity and outstanding intelligence).
Ideally, anywhere in western Europe.

But I'd be happy just to leave Brazil. I hate this country.

People like me are so common that they even have a name here: vira-lata.
Thank you for the explanation, I was wondering how that worked. How does it work if you then later add a fifth 4TB drive?

Anyway, I guess in this sense you could do something similar with ZFS, create a bunch of 1TB partitions and then make vdevs (slice) across a set of partitions on each drive.

Not sure if it's a good idea or not though. I do know you supposedly lose some performance when handing ZFS a partition rather than the whole drive, but maybe there's something else I can't think of right now.
Most shops are just resellers but System76 and Purism do firmware and software attainment and development for some of their hardware. In that case you are paying to support the industry by buying a computer with comprehensive whole stack software support rather than it just being one of the lucky off the shelf OEM makes without major bugs.
There seems to be a list of available dictionaries at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/language-tools/
Unsustainable for who? Baby boomers will be just fine as they retire in luxury off the productivity of their children. What kind of policy would help? How about anything that rewards labor (what potential parent aged people have) instead of a stream of constant rewards and protections for asset bearers.

Even in the last month, $1200 for laborers, a magnitude greater for investors who have seen an almost full recovery of their stock prices. Now Powell is talking about the mortgage market, is he going to intervene to make sure housing values don’t decline?
They are relatively big buildings. Kids go there and receive lessons in different subjects( stuff like Math, History, Geography, etc) from dedicated personal(known as teachers), it is OK I guess. The bad thing is that there is no pledge of allegiance ceremony, you cannot pick your curriculum and you HAVE to vaccinate your kids, but not everything can be good.
A good way to combat this is to focus the conversation on solving the business problem and less on the technical solution.
Pinterest is somehow getting its tentacles beyond image search now, too. I was recently researching interior paint colours and if I do a search like "interior colours dark walls" (NOT image search) then of the first 10 results there are 3(!!) Pinterest results from three different domains - .com, .co.nz and .co.uk (I'm sure your results will differ based on your region).

It's incredible to me that Google isn't doing SOMETHING to prevent Pinterest from duking their results, and actually seems to be losing ground to Pinterest's SEO dark patterns.

Of the remaining 6 results on that page, 3 of them were low-quality articles with generic language about paint schemes and lots of images, ALL of which had those little Pinterest share badges on them. I don't know it for a fact, but I strongly suspect that these ubiquitous types of websites are either produced in Pinterest's own content mills or are paid for by Pinterest marketing teams.
Press release with a story attached will get picked up on the newswire.
Market rate is, in reality, a close enough proxy for COL. I'm happy to use the two concepts interchangeably. My point still stands.

Any firm that will provide an equal across-the-board wage, that's significantly below market rate in NYC/Bay Area, but significantly above market rate in low COL areas will eat your lunch, in terms of wage competitiveness among the latter group. They won't hire anyone from the former group - but just being in the bay area does not make you a better engineer.

You'll be stuck paying expensive people in high COL areas, that are doing the same work as cheap people in lower COL areas.
Though I haven't used it, this seems to do something similar: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...
Yep, never used one myself for that reason. I saw a lot of praise for it from Pokémon Go players though :)
To further back this up with some math - L2 cache hits (what you'll hit on a L1D cache miss caused by clearing L1D cache) - are still in the mid/low single digit nanosecond ranges[1]. Say flushing the L1D causes another 1000 L2 cache misses[2] - maybe we got really lucky and the next thread was hashing all the exact same data at the exact same time or something equally unlikely? That'd still put us in the mid/low single digit microseconds range. On par with DDR4-1600 (12.8GB/s)'s 3.75us to read 48KB [3][4]. Let's more than double that and say it takes 10 microseconds = 0.01 milliseconds = 0.01% of 100 milliseconds.

Any noticable perf overhead is going to be from the act of cache flushing taking some super slow path for some reason, or much more frequent context switching than 100ms timeslices.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/4087331

[2] 1000x 32-128B cachelines = 32-128KB, definitely in the ballpark to completely refill a 48KB L1D cache.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR4_SDRAM#Modules

[4] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=48KB+%2F+12800+MB%2Fs
I am specifically discussing about comparing net price, nothing to do with price margin though.
My house is not an office. It will never be one. It is my home if they pay, they will decide what to do with it.
Confused why remote location matters for pay (from a tax/legal standpoint, I understand it from a cost of living standpoint).

I work for a company that has remote workers all in different states across the US and they (developers) are all on one shared pay scale without different pays per location and they just pay state taxes in whatever state they choose to live in.
I'm not into the exact details of it. Needless to say I got dinged on it from my own company due to traveling (for the company) into the state and had a chat with HR about it and it was explained out to me what was going on.

My guess is that for certain companies following the letter of the law is more important than others and report as they should. The state of NY may or may not bother coming after any company or individual they can prove had people in the area working in some capacity. In most cases I'm guessing it's not worth the bother but for large companies (like Facebook) it may be. So they want to know where their people are working from because it has tax implications that they may be on the hook for.
I'm European but live in Paraguay, my wife is from here. I always work remotely, that is, when I find a job. I would like to life in northern Brasil and my wife wants to live in the US. But we very likely stay where we are as it is much more important with whom you stay than where, and we both would miss my wife's family a lot.
Not everyone's body works the same way.
Depends on the brand. Decaf with 0% caffeine does exist.
This sounds great but I wonder how much of that was employer's discretion? I imagine your work was that valuable but perhaps a less productive engineer might get a different "package".

Regardless of the rational and pragmatic reasons behind salary adjustments for cost of location adjustments, a double digit X% cut would be very demotivating for most people psychologically.
Damn, they want $1500 for a Core i7 7500U? You can get a laptop with a Ryzen 4800 HS for the same price. It's not particularly clear to me what you're getting versus a $600 computer with equivalent specs running Tails or something.
i would wager most would rank the worst homeless population in the country in terms of rampant drug abuse and severe mental illness an unqualified negative
Flattening the curve to preserve hospital beds, ,at least in the US, only really applied to NYC and northern New Jersey. Nowhere else in the country ever even came close to overwhelming the hospitals. If NJ and NYC had shut down public transportation the curve wouldn’t have been so bad - hotspots map 1:1 with subway and train stops.

40% of US counties haven’t had a single COVID death. Most hospitals are so under utilized they are losing money.
I'm only in Melbourne because the jobs are here. There's not much I particularly like about it, and I don't think I'll ever be able to afford a house. I'd prefer to live somewhere prettier and cheaper. Maybe in Queensland or Tasmania.
You'll only find in NL, and even then, it's only (priced) for tourists. You have to accept that most facets of life aren't quite as convenient as in the states — but most European's hold that as a positive, not negative. Life is more authentic.