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I have a good example of this.

Right before all of this I went to Austin to sit in a room with people from that office for a day for us to figure out how we want to continue using a service internally. We could have done it over zoom, but I'm 100% sure we would have been a lot less effective.

Zoom looses the ability for people to just argue and hash stuff out. There is less back and forth. IT's not the same
I faced this decision about 2.5 years ago; I had a remote job for which I could work anywhere, and I had just separated from my wife so I needed to move. I chose Gent, Belgium, and I haven't regretted that decision for a moment. The city itself is beautiful and an absolute joy to walk or bike around in, the people are all very friendly and welcoming, and, being a university city, most people you meet are intelligent and well-educated. I strongly recommend it to anybody who's looking to escape from the madhouse that is the United States these days.
> How come some config goes in /etc/sysctl.conf, and some goes in /boot/loader.conf?

As cperciva notes, sysctl.conf is read by userland during rc(8) "multiuser" boot. loader.conf is used by the bootloader to set tunables (knobs that can only be changed at boot time), load kernel modules early, and configure other bootloader settings.

Some sysctls are also tunables; for backwards compatibility or in case it is useful for the value to be set during boot before userspace runs.

> Is there a systematic way to know what config goes in a syctl-style file, and what goes in a rc-style file (via sysrc)?

Sure:

loader.conf: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=loader.conf

rc.conf: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.conf

sysctl.conf: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl.conf
This is specifically allowed in the Linux kernel coding style guidelines as well FWIW:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.h...
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There was some confusion about that a little while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21111662
Its different if you are 20s and single vs having a partner with a regular job and children in a good school district. For the latter there really aren't that many good locations around the world. Most of those places already have high house prices. Will be nice to have a summer house though to spend a big chunk of the year.
Pretty insane, as if people were not doing same job regardless of where they choose to live. I understand you must offer competitive salary based on location when hiring for on site job, since workers and company is fighting against local competition, but at WFH you are literally fighting with everyone everywhere, so the salary should be fixed for everyone instead punishing more frugal people who choose to live in cheaper location.
This is not a valid analogy. There are two decisions

1. Do I pay the price asked?

If I'm in Idaho and I want coffee and they are asking for Bay Area Starbucks prices the answer is "Yes." But that's because I'm used to it, and its not the point. The question is:

2. If the store buys a machine that decreases their costs by 20% am I entitled to demand a lower price?

No.
> Would NYT dedicate the front page to Iraqis?

Of course, if it aligned with their political agenda. But the NYT was behind the propaganda to start the illegal iraq war, so I doubt that.
Hualien, Taiwan. That said, since cannabis has become legal where I live, moving to a place where it isn't has lost a bit of appeal. Of course, this is just a thought experiment because of the state of the world at the moment.
I'd probably move back to my old home town. Most of my and my wife's family lives there, the community is amazing, and it's approximately 1/5 the cost of living of where I currently am (where I relocated for work).
"Busyness"

I thought to myself: "what if that was the etymology of the word, how ironic".

https://www.google.com/search?q=etymology+business

Oh wow.
This is nonsense.

There is no "Seattle org chart." A given office may have a lead, but only small percentage of people in the office will report to the lead. In some cases the lead isn't even a manager.

Personally, across four teams and six managers, only one has been a non-citizen and he was a permanent resident from an anglosphere country. Looking around, pick a random manager and you'll probably find a white guy from the US.
I don't think you hit a nerve; your post is not only confusing, but it seems wrong.

> Is it not pure speculation to assume that the world was present before living beings inhabited it?

You need to carefully define terms here. What do you mean by "world," what do you mean by "living beings," and what do you mean by "inhabited." In any case, the answer to the question you pose is almost certainly answerable in the negative.

> But strong questions about ontological declarations of life from purely physicalist material speculative histories are not only hard to answer, they assume more than they reveal.

I'm not a materialist, but this isn't correct. In fact, a major criticism of physicalism is that it's too reductive -- not that it has no explanatory power. It has a lot of it; that's partly why most professional philosophers are materialists.
It's the modern technological economy that produces the political culture of SF rather than the other way around. Marx' idiom of "all that is solid melts into air" is relevant here, tech and the modern urban economy aren't liberal by accident. They're liberal because technology and the logic of economic development itself erodes barriers.

The political and economic divide isn't some artefact that happened by accident and when all the tech people bring their capital and tech to conservative regions they'll see the light and become god fearing Christians, it's the regions that will undergo the same cultural change as any other region absorbed into the modern economy.
Zuck can do whatever he thinks is “fair” but ultimately he has to deal with the realities of the labor market, which will change if remote works really catches on.
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A lot of people consider Elon Musk to be a jerk, and it would be a huge shame if he’s removed from his company. In most contexts what you said is 100% correct.
I only just noticed your reply, sorry for the late answer. I agree with your variation. Work can certainly be enjoyable!

> I'll reread a few times

Me too! I'm glad to hear my comment sparked something helpful :)
They claim up to 17.6 hours in tech specs. Did you check your workflow with Windows? 4-6 hours is nice, but if you could get full work day with Windows, it doesn't look that impressive.
v1.2 is out! many fixes and improvements ^^
You seem to be mistaking a manager as not part of “the team”. If you have a direct supervisor who over-admonishes engineers for their mistakes they violate point #2 more blatantly than any engineer could.
You can think of those fees as a substitute for the front-of-house: waiters, laundry, dishes and real-estate.

A restaurant typically hires twice more waiters than cooks, as equivalent (minimal) wages. Real-estate is often a third of the overall costs and most of it is the front, i.e. tables not the kitchen.

Some intermediaries are genuinely nothing but advertising and restaurants have to organise deliveries themselves. But if you include delivery costs, I’m not sure 30% isn’t cheaper than dining in.
Thanks for sharing this! I just decommissioned an iPhone 7 and I think this is the perfect project for it.
I've done this before [1], many years ago. At the time, I had never heard of setjmp or longjmp. I understood task switching as 'push all registers onto the stack, change stacks, pop all registers off the stack', and so that's what I wrote for the task switching routines using gnu assembler. Making it pre-emptive was a matter of calling it periodically. I wasn't sure about timers either so I ended up hooking the timer interrupt handlers directly. You could use either irq0 timer or irq8 timer. I recall getting my dos boxes to 'multitask' inside windows by hooking irq8.

[1] - https://github.com/zenakuten/lwp20
hey we used to chat in #bitcoin-dev
This article fails to include how Airbnb really got their first users - creating several accounts and mass emailing all the landlords on Craigslist
A++ post, almost got me!
The lawsuits around this are going to be amazing. African American developer has kids and moves to Georgia to be near family; receives steep pay cut compared to white developers who move to Connecticut to do the same.

And how does Facebook decide what the cost of living in your area is, anyway? The more data-driven Facebook makes that calculation, the more delicious the law suit gets. For example, DC is a fairly high cost of living Metro area, but there are some nice suburbs in PG County 30-45 minutes east of the city that are quite affordable. They’re also predominantly African American. Does Facebook set your salary based on living in the DC metro area, or do they drill down further and cut your pay for living in PG County? I can’t wait to see what happens.
> As precedent, I cite the 1918 flu. In 1918 people were getting arrested for not wearing masks. The following decade was called "The Roaring '20s," and I don't presume it roared because of all the social distancing and masks. All of us reading were born later, and if we heard about the 1918 flu, maybe in a history class as I remember, most of us probably reacted with ... "what? what's so bad about a flu?"

You can't compare pandemics — nothing happens in a vacuum. It's 2020. The Spanish flu was shroud by WWI. The Roaring 20s was a post-war boom, meanwhile we haven't even fought the upcoming Sino war. Most haven't experienced such economic hardship in their lives. Globalisation was a pipe dream a century ago, it's now the backbone of every developed economy.
Yup I don't think the author meant that all life in the entire universe must be the same chirality, just that the bias would be widespread across the universe
It may not have been.

That said, your state and possibly your county/city probably need to be known due to nexus (state incorporation and tax issues) and personal taxes (potentially all locales).

I believe this is why FB says they will crack down hard on people who fudge this info — getting in trouble with the tax man could open a Pandora’s box.
@kaveh_h You can downvote all you want if it serves you as a distraction to avoid counting the money.

Maybe you can do one downvote for each dollar in the EU surplus with the US.
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I know its not a popular choice, but there's a real benefit as a tech person to actually being "socially compatible" with people you meet in everyday life.
Agreed, that bestplaces COLA calculator is bizarre. On one hand I think it's great that it breaks down relative costs by area - like you say, it's clear the difference in cost between Spokane and Seattle is almost entirely due to housing.

But then it fails to take into account the percentage of income that actually goes towards housing. If you make 200k and move to a place where the primary difference is housing costs (say 2x housing costs), the adjustment should be up to about 250k (assuming housing ~25% of income), not 400k.
If your method of motivating people is "severe ramifications" maybe it's time to chill for a while and go fishing.
Can you explain how someone is to hold the President accountable for an illegal act if it is committed in such a way where no citizen has standing to bring suit?

The way I understand it is that technically the fellow upthread is technically right in the eyes of the law; until a judge rules that something is illegal, it isn't. That's a staple of common law jurisprudence. Judges discover law. It is still possible even after the finding of illegality to continue to perpetuate the activity as well given that the legislature ends up too locked up to successfully convict the President for malfeasance, and there is still no means through which the sitting President's pardon power or executive discretion can be overcome.

And again, the lack of standing issue is also alarming in that... Well, maybe you can see something is clearly wrong, but if the wronged can't file a suit in their own defense, and no one else has standing...

I don't know, I feel like I fell off a wagon after reading that post. There's a vague sense of possible loophole there.
Clevo and Tongfang are the ODMs for most of these white label laptops. I assume minimum orders are in the hundreds if not thousands of units, which is the main reason not to buy direct. That and you’ll have no warranty or other support, have to do your own customs, etc etc.
> Living in Spokane doesn’t make your kids college cost less either.

It would depend on how much of a pay cut you experience moving to Spokane, but that can certainly make colleges with extensive need-based aid cheaper.
Sort of like nicotine. I don't think we would have made the transition to desk work as easily as we did without it. I'm pretty sure the US space program depended on it.
I suggest you to look at a 3-5 year old business models from trusted vendors (whoever you like, Dell, HP, etc) and check out their hardware and whether it's compatible with Linux. They usually have good enough build quality and unless there's some incompatible piece of hardware, things are likely to work.

There are mobile workstation lines with awesome hardware (like Xeon, ECC, Quadro) which support Linux officially. If you have extra money to spend, you might want to check them out as well. Every major brand has those. They usually are bulky and not that mobile, but they are powerful.
For those who don’t know, much of the fmt library interface has been standardized in C++20 as std::format. It’s a great library, and a very efficient alternative to ostream and friends.
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Yes, I know who Apollo is... that’s what makes it a pun
This description immediately called to mind Rear Window for me, which largely takes place in a single apartment and is widely considered a classic film.

But ironic pedantry aside, I do agree people need to get out. Even as a homebody I find myself getting grumpy if I don't get out for some sun and fresh air once in a while.
Nomad when pay is good and current location otherwise. I like to think of it the other way around, if I could work remote,where would I work?

Had to turn down jobs at tech companies in the past because they wanted relocation to popular tech cities.
I'd probably go back to Japan; possibly Fukuoka, Hokkaido or somewhere relatively close from Greater Tokyo, possibly the Shonan area (Kamakura/Zushi).

One of the reasons I came back to the UK was that work/life balance seems to be a bit more of the norm then it is in Japan. The nature over in Japan is really something else, though. Miss it almost everyday.
That’s interesting. Maybe it’s considered hyper correct?

Which style manual are you referring to?
that’s because doctors are retards. it’s safe. it’s an amino acid. it’s commonly mixed with caffeine. be your own doctor and look it up on examine.com
Given that the difference between cost of living between the most and least expensive places in the US is in the $40,000 range, and salary drops are occasionally upwards of double that, no, the scaling is not proportional.

For example, I live in Montana. Most COL adjustments say that I'd need about $40,000 more a year to maintain my current standard of living, yet equivalent positions get about $100k to $150k more a year. If one of those poor folks in SF making $250k a year now wants to move to Montana, they can easily expect to be making $150k or less after they move.
NYC, Chicago, or maybe some mega cities in Asia.
Why this being downvoted:

You need to use a process pool in Python, thread pools are for I/O bound tasks and cannot use more than 1 core.
Home office equipment is only a fraction of the company's potential savings from office rent or other operational costs. Some of those costs get passed on to the employee, like electricity or heating costs.
Here's a thought experiment. Let's say an employer is based out of downtown San Jose, and employs people on-site. Would it be reasonable for them to adjust salaries depending on what city an employee lived in? The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment is $3,291 in Mountain View, but $2,390 in Morgan Hill. If an employee moved from Mountain View to Morgan Hill, would the employer be justified in reducing the salary of the employee to adjust for the fact that the (on-site!) employee now lives in a lower cost-of-living area? (Let's assume that other CoL factors are not more expensive in Morgan Hill than Mountain View, which I feel is a safe assumption).

Would it be justified if the company was fully remote?

What about if the employee moved to Sunnyvale? The average rent is $3,016; a smaller difference, but still cheaper than Mountain View.
Not just housing. Food, child care, services, bars, etc., are significantly cheaper. My kid’s private school an hour east of DC costs 1/3 less than the going right inside DC. Daycare is 30% cheaper. A cocktail is somewhat more than half the price.
From the WSJ article that fact is sourced from: "A vaccine was developed relatively quickly—researchers had learned from the other two 20th-century influenza pandemics, the Spanish Flu of 1918 and the Asian flu of 1957—but wasn’t widely available before the disease had reached its second peak in most countries." So basically, there was a vaccine much faster than we could expect one for this coronavirus, but it was still too late to help much. (See https://archive.is/5pYqk for the full text of the article, which is quite interesting.)
Wonder how that pays off for them in terms of hiring. Last time I was looking for a job, I put them near the bottom of my list because of the location-based scaling.
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I have some Associate certs, but I wasn't privy to the Apollo tool.
Atlanta, GA or Raleigh, NC. I like the climate and trees in the American Southeast. Also, house prices are very reasonable while enjoying the amenities of big cities.
Entitlement has nothing to do with it. If there is a machine that lowers the costs of production by 20% the price will drop, because there's now an opportunity for competition to drive down the cost of coffee. That's how things become more affordable in a market economy.

And this is the actual point of the analogy. When people can suddenly work from locations that have lower costs of living, then the cost of labour drops, that is to say more people are willing to do the same work for lower wages than before. That means that firms can purchase that labour more cheaply.

Nobody is entitled to anything here, the price discrimination is simply the result of the market correctly allocating resources, and that's a good thing, because it really does not make much sense to hand surplus profits to starbucks or to tech workers.

One very simple reason why the latter is really bad, if a lot of tech workers suddenly sit in regions with lower costs of living their high salaries will rise the costs of living, creating a huge problem for all the people in the regional economy who don't work at Facebook.
I'm sure this question has been studied in a thesis or ten in the field of computational sociology (which I didn't know existed until I googled the term).

I think there are a number of ways to state this problem in terms of graphs and their transformations, that's usually the case when it comes to abstractions. I think the question more worth answering is the methods by which real world organizational and business problems/processes can be expressed as graphs and their transformations, and how to perform analysis of those graphs for given queries about their nature.

I know a few people who do this but not as a rigorous CS discipline, it's often called Industrial Organizational Psychology, Process Optimization, etc etc. Its a complex interdisciplinary field.
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Or better yet, what if they moved to Stockton? A 1-bedroom's $1200/month there, and it's still technically within commuting distance from the bay area.
Yes I read it. When it says biology, I don’t think it’s reasonable to substitute in genetics and retain the same sense.

Suppose that the tendency towards the narative fallacy is due to such fundamental architectural structures in our brain that they go back to our early mammal ancestors. If that is true, any genetic change sufficient to modify it materially would have to be so radical that we essentially wouldn’t have mammal brains anymore. We’re way beyond population genetics and incremental natural selection at that point. There’s no genetic study or engineering intervention we could possibly contemplate in our lifetimes that would be relevant.

So when I say genetics isn’t really an issue here it’s not because the behaviour isn’t genetically determined, it’s that it may be so strongly tied to huge, mutually interconnected tracts our our genome that it’s just not a useful level of abstraction for us at the moment.
I'll match your single sample of anecdata as a previous smoker from the midwest and occasional coffee drinker:

I never found nicotine addictive. It never compelled me to increase my consumption beyond a few cigarettes a day, usually in social settings. I never became a regular purchaser of cartons of cigarettes. It was purely a social activity as most my peers were smokers and participating in the smoke breaks was a huge part of socializing. But it never escalated beyond that, there was simply no draw and stopping cold-turkey was completely uneventful with zero physiological effects.

Coffee however, has such a profoundly stimulating effect on me, it completely derails my life for days after a lone day of consumption. It's a very on-vs-off modal existence, and if I fall into the on mode for more than a couple contiguous days, I begin craving it and actively seeking it out. And when I manage to finally resist those cravings, I end up going through ~three days of hangover-like withdrawal hell which if I'm not up for enduring will just push me back on the wagon to make it stop.

For me, coffee/caffeine is far more sinister and addictive than cigarettes.
yes, during hiring process for on site jobs based on local competition among employers and employees

if you are not competing locally, but with everyone everywhere salaries based on location become meaningless and only thing which counts should be productivity, why should be anyone having same productivity punished for being frugal instead wasting money?

by your logic they should go through your list of expenses, someone who prefer to buy Tesla over ford should get higher salary, someone who prefer to spend vacation in Europe instead of US should have higher salary, this is pretty insane discriminatory logic
Yeah - there’s that too. I need to run Windows in a VM anyways for some specialized tasks, so having the Windows license is useful.
What would your brilliant regulation entail? Forcing companies to publish software for free when their automated systems think it's malware?

Could you even summarize a piece of legislation that doesn't amount to "describe Google, then make everything that annoys us about Google illegal for companies fitting that description"?
Can Patroni tell if master node is not responsive because it is busy vs dead? GitHub (I believe) had few outages that caused data loss because their auto failover mechanism kicked in when it shouldn't.

I would actually be interested if aphyr's analysis of Patroni and other distributed add-ons to PostgreSQL.
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