skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
50k+ employee companies already work remote. They got dozens of offices all over the world, and bunch of projects I did for these large companies involved me coming in to an office so I can be on the call with people in different offices - which is pretty idiotic and can be just as effectively done from home.

And catered meals/snacks are not the norm there either - instead, you smelling microwaved fish Bob brought for lunch, plus Karen is babbling away about how her kid didn't get into the honors program. You don't have an office, you're sitting next to bunch of other people who keep talking, walking, watching funny Youtube videos. The best option is to come in late and work late so you have a somewhat distraction-free workplace to yourself - which again is pretty idiotic.

And the communication is not really that much harder, it's actually gets much easier and streamlined the more you WFH. You learn to focus on what matters, you learn to present your thoughts coherently and in an engaging manner as people need to understand you and listen to you even though they don't see you and no one even knows whether they are listening to you or not.
Here's an interesting quote from the verge version of the article

"We ran these surveys and asked people what they want to do. Twenty percent of our existing employees said that they were extremely or very interested in working remotely full time. And another 20 percent on top of that said that they were somewhat interested"

Another way to read this, is that 80% employees are not interested in remote. Companies doing this at large will probably realize that remote work is not popular as it made out to be.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/21/21265780/facebook-remote-...
The funny thing is that the tedious army of movement of Civs 5 & 6 are the result of countering the (controversially) tedious unit stacking mechanic of prior Civs. There ought to be some happy medium here, which I wonder if they're saving for Civ 7 (though they did clearly try to work there way towards that happy medium in 6 with the corps/army mechanic). Even just allowing Great Generals to stack units into "columns" for quick transport, and then deploy them at their destination (pseudo Endless Legend style) would be a massive improvement.
I'm trying to square this with the fact people pointed out downthread, which is that iPhones will automatically convert HEIC images to jpeg from an HTML input form. Perhaps it's the `isAllowedExtension` check? If `e.target.files` is the actual file names on disk (and not whatever temporary file the browser made out of the HEIC file), that would cause a problem.
Uh, is there any state with decent mass transit in the USA? Some of the cities have "passable" mass transit, but they're an exception imo. Nothing comes close to take-your-pick medium sized town in take-your-pick European country.
Former WWE wrestler Shad Gaspard who did the motion capture for Kratos has died
nice, could be very handy
> Which, if enough companies do it, means your salaries are at risk. Nobody cares that it’s expensive to live here, they only pay because they all insisted on in person offices. By going remote they can stop paying Bay Area rents and compensation levels.

There would be a transition period, probably on the order of years to even decades, before they would cease considering the cost of living in where their remote workers live. Hopefully by that time, rents in the Bay Area will have dipped as people slow moving in/start moving out because of flexible remote work situations.
> They are supposed to not be directly routeable to/from the public internet. They can be directly routable between non-public parts of the internet.

Sure, but this is different from a VPN. This would be untrusted code downloaded from a remote website talking to unrelated devices on my local network. Effectively, it would be the remote website having free reign inside my local network, with my web browser acting as a proxy (or as a trojan horse, with a bit of exaggeration).
How far does it need to scale? Times of two-tier apps are gone, middle tier has it's own pooling.
My employer is going to 2 days a week in-office for the technical staff because WFH has gone so well. Allows us to work and do some planning remotely and to get together to plan large projects so we can whiteboard effectively.
> Trying to police too much is likely why moderators get such a backlash when they employ heavy-handed tactics like outright bans.

This logic doesn't follow. If you don't police enough, then users have an expectation that anything goes. When you do decide to moderate behavior, you experience a backlash because you've changed stances.

If you moderate too much, then you get accused of being heavy-handed, fascistic or trampling over their free speech rights. When you're a moderator, there's often very little that you can do that won't generate backlash unless the user in question is so toxic that the community as a whole agrees they need to go.

Your idea of random promotions to mod status w/ limited mod terms is an incredibly bad idea as well, because the moment a bad faith actor gets promoted to mod your entire community will quickly go up in flames. Trust me, there are people that will pretend to be in good faith for months, years until it gets them a position of power just so they can burn it all down.
I'm not debating with you. I'm writing this for the occasional sane people coming across this thread who rely on facts and not on the fear of possibilities. For those, a question: if, as they say, the exponential growth is kept at bay by the drastic lock-downs, why haven't Sweden and Belarus die out completely yet? Or Russia, where, I can tell you for sure, most people recognize that this is a staged event to make the wealthy wealthier and the poor poorer and to impose modern slavery and technofascism? Where is that deadly exponential growth being bleated about so hard since January?
How would a person short such a position?
Usually, yes. With IBM on JES2, yes. But it also had JES3, which is probably the oldest Kubernetes-like software around which was specifically done to spread tasks across multiple mainframes. It wasn't very popular as most orgs found it much easier to buy more powerful mainframe.
> but they can hire smart developers anywhere in the world

Sure they can, but the Silicon Valley has an immense human capital in skills, talent and knowledge that you can't find easily in the rest of the world.
The type of complexity, the scale of the systems and the engineering culture that you can find in SF is not common around the world.
My experience as a developer in an European country is that it is really difficult to encounter engineers with a real experience in developing truly complex systems and companies with true engineering cultures. This is simply due to the fact that the majority of the companies that need that high quality of engineering and are willing/capable to pay for it are based in the Bay area, therefore creating an ecosystem that is unique in the world.
Of course there are a lot of exceptions, but I don't think the "they can hire smart developers anywhere in the world" is as easy at it may look.
Agree. Living in an urban core is a luxury good. Why should you be compensated extra for choosing to consume it?
No new house around me was sub 1500 sq ft... guess bigger is better. But all the other houses in the area built between 1950-1990 were all under that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23259159
The choice is there - check this box to opt out of organ donation on your drivers license renewal form.
> However, once they consider themselves as "curators" of information with near-monopoly status

They're already that. Youtwitgrambook's front-page and suggestion algorithms are forms of curation, specifically designed to maximize some form of engagement metric.

Their respective content policies are really just an attempt to correct the failings of algorithmic curation.
Ugh, as someone who took a number of AP exams back in the day, the idea of completing the entire exam and then having to redo it weeks later because of something like this is just painful. I think I agree with the sentiment that these students should be allowed to re-submit their existing answers, despite the obvious concern about cheating.
Mass transit exists but it's really bad -- e.g. Muni and BART and Caltrain in the San Francisco area. Constant delays, mechanical failures, and overcrowding.

Now that Coronavirus and social distancing are the new normal, I expect some of those transit systems to lose funding and perhaps even shut down.

I'm a huge fan of public transit and I'd love to see good transit systems exist in California, but I have no hope that it will happen.
> Truth is the answer to lies.

"A lie gets halfway around the world before truth puts on its boots" - not sure who actually said this

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
And my desperate attempts to become unbanned was met with paranoid skepticism and unfounded rebuttals. I had literally only posted one other time, showing off a meager 10 bottle collection. And somehow trying to help not only the community by sharing a discount code, not only starting a discussion about the aforementioned sauces, but also helping the struggling company. I didn't really see a problem with it. The community like the post and engaged, but somehow I was a first-offence marketing shill worth banning for life.
i think this is great, VC $ aside. my biggest issue with contributing to Riot or Matrix ecosystem from a Client UI perspective is (from what i remember) the weirdness of the Riot client being half separated into two repos. it makes the barrier to entry seem too high. my hope is that this investment can resolve these concerns
I am 100% on the side of the school. Unlike with JPEG, everybody who wants to work with HEIC should pay licence fees. Also, HEIC is like 50x more complex than JPEG.

I hope the world will never get to a point, where each phone brand stores photos in their own format, and you need a special software from the phone manufacturer to view the photos (that is what we have now with raw photography formats, and what we used to have in the past with phone chargers).
He has also been repeatedly caught abusing his moderator status to gain more karma. This works by suppressing, or outright deleting, posts made by other users before they can gain traction, and then immediately reposting their content with his own account. And he is by far not the only power mod who is using this tactic.
Personally, I tend to point to net immigration numbers when someone raises the question.
If only there was a technology that allows you to have face-to-face meetings remotely.
You're correct - I left out the word "universal" accidentally, which would have made my intent much more clear.

Thanks for catching that.
It happened around the time when people thought having one dude called a king telling everyone else what to do was a pretty efficient way to run things fairly. Unfortunately, the "enlightenment" never seemed to progress past a small group of landed oligarchs telling everyone else what to do because they were obviously so much smarter and better, we're certain, after all they had all the stuff.
If you didn't live in SF your roommates could be paying you rent...
To be fair, I started working post-2015, so I've actually never come face-to-face with a long running HTTP microservice backend... what would something like that even look like? I'm thinking of systems I've worked on that use a messaging queue, but that only rely on HTTP requests - is that what it would be? So like, I'd make a request to a microservice behind an endpoint, which in turn would make requests to 3 more microservices behind other endpoints? If so, I'm certainly glad that idea isn't cool anymore because that seems greatly inefficient :)
Different road types have different fatality rates. Per mile driven, generally motorways are the safest by a significant margin.

You would expect freeways to have disproportionally less traffic than other routes due to CORVID precautions.

So really the question is if fatality rates for different road types have changed.
Then you are not overpowering the US military but the US diplomacy and its softpower. Any direct war between nuclear powers will eventually end with the use of nuclear weapons unless one side stands down.
I think you're being a bit unfair to the unemployment systems: expected RPS is absolutely a design requirement when creating a large computer system. My entire job is easily described as "it's conceptually very easy, but it's really hard when you and a few million of your closest friends try to do it at once".

Unemployment systems typically don't see spikes like this, it's not terribly surprising that some didn't handle demand well outside of the expected range.
the pay increase is quite frequent and ubiquitous, so contracts are re negotiated, most employment contracts don't come with time limits.
I agree with this in some ways, but I could see how it could heavily skew local job markets against companies that can't match the FAANG salaries. Now, that's assuming that FB can hire enough people to shift local salaries like that.
http://flexboxgrid.com/

Is pretty good - similar to at least one version of bootstrap's grid, but just does the layout
Oh hey, I can answer this -- I work out to ease ADHD symptoms and live in a shitty wood-framed SF apartment. Using a kettlebell or any heavy object you can hold in your hands, you can do the following routine in near-silence first thing in the morning:

Goblet squat, deadlift, bent-over row, pushups, overhead press. It's reasonably comprehensive, takes less than 10 minutes, and involves enough exercise to keep me moderately sane all morning.
> Only if you consider the government responsible for the choices people make, which I do not.

But you are holding the government responsible for the choices people make. The choice not to donate (presumably) without compensation.
That's not how companies see it. They are not responding to high COL. They are responding to competition for talent from other companies.

Competition -> high pay

high pay + zoning rules -> high COL
A lot of people here are alluding to the fact that China is planning to invade Taiwan in a not so distant future. China wants to annex Taiwan, that's for sure, and I don't think they are trying too hard to conceal this intention. But military invasion means crossing a sea that is 130 km wide at its narrowest. Such an think can't happen if you don't own the sea and the skies. There are two ways to do that: you get a better Navy than the US Navy, or you get the US Navy to stay out of the way. The first one is all but impossible, while the second one is highly unlikely. The only realistic way for China to take over Taiwan is via a democratic process, by a charm offensive. This is many, many times more likely to happen than a military operation, but if it happens, then that's the will of the people.
After all the strict lock-downs every weekend, here in Istanbul. There are a ton of dolphins swimming in the Bosphorus straight. I've been told by locals there are normally not so many around.

I sit on the balcony each weekend and see dolphins swimming about every single day. Sometimes they're very close to land.

My theory is, they're around, due to drastically less boat traffic. Either way, they sure seem happy humans aren't around.
I think there are few true libertarians, and a whole lot more people who call themselves libertarians but instead subscribe to the 'rules for thee but not for me' mindset shared among many neoconservatives.
Productivity gains.

Global GDP per capita has exploded since 1950.
Surprisingly, multiple, different people in a public forum do not have single, unified opinion.

Unlike people acting on mandate given from above.

Your name calling the position you don't agree with does not help the calm and rational discussion.
Frankly I think the root cause of this is making technology so obfuscated in the name of making it easy that people are working with files who have no idea what a file format is. It's as if someone who did paperwork all day couldn't tell the difference between printer paper, construction paper, and plastic transparencies because they only ever encountered them in the appropriate contexts.
You can look at this in a couple of ways:

Forcing poor people to pay for parking makes their housing more expensive and is part of what is causing huge problems in California. When I lived in Austria, my wife and I lived in a place with no parking included, by choice. We found a public place about a kilometer away that was free. Kind of a hassle, but it was a good compromise for our finances back then.

The government choosing parking minimums is a huge market distortion and antithetical to the freedom of the market to provide a diversity of solutions. There are boatloads of houses in the US with huge 3 car garages. Give people the freedom to live with zero parking!
I really wish I'd bought one of those back when they were merely hard-to-justify-on-my-high-school-job-wages expensive rather than hard-to-justify-on-my-developer-salary-with-a-family expensive. Never imagined they'd appreciate faster than my disposable income did.
Thinking about my first job, and how I constantly needed to lean on my coworkers for help for the first month or two. In a work from home setting, where I'd need to instant message them, constantly requesting a video chat or whatever, I'd definitely feel like a burden (compared to just walking over to their desk and starting a conversation). This feeling of being a burden doesn't make a whole lot of sense logically... but human psychology does what it does.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/11/18/know-trouble/
The plank is a great silent exercise.
I've heard of real, major issues in USA where organizations that were willing to train someone from zero just could not get them over the fact that the terminal was block-based instead of character based...
Yup, at least one FANG pays more in SF than Seattle for the same job and same work.
Clearly needs to be solved and fast, and I have huge sympathy for those affected.

However to me the more interesting point is why anyone would want to submit a handwritten script when they could type it. Not to sound like an old foggey, but in my day the only people who got to type were dyslexic and it gave them a huge advantage (no doubt why so many parents were having their children tested). Even if you could write fast, why take the chance that your exam efforts could be rejected based on a marker not being able to read your writing. Add to that the ability to compose text far more easily when typing and for those with a modest amount of practice the dramatically faster rate of output and it seems really strange that everyone doesn't type them and they just avoid this problem entirely.
That's a fair point, although statistically the job of police officer doesn't crack the top 10 in most dangerous careers.
>I don’t believe they actually miss the tourists themselves. Tourists are merely delivery vehicles for food.

Sharing food between mammals generally leads to bonding. Like, all mammals.
Thank you for giving a real example. I appreciate that - it gives an opportunity to highlight a couple of aspects that people keep obliquely referring to.

1) This didn't end with him going to jail, right? Which is to say, the guy who was engaging in violent and destructive behavior was directed to medical care, rather than wrongly being deemed as case that was simply in need of punishment. That's a good outcome. Sick person breaks the law as a result of their ailment, gets identified as sick, and treated as sick rather than a criminal is kind of the ideal outcome, short of preventing their deterioration to begin with.

2) If he had gone to jail, it wouldn't have been because he went to a therapist and admitted to thoughts of self-harm. It would've been because of publicly engaging in acts of destruction.

"2" really is the part that leads to mentally ill people ending up in jail. My psych unit sees people with a history of jail time all the time - and it's almost inevitably due to possession of illicit drugs, loitering, petty theft, or snowballing offenses that they don't go to court for and handle like "responsible citizens." There's a real relationship between mental illness and jail, but it's not "we send people to jail for being depressed."

It's more like, "got a ticket, didn't go to court, ignored the follow-up letter from the county courthouse, ended up with a bench warrant, and if they weren't so depressed, probably would've just taken care of it all up front and never let it snowball." Or, "hated my meds, started self-medicating with weed and liquor, pissed off my housemates to the point that they called the cops, who found my weed stash." Etc.
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An earlier take-over is bound to happen unless the protests in Hong Kong manage to escalate to the national scale.

There will have been more public empathy in mainland for Hong Kong have people in Hong Kong in general been nicer to people visiting from mainland in the last 20 years instead of being so discriminative and unfriendly. And if there are more empathy, we will see protests as well as stronger public opinions among people in mainland favouring non interference in Hong Kong. And it will become an actual movement. And there will be actual changes. Let's not forget the protests in 1989 were started by mainland Chinese themselves and though it ended in the worst way possible it was not in vain. In many ways they had had positive impacts to the system and the overall human rights in China (though it still doesn't enjoy the same degrees of freedom as in the West).

People in Hong Kong as well as people in China should take this as a sociocultural lesson. If we want to change and improve the system, we need to unite. As much as the system is authoritarian the way the system works ultimately reflects how divided the people see themselves.
The city was given control of limited lands. The solution is to either be involved with the democracy of the city, or be outside of the city.
I'm very happy seeing this trend. I live in the midwest, away from the tech hubs so my options for work have always been very limited here. The standard advice is to move to one of the coasts to advance your career but I have friends and family here that I've known all my life. Abandoning those relationships for a job... I just can't do it, they mean too much to me. I would wager that there are many other talented people in this position that are seeing these opportunities open up to them.
You keep seeing this topic "come up in discussions" whose participants are not
"developers/coders/engineers". I wonder which demographic is discussing cloud
IDEs so frequently but don't use them. Product managers? Browser-based IDEs
like Jupyter and Monaco are anathema. And yet Googlers must use an in-house
cloud IDE for its hooks into their monorepo.
Not this one. If you wonder what's the minimum you need in addition to linux kernel to start some WM this a great distro to check.

It adds nothing to linux fragmentation.
I suspect as this scales within and across companies, "location fraud" will become common, where employees claim to live in a more expensive location in order to collect a higher salary. There's probably a b2b opportunity for a company to enforce honesty with respect to something like this.
From the article: "“Low-income people tend to own cars that are in disrepair and ride motorcycles adding to the noise of a ‘lights out at 8 p.m. community,’” Marylyn Rinaldi, a neighboring condominium owner, wrote in 2011 in a letter to the City Council that was later cited in a lawsuit over the project." Nimbyism at its finest.
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