skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think Facebook should adjust pay of workers who move to less remote areas based on the area. Why compensate differently for the same value creation? If they do go this route, I hope they make it so that remote works still come out ahead (on net savings) of the big office sites. The cynic in me views this as a purposeful policy choice to PREVENT most people from taking on the new remote work allowance. In other words, this may just be a free PR splash to show they're onboard with the trend.

> Among the advantages of a dispersed workforce, Mr. Zuckerberg said, is that it will enable more demographic and ideological diversity if recruits aren’t required to work in tech strongholds like the San Francisco Bay Area.

This is of critical importance in tech, especially with companies that control the digital public square such as Facebook or Twitter. Allowing employees to live in different political climates, near family, in different lifestyles (more rural), etc. is badly needed. Otherwise, the world's digital public squares fall victim to the ideological monocultures of San Francisco and Seattle.
They could though. Data storage is cheap and consumers can't generate enough fluff to cause an overflow. They probably don't for 95% of internet traffic. It's the outliers that get the most scrutiny.
it used to be really bad, that's super true.

nowadays? it's actually quite simple to setup and works pretty well (source: i know two different companies that setup clustering recently and both had good experiences with no downtime).
To an American, that sounds completely clueless. The soldier is likely a neighbor (who isn't going to shoot); there's no way to isolate part of the country from any other part (excellent secondary roads); they're outnumbered 1000 to 1 in any case.
> Residents and the public would pay for parking in an underground garage, which would help finance the project, as would rent from a small grocery store.

Mixed use is gonna need a lot more parking.

> After a year of negotiations with the city, Hitzke agreed to shrink the Pearl to 10 apartments and make it free for the public to park in the 53-space garage.

Unclear if the grocery store is still there at this point, but now it's a free public garage, not just residents.

This isn't a story of parking minimums, this is a story of a small town being picky about the type of development permitted.
That's really good to hear. I have a feeling my Mum will end up being unable to use a touchscreen, so the advances in voice control (presuming she keeps all her marbles) will be a godsend.
The barb mechanic would be cool if it weren't for the fact that it's nigh impossible to catch the scouts due to movement and terrain mechanics.
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Perhaps more accurately, they were of two minds about mob rule.

Jefferson believed in the idealized "happy yeoman farmer;" that common people, allowed to seek their own fate, would make a better government. Virtue (as a quasi-religious concept) dwelt in the heart of the aggregate public.

Adams believed in significant risks letting an uneducated mass of people determine their own fate. He didn't have to dig too far into the history books to find examples of why a government given over to the people tended to devolve into rule by a strongman. Government of a virtuous people demanded an elite who would be dedicated to the cause and educated to do it right.

The government built from people in these two camps of thought was a compromise government intended to tame the catastrophic risk-factors of the excesses of both scenarios.
Is due process required when someone points a gun at the police? Charges them with a knife? Tries to run them over?

I watch 2-3 new police bodycam videos per day thanks to some neat Youtube channels (Police Activity and Real World Police). I've seen maybe one or two shootings on those channels that were clearly wrong, out of hundreds that were justified or a reasonable person could find to be justified.

Wondering if there's a database of police shootings that includes more information about the circumstances of the encounter.
I don't think it is an issue of complexity since in both text and graphics you can encapsulate parts into a hierarchy of sub-blocks. Having to break things up from a single level into little pieces because of the screen size and letter/A4 paper is the problem.

In the 1970s and 1980s I did many projects with huge schematics that you would spread out on large tables and focus on details while seeing the whole thing at the same time. It is an experience that can't be captured at all by a series of small pages, each with one to four boxes and lots of dangling labeled wires going to the other sheets. At that point you might as well just have a textual netlist, which made structural VHDL/Verilog become popular replacements for schematics.

Perhaps VR/AR will bring back visual hardware design?
They say in the article that “In all likelihood, they probably don’t miss humans per se. They probably miss a free meal and the routine.” and “When it’s not happening, maybe it’s just out of boredom.”

Which actually seems more plausible to me than food motivation. Dolphins are one of the most intelligent, social, and oftentimes pointlessly cruel animals we know of. All this points to an animal with a cognitive level capable of having been interested in humans and now being bored due to their absence. And in that boredom, having not much better to do with their time than go looking for “gifts”. It’s also possible they’re just motivated by the food of course, but ultimately I feel like a Dolphin’s mental complexity is high enough that it’s hard for us to say exactly what motivates them in complex situations.
Depends on how frugally you live. If you are young and ok with room-mates. You'll save more money with the higher cost of living in SF than other areas.
This seems to be the right product for loads of systems. I haven't seen much take up though.
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Deadlock. This comment thread won’t go anywhere.
Ignoring the 'morality' of it (there isn't any, its just business), reducing pay would be difficult if there is any employment contract?
> JPEG being referred to as a "most compatible" rather than by name in the settings.

The settings do explicitly mention JPEG though:

> Most Compatible will always use JPEG/H.264...
Like moderator jury duty?
ive never heard the name sakora before. genuine question -- just curious how/why you've come across their writing, when it seems the claim is that they are some kind of quack?
I don't disagree that incidentally involving a business in a community's activities benefits ('does work for') the business. But that doesn't mean that the business absorbs all the value a priori and the community no longer gets any value.

I'm sorry I wasn't clear, this point is not directed at friendlybus, but to the general sentiment upthread (e.g. ramphastidae) that seems to assume that because reddit is benefiting from the existence of the community therefore the community cannot benefit from the existence of reddit. The underlying reason why is because individuals benefit from the community.
I'd say that's true within a country, but not between countries, due to the difficulty of moving across borders.
One big issue is that more experienced employees will be the ones to choose work-from-home as their default, while the newer employees seeking to learn the ropes will opt to come to the office.

Perhaps a solution is to somehow formalize some of these implicit knowledge transfer mechanisms in the workplace. Explicitly assign mentors to new employees, etc.. But I just don't see how it could possibly compare to a normal working environment if I have to do it all from home.

Some other complications:

> A lot of the benefit of in-person work is asymmetric (I benefit more from casual conversations with my manager than he does).

> I learn a lot by observing my coworkers interact. Remote work makes this very difficult, because it's not really possible to "overhear" workplace conversations, or to casually drop in on water-cooler chat. It's also not really possible to have brief side conversations in a team-wide zoom call, which is one valuable aspect of in-person communication.

> New grads tend to live in small apartments rather than a house in the suburbs with a spacious home office. I started my first full-time job remotely this week and I'm working from my dining table. Since school is out, I can hear my upstairs neighbors' children playing throughout most of the work day.
For a lot of people, especially in this industry, the bulk of the social interaction they get is through coworkers. Wouldn't be surprised if permeant working from home exacerbates feelings of loneliness and other mental health issues.
Serves them right, not so much "so long and thanks for all the fish" now, huh?
From their point of view, there is no need for "reunification", as Taiwan is simply a rogue province that will eventually be forced back into line.
If you look at hacker news however, a lot of nonsense makes it to the front page. One word titles, clickbait, old links to wikipedia articles, submarine advertising, something no one has heard of announcing a new version, something few care about announcing they are shutting down, a point release of rust, a program that is only relevant because it was written in a certain language, pointless, trivial side projects that only seem relevant to people unaware of the the same idea being done before, etc.

I think a lot of that wouldn't make up such a giant part of the site if there were downvotes on stories.
The point stands. Nasdaq is near all time highs in what is supposed to be a major economic contraction.

Amazon and FB both hit All Time Highs post-lockdown. Others are either near ATH or surpassed it as well.
Some libertarians are presumably also in support of "you spent money buying land and a house in an area with full awareness of a specific framework of zoning laws and those laws should not be changed without good cause and due process". (Libertarians are not necessarily and are often not anarchists.)
So do we know yet why iOS wasn't auto-converting the HEIC images? Is it because they didn't use mime types in the `accept` attribute?
They have computer software for Windows & Mac so you can connect your calculator to your computer and write code like that, but it is a pain to set up.
But I believe that’s what .net serialisers currently use.
A thorough reading of history shows that violent uprisings are de facto _what_ is effective, and certainly in post-industrial modern times. Empires cede control of territory when they become too expensive to maintain. Usually, that is in terms of violence, which threatens mercantile stability and integrability.

Unfortunately, the violence and instability that often accompanies secession doesn't always end up resulting in prosperity after independence. That is because violent or not, uprisings do not necessarily upset the power balance between the colonizer and the colonized. Some say the alphabet agencies that form the worldwide practice of SIGINT operate on this inertia -- well, I don't want to speculate about what I don't know about, but I think that at least my own country's declassified documents are telling. The USA has had a hand in kingmaking much of LatAm and the Middle East. Historically, I think this kind of proxying only ends when the empire itself shrivels.
I believe what they meant to say was offshoring, not outsourcing.
It's n=1, but the nineteen-year-old in my house genuinely enjoyed these heroes, especially the racial and gender diversity. It's the first comic book they expressed interest in after we showed them the initial summary.

I kinda find this awesome, and I'm glad that, now in my thirties, teenaged superheroes are finally being designed that make me feel old.
This should definitely be done, but a caveat against assuming this is a blanket solution: I have plenty of friends in the theater industry who mostly make money as non-employee contract/gig workers. But 2 of these friends also had some minimal part-time work last year where they made under $1000. Because they had a W-2 last year, they are disqualified from getting unemployment based on their contract work, even though their contract work represents 95% of their income. The amount of unemployment you get is based on the amount of money you made at your last job or over the last few quarters. Which means they’re getting almost nothing in unemployment benefits. To make matters worse, the website clearly just shoehorned in the corona-related changes and the application process is extremely confusing for someone in their situation. Even walking them through the process over screen share, as someone who has applied for unemployment benefits twice in the past, I couldn’t really figure out exactly how to answer some of the questions. So there are definitely people getting screwed on unemployment, even if it is working out well for the majority.
Is it any different from say a kg of rice, will feed the same still would cost diff in a village of Vietnam then Whole Foods in silicon valley. Price is by demand / supply.
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> Because what I'm saying is objectively true: physical colocation with your coworkers is inherently easier to work with than working remotely and no one in their right mind disputes that.

There are countless examples of companies large and small who have found massive amounts of success switching to a remote based methodology. Saying that this is objectively wrong and that these folks are not in "their right mind" makes your argument, that could otherwise be valid, look foolish.

It largely depends on what kind of work you're doing. For software development, I could just as easily claim that it is objectively true that asynchronous communication and a freedom from non-technical people tapping you on the shoulder 10 times a day is objectively easier.

> Why aren't there just as many (or more) articles about making WFO (Working From Office)

Because that blog (or more likely book) has already been written and re-written for the past 100 years. WFH is a somewhat new phenomenon in the age of modern internet and broadband.
It's the cartoon proportions applied to everything.
This is already the case, regardless of WFH. Managers are blatantly told that they could either hire one engineer in US or 4 in India.

The variation won’t be as dramatic within a region but it’ll be there.
> nothing like 1918

It's not over.
> Maybe we don't bother mentioning these very obvious historical circumstances.
Instead, we can talk about what technological solutions exist already, or could exist in the near term, which would obviate these institutions of oppression.

These have never been solely technical problems, but political, moral, and organizational ones. States can simply make use or development of any technology illegal and bring the full force of its monopoly on violence to bear on those who run afoul of it. That has to be countered outside of just building things.

Ignoring history doesn’t make its lessons irrelevant.
When I was growing up in the eighties in The Netherlands, the US as it was thought to us in class and as we experienced it through its strong cultural influence, was certainly something to aspire to.

Of course, back then there was an obvious common enemy to point at, and the help the US provided to our country during and after WWII was still kind of fresh in the collective memory.
What can't be discounted besides the usual suspects of bad zoning, high cost of land etc. is construction costs. Basically an area gets so expensive that it prices out construction workers and their families. This is being seen in the bay area now as a typical single family home goes for over 1M in the pennisula/SF/South Bay area. Go farther out to the east bay, far south bay(gilroy etc) and prices are still 700/800k+. The need for housing is so great but also it is a vicious feedback loop of ever increasing construction costs to build this housing. For LA/San Diego area it is rather large so more affordable housing can be found but overall it is still extremely expensive compared to the rest of America.
Even today z/OS has a lot of "exits" that are, literally, addresses in system binaries where you can place address to your own routine (which is linked directly to the OS) which will get called if system does a certain action.

Anyone who spent more time with emulating MVS (and possibly with weird accent emulating z/OS ;) ) probably encountered things like the assembly routine that you can link into every MVS version since 3.8 (all the way to recent z/OS) which hijacks tape mount requests before they are sent to operator, enabling you to connect whatever kind of tape-switching you want - in this case, doing special Hercules magic to change the tape image based on one of the parameters.
> 90% of a member of the public's interaction with the police is a policeman exceeding their authority, not being interested in helping with a problem, etc

What complicates matters even more is that the interaction usually involves fear at least on one side. In a peaceful society, a regular citizen doesn't interact with police officers day to day. If you capture the attention of an officer, it usually means either something bad happened to you, or you're suspected of doing something wrong - both of which put you in a "fight or flight" state. I suspect that the most common interaction between a westerner and a police officer involves said citizen breaking traffic rules, which is a pretty antagonistic situation from the start.
I'd speculate that the market for people who want or need an enterprise license but are willing to mess with grey market risks is actually pretty small?
Timezones matter. There's large benefits in having an entire team in the same timezone.

If you've ever tried scheduling a call between India, East Coast US, Europe, and West Coast US...you've dealt with the fact that there's only a few hours a day such a call can occur, greatly limiting the ability to schedule last minute meetings.
Civ 1 & 2 also had this problem. Civ's 3, 4 & 5 added some mechanisms to discourage a wide play style. Civ 6 has some of these mechanisms but they aren't as effective as they previously were.
So only 0.5% of America's population is advocating for reopening America on Twitter as opposed to the 1% that is for keeping it closed?
Nor will the Chinese attack Taiwan, because Taiwan is supported by a nuclear power.
Sure, this one provides the data though.
My original comment said I doubted it was used as a primary means of identification. I have no doubt that they use it as a second factor, but using it as the only factor (ie. based on a face scan alone, determining who to bill) is doubtful.
I've never had a software engineering position in the US that had a contract. For me it's always been we'll pay you X, we reserve the right to change X at any time for any/no reason, there might be bonuses but who can say, and we can fire you without notice at any time for any/no reason.
Rule of least astonishment would be that the file is converted unless the accept header lists the heif file. At least by the expectations Apple set up, which don’t match up with standards.
> Is this the start of the end of Silicon Valley

Highly unlikely, there's still a lot of value in face-to-face meetings.
> These failing systems were probably contracted to a politically connected company that subcontracted to lowest bidder.

And what if that government body established a policy that all contractors had to be certified engineers who hadn't lost their certification due to past negligence? Suddenly there's a much higher floor for "lowest bidder".
You’re comparing a human being to a commodity like rice. Unbelievable.
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YouTube is one of the largest disseminators of information in the world. No amount of small replacements with an existing audience of gullible fools can make up for the loss of audience of hundreds of millions of not-yet-introduced-to-this-garbage victims.
I don’t know why this opinion is so widespread. The only reason why salaries are so high in the Bay Area is because of the high cost of living. If companies didn’t factor COL into salaries, it’s likely that they’d be lower across the board.

In fact, developers everywhere benefit from the high salaries of the Bay Area, as it sets the general expectation for the profession.
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This is my question, too. Surely there are flexible people who move to the area with the shortest waitlist.
> If not governmental, maybe an organization around this could be made by developers themselves.

These exist. The ACM and IEEE CS are best-known, but there are also various national bodies (ACS in Australia, BCS in the UK etc).

> Not the "certified for $technology" certifications we have now, but a certification of fundamental software engineering skills and principles.

The IEEE Computer Society has such a thing, maintained in various forms since about 2002[0]. The ACM and IEEE CS also publish a software engineering curriculum that they are prepared to recognise[1]. They also have a jointly-published Code of Ethics[2].

I sincerely agree with you that our profession is mostly a disaster area. But one thing other professions have that we lack is (1) fairly worked-out fundamental theoretical bases, or at least long experience to draw on, and (2) legal enforcement of standards.

[0] https://www.computer.org/education/certifications

[1] https://www.acm.org/education/curricula-recommendations

[2] https://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/software-engineering-c...
It makes a lot more sense when you realize the entire "environmental movement" arose as the justifiable/defensible workaround for the Fair Housing Act in 1968: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=environmentali...

e: I can't get the direct link to work properly, but press the blue "Search lots of books" button and it will work.
Still not sure I follow. If I make a payment on a credit card, it shows up as a transaction from asset checking account to the liability credit card. It shows up on both accounts already. When I later import OFX transaction files, it sees the payment in the OFX and matches it up to the existing transaction: https://lists.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-guide/importing-fro...

Apparently not all import assistants do this for some reason.
Thanks for the detailed response (and to everyone else who responded too!), I appreciate it! I will prototype something and play around and see how it handles different situations when I get time. I've also just bought the book mentioned elsewhere, so hopefully I can get up to speed quickly. It does sound that my original impression about it being complex to run/maintain was perhaps overblown. That's good, because from a features point of view, RabbitMQ seemed like a good fit for the things I want an MQ solution for.
> What's your alternative, perpetual appeasement and turning a blind eye to everything they do?

Are you presenting a dichotomy where our only options are war (likely to be nuclear) or appeasement and turning a blind eye?