skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm genuinely curious what economic perks have disappeared that were a significant part of people's income?

I consider free food a perk, but it is not income. I consider income to be monetary compensation. So I'm curious what kind of monetary compensation perks people had that disappeared.

Myself I am spending a lot less money than before when I had to drive into work everyday. I spent usually 70-90 minutes each day driving and the cost of fuel. For me it has been a net positive on the economic side for me working from home.

Do I miss free soda and snacks? Yep! I'll admit I'm starting to get tired of only eating food we prepare ourselves. So I'm looking forward to doing some more takeout in the future and hopefully actual sit-down dining at some point.
it seems that quotes is for India and China mostly. They are quite special since they account for most of applications.
I'm still on my master's, so I'm no expert in the subject yet. I did my bachelor's project on remote sensing of avalanches [1] and have worked with the Swedish EPA for the last year building a structured database of remotely detected avalanche activity.

This summer I'll do some work on data preparation for machine learning for the Norwegian equivalent, which will hopefully turn into a master's project.

I think it's a great industry, because there's lot of interesting tech that's relevant to work with (both SW and HW, mostly radio related stuff, but also infrasound and seismologic detectors), it's so small that you work internationally from the start, and the people working are ranging from mountain guides to database administrators.

[1]: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-74556
Cool! It's interesting!
After looking into it a bit it seems like a good resource, but a few tweaks would be handy:

- TLS would improve the site ranking and make it look much more serious. These days plain HTTP is just a red flag.

- "This Site's URL is permanently http://fileformats.archiveteam.org!" is the first thing I see. That's just weird. Who actually cares? And when was the last time you saw a URL spelled out with the protocol part visible to the end user? This is just confusing and makes the site look like it hasn't changed since the 90s.

- "First Time Visiting This Wiki? Please read the Statement of Project to understand why this project exists. Then check out the FAQ for some frequently asked questions about the project and its goals and procedures. Finally, brush up on the guidelines for Editing." Err, no, that's not what any first time user would do, that's what power users might do.
Cool! I did something similar for my own use, in Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/antibookmark/pobgf...

I use FF more nowadays, though, so I'll have to check yours out.
Is NewRelic still investing into their APM product? I heard all original devs left. And I haven't seen any new feature in the last year's. And the last one (Error Analytics) looks clumsy and half-finished.
Mobile support inexistent.
Are Pinebook willing to produce/manfactor the next batch in :-
USA/UK/AU/NZ/CA or even Japan

instead of using China/Vietnam/Thailand going forward ?

Or are will still living in a world of paying USD$1-2 per hour to slaves in CHINA under a LEFT WING NATIONAL COMMIE nation to help Global "American" firms and cheap labor and free shipping ?
I wonder if this will have any effect on housing. As it stands, it seems like this will do nothing and only affect commercial real estate. So, likely, a lot of small businesses that have held the property for decades will close shop. I expect to see a lot of expensive commercial real estate be vacant for years if this passes.
Thank you. What an amazing story!
I've never really "got" it when it comes to tools like Slack or Teams. To me they've always felt like a forum with a handful of mega topics that go on forever with worse (or no) pagination.

I also don't get why some devs of successful open source projects hang out in Slack. Do they feel like they need to or do they want to? The specific thing I don't get is that a lot of projects have both an issue tracker and a forum so they can filter low level questions into the forum, but then you can get direct access to the devs by visiting the Slack channel. I mean it's cool, but WTF?

I guess maybe my thinking is old-fashioned at this point, but I think people seeking out help should RTFM and be held to a certain standard when it comes to the effort they make. I self solve more than 50% of my problems while I'm trying to build a test case or write a good quality forum / SO question.

Maybe Slack, etc. are popular because the informal nature lets people skip the part of the process where they're expected to make an effort.
Ok. This could work, somebody tried it for dogs (https://github.com/GuillaumeMougeot/DogFaceNet)...

For the problem to solve in the first place, one might use a gps-tracker for pets or something.
Even if true, the thought experiment of quantum computers and Shor’s Algorithm are very interesting to think about. It was one of those “wow this is mind-blowing” moments of my computer education when I understood its implications https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm
Computer code is written by humans and based on abstractions that are designed to be comprehensible to the human mind. You can say that computer programs are memes that undergo two types of selection pressure: they need to be understandable to both humans and computers.

Genetic code only needs to work, therefore it’d be surprising if neatly grokable abstractions fall out of the system.
Maybe, the notes will probably be published when macOS 10.15.5 drops (this week? But who knows if the new 0day in the unc0ver jailbreak will shake up things)
I meant 70s in terms of temperature
With peer to peer file sharing you tell the whole world what you are watching.
Ask HN: Is there any good reason to jailbreak iOS now?
Thinking about trying the Unc0ver jailbreak but having a hard time coming up with any good reason to...
Highly recommend Warrnambool as far as regional Victorian towns go, but the lack of humidity, constant wind and freezing water would take getting used to after Thailand. The Sunshine Coast or Cairns have a similar vibe but warmer weather.
Ancient Egyptian coffins and mystery of ‘black goo’
I feel you.

Our homegrown tech scene is nothing to shout about. That's why realistically I positing a case for remote workers of foreign firms instead. Who knows, maybe the "right stuff" will spillover locally after a decade.

The bumiputera nonsense is outside our control, however unless you have to frequently deal with the government, most people won't even notice.
I can’t upvote you because I agree on half of what you say and disagree with the other half.

Yes, git “won” largely because it was “what the Linux guys are using” (and because github was better than bitbucket and other alternatives). It’s concepts can be painful to work with.

No, DVCS should not be ditched - the simplicity of repointing, rehosting, and working offline, that dvcs systems give us, should never be rolled back (and screw repo corruptions in svn and other crap). Just because a lot of people don’t rely on these features every day, it doesn’t mean they are not hugely beneficial to the ecosystem at large.
Gumroad gives employees 20% raise
By that reasoning, the biggest tech centers should be...

1. Tokyo

2. Delhi

3. Shanghai

4. São Paulo

5. Mexico City

6. Cairo

11. New York City

17. Manila

23. Los Angeles

San Francisco would rank #16 in the USA, just behind Columbus, OH, and just ahead of Seattle.

So spend the $10,000,000 to relocate 1000 devs to #5 Phoenix (200 miles from Kingman).
Without a specific reference to which domain we are speaking about, the statement “the EU needs the UK more” is very close to being utterly meaningless (and is typical of a whole slew of extremely woolly posturing on the subject).

It’s becoming pretty clear that the UK standing alone does not have the contractual power necessary to secure terms comparable to those it had whilst part of the EU block with regards to (say) trade relations to major foreign economies (such as Japan and the United States). Furthermore the UK’s predominantly service-oriented economy does not serve an integrated purpose within the EU economy and is predominantly geared towards either serving the local population or handling financial and/or legal issues for EU-native economies.

Eventually this fact will dawn upon the Leavers.
I think ultimately, the question is whether this trend will result in "fewer programmers needed", which is the most important by-product of "less code" in the author's thesis.
Ask HN: Need help stopping scam product
Hi Hackernews community,

I usually don't write or post things online, but yesterday evening my girlfriend showed me a celebrity advertising discounted wireless headphones and it seemed fishy to me. I need help people spreading the word to stop this.

The story was published on instagram by @kyliejenner (apparently a big celeberty in US), not sure how one can see it if not using the Instagram app, and the person is advertising "Nova Play" wireless headphones with 70% discount using a promo code. Nothing crazy here.

It started looking more fishy when I saw the website and it said free shipping worldwide and the headphones cost only 39$, and that they have 150k happy customers and the website had only 5 star reviews.

Then I tried googling for reviews of this product - nothing, not even a picture in google images. This is odd.

Then I checked the who.is of the domain name "nova-play.com" and it is registered on 31st of April, only 1 month ago. Interesting.

All of their social media pages have post not older that 4h of May, and in some social platforms like Instagram all the posts are made on 4th of May. Even more interesting.

Tried searching online the company name that is listed n their website and also didn't find anything. Something is not right.

At this stage it looks either they managed to get 150k customers in less than a month, or this whole product is fake.

I need the help of this community to either tell me that this is a real product, or help spreading a word about this fake product so that people don't get scammed.

Thank you all!
The elite visa is $15k for 5 years if you have the money that's the way to go. It's possible to stay in Thailand about 6 months max per year without risking getting into trouble on a tourist visa.

I've been living there 6 months out of the year the past 3 years and plan to get the elite visa once the pandemic settles down. Vietnam is another favorite spot of mine but Thailand has always been my #1.
I am hoping control of these mitigations is given to the user in terms of easy to control knobs. I don't have the same concerns as your bigco cloud provider and would like to run my home machines without these mitigations in place. (I do my browsing etc on a laptop and have a workstation that I use mostly/purely for work. In some benchmarks for 10700k the chip has proven to be slower than 9900k and it is being speculated that mitigations in hardware are to blame. Well ... that is unfortunate.
Beware of survival bias. This article tells a tale that if you do similar things, you’ll get a billion dollar success too.

Suppose a black founder was out in the mall asking to install an app on your phone, security would drag them away.

Most of the founders went to prestigious colleges with enough connections and saved income to let them work on ideas before it became profitable. As the income divide gets larger, less and less Americans have that luxury.

For every founder that made it, they’re prolly 100s that didn’t make it even if they did the same things.

For a large chunk of the planet, surviving to day is a struggle, they can’t weather out months blowing their only savings on an idea that may or may not work.

This is why most founders tend to be white men from mostly wealthy backgrounds. Most VCs are in a similar demographic and would fund them, so it’s somewhat a self fulfilling cycle.
US Citizenship and Immigration is part of DHS.

https://www.uscis.gov/
Doesn't even try to solve the root cause of any problems caused by these visas. Freedom.

Just let them not be tied to their current employer. Allow them to switch jobs with minimal bureaucracy and let them compete for better jobs.

Simply allowing employees switch employers without hassles will be enough for even outsourcing companies to pay high wages - because those employees won't suck it up. They'll leave for greener pastures asap, pressuring all companies to pay higher and higher for everyone.

For all the talk of capitalism and free markets, we never seem to actually practice it.
Fair point (and agree on the changes proposed) but this won’t matter anymore in the next few years. Most of the Indian outsourcing companies are going to allow their workforce to be wfh. (Eg TCS is doing that to 80% of its workforce in India). In way you don’t need to be in Bay Area anymore if you can do the same work in Montana or Madhya Pradesh. Yes time zones etc matter remote productivity will rise from what it has been so far. What will matter now is what you can deliver not necessarily where you are. I am not saying former will be the only thing that matters but it will matter more than the latter in tech software jobs. In way this is just capitalism doing its thing - businesses will get more efficient as soon as the opportunity arises. If they don’t they won’t survive as they They won’t be able to compete. Unless you are a monopoly which most business are not specially in a saturated market You will need to be cost efficient. WFH allow some parts of your businesses to be so.

Update: I see I got downvoted not sure why but in any case this is the way world will most likely progress whether you like it or not or whether it’s fair or not. I say a lot more about this when I called the wfh being the norm before twitters and facebooks wfh announcement https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22558552
> If prop 13 were to die, you'd think it'd be this year with all the budget problems coming up. It won't though. Politicians would face a mass exodus even if they kept in an exception for primary homes/business-locations. There's no way they'd all stay in office.

Prop 13 is a voter-passed Constitutional Amendment and, therefore, can only be repealed by the voters. So, the politicians that would be voted out for repealing it are...the voters.
Diplomatic mission spat increases tensions between the UK and EU
Agreed, I found this to be the revelatory part of the post. It’s difficult enough in person to try to organize demands from management, I hadn’t considered how much more difficult that will become with a distributed workforce.
Docker Setup once, Run anywhere
Edison did the same thing several years ago.
I connect with my colleagues on LinkedIn for this reason alone. It allows us to have discourse outside of work-sanctioned chatrooms. Having said that, I've never worked at a place where anything has resulted from private communications I've had with my peers. And it would have, had it been posted on the wall in the breakroom.
Generating Kernel Headers for BPF Kprobes
It only looks hard until the very first compiler design class, then it is a kind of mechanical exercise.

What requires expert level are the error messages, the quality of generated code and runtimes performance.
> I expect to see a lot of expensive commercial real estate be vacant for years if this passes.

It'll be much more expensive to hold commercial real estate without it yielding income, so it should reduce the commercial vacancy rate.
I'd been considering Portland actually, and maybe it'd still get a look-in, but it may be too small.

Definitely will not miss the humidity/heat. I'll miss the weather being fairly constant though.

Also, no to Qld. We want to move back to Australia, not move back to the 1920s.
Facebook does 99.9% of their collaboration over Workplace/WorkChat but keeps IRC servers alive for this exact reason.
Which would solve some of the problems with H1B - you're effectively an indentured servant with very few options. Becoming a green card holder means you are able to switch jobs, negotiate for better pay/conditions, and eventually apply for citizenship without your employer's support. All things that shift the balance of power to the employee, and the employer may decide it's not worth that hassle.
There are good arguments for open borders in the equilibrium. But it's very hard to argue that they're good for the people who's jobs are lost. This is the classic median/mean reasoning error. Open borders are good for the arithmetic mean person. They are not necessarily good for the median person.

For instance, the outsourcing of american manufacturing to China has seriously heart middle America. There is no real way around that. It has arguably been good on net for the world, but it has been quite bad for those specific communities. It's important that we fully recognize those tradeoffs, and not imply that unfettered immigration is a universal good.

It is almost certainly good for 'the economy'. But it can be quite bad for most of the individuals in that economy, and it's very important to disambiguate those things. On balance I think I come down in favor of more immigration, particularly high skilled, but I think it's important that we not pretend like people aren't seriously harmed by it, too.
A bias to action – Henry Ward
> Bangalore that are getting paid peanuts because they can be exploited

Um, that's not what is happening. I can't vouch specifically for Bangalore, but if you can work fully remotely, the savings in taxes and COL are ridiculous - so much, in fact, that it doesn't make /financial/ sense to move to a high COL for anything less than FAANG salaries (and even then, it depends on what you want out of life).

I'm talking about €300-500/day income.

If I were to be optimistic, I'd say that Facebook's employees won't even feel the reduced salary - but SF government and landlords certainly will.
Thanks, I didn't know either of these things.
Oregon , Colorado , Alaska, Hawaii, I want to be away from people.
In my experience, Mayo Clinic and several other similar sites are ranked far too highly by Google for the paltry information they offer. I can somewhat understand why Google has chosen to deliberately suppress more information-rich sources like Wikipedia specifically for medical queries, but I find it to be extremely annoying. When I search for information about a disease online, I'm usually not trying to use Google as a substitute for asking my doctor, and I don't appreciate Google trying to funnel me to sites that are dumbed down. My use case when searching for information about a disease is usually to explore broader information about the disease, not just look up a listing of most common symptoms.
I agree. The employer lock-in is very silly, and unproductive. It puts these people at a disadvantage in negotiations, which means they are even more likely to accept lower salaries, and drive down the wages of Americans. Even from an "America first" perspective, you should want H1-B holders to have freedom of movement.
Have you ever tried actually using IPFS for anything? It really doesn't live up to their marketing materials. The goals are sound and the marketing materials are great, but the implementation can barely hobble along.
Yes. I’ve seen it personally. You can see the ridiculous ads all the time. It really is a problem, and frankly it hurts immigrants too, they become wage slaves with the threat of the visa being revoked.
> * your spouse cannot work. Many of my friends have had their spouse not working for years, and going crazy.

I think that has not been true in a while.

> * they cannot change job easily, they can't even quit if they're burning out to take some rest time, some of my friends feel like they are basically slaves of their current company

That is not necessarily true either. I have worked with plenty of H-1B workers who easily switched jobs. From what they told me their new employer takes care of all paperwork.
Intel and AMD shouldnt panic yet but this Chinese vendor has repacked a Xeon CPU
Scott Aarson didn't comment on this paper specifically but gave a FAQ[0] on his blog (he believes Google actually attained quantum supremacy). See also this[1] when the announcement was done.

Moreover, the naturalness argument is pretty strange. Of course complexity arguments are useless if big constants dominate the run time, but, why is it justified to assume the constants are small enough? Is it to make our life simpler? Real life is seldom that simple.

[0]: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317

[1]: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372
I have some bad news for you. None of us will ever find out what you watched on Netflix. Netflix won’t share that data with anyone, nor will anyone serve Netflix a warrant to find out what.

But any peer on the torrent you downloaded knows your IP address. Content holders often do this, they monitor the IP addresses that download their shows and send the user a letter via their ISP to cease and desist.
Let's not advertise for Colorado. Let's just keep it our little secret. :)
I mean, if we’re talking old fashion, before all these fancy issue trackers a lot of times you could find devs on their irc channel.
I haven't a clue why you'd be touching the screen to open your laptop, anyway. All the Apple laptops I've had since the PowerBook G4, I only need to touch the outer edge, and the few PC laptops I've had haven't been too dissimilar.
Yes, it does. That's what the ISO regions are. us-iso-east-1 is a top secret region, and us-isob-east-1 is a secret region.
Check this video from minutephysics about Shor's algorithm: https://youtu.be/lvTqbM5Dq4Q
Try Labuan, not as touristy and good Internet due to the offshore finance centre. Large number of expats as well as the oil crew from Brunei who come for the tax free alcohol. Regular flights to KL or take the ferry/fly to KK or Brunei.
> But the same thing could be used for remote workers.

It wouldn't be the same thing if it wasn't based on job-required worksite. They don't pay you based on where you live (which is quite often a different county than the work site), but where you are assigned to work. If you have no assigned worksite, as is the case with remote work, there'd be no basis for the adjustment.

> If these large tech companies just used the US GS Scale's locality adjustment, it would be super easy and non-controversial.

Super easy, yes.

Non-controversial, no.
Tonight I wanted to watch Spider-Man: Far From Home with my kids. I have subscriptions to Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, Criterion, Apple TV+ and PBS. Yet, my only option was to purchase it digitally via iTunes for $15. There was no rental option. It wasn’t available in Disney+ because I assume Sony holds the rights despite the rest of Marvel belonging to Disney. It’s only available for purchase and not rental because I assume: greed.

So I downloaded it off Usenet instead.

Edit: Starz apparently has distribution rights at the moment. 7 days free then $8.99/month. So I could’ve legally watched it for free by signing up via Apple and canceling. Sigh. This is exhausting Hollywood. Get your shit together.
> "Open borders are good for the arithmetic mean person. They are not necessarily good for the median person."

Yeah, and it's strange that the people who make these arguments are in positions unassailable to those taking advantage of "open borders".
Is this reasonably balanced?

I'm sure there have been a huge amount of studies of caffeine, and maybe they're favouring those which make caffeine look good.
> Iberian accents don't sound cultured and distinguished to most Mexicans

That's so interesting. I'm from Brazil, and to us Continental Portuguese sounds pompous, much like what a British accent sounds to an American listeners.

Different languages, I know, but interesting contrast considering both cases are related to the Iberian peninsula :)
can someone recommend a IRC client on OSX that is still maintained and isn't garbage?