skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This!

Say occupancy costs (all in) are $60 psf. Now assume occupancy is around 1 employee per 200 sf (inclusive of indirect circulation space). That means occupancy cost per employee is $60 x 200 = $12,000. Now make some assumptions about the total labour cost (salary, bonus, benefits, etc) - say $200k - and look at how little the occupancy costs are relative to that - 6% with these examples.

Jam more people in so you get it down to 1 employee per 150 sf, and you've saved $3,000 per employee, or 1.5% occupancy to labour, which can easily be lost in terms of decreased productivity with people shoulder to shoulder.

Lesson: You need only a very, very small change in productivity to counter any savings in relation to occupancy. And not just in terms of productivity of existing employees, but also the cost of lost productivity due to lower retention, or lost productivity due to more sick days given the closer proximity. This is why I've never understood why companies go anywhere but the best locations with the nicest office space... People really are the major cost and the only asset a company has. Do everything you can to make them love every second at work. The added cost of free food, nicer office, better location, etc is insignificant.
Pooj Morjaria, Founder, Did They Help?
Griffonnage: Scribble careless drawings with friends, privately
I think you're missing the obvious problem here. It's because nothing can replace having another human in the same room as you when it comes to learning and feedback.
Just as always, there is no silver bullet.
So not only the unprofitable gig-economy apps are going under, they're actually dragging everyone else down with them. How long until the VC and other funding runs out?
Hope you consider distributing with https://krew.sigs.k8s.io to reach more platforms and users.
Lying to your employer definitely sounds like a good plan. I'm sure that will work out well for the people that try it!
I have found the opposite. Hn on mobile is more friendly than on desktop.
The year of the Linux Desktop will be when Microsoft offers transparent support for it with WSL.
Might be worthwhile to also check out https://plantuml.com/
Another interesting link related to this: https://wiki.alopex.li/WritingAWaylandCompositorInRust
> Only use one power input at a time, barrel jack OR USB-C

This looks very problematic as user may not expect or not know if the device they connect to USB-C will provide power or not.
I noticed single-channel memory and was about to bring it up. Unbelievable that a supposedly high-end laptop's RAM operates on single channel. But no USB-C charging I didn't notice, and that really is the deal breaker. Wtf Tuxedo
Cost of living and taxes are very real. CA income taxes are > 10%. Some states have 0% income tax. On that basis alone, CA employees should make 10% more than those places without income tax. Then there's cost of living, rent, etc.

You can legitimately earn more while being paid less by moving to a lower cost location.
> most of the rest of us thing that post-facto only is wrong

Yes, because most of the rest of you do not see the harms caused by sanctioning behavior that some government official believes increases the odds of harm. If you did, you would realize that only sanctioning behavior that causes actual harm is the right rule for the government, because humans simply cannot be trusted with the power to dictate the behavior of others based on some estimate of "the odds of harm" when no actual harm is caused.

Most of the rest of you also do not realize that the sanctions of law are not the only kinds of sanctions that can be applied. For example, I do not believe the government has the right to require me to wear a mask whenever I go out. But I do believe the grocery store I go to, for example, has the right to require me to wear a mask before I enter the store (which it does, and which I happily comply with--indeed, I'd be doing it even if it wasn't required), as a condition of being allowed to shop there. (And all the store employees are wearing masks as well.) I also believe I have the right to require anyone who comes into my house to wear a mask (as my wife and I did a few days ago when two people from the flooring company came to look at gaps in the laminate floor they installed--they made no objection to wearing the masks).

When I describe cases like this, I get asked: well, if you're doing the same thing the government is telling everybody to do anyway, what's the problem? The problem is that the cases I just described are the easy ones. What about the hard ones, where someone's particular circumstances make the best thing for them different from what the government is mandating for everybody? For example, an acquaintance of my wife's recently was forbidden from visiting her dying grandmother in a nursing home, because of government mandated lockdown rules. (No family members were permitted to see her.) The family would have been fine with wearing masks and gloves, washing their hands, and taking all other prudent precautions; but nobody was even permitted to exercise common sense, because the government lockdown did not allow for that; it was just a single, one-size-fits-all, hard and fast rule. So the grandmother died with no loved ones there with her, because of a government diktat. That is simply wrong in any country that calls itself a free country. And a government that forces such things on people loses the confidence of the people.
Consider that there may never be an effective vaccine. It may take a decade for enough people to obtain some level of immunity or for the virus to mutate to a less dangerous form.
It's the same thing with nicotine and capsaicin (we like these) and cyanide (not so much).
The rewriting here is called “program inversion” in Jackson structured programming:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_structured_programmi...

The wiki article just hints about using coroutines under certain circumstances; so called “structure clash”.
The program inversion technique is fully described in Jackson’s book Principles of Program Design, 1975.
I'd love to see https://porkbun.com added as a domain option. Consistently the cheapest registrar for me, at least for the first year (example, most .coms for me are around: 4.15 / year, renews at $8.56)
If I could chose one thing to magically "shove" into people's brains, it would be "how prices are set".

Labour costs are not "value added less some 'fair' amount" that your employer keeps.

This knowledge would change the way people behave, and let them make very different political decisions. It would be earth shaking!
Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
In the current climate it appears remote working will be more common. So where would you want to move too? Or would you become a nomad? Or is current home, perfect?
This is a very subjective thought experiment and I'm sure you could make all kinds of arguments against it but here goes...

Imagine person A lives in an area with a high cost of living and gets full salary. Person A is able to purchase a house at a high valuation relative to the national average. Person B in a rural area is able to buy perhaps as nice a house on a smaller salary in a below average market.

Now look at the options available to these two people when they want to move. Person A sells at market rate or perhaps a little below and can move to a lower cost of living with a relatively large pile of cash. Person B has no such option. The real estate market arbitrage is available to person A and not to person B.

The salary of person A looks like it produces options and upward mobility. The salary for person B seems to have more limitations.
It sure would make it better, and this WFH shit has made me start to looming for a larger place that can do this. But this doesn't scale for everyone- they either can't afford a larger place or the area can't support it.

The big thing for me is going some place else allows for a shifting of mindset. I don't want my therapist's office to be the same place where I work which is the same place I get doctors appointments
Some of this has to do with people feeling qualitatively better by being in a small space that feels like it is part of a bigger space. Compare an American hotel room to a tiny Japanese hotel room. If you can't give actual space, make things transparent or cut down the size of the walls so there is openness when you stand up. It's a balance between openness and privacy.
One hopes lawmakers would let it continue for irony's sake
I presume there won't be an adjustment based on which specific city you're living in but more based on the general region. The Bay Area will likely have the same salary band all around regardless if you're in Oakland or Palo Alto. After all - once you do that then where is the line drawn? For instance, some areas of Palo Alto are much more expensive than others.

Maybe they should start scaling based on how much rent you have to pay. ;)
Labanotation is very interesting as a tech-savvy choreographer. I am looking at taking it to the next level with Unreal. :)

For those interested in dance transcription, there is a formerly commercial but now freeware Windows product called Danceforms. http://www.charactermotion.com/df-download.html
There is the other side, though. You can always find a rather like group of people who will rail against all of the concern and no matter the data will continue to be unconcerned. They often say they advocate for science, but it is completely unscientific to not reexamine one's ideas given new data
That is called a "just so story": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story
> no analysis on downsides

The main one has to be worse sleep quality.
The Spanish Flu happened before the rise of the modern welfare states. Now that the state is responsible for healthcare in many developed nations, there is enormous pressure to keep the levels of infected low in order to avoid burdening the public health system. Also, it may be that today the elderly are such a crucial block for winning votes, that politicians are under pressure to show they are protecting the elderly even if a disease has less impact on younger demographics.

The incredibly strict rules which e.g. France and Belgium instituted during the lockdown struck me as extreme and an unprecedented limitation on citizens’ freedom, but the authorities must have felt that they absolutely had to take this action. The way the lockdown has proceeded shows that the state has the necessary police apparatus in place to enforce whatever hygiene rules they want. That level of decisiveness was not present during the Spanish Flu, and so things do not necessarily have to go back to normal.
Be good at what you do?

I’m quite interested to see how all the overpaid SV workers react when they realise that there are people much smarter than them working for a lot fucking less, all over the world.
I’ve been building a better Yelp of sorts, trying to do a variety of things to basically fix ratings and have a great app for finding food even down to the dish.

We’ve been working on it for a few months and are getting close to a beta. But I’m starting to think we may look at building out a “Shopify” market for restaurants. You handle the delivery but we still give end users a consistent experience and single nice app.

If you or anyone reading is interested even in just giving some feedback, we’ve gotten quite far and would love to work with one or two more really great developers. I really do think many restaurants would be happier like this: they already manage staff and do support, and down the road we could add on interesting collaborative tools for them to share drivers.
What? only 151 russian words? The russians have an own dedicated sub-language which consists solely out of bad words. No idea or concept is too complicated to be expressed in bad words alone. They switch from normal russian to bad words russian as soon as the situation allowes it.
The cost of living scaling doesn’t cover the entire salary. Only about 30% of my salary goes towards cost of living, more than half of it goes to savings. If my salary was scaled from Seattle to Spokane levels, my savings at retirement would be enormously impacted.

That sort of cost of living also doesn’t account for a huge amount of other things too. Having a holiday in Bali costs the same whether you depart from Spokane or Seattle (probably slightly more departing from Spokane actually, when you account for transport from Spokane to SeaTac). Buying a new 4K big screen costs the same in Spokane as it does in Seattle. Living in Spokane doesn’t make your kids college cost less either.
That's because it's using constexpr. The equivalent in Rust would be const fn. This is using Rust traits.

The goal isn't to be concise, I think the goal is literally to just do it in the trait system
The glitch.com "this is the free tier and you need to upgrade" is uncharacteristically brutal considering how chill they are as a company.

You can see the source here https://glitch.com/~multiuser-sketchpad ... and can "remix" to fork your own version of the project.
New 26:38 Cannonball Record Allegedly Set with America on Pause over Covid-19
The T-Sne view for papers is a killer feature. Loved it for ICLR, glad more will be able to use it. Thank You!
I've been pleased with iwantmyname.

They also do some cool organizational stuff and are pretty transparent.
This is an issued that existed before COVID-19, more so now.

Here's the thing: what prevents someone from moving after taking a job that allows for "remote work"? And - more importantly - what would be the repercussions should someone be found out?

My guess is that the risk is worth the money.
Disclaimer: FB employee.

The company claimed that they don't see this necessarily as a cost-saving measure because they plan on providing for home office equipment for permanent remote workers, kind of like how employees going to the office have monitors and keyboards provided for them.
This article (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/washington-...) claims "about five" deaths from gunshot wounds to people who tested positive for COVID-19. That's of the 1,055 total the state is claiming, or ~0.5%.

The headline seems to imply that Washington is inflating its COVID death statistics, but the article seems more interested in proving that point than examining the data in good faith, which isn't surprising given that this is a conservative think tank founded by someone who publicly warned during the Obama administration that Americans are on the verge of losing their liberties to the government.
Exactly. A more serious move would be "I'll cut everyone's pay by 20%, now go to live where you want instead of spending insane amounts in rent here".
This is absolutely 100% true. And people considering the pros/cons of high COL+high salaries vs low COL+a lower salary should very much consider this when making their choices.

And it's not just about the cost of housing. That $1000 phone you cary: it'll be a higher % if your salary if you go for the latter choice instead of the former. Same thing for many many other purchases you will want to make.

I find that people don't think about this enough. To their detriment.
I find it quite counter-intuitive that there would be different salary levels for remote employees depending on the location they live in, since for remote employees the location is now presumably their choice, and not the employer's - analogous to the personal choice of how expensive the employee's choice of dwelling is.

As others have mentioned, anything else runs the danger of creating potentially perverse incentives to move (fake or real) to a more expensive location, thus adding cost to the employer. And when salary costs for some go up, the argument could be made it lowers the pot of total salary money available for the remaining employees, since many large employers are managed to hit overall percentage targets for various cost items (like R&D which for web companies typically has a considerable salary component).

The whole thing sure sounds like a classic large company policy with unintended consequences. -- Running large companies is hard.
we used something similar when I was writing games in the early to mid 90's, but our yield function was simply called yield().

we were running on windows (3.11), macOS, and amiga (for tooling, the games didn't run on the amiga) with great success.

of course, we just used setjmp and longjmp, no assembly for portability (though there ended up being some assembly in one of the games, while macOS had good sound management, windows did not at the time and the audio mixing code ended up written in hand-rolled x86 assembly in order to perform well enough for the games to work on the hardware at the time).
It's worth mentioning they should be fully supported in OpenBSD 6.7, which came out this week. I haven't tried converting mine yet, but it's good to have options.
Right. Delaware is attractive for their business-friendly legal environment.
If you didn’t live in the suburbs, it wouldn’t take you 90 minutes to get into the city.

If your suburban office didn’t have a huge parking lot in front of it, adjacent to a grass knoll, adjacent to a four lane highway, which also has a grass strip in between it, with your house set back from your street with a lawn and driveway, with your street hidden in curvy cul-de-sac roads from the main road to alleviate thru traffic, you might have an actual chance at walking, biking, or taking a bus to your suburban office. But it’s all been designed around the car so now you must own your very own car to go anywhere.
Erm, yes this is why you mock it. I still fail to see the problem, here is an example how you mock a function: https://hexdocs.pm/mock/Mock.html

Inside `with_mock` code will only access mocked function. In case you want to call original function in some condition - you have `passthrough` available inside a new function which will call the original one. So what is the problem exactly?
We invent a new technology by which to transfer things, and suddenly the existing law doesn't apply? New technology is inherently lawless? Being "with computers" makes it different?

I don't think so. It's the same old stuff, merely with a technology upgrade. Be thankful, so the first amendment doesn't only protect quill pens and lead movable type.

The comments on foxnews.com are at the borderline, so it wouldn't be bad to flip a coin. A reasonable approach would be that deletion is restricted to crude insults and off-topic rants. It doesn't really matter though, because the foxnews.com comments sit on the border between being a publication and being a generic public communications medium. There is no point splitting hairs.
In practice it's also applied in Europe. When an employee requests a relocation it's a new contract anyway, so the new salary is up for negotiation.
That was me. I don't consider myself a deletionist, but this seemed like a pretty egregious example of something that does not meet the bar for having its own page.

I might be wrong :). You can go ahead and disagree with the proposed deletion; it's Wikipedia. I can assure you I am a very light editor. If there is a cabal, I am not a member.
If you either want to do stuff like processing or analyzing it on the backend, or let users access their data from other devices, use a database. If not, use local storage.

Local storage has the benefit of saving you bandwidth and storage cost, no matter how much your users save, and probably more privacy.

Databases on the other hand, allow you to „do stuff“ with the data when the user is offline, share it through cross-device sessions and things like that. However the users can’t be sure what you are doing with it.
Hi folks,

Over the last few weeks, I've been hacking an end-to-end encrypted collaborative drawing app. I started coding this after seing all my friends and colleagues using Skribbl.io which is very far from being a privacy-first service. And I'm a regular user of Excalidraw, so I figured I could bring the best of both worlds!

I am looking for some help developing it as this is just a fun side project. If you have some coding skills, the tech stack is composed mainly of Nuxt.js + Fabric.js + Socket.io + TweetNaCl.js. The code is completely free and open-source: https://github.com/griffonnage
I agree that it's about selecting which events are salient and which to leave out. And yes, putting them into sequence. But does that always imply causality? I'm not sure. Maybe it does. If you say "Anne divorced John and then he died", the mind fills in an implied cause. If you say "John got cancer and then he died", it fills in a different cause. The key point to me seems to be selection bias, though: what you chose to include vs. leave out in the two stories.
So here again you allude to gender. I’m open to having that discussion as a valid consideration if we eliminated all other rational explanations (as in, we enter the gender discussion if it’s obvious we can’t make sense of the reaction any other way).

As for how to bring up her issue? Well, her initial way was one way. It turned out it wasn’t the best. The parameters you can modify is when and also to whom.

Believe it or not, speaking directly to faang level senior engineers can provide insight into higher levels of standards that a larger diverse audience can extract value from since due diligence was done on providing perspective. That’s an adjustment.

Edit:

I’ll just add one thing to give an example of honing perspective. It is entirely possible that the first three days of on boarding is a dream come true for a lot of people, just to finally be at that company. Now how would I sound if I compared my dismissive experience of it in contrast to that?

If this is you fifth or sixth go around, and you picked up some good/bad, make that clear, and be aware of the diversity in people’s experiences so that your critiques are palatable in a variety of contexts.
Juxt were very vocal about making Crux available beyond Clojure (can't find the exact quote right now, unfortunately). Perhaps the last time you checked it, any non-Clojure support was still WIP. However, since then they definitely have Java API available (Javadoc here: https://crux-doc.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/crux-javadoc/20....), as well as REST API (see https://opencrux.com/docs#restapi).
Why would China have the source code?
Language and music aren't the same; arguably, the part of the class that involves learning how to hold an instrument correctly could be replaced by technology.

As for why this wasn't the case before coronavirus: there was no reason to. There wasn't good enough of a market. Now, there is, so perhaps some ideas from this situation will stick around for longer.

(Then again, I've heard numerous reports that in general, remote school classes are a huge dumpster fire. I don't expect any of that staying when the schools are allowed to reopen. But maybe the postmortems will bring some nuggets of insight about effective remote schooling.)
Not to stoke the flame, but I never used Twisted, where did it fail?
Just go look at your Seattle org chart. I never said there was a "benefit," just that foreign national managers prefer that foreign national managers manage US offices and that is why they fear offices in areas that don't adhere to this globalist orthodoxy that is in the bay area and Seattle. That should be self evident.
Amazon, Expedia, Grubhub and others are just middlemen sucking blood from small businesses and consumers.
A lot of things that typically fall under the heading "women's work" are tough to make profitable as a business. This includes food prep and child care.

Restaurants have notoriously slim margins. Yes, there are many restaurants on the planet. But it's a tough business. Adding delivery or what not just makes it tougher.

What you are describing is like a personal chef, which is out of the price range of most people. (Or it's called a full-time wife, which is also out of the price range of most people these days.)