skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to me that companies are threatening to reduce pay if a remote employee moves to a lower cost of living area. It's hard to understand the logic when geography is the only change driving the decrease in pay. Same person, same job, same skills, same productivity, the only thing that has changed is the person's cost of living.

I wonder if a remote employee working in a low cost of living area moved to a high cost of living area would their pay be increased or would the company put up a fight? "You voluntarily moved to a high cost of living area, why should i pay you more?". However, "you voluntarily moved to a low cost of living area, i'm paying you less" is reality.
What's a controversial opinion you (or any other commenters) can share that you would feel comfortable sharing with the right but not the left?

Without concrete examples, I don't know what to make of a statement like that besides "I have bigoted ideas I want to keep quiet and can only share w/ other bigots"
I have seen this happen in a medium sized coastal city on Australia's east coast. The major employer shut down in the early 1990's and the once vibrant inner city did indeed become a cesspool for a decade. But begining in the early 2000's it started to come back to life, and the people who moved in were the artsy types and the city became a wonderful and curious place while still having a bit of a air of danger and decay. These days it is somewhat gentrified, but it has become very beautiful and pleasant. In the end my city doesn't really have a central core which is a little problematic for public transit (terrible quality), but the old CBD is a lovely place.
Many people I know aren't really afraid of catching the virus, they go out to bars, stores, and other places to meet people with abandon.

They don't want to go back to work because they have gotten to taste passive income (unemployment money) and don't want to have to go back to trading most of their time for less money then they can get for free by not going back.
I feel like MS Word (offline) still has a majority marketshare for general documenting, and calendars outlook also has a big chunk of the market.

Depends on where you draw the boundaries in markets certainly...
The only reason for me to not go back to the office is: fixed working hours. Sure, my contract says I have to work 40h/week, but I just can't. If I'm at the office, I would probably work (focused) around 4 or 5 hours. The rest is "wasted" with: chat with other coworkers (non-work related stuff), breaks... but I have to be there for 8 hours no matter what. At home, I can work those 4 or 5 hours (focused) and call it a day. I don't have to pretend I'm working, I just close the laptop.

Same outcome (for the company), less (wasted) hours for me. This is impossible to achieve if one has to go to the office. (can you imagine entering at 9am and leaving at 2pm while telling everybody: "hey, I cannot work anymore, I'm only able to work focused 5 hours per day. See you tomorrow!".)
> Total speculation

The link was updated more than 2 hours before your comment to a zdnet article that even mentions a WastedLocker variant.
I am about to (next two or three months) launch a company/product that is heavily built on Clojure(script) too and I was actually thinking about this exact thing just this week! There are a number of libraries that I rely on that I would love to give back to, both as a thanks for the work so far, and to fund future development. I'm not in a position to do so yet, but its something I very strongly hope to do in the not-too-distant future, if things go generally well.
Since this turned into a show and tell https://imgur.com/a/kNWxg
That’s odd, I took a bunch of pictures of that same comet and saw no satellites at all. Did I do something wrong?
I use Nextcloud. It's not great. At least, it's not anywhere as good as the Google Suite.

They seem to try to make the list of features as long as possible, but show little interest in making any of them work well or reliably.

The install was messy. Getting photo synchronisation to work with Android was a lot of trouble. Updates simply don't work. It's slow. A month later, I don't trust it enough to solely use it.
This article's dubiousness feels like the news effect, where if the news reports on something in your domain then you can tell it's complete garbage, but when they switch topics they're suddenly reputable again.

I'm doubtful that any of these prices are representative of what the majority of the population has access to.
"My entire business is built on Clojure and ClojureScript, and it would not have been possible without these languages."

No company depends any new language to succeed, depends on customers.
Gmail wasn't.
Just the other day a tribunal upheld the dismissal of Lecturer who was fired for views expressed in a conversation with his superior.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/...
It's pretty bad. I have friends that I can't really talk to about politics because they're super on board with trump, and other friends that I need to avoid the topic with because they're so committed to socialism. It's mostly when we speak online where people just feel free to be the shittiest just because you're talking to them over chat instead of to their faces.
I like this point, we've had a lot of success going remote but also haven't been through multiple rounds of planning out the next quarters yet, everything was in place.
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Testing everyone every day seems unrealistic in the near term. New York's test latency is up to 7 days, which is already beyond the median time for symptoms to appear. Contact tracing would let potentially-affected people quarantine and wait for their test results while other people keep going out. Increasing the number of tests quickly would probably make the latency longer.
Harvard will be ok. Most students will defer until things normalize.

But for a lot of local/state schools, this is a death knell. There is only one thing they can do anymore to survive.

Lower standards of admission to enroll more domestic students and then raise tuition costs.

Well, there is another alternative. Default on debts, lay off admin and faculty and reduce number of programs.

Either way, the ripple effect of this on college towns, downstream services and average quality of education will be so high that there will be a lot of damage going around. And this is not even counting the long-term impact of lack of skilled American educated labor force or the permanent damage due to competing countries seizing the market for good.
As I said to another comment, this is all just a restatement in flowery terms of “if you’re not with me you’re against me”. And that should scare people.
The GPIO should easily be able to handle doing a reset by connecting with jumpers directly to the motherboard. I guess there may be some circuitry required... I'm not positive on how the standard motherboard pins work.
There was a fansinating take on the potential impact of a WFH revolution on white collar works in The Telegraph the other day.

As companies embrace working from home and downsize their offices presence, a lot of the barriers to entry to offshoring start to disappear - if everyone is remote then a remote individuals in cheaper Eastern Europe will likely integrate a lot easier than when most the employees were sitting together in expensive London.

White collar workers could face the same globalisation pressure and wage deflation that’s happened to blue collar workers over the last 50 years or so.

Personally, if my team stays remote, then our next hire will most likely not be London based. There’s a much larger pool of European talent available to us and we’re now better setup to and culturally open to hiring remote first. This isn’t something our company would have considered before COVID.
Definitely a trade-off, as the costs previously mostly foisted off on employees were related to commuting to the office (time, car, parking, public transport, etc.)

The leading companies would take account of those costs. One would hope they would also adapt to take acct of home office costs

I'm seeing/expecting people will want to go in some, but not back to 5-days in the office. 2-3 days, when necessary to really do things together.

If this reduced office loading prevails, it'll also help everyone from workers to cities with the misery & costs of commuting (tho I did read that NPR has lost huge audience due to loss of commute-time listeners).
There's a 12MB PNG on the home page: https://ceasefire.net/static/0a3bba35b26395f328158bd05ee9776...
Or they're hugely Windows based (Exchange, SQL Server, AD Servers, etc) and the same exploit got into a huge number of diverse machines.

Or shudder far reaching writeable network mounts.
Years ago, Facebook for some reason thought I was a bot and disabled my account. They required that I upload a government issued ID to verify I am a real person. I was finding Facebook to be detrimental to my health at that time, so I felt it a perfect opportunity to leave the platform all together. Plus I didn't exactly feel comfortable giving them that kind of information.
Can you link your app? Or his?
Just curious, what do they do with this data (other than maybe integrating into search)?

Do they sell it? If yes, who buys these and what do the buyers do with it?
> starlink doesn't have the right to take that from them. I do think we need to evaluate whether these costs are worth it.

Yes, but when doing that, let's also take into account the fact that Starlink exists to open up space access. Starlink doesn't exist (just) to provide Internet access, it exists primarily to fund Starship and further reduce costs of space missions. This makes it one of the most important thing happening for astronomy.
A centrist isn't always someone who's avoiding working on problems or avoiding decisions. A centrist can be someone who believes that different people see different parts of various problems and that solutions can come from people who aren't subscribed to a set political party.
The November US election is going to be very interesting in that regard. If people are truly so upset with the current state of social discourse enough to hold their nose and vote for Trump again, it might just embolden some more vocal and confident push back. Of course, that doesn't seem very likely given all that's going on in the world. But I would have never predicted his winning the first time around either.
Why do you think that is necessary? The quote exists. It has relevance to the conversation. Can't it just be that?
You're are demonstrating great prejudice against the parent commenter, and proving their point by example.
> What changed?

They shut down the only internal tool employees had to discuss sensitive topics in a safe way: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/facebook-shut-down-anonym...
Were you saying this in a comedic way, as a parody of the thinking the parent complained about? Because it's exactly that, intentional or not.

Politics is about applying collective power from an entity funded by taxpayers. There is nothing political about the decision of whether or not to assist an elderly woman who is lost, or volunteer to coach a youth basketball team, or you know, just do decent things to make the world a better place that doesn't require the application of the collective power of our government institutions.
If your dog had the mental capacity to understand the basics of the two main sides in US politics and chose to support neither, then sure.
Have you played the Ikari Warriors games in SNK 40th Anniversary Collection? I liked how they updated the emulator inputs to accommodate for the original rotary joystick setting. Frank Cifaldi went in-depth about addressing it at GDC last year. [1]

It's certainly not a drop-in replacement, but you're right that those kinds of games need a certain feeling.

[1] https://youtu.be/dp-DRU24J18?t=1810
Corporate managers need to run the following exercise:

1) Quantify the loss in productivity from employees working from home. Call this "x."

2) Calculate the savings in rent you don't have to pay for putting the company's employees in an office. Call this "y."

3) If x < y, pass on savings to shareholders, take your bonus, and have a nice day.

4) Explore hiring candidates outside of major metros and see if you can pay them less.

Will not happen, of course. The modern corporate middle manager thrives as a sycophant, constantly praising their bosses / and boss's bosses - yes sir / ma'am, how high would you like me to jump for my bonus? Thus, they are desperate to get back into the office and play that sweet, sweet game of "office politics." Also, they probably leased additional space for more tech and digital marketing workers, so they are trying to not regret that decision.
That's not a helpful answer. What's the scoring system? What are the visual cues used, and how is it used in a linear regression model? The article is making strong claims: it never tells us what the data are, and how they differ from "well that's just your opinion, man."
As I like to say; why would we have a word 'apolitical' if we can't imagine a thing that is accepted as apolitical? It would be a rather useless adjective.

It is completely reasonable for someone to say they don't like the status quo but also are uncertain about whether a policy improves on the status quo due to their limited knowledge. If that isn't being apolitical we may as well strike the word from the dictionary. It is technically a political stance, but it is not forceful enough to be called support of anything.
Gmail was internal. Maps was mostly built by a couple acquisitions, but it wasn't anything like Youtube, where the acquired companies were big established players in the space.
Or perhaps they realized that the few high security document destruction machines they had on site, for daily sporadic use, wouldn't be enough to destroy the complete collection of documents, accumulated over the last 41 years that they've been present, in a timely manner?

According to DoD 5220.22-M, 5-705, incineration is probably the only realistic method in this particular situation.

The US has done the same in the past. When a foreign government kicks you out, you can't say politely ask "ok, can you give us a week to finish up here?". Or are you suggesting that they should have known they were going to be kicked out and destroyed everything in preporation?
Intel is a company that's living on it's distribution legacy. Ask yourself - why do regular people still buy Intel PCs?

Because they are easy to buy. A great non Intel hardware and software laptop+aio by AMD or someone else would be a mortal wound on $INTC.
That's a libertarian moral compass, not a general moral compass. Though I think people should be imprisoned for murder, it doesn't make me a hypocrite if I don't think people should be imprisoned for jaywalking. I don't have to support prison no matter what crime is committed.
(D) might be in for the bigger surprise than the ones Upper East Siders saying "No one is going to vote for Nixon. I have all kinds of friends and none of them is pro-Nixon"
Absolutely on point. I didn’t realize jorbs read HN.
No it doesn't, it's just one anecdote. Anecdotally, most people in my office are excited to return, including those who work in an open workspace.
This is for the best. It seems especially damaging to the formation of a fully actualized human to derive your living merely on being born looking a certain way. Maybe I'm wrong, but is there any particular skill to being a model?
If you want something removed from the Archive, now is the time to make your request.

Who knows what hands the data will end up in after they're gone.
Think about how many people run their business purely off of venmo or paypal alone.
Stumbled on this which I felt was a very good compendium
- https://dancres.github.io/Pages/

Would also recommend reading VLDB and DB it shows how distri algorithms are applied
- http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol9.html
- http://www.redbook.io/

Disclaimer: I used to work at Couchbase(distributed NoSQL database) as a PM and launched Eventing.
This is 3rd hand, but I heard that the 14nm was rushed with a crazy schedule, and as a result the greybeards who actually knew everything all left. Intel is having to rebuild all that institutional knowledge from scratch again.
Well as a POC, there's plenty of things I don't feel comfortable sharing. A lot is situational. It's really hard sharing anything that might make people realize they might not be as "progressive" as they think they are – regardless of where they are on the political spectrum.

Liberals are frequently unaware of their blind spots (but if you take care, they can be corrected). And then there's a swath of conservatives that don't think they're racist. If you should suggest it, it's too easy for them to dig themselves deeper into a hole.

All too frequently, I'll wish I stuck to non-political / comfortable topics – and remembered that political-correctness is there to protect me as an individual, so I can live in my bubble and get on with the day, even though PC-culture might be bad policy for society.
Can the city councils do anything to counter that? I wonder...I heard about Frome (Southwest England) where the local council took proactive steps to prevent the high street being filled with betting shops. I think they lowered business rates significantly and possibly other measures.
> to set the time.

A month or two ago I was stumped by this on my Forerunner 735: the time was wrong but I could not find a way to set it, even after a factory reset. Turns out the time sets itself from GPS after a solid lock, but you have to make it trigger a lock, by e.g starting an activity. Only after the on-device setup and having a correct time did I sync it with the app (it wasn’t even phone paired)
Could you summarize the main architectural (not implementation) differences between arm and risc-v that apply to being a good/poor match for mobile in particular?
Yeah god forbid we get something like accountability for the financial sector after 2008, an actual end to our ruinous wars in the Middle East, any sort of investment in real infrastructure or re-industrialization in the U.S., or an actual draining of the swamp of corruption in DC. Thank heavens the power elite knows what's best for the voters better than they do.
Wow.. that's really cynical. Are you sure this article exclusively talk about people on unemployment benefits?
Either the people in charge of security were dumb (dealt with some of those) or they were smart and the executives refused to listen or fund them (met those as well) or both (and have worked at places like that too). I wonder how many companies fall into these categories.
yes, and in my opinion, this is one of the factors behind the abysmal pandemic response from the country as a whole. Bad ideas become good ideas if they come one's team and good ideas become bad if they are not. As a result both halves of the country do stupid things, different kinds of stupid of course, while at the same time both sides refuse to do reasonable things.
I'm glad to see the names of the publishers involved in the lawsuit - "Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House" - out on the open. I will gladly avoid purchasing books by the companies that are threatening this remarkable digital institution in a time when hundreds of physical libraries are closed.
I'm not experiencing this and I would assume anyone employed at a larger or established company would mirror this.

I've seen our company quickly react to the reduced office related costs and have reallocated that to cover employee's home office needs: internet service, phone, supplies. If you needed a desk at home, that also was accommodated.

Being able to take our work computer(s), including dual monitors, was also immediately available to everyone.
For the short term, maybe, but will they still have that customer base if those affluent people don't need to stay there for work?
How about this: you're in denial about basically being on the edge of the right, and you're using the "both sides" shtick to cling to your centrist label.

Imagine touting "both sides" in the civil war area..
It's generally easier to play the role of the Very Reasonable Person Who's Just Asking Questions when you're defending the status quo; any change you stymie by undercutting people's emotional energy or by slowing things down works to your advantage.
> Exactly because there is always risk, when it is small - people say there is no risk.

This is analogous to the definition of "literally". It was misused so much that a new second definition for the word is close to the opposite of the original definition.

It's still worth mentioning the nuance at least occasionally.
> You voluntarily moved to a high cost of living area, why should i pay you more?".

This does happen now when companies have multiple offices. I've seen people move from LCOL to HCOL and see a cost of living adjustment.
> The people in the middle (which I generally identify with) are left in the cold

Quit being a coward and at least own your shitty opinion:

> I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice

Martin Luther King--1963
Madchester, tho
A Simple Tech Ethic
23 million customers disagree
Is there a baseline for how high this was in the past other than the mentioned 58% a few years ago in the article?

I can't imagine that there wasn't substantial amounts of this during say, the heights of McCarthyism or when gay-rights weren't as accepted. Not to mention another interesting meta question, are people nowadays more prone to share that they feel like they cannot express their opinion?

My grandparents for example have it so ingrained to not question religious belief that they probably wouldn't even perceive it that way. Or just women in general. The stereotypical "housewife" only a few decades ago wasn't participating in public discourse at all and certainly not expected to. With the exception of a few high profile intellectuals women were mostly excluded from political life. I have a hard time even comparing this to today.
The average person has little ability to pay out of pocket for COBRA in the event they lose a job. The pandemic is demonstrating this right now. For a family, you’re looking at at least $2000 a month.
Your ability to draw reason out of text is flawed, then. Your dog has no ability to influence human politics whatsoever; you do.
Die-hard fan of Iosevka[0], a narrow monospace font family (regular and term) and nerd-font patched varieties [1].

Just love how they display in emacs gui on a 4k display.

[0] https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
[1] https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...
Honestly, I think some people just want a break. And I can both respect that AND firmly believe that if a musician, for example, wants to make a comment on current events as part of their performance, they absolutely should.
Ah but the definition of justice isn't exactly absolute, is it? It's also subject to bias, interpretation, information, and tons of grey area isn't it?
It's a coordination problem. Sure, you could slow down, and then the chinese will just outcompete you/spawn a paperclip maximiser- or, in general, a less scrupulous competitor will.

You'd have to get all sides to agree on an actually effective treaty.
Startup is so hot they have VCs knocking
Do you think that both "halves" of the country are responding to the pandemic with equal stupidity?