skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that if (even just keeping the discussion to the US) a company pays, say, Chicago wages everywhere, that means they effectively probably can't hire anyone in the Bay Area for example. Of course, a lot of companies already basically don't try to salary match the hire who has an offer from Facebook or Google in SV and wants to work there.
If you have a laptop and an external screen this is useful to not look like someone looking away from people
The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Story of Gordon Moore (1994)
"Incompetent", in special if you use it without any further qualification, is not usually meant as "incompetent at a particular thing at a particular time".

I'd say that pretty much everyone is completely incompetent when it comes to correctly implement a complicated piece of software like GCC. OTOH, the people who develop GCC are incredibly competent at what they do because the compiler does insanely complicated things the vast majority of the human race would struggle to comprehend and, yet, its surprisingly correct, with the occasional bug and confusion here and there.

We all work at the limits of our wits. Right now I'm waiting for a timeout so I can continue to test a hypothesis. If I am lucky, I'll be right and the system will malfunction in the way I expect it to. I'd say my chances at this point are 50/50.
A policy like this is basically saying 'we only pay you as much as necessary to compete with your other employment options', which are currently still mostly those near where you are living.

If more companies allow remote work and they don't all do the same thing, this kind of 'geopay' policy will have to be abandoned.

But I agree it's completely backwards, you should be paid according to the value you create for the company, and nothing else.
Sorry - but you verify very little at school. It is an indoctrination system. IMO.

Feel free to provide a specific example though, where you verified something at school.
The phases I use in my response above explicitly often explicitly use the word politics. The people saying that are not being narrow with their definitions like you are here.

So if people live their life having people around them using the word politics like in my phrases above they will also start using the word that way. A way that does not match up with your definitions.

> You’re confusing “controversial” with “political”.

So when you say things like the above it comes off to me as unreasonable/uncharitable. Since the people you are talking to are using a set of definitions that are relatively common in my experience.

edit: unreasonable -> unreasonable/uncharitable

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> I’ve never heard anyone told not to talk about those things because they’re political, but I could believe they were told not to talk about them because they’re controversial.

Knowledge and understanding of a topic is required before reasoned action is taken. If you can not talk about abortion, birth control, sexual/gender discrimination, gay marriage, and more because it is controversial then we might be getting in to an area where speech is so restricted that it impedes knowledge transfer and understanding on those topics.

In order to have an informed populace then need to be exposed to things, sometime controversial. If you remove a reasonably large mechanism for that, conversation at work, it will have political consequences.
Signs Your Story Is Classist
Personally, I think we should rephrase this. Facebook is not evil in and of itself. Facebook's management is evil. Amazon's management is predatory. Microsoft is good (at the moment), because they have leaders at the helm that are taking notice of how to do things in a more ethical manner. We need to start assigning blame to people to start correcting the problem.

It's too easy to just pass of blame and say "Well, the machine is evil, no fixing that." Management should not get to hide behind the organization. We need to start sending a message that it's easy to fix what they are doing. Change out the people in charge, and change out the members of the board.
Healthcare is provided for everyone in my country from central taxation - same as police, education, defence. You can top it up with private care which can offer you things like more convenient appointments, quicker appointments for non-urgent cases, nicer accommodation if you do have to stay in, etc.

For a healthy, non-smoking 35-year-old you're looking around $80 a month.

For a healthy, non-smoking 70-year-old you're looking at 3 times that.

A family with a couple c. 40 and a couple of 10 year old kids is around $200-$300 a month (with no excess). With a $1300 excess that drops to $120 a month.
It's not disappointing to see humans caring for others. There's a difference between "panicking over the disease" and wanting our elder people (for which the IFR is way over 0.35%) to be safe.
Notwithstanding the fact that this 0.35% cannot possibly be achieved if the health system collapses.
https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/papers/evomusart19.pdf
Pair work: the One Weird Trick to finally ship your side projects
This is decidedly not true. You can do your own research as to why he was given it, as well as the process involved. To suggest he did nothing is a flat out lie.
That's weird using libraries almost always just works?
Did you install them via the package manager?
If you just git clones them then you will need to tell the package manager about them e.g. via `add`/`dev`ing the local path, + `Pkg.resolve`.

I recommend asking for help on the Julia Discourse.
http://Discourse.julialang.org/
The point that marks the end of the Islamic Golden Age is the Siege of Baghdad of 1258.

As the Mongols expanded, each time they encountered an empire, they offered them two alternatives: a) Pay tribute to the Mongols, b) War with the Mongols and their vassal nations.

The caliphate chose the war option, unaware of the true military strength of the Mongols, who they considered primitive barbarians. The result was the complete destruction of the empire, their infrastructure including libraries, and the death of most scholars.

However, parts of Spain were under Islamic control from 711 AD to 1492 AD, and Sicily from 878 AD to 1060 AD. It was there were books from Islamic libraries were translated to Latin, giving origin to the European Reinassance.
> I am an Arab and I am pretty sure the article is full of misinformation before even reading it...

Yeh, that sums up the the article pretty well
Contextlib in Python [video]
There's nothing inherently wrong with being religious, I think the major problem is fundamentalism: if you consider your Holy Book (be it the Koran, the Bible or whatever else), or even more commonly a narrow interpretation of it, as the single source of truth and condemn all who deviate from it, that's a recipe for stagnation. That happened in Europe in the Middle Ages, and it's happening in the Arabic world now.
I don’t agree - a black person rising to the Presidency given the US’s cultural problem regarding race has achieved something truly noteworthy.

And prizes, well they’re not always awards for past actions but instead act as a financial and prestige boost for someone with potential to help them achieve more.
> The only question is whether you pay it on every ride as an up front increase or whether you pay it on the unfortunate ride as an addition.

Amortizing the cost of rare negative pricing events across all trips seems a much better model to me. I'd personally choose that option every single time.

The time-and-distance model asks me to learn average wait times, approximate route information, and consider potential worst case outcomes for both time and distance. It also requires me to police the route the cab driver is taking to ensure they aren't taking advantage of me. And I need to do all of this in every city I visit.

The upfront model asks me to be able to compare prices between different offerings (a skill I already have), and doesn't change at all between cities.
One-upping Obama seems to be a primary motivation for Trump, but it’s not how awards work. Just because Obama got the peace prize when he shouldn’t have doesn’t mean Trump should also get it when he shouldn’t have. Two wrongs not making a right and all that.
Amazon from Europe's perspective:

- IT - an average employer at best including salaries, extremely competitive workplace, offices in most expensive cities, I don't think they offer any equity

- warehouses - they were wrecked by German unions and opened 4 warehouses in Poland serving exclusively German market and burdening the brand new EU-funded highways, as if they were shunning from complying with the German labor code and German wages (the market is too lucrative to abandon it)
Well, it is not as if other regions of the world, including Europe, did not have their own massive disasters.

Vikings, Mongol attacks, Turkish attacks, the 30 Year War...

An interesting question why was Baghdad so unique that its loss led to disaster. Could it be that the rest of the Muslim world was, by this point in time, not very interested in science?

European science survived such events probably because of its polycentricity. There was no single point of failure.
People are downvoting you but you bring up a point that I see in some fringes. Basically the assertion is that “Science is a sign of white privilege”.

I mean I guess if from a certain perspective you see things and ignore the science going on in Japan, China and other places you might somehow twist interpretation to say that, but that assertion is very problematic when at the SAME TIME we want to get more women and minorities into STEM. This view does this goal a disservice.
Some differentiators that aren't immediately obvious in the comparison:

> SeaweedFS Filer metadata store can be any well-known and proven data stores, e.g., Cassandra, Mongodb, Redis, Elastic Search, MySql, Postgres, MemSql, TiDB, CockroachDB, Etcd etc, and is easy to customized.

I'm not very familiar with other DFS's but at the very least glusterfs stores metadata as xattrs on an underlying filesystem and so has no need of an external data store.

Also, SeaweedFS has a "master" server (single centralized with failover to secondary) and "volume servers" (responsible for data).
Might I suggest reading the propaganda of Ilya Ehrenburg that was distributed to the soldiers entering German territory...
You are taking a "consequentialist" stance implying that if something has political consequences, then it is political. There are several problems with this.

First, literally anything could have political consequences, from a solar flare to a fly landing in someone's hair. This logic easily devolves into absurdity. Famously, Chinese government under Mao declared sparrows "public animals of capitalism" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign

Second, when anything could be political, the moniker "political" (like any other inflated moniker) loses a lot of its meaning. And yet real politics is still done by real people with real consequences.

Third, raising everything to the status of political is an example of politicization. This is typical of totalitarian regimes. Totalitarian regimes are in fact characterized by the fact that literally everything is raised to the realm of political, the realm of rule by the regime. By pressuring others to be political, you are creating a totalitarian environment, a very unpleasant environment for most people to be as we already know from some very bitter 20th century lessons.

Fourth, politics is about having political enemies. When political enemy (opponent) does not exist, there is no politics as such. By insisting that people act politically, you are simultaneously insisting that they have enemies. There are profound moral problems with this, whether you are Christian or even not religious at all.
Gender studies is a very new thing, so I doubt you'd be hard pressed to find many who claimed it's been figured out. Though, I think what most gender researchers will agree on is there are more than two genders, and more variation in sex than a simplistic view of biology would make one think.
Inclusive language does not stop being inclusive just because it angers racists.

Stop arguing in bad faith. Obama and Trump both have twitter accounts. Do you really want to start comparing the public record?
"Why was Arab science so good during their golden age? because they copied the greeks"
Caching has improves a ton in the last 3 minor releases.
Overly naïve and simplistic rhetoric about "the market" invariably fails to mention that while ideal markets are effectively forced to price commodities as close to the minimal margin of efficient production, it doesn't take much of a barrier to entry for suppliers to silently shift to pricing at the point of pain because they know it makes them all more money.

The recent collapse of movie theatres clearly illustrates that there is no reason they could be getting away with making $10 margins on popcorn, of all things, other than customers were being charged exactly as much as they would tolerate without telling the proprietors where to stick it.
It depends on what do you mean by Islam.

If you mean that some muslims won't accept some scientific results because of their islamic beliefs, then you are very much correct.

I would even say that some Quranic verses don't sound scientific at all, but it is somehow complex to judge it, since it is not intended to be a science book.

Anyway, this is far from my point. My point is the US wants the situation to be like that, period.
For me a good analogy to API is driving a car. The interface (API) to the car is the steering wheel, the pedals, and some common controls like signals and the horn.

You only need to learn to drive one car, and you can drive them all. But under the hood the cars are completely different. Gas, diesel, battery, hybrid, all have the same API, yet no one says that you copied a car if it has a steering wheel.

One could probably reinvent the (steering) wheel and possibly make a better interface to the car, but that would result in people having to learn how to drive your car specifically.
Summarizing the article (?) I wonder whether there’s a way to split this concept of technical debt into two axes.

If you do waterfall, your code is technically “simple”, because it has a nice architecture, but it’s “misaligned”- it won’t fit the problem well because it hasn’t been tested. This seems like the ur technical debt.

If you code to solve every problem as fast as possible and patch/rip it up to stay close to the domain- now your code is complex/ugly because design philosophy has been neglected, but it’s well aligned to the problem, call that modern tech debt.

So you have two axes, ugliness/beauty and misalignment/“fit”. Modern practice says to focus on iterating fit quickly then more occasionally solve beauty, in big steps. So aesthetic debt vs alignment debt.
From an engineering perspective https makes all the sense in the world, but the *pain-point I think they're getting at is that http/s is basically user-facing as well, and it is now both more difficult to set up and maintain, and less semantic, for hundreds of millions of people.

Over the past decade I've helped maybe 100 small businesses set up internet presence, and I promise you none of them understand https or set it up correctly at first, despite often paying for it from hosting providers like Godaddy.

This isn't the fault of the engineers behind implementing it; it was necessary of course. But if the web were a perfect authoritarian regime we could have just saved us all the headache and dropped http altogether, thus avoiding this bureaucratic protocol redirecting mess.

I would be very interested to read about why that was not done actually. (I'm sure there were reasons)
Yes I’m a philistine for not spending the time to listen to old music by a dude that made a bunch of music with bands that I don’t particularly like. I knew the name, but nothing else until tonight. He seems very popular, that’s great I don’t really care for a lot of music made before my time. And I don’t care for what he has done during my time.

Coldplay boring, David Bowie never got into this music. U2 well let’s just say I was one of the people that went through the process to get their free album removed from my iTunes account. Eno seems exactly the type of music I wouldn’t care for. The fact that I made it this far without knowing who he is and finding all the stuff he has touched not what I like seems to validate that.

At what point is it no longer my burden to explore something more until I am no longer a philistine in your opinion?
Some good points but I think now things are going better for partially remote companies since most companies shifted their culture to fully remote even if not everyone is remote. Then there's also all the work visas implications. Companies like MS rely heavily on foreign talent and I don't think they can bring them over without an office.

The onsite employees would still have an advantage of forming relationships with more people and knowing more what's going on in the company from informal lunch conversations etc.

Not everyone can work effectively from home. Having an office you can go to whenever you want is a big plus.
Why do people obsess over the fatality rate to dismiss the pandemic, but ignore the long term impairment of many of those who survive?

Second, why not learn from the Far East and adopt a mask wearing, social distancing culture and prepare and lockdown?
Something to remark on: Abdus Salam (the Pakistani Nobel Physics laureate mentioned near the top) and Steven Weinberg (quoted two sentences later as saying he hasn't read anything worthwhile from a physicist working in a Muslim country) collaborated together on the work that won them that same nobel prize (Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model of electroweak interaction).
How is the disk still spinning?
Sounds like a good incentive to just pay SF wages to everyone which any company currently in SF clearly can do.

Those that aren't in SF already can't afford SF talent so it makes little difference.

It's not like there's some glut of companies out there paying Chicago wages to most employees except for their 1 or 2 in SF who get a HCOL bonus. And to the extent that there are companies doing that, perhaps it wouldn't be so bad for society if they stopped.
If "we" wanted our elder people to be safe we would take steps to actively protect them. So far that isn't happening, which is very disappointing. Look how New York governor Cuomo sent COVID-19 patients to nursing homes even though he knew it was risky. That caused the worst cluster of deaths in the US so far.
Have you looked at Ceph?
> you are still not allowed to make your own x86 processor

AMD, Cyrix, Transmeta

I'm 99% certain that, if Intel had legal grounds to keep them out of the market, they would have done so. I'm 100% uncertain what's different between that case and this one.
I found this newsletter really interesting - specifically, that Evernote is stomping on the breaks until they've cleared up all of their tech debt.

In my experience (and in disagreement with the author) tech debt is inevitable - it's not the consequence of "suboptimal code" and "taking shortcuts" but rather the consequence of business requirements evolving beyond the system's architecture.

There's a delicate balance in the right amount of "technical leverage." It's very easy to grind to a halt over-engineering a system for all possible future requirements (some of which may never be needed!). On the other hand, it's easy to architect a system too shortsightedly such that any modification is difficult to do.

The best approach I've seen from technical leaders is to use new feature sets/initiatives that come from the business as an opportunity to clear up technical debt in the process. That way, you can guarantee that the architectural direction you're taking is aligned with business needs and that you're not wasting time on unnecessary improvements.
This seems likely to backfire for Yelp. Focusing on positively noting businesses that are explicitly non- (or anti-) racist, akin to the Green Book[0], and letting users filter for that, as they are doing with their Open For All® effort, is more likely to produce positive change.

Racism-specific alerts are probably going to exacerbate the problem they call "media-driven" reviews and feedback, despite their mitigation efforts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
I think the ability to, as someone mentioned it, have yourself look a bit tidier than you actually are (working from home) could be a huge benifit.

I mean taking away focus on things that doesn't matter in a virtual meeting such as:
Where you are sitting - via Virtual Background
Your daily hair style status or if you have a nose pimple - Via NVIDIAs AI showcased here.
Would be great.

Though replacing yourself with a "digital" avatar I think takes away many of the benefits an actual live meeting provides.
>the colleagues who will be in the office will seem to get really lucky in regards to promotions and opportunities for some reason and you'll be left out because you'll miss the coffee/water cooler/cigarette chit-chat where future projects/directions are discussed casually and off the record without you

The reality is that merit is only one of many reasons that promotions happen. And often not the primary reason.
Indications of wholesale content theft or minor / poor quality repackaging of OC would be a handy thing to know. Perhaps have them removed from serps or display on feeds.

It happens enough on HN that bad re-blogs of OC get ads thrown around them. This shouldn't be.
If the Covid-19 situation taught me anything, it would be that it's apparently very, very easy to convince the vast majority of the population they need behave, think and feel in some way, based on 'facts' and figures that are unproven, incomplete, out-of-context, or based on 'science' that is not or only barely amenable to empirical verification.

That's not the impression I've got watching it all unfold in the UK. Sure there were a few charlatans at the extremes but the bulk of the messaging has been open about the fact there is a lot we don't know.
Israel has that because the US accepts and supports that development. They won't allow that in the islamic countries.
Overhead cost of providing a physical workspace is easily 50%+ of base compensation costs. Companies save a fortune by having employees work from home.

"Geopay" scales are exploitation. Employee X should be compensated in relation to the value they bring through their efforts, not at the minimum possible level that the employer can get away with.
How I hacked my social media addiction and restored my habit of reading?
I think you can do some basic math yourself and calculate yourself how many deaths that will be in the US if say 70% of the population gets it. And then we haven’t even taken into account that the fatality rate would be much higher without proper hospital care for all that need it because all the hospitals are overwhelmed and there ain’t any ICU left.
EV was also my intro to hacking.

I'm considering teaching a "intro to hacking -- by way of game mods" course at my hackerspace some day using Endless Sky or NAEV.
Actually FB pays a lot of tax, last year $6B on $24B profits. Amazon never makes money so doesn't pay tax. Google is good at not paying.
TCS beats Accenture to become the world’s most valuable IT services company
Good news, doesn't matter if it is Rust or anything else with similar features, just improving security as a goal is quite valuable.

Heck, even Checked C would do, if it ever gets fully done.

In any case, looking forward to the results.