skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My predictions are similar:

1. Scale all salaries to expensive markets

2. Stagnate vs inflation, until salaries track mid-market cities (Denver, Austin) instead of San Francisco / NYC. A bout of high national inflation would make this easier.

3. This works well, but only for a while. To be easily productive remotely you should be a Sr Engineer. Juniors will have a harder time. So will managers. Companies focus (even more!) on only hiring experienced devs. Increased competition drives more work outside of the USA.

4. With lots of remote opportunity, there's even more mobility for individual employees. One company is functionally like any other... all of them take place out of the same room in your house, and only differ by who is on the video chat this week. The "shared culture", both company culture (we're all in this mission together!) and regional culture (east coast / west coast) starts to fade. Fading culture amplifies communication overhead, which slows velocity. A very few companies will overcome this with incredible levels of intentionality, but most will fail to do so.

5. To try to solve the culture problem, companies open smaller landing-zone offices in a couple of hub locations. Remote folks fly in once in a while to get excited and pick up a free tshirt. These smaller hub areas become a good place to onboard Jr employees (making hiring easier), and provide a nice environment for executives to meet with customers.

6. Living physically close to the hub office provides greater executive visibility, and greater promotability for folks who care about that. This reinforces the HCOL compensation premium for leadership only. Jr folks (generally young) are happy to scrape by in the city as always because "dating is the killer app for cities." But they move out as they gain seniority / age / start a family, depressing housing costs for ~10-15 years until population growth catches up again.

7. Startups are primarily founded 2 ways: Senior/stable founders launch distributed companies with their former co-workers around the country. Nobody wants to move. Juniors/new grads launch out of the city of their university, with people they met in school.

8. Weirdly, this means that it becomes somewhat efficient for super-tiny startups to locate just outside of major cities, because if you only have a few people it's probably cheaper to live there than buying tons of plane tickets to visit VCs in those areas. Have to raise that next round! But as soon as the company hits mid-size they are quick to move out to cheaper areas.

9. Given all the above, we'll see an averaging of salaries for all areas, with the exception of executive leadership. Vibrant HCOL downtowns will fade and hollow out, suburban hub offices will be more common. Cities with strong tech universities will do best, as always, since they provide the flow of new-grad startups and academic partnerships.
> Blackley fantasizes about one day selling ancient Egyptian bread commercially.

I'm so glad he's taking a stand against cultural appropriation!
I generally use Walmart and Target for shopping online, but recently I decided to go with Amazon for something (pet supplies) that Walmart, Target, and Chewy didn't carry.

I created my account, and before I could put the order through, the account was locked for "suspicious activity," which resulted in a black hole of me repeatedly sending them the information they asked for (a recent credit card statement) and them responding with the same form letter email about being unable to verify ownership of the card. I even called, spoke to a human who said they would do something, but no, same form letter response.

Why do people use Amazon over walmart.com or target.com?
Yes. By befriending someone on Facebook you gave them access to data you chose to share with your Facebook friends. You don't get to choose what they do with that data. It's just like if you tell someone something irl and they use that info in a way you don't like. Once you share info you can't put the genie back in the bottle.

Unfortunately, Facebook has a history of changing data permissions that have caused info to be shared in ways users didn't intend.
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My favorite version is when that UPDATE or DELETE SQL query that you expected to finish instantly takes a few seconds before giving you your cursor back.
Maybe CIA knows what it is but does not want to tell Putin that they know.

Isn't that the modus operandi of most intelligence operations, you try to learn their secrets and protect your own and one of your secrets may be you have discovered theirs?
This is a common pattern, many sites use timestamp as an anchor to the individual post. I'm guessing someone realized there wasn't anything interesting to make a timestamp link to, so you could have it do that, and save space on separate text to explicitly link to the post.
Top FB India Executive Leaves the Company Following Controversy over Hate Speech
It's probably not the kind of hash you mean, but CRC32 0xFFFFFFFF outputs 0xFFFFFFFF
For an even earlier cautionary tale about computerized bureaucracies, check out "Computers Don't Argue" (1965) by Gordon Dickson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_Don%27t_Argue
They’ve literally stated that Sketch app has live collaboration coming
While that would be nice I would think that most people with alzheimer's would be good with reversing the mental degradation.
I think the idea described by the op is how you're supposed to organize code when programming in Haskell. Having most of your application logic in pure functions makes it easy to test and reason about.

While this is possible to do, it is easier said than done. Organizing the code this way requires a lot of time dedicated to thinking/rewriting, which is often not available in the usual corporate environment with strict deadlines.
Background removal on portraits or merchandise pictures seems common enough. Seamlessly getting it from smartphone to computer and thereby significantly reducing friction seems really useful
"Everyone else is doing it" and "these other people are worse" is hardly a justification.
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I don’t use Chrome much. Safari runs YouTube perfectly fine, even while running benchmarks for a dev project I work on at home.
Just imagine a human with the "modern hobbies" like "health supplements", micro dosing xyz, grass-fed whateva !
If there's a good way to version control Excel I'm intrigued.
Still, it's not great to trip over them.
It's confrontational, but there's a big difference between that and hostile.

If a person is consistently upset about not getting what they want, but also not willing to change what they are doing, that person needs a breakthrough. "Maybe you're not achieving your goals because you're not as good as you think you are" can be really useful feedback for someone who is stuck like that. I've both received and given that feedback in an athletic context, for example. It's rarely welcome in the moment, but that doesn't mean it is intended to cause harm; quite the opposite, usually.
This behavior stops if you turn off JS
Is anybody else put off by the amount of corporatespeak ("reimagine" "explore" etc)? I almost dry heaved.
I don't have trouble differentiating them. They also share a brand look and feel which is clearly what they were going for. I would question how good they are for people with visual impairment however this is probably a secondary concern for the designers. All the conversations here relate to taste not UX as far as I can tell. We don't have the data Google has to make UX observations.
Lightning also doesn't support native video output, everything is crushed down into a h264 stream that's decoded by the HDMI dongle. The USB-C iPads can do native 4K output.

The most generous outcome I can see is Apple ditching ports on the iPhone and Mini, and moving the Pros to USB-C.
"TIME understands that Shivnath Thukral, WhatsApp’s public policy director, has been asked to take over Das’s duties on an interim basis..."

"In August, TIME reported that Thukral, one of Das’s key lieutenants at the time, had walked out of a meeting in 2019 when an activist had raised concerns about a post by a BJP state lawmaker who suggested Muslims were rapists. The post remained online for more than a year after the meeting, until TIME contacted Facebook to ask about it. (Facebook told TIME the post had been flagged as hate speech internally at the time, but did not explain why they had failed to remove it.)

Thukral also worked on behalf of the BJP during the party’s 2014 election campaign. "
Generally, to those of us who apply the functional approach everywhere, it comes naturally whatever the problem.

There are idiomatic ways to program in particular languages (even in Python or JavaScript) which are strictly against the functional approach, even though nothing in those languages prohibits it. It gets trickier with external dependencies which are "forced" on you too.

Do you have a concrete "domain" example that you think will be hard to turn functional (which basically means turn the integration points into minimal functions doing just the integration bits — basically, any side-effects are limited to those integration functions)?
All Russian propaganda based on hatred and de-humanazing Americans. Video of Russian mercenaries attacking US Army vehicle has been met with nation-wide jubilation. That's Goebbels-style with 21century technologies. US appeared to be unprepared for this round of Cold War.
Joplin. It's good. Use it.
The A14 scores 50% higher single core performance in geekbench compared to the i7 in my 16”MacBook Pro from 2019.

Also the current gen high end laptop CPUs from Intel are still 14nm. Which they introduced in 2015 with broadwell [1]. Others have shown that’s it’s very possible to scale beyond 14nm, so there is good reason to blame Intel here!

1. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/87719/i...
that would have to be corrected for different age distributions, somehow. But yes, such a big difference seems to make some sense.
Would love to see your list of names if you’re willing to share!
If you have big problems with productivity and procrastination then it's really worth seeing a specialist. You can't diagnose yourself over the internet.

Also, all the coping mechanisms you've built up over the years can easily mask the problem. We used to ask people "Can you dress yourself?" to assess if they have manual dexterity issues. The problem is, almost everyone says "Yes". The people with the dexterity issues simply wear loose clothing and never buy anything with buttons. They probably haven't even thought about it for years, it's just their normal.

Mental issues can be similar. I've you've got through to adulthood you likely have a huge range of tricks, some of which you don't even think about anymore, to help get you through the day.
High-COL areas will take the hit as the Professional Class moves out. Ultra-high -COL areas will be fine... they are mostly full of executives anyway, who will continue to need an office location from which to operate. No CEO wants to spend the rest of their life planning strategy and entertaining clients in generic hotel ballrooms.
A Canadian study linked the illness symptoms of Canadian and American diplomats in Havana to heavy use of the pesticide used against mosquitoes for Zika virus.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/havana-syndrome-neurotoxin-en...
True, that much certainly isn't debatable.
I don't remember the name of the company but there was a video streaming service that worked similarly a decade or so ago with remotely playing DVDs. They were sued out of business despite going to extreme lengths to follow copyright laws. That legal precedent was probably used here to block GFN.
The author isn't encrypting /boot. GRUB does support this if you're using LUKS1 (and LUKS2 is coming soon). I wrote a guide for doing this with Alpine:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/alpine-linux-with-full-disk-e...
Haven't use Labview but that characterizes Simulink quite well. It's really useful for simulating and prototyping your control system, but when you need to create high quality code and good libraries it gets frustrating very fast.
These days, I use an SSD for each OS —Windows 10 to play games, Ubuntu for everything else— and it works perfectly. Before the cheap SSD era I found dual booting to be a nightmare, though it taught me a lot about GRUB workarounds :)
I believe that's the icon that references all of Docs/Sheets/Slides/Keep/Sites/Forms, but not individual apps. I'm not sure where the four color rectangle is used, other than marketing material.

The individual document types appear to have updated single-color icons. I see some of updated single color icons already in iOS (e.g. Docs/Sheets/Slides).
Software architecture involves HR? You can just change around definitions all you want, but don't expect the rest of the world to agree.
Because your experience is unusual. It's more inline with new accounts on twitter, not amazon, in my limited experience.
How did it impact your productivity? Was there enough bandwidth to videochat with your coworkers, and if not do you feel like that had any downsides?
Dr John Campbell (a PhD nurse educator) who has been putting out youtube videos of research-based plain English explanations of various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, has been beating this drum regularly for eight or nine months. One of his videos did mention that vitamin D deficiency is very high in Spain, particularly in some specific regions of Spain, so don't jump to conclusions about the amount of risk reduction from adequate vitamin D levels. Dr Fauci is reported to be taking 6000 units per day, way higher than the recommended daily allowance in the USA.
> when the reality is there is no right or wrong.

Perhaps not in absolute terms but certainly there are degrees of objective correctness.

These new icons are like a door with a pull handle but a push sign. They add unnecessary mental load, directly undermining their purpose which is to be non-verbal methods of identifying something. Surely that's 'wrong" to some degree?
This is a great article. I have a different strategy that I think is "better" in a few ways but definitely still complicated.

(I'm assuming this is starting on a machine that already has windows on it because that's how my computers generally come (although maybe not the future since Lenovo is selling Thinkpads with Linux now):

Step 1. Install Ubuntu (let it set up the dual-boot stuff for you). The main advantage of this approach is I don't have the issue where grub can't boot windows as described in the article. (NOTE: ubuntu's installer won't do encryption in this setup for some reason: Ubuntu please fix this and save me the following steps!):

Step 2: reboot into the installer. Now things are going to get crazy.

Step 3: shrink the ubuntu partition as small as it will go (resize2fs -M ...). Then create a new partition of the same size at the end of the drive and copy the data over to the new partition.

Step 4. delete the original ubuntu partition. replace it with a /boot partition and a luks partition.

Step 5. Copy the boot stuff into /boot, copy the rest of the data onto your new encrypted / partition (i usually do lvm here also). chroot into the /, do the mounting stuff TFA suggests, install lvm/dmcrypt/etc. Reconfigure your initramfs and run update-grub.

Step 6. Delete the copy of the original ubuntu partition made in step 3 and resize the encrypted partition as needed.

OK I agree that's a pretty ridiculous sequence and I wish Ubuntu would do it for me, but it's pretty cool that it can be done at all (takes about an hour).
Modern Egyptians have almost no dna connection to ancient Egyptians. They are descendants of migrants and invaders. They are also poor custodians of their own treasures. The Malawi museum was looted and wiped out in 2013 in Egypt. When I visited in 2016 I had people offering to take me to climb or explore the pyramids by bribing the guards.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/health/ancient-egypt-mummy-dn...
According to the Postwoman website it has been renamed to Hoppscotch
… sort of. Last I checked, the Make features required by POSIX were very anemic. What winds up all over the Web in tutorials etc. is mainly GNU Make, which is extended way beyond that, including in ways which can become practical necessities pretty fast.

Which would be why my projects use the “GNUmakefile” file name explicitly, even though e.g. I tend to write to POSIX sh where I can rather than following the “bash scripting” trend. I also remember seeing a project in the wild that had a separate GNUmakefile and BSDmakefile, presumably for similar reasons.

If you use only POSIX make syntax, great for you, but there's definitely a barrier compared to what a lot of people are used to thinking of as Make nowadays.

(This is also ignoring the part where “higher probability” at a glance refers more to popularity than to standards compliance, and I don't read the parent as implying being in an environment where POSIX/SUS compliance is directly related to the set of target systems.)
A good PM saves work for the team by shifting work away from from valueless investments. If a team is "slowing down to appease a PM" then that PM is worthless.
Apple's flash storage is actually extremely fast. I could only find benchmarks of the iPhone 6s (a 5 year old phone!) but even back then it clocked 400 MB/s read speeds
Everybody hates new logos when they are released.

Everybody hated the new Google logo. But you know what? It was a better logo and Google looks better for it.

Maybe give this a few months and see if whether things feel more coherent or just blurred out before having your hissy fits about the downfall of gmail.
> picking up whichever yeasts are in the air

I'm not sure this is actually true to the extent it is usually mentioned e.g.

"Yeast grow on grain and arrive with the flour. One gram of flour contains about 13,000 yeast cells. I don’t deny that there are a few yeast in the environment that find their way into the starter, but by and large the yeast that will survive in the starter are the ones that like the menu there, i.e, the ones that have a taste for grain. Sure enough, they’re the ones that were on that grain in the first place. "

http://www.wildyeastblog.com/sourdough-stories-myth/

or more discussion: http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/37259/mythbusters-grain-yea...

I'm sure I read about some kind of experiment involving creating a sourdough starter with sanitised air but I can't find it... Does anyone have something more scientific?
The competition of Bay Area (and California, in general) engineers is definitely a factor. But it doesn't preclude rockstar engineers existing in other areas unwilling to relocate to the region. This policy gives tech companies the best of both worlds (theoretically).
Selling it commercially would be pretty much the exact opposite of cultural appropriation.

Cultural appropriation would be “posting a shitty, burned, flat loaf saying, ‘Welp I guess this is what the ancient Egyptians had to deal with!’”
Indeed xlsx files don’t have VBA macros, you need the less common xlsm file format for that.
Yes this. Naming is an intuitive thing, you can't force it, and it will get in the way, moreover, it's fluid and won't matter until later, things could change.

Just name it whatever and come back to it when it starts to matter more and you've probably thought of something better by then.
> If I could extend my life by 50 years of good health I might take that offer. If I had to extend it by 500 years, I'm pretty sure I'd decline. If I had to extend it 5000 years I'd certainly say no. 5M years of existence would be torture.

is this a thing you worry might happen? like, if life extension is developed, you're concerned it will come in the form of a 5 million year increment, take it or leave it, no possibility of suicide in the middle?

> When people express the desire to live forever, either here on earth or in an imagined afterlife, I wonder if they have really thought through the consequences.

i wonder why you interpret the desire to live forever as some enforced, not only eternal, but literally unendable existence.

i expect we'll manage to simply end aging first. that won't prevent you from walking out into rural alaska in your underwear.
Do you know what his use-case is? I don't see it stated in this article.
Retail prices are very high in Australia. I specifically remember only finding mountaineering carabineers, at $35 AUD at the time (23 EUR at the time) when they’re 8 euros in France. Same goes shoes, tshirts or kettles. Maybe the absence of large-chain competitors plays a role in cost of life being quite high.

Then again, as a country, Australia would be free in deciding that it should only be affordable to people who have the means to support their life, to maintain a high quality standard and retails.
Sitting here in Walla Walla, I approve this message. Our onions are delicious. There's a reason the "sexy onion" on Facebook recently was a Walla Walla Sweet.
I'd suggest you make fewer unsubstantiated claims about people you do not know, AmericanChopper. How does meeting opposing intelligence officers diminish the power of the "message"? It still sends the message that they not only have that capability, but that they're also willing to use it. And it may still have the desired effect of discouraging Americans from wanting assignments in Russia. That is if the agent here dind't just get food poisoning... As I wrote in the original comment, there's still some chance that this is only NPR spin.
Surveillance should not be a business at all because violations are always intrinsic to the application.
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A small team of people who have strong opinions and zero ego is all you need
You could. But you probably won't.
Legacy developer portal in Azure API Management will retire on 31 October 2023
The article is obviously wrong.
This looks really nice, but does anyone know if it’s collection data is compatible with Postman/if it can at least import Postman collections? The biggest productivity boost for my team was getting a collection checked into our repo and maintaining it when the API changes, the problem with that of course being Postman lock-in.
I think they need at least a live Web preview too, and cover all of Figma‘s other functionality.
I read the article with a more skeptical eye. It could be that he didn't request the items back in time because they were fake and not worth the price of the return shipping. Amazon's response was interesting:

"The spokeswoman said Amazon repeatedly asked Govani to provide evidence that the products sold were authentic but that the invoices he sent were either illegible or didn't match the records of the brand owners."

So he's got (by his own admission old), and by Amazon's telling, illegible, or the brand disclaims them. It made me think of that scene in Fargo where the car dealer is faxing forms with illegible VINs repeatedly to General Motors to keep his scam going.
I mean you have to run Windows as your host system. Personally I would consider this a major drawback which more than eclipses any convenience gains.
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Policy to control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Storage now GA
> But, now I wonder why is the boundary the US?

Radically different legal system.

Starts to matter in a hurry as soon as an employee runs off with your IP to start a competitor.
It depends, are we including in this budget the off-the-books cash the CIA gets from trafficking drugs to fund its black operations?
Microsoft to establish its first datacenter region in Taiwan