skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see why a company would want to offer different salaries for the same job when worked in a different office. Because in certain locations, the market is going to be tougher to get people in. Hence in order to get staff there the company will need to pay more.

If previously agreed upon, it can be reasonable for a company to remove this location-dependent raise in salary if someone voluntarily changes their location.
This looks a bit like the old (2000s) work of Leopard Logic or Tensilica. Exciting stuff.

One important note (based on some comments here): generally, these in-CPU FPGAs have very fast reconfiguration. Not sure if it's 1, 10 or 100 cycles but it's not milliseconds. Actually, (in past examples) configuration might take milliseconds but it would load a number of planes of configurations: plane 0 might be MP3 audio device; plane 1 might be MPEG2 video device. Then reconfiguration is: switch to plane 1.

This AMD proposal looks like it's much more tightly integrated into the CPU so it's got to be even faster. Combine that with the deep knowledge of processor internals you'll have to have to code for this thing and I'm having a hard time seeing you and me having much luck tinkering. This is probably 99.99% data center with gnarly NDAs and field support.
> After a recent cross-country move in which several boxes of our stuff (wedding photos, my military uniform) were lost

I fear this the most when moving. A lot of these moving companies are fly by night. When moving I hand carry items that are irreplaceable or have sensitive private information.
Also the opposite: Sydney is a very nice place to live. But very expensive.

Should we boost salaries of people in Sydney so they can sustain living in the sun all year long with rich neighborhoods and a thriving city? And then pay people less in rainy and cold places, just because it’s poorer and disenfranchised and flats are cheap in the polluted area of the city, so your price-per-square-meter is lower? That is why the average cost of living there is lower, after all.

If we pay people at their living cost, people will flock to nice places, overpopulating them while cold places will die faster than Detroit.

There is no right answer to that. So let’s not “organize” it and let the markets decide.
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I don't get the hate for chatbots. Sure they are not perfect yet (it's a hard problem to solve!) but I see them as early-stage technology, which will improve over time.

No comment on this news article though.
It’s very simple to keep your pay from being reduced when you go remote: simply let your employer know that you will not accept any pay decrease.

There are lots of employers.
> exceptionally good life in Poland

Compared to your environment, sure. However, you'll never drive a Tesla and buy $4000 road bikes when you're on $27k/y.

> Just because a software engineer in SF can make $100k/year doesn't mean that's what the position is worth

It means exactly that in a free market capitalism (and while we're not living in a pure free market, we're not _that_ far). Why would a company overpay? (Sometimes they do, but not 4x, and not consistently.) In case everyone's massively overpaying in SV, then you could just start a company there and pay people half the salaries and be extremely competitive.
Google Chrome address bar is about to enforce HTTPS for security/perf
"It will help if you are already familiar with functional programming languages in the ML family (e.g., OCaml, F#, Standard ML), or with Haskell—we provide a quick review of some basic concepts if you're a little rusty, but if you feel you need more background, there are many useful resources freely available on the web, e.g., Learn F#, F# for fun and profit, Introduction to Caml, the Real World OCaml book, or the OCaml MOOC."

Isn't it yet another copy of OCAML? I think it shouldn't say familiar but something different. I really don't underestimate any effort to make OCAML available on dot-net, but referring to excellent OCAML books can't be explained by simple 'familiarity'...
Good... Now immediately...

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE!!!
I believe that this is a false dichotomy, or perhaps even a straw man.

Engineers aren’t asking to be paid the value they create, they’re just objecting to pay cuts for physically moving while doing the same job.
> out of fear of press and social media jumping at them and ruining their career forever

People like to claim this all the time, with very little evidence of it actually happening. Also the web is full of sexist shit, even 20 years later. I really don't see the point you are making.

In reality you are WAY more likely to get fired for union organizing or for being the victim of sexual harassment, rather than for being an edge lord on the internet.
The article makes it sound like there's nothing except:

- gentrified and unaffordable

- derelict post industrial with leaky roofs

- middle of nowhere

That may be the case but it makes me curious why this is so.
Europe, Unicorns and Global Tech Diffusion – The End of the American Internet
Hm, isn’t there still nondeterminism from a path dependency, because reinstalling a datastore that has arbitrary history isn’t exactly equivalent to creating a datastore with none?
You can't have global pay harmonisation in floating rate currencies. Harmonisation is fixed exchange rate thinking.

It would happen between Scotland and London, but not (to the same extent) between Poland and London.

Once you move something abroad the output becomes an import which ultimately has to be balanced by an export (or mercantilist tricks which is a whole other discussion - see China for details).

The correct response would be to unionise, rather than throw hands up in the air and continue to feel exploited.

There is a shortage of skilled staff. If your current employer doesn't appreciate you, then find one that does.
Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize
With the farcical extradition hearing[0] I did not expect this, not at all.

[0]: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-...
Yes, there's the waterbed case from Robert Heinlein ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterbed#Heinlein_descriptions
When you are in voice with (some of) your viewers having a 10s delay is shit for everyone. A lower delay is just a better experience, for any kind of viewer input. That aside, it's easily possible so this whole "why do you want this, you don't need this" smacks of apple tech support - it's nice that you don't need it, but evidently you are not the only use-case on earth.
People are paid based on location, duh. If it's "free market" that gave them those stupidly high salaries, it's "free market" that will take it away.

Developers from the whole world that get paid 1/10th(or less) of those SV engineers that the only differentiation factor they have is an American citizenship would happily take their jobs.

I like this situation because it won't take long until all software work is moved elsewhere outside America. I doubt companies will accept that kind of shit from employees, because if they do, they will lose money. And if they don't, employees are spoiled, they think that those high salaries are a right, will make a big case of it and caos.
Adding 2 numbers is not that easy as you might think
You are probably thinking of F#, not F*. Very different languages.
Judge blocks Assange extradition to US
Does the company care about your location? Then they get to care about the market for my position at my location. If they do not care about my location, they don't need to care about a location dependent market.
Maybe I'm just nitpicking, in that case I apologize, but:

Treating someone as a friend and being friendly are very different. Sometimes I am very assertive, pushy with my friends, and make them uncomfortable. I'd like to think that I'm doing that when making them uncomfortable is in their interest (e.g. telling someone to stop doing something that's harmful for them is definitely not a 'friendly' thing to do).

In a business setting, being friendly can simply be means to squeezing more value out of a person.

Therefore I'd be careful with my words here: if TFA wants to say 'friendly' then that is what it should do instead of saying that "treat people like they were your friends".
UK judge refuses extradition of WikiLeaks founder Assange
We’re Google Workers, and We Are Forming a Union
Would be nice if editors displayed lines longer than the terminal width wrapped (like notepad/textpad/etc do for prose) but with the programming-language-appropriate indentation.
Those companies are not massively overpaying. The cost of living acts as a filter so that only the most productive software jobs are done there. Take any industry and imagine if you could "kidnap" the top 10% of workers into a city. Suddenly it would look like workers in that industry are highly paid. It's like survivorship bias. You only see the good parts.
How do you prove equal work? This is in the title, and in the article already the goal posts are moved to "same value" and "same duties".

And the actual argument has nothing to do with equal value, work or duties even, and it is a crappy argument, because the price of labour has to do with the market for labour. If the market is the whole of US instead of SV, then you will get market rate for the whole of US, which is lower than SV.

You think someone in Poland will get SV rates just because they are insufferable enough? No. They won't.

And you know what, if you don't like what your employer pays you, go to another one. If you can't find one that pays you what you think you are entitled to, what is the basis for this entitlement?
Lightening web component – open-source web framework from Salesforce
Ask yourself the opposite:
Could there perhaps be a measurable difference if I am the only VM on the host, versus a ton of busy VMs next to mine?
It wasn't eink! But low-power transmissive LCD. Best of both worlds IMO, faster refresh rate and still super low power.

I was a backer of the original pebble too.. It's a shame things didn't work out. I think they just grew too quickly and got caught up in too much investment money wanting too quick returns.
Julian Assange could be freed today as judge blocks extradition to US
Author here. A few comments:

- I am not a Bay worker, I don't even live in the US, I never had a pay like an average SV engineer and I am not even an employee right now. This blog post was not written with the intention to help myself, but others.

- Anyone can find any flaws in any argumentation, but that is not the point. I wrote this because I thought if it only helps a single person to motivate them to fight for a better pay, then it is worth it. If someone doesn't stand up for their own pay then it doesn't make other employees better off. The alternative is that some big corporation just managed to exploit the general public in yet another way. My blog may not help everyone, but if it does for some I consider it a success.

Thanks for sharing and your inputs though!
New competitive sailboats foil at 50kts (90kph+)
Hope you don't mind me commenting, but I'm Kelly a product manager at Stripe. You are spot on about Stripe missing tax compliance support but we've got a few things in the works to change that, especially for SaaS businesses. Happy to share more what we're working on if you're interested -- kmoriarty@stripe.com.

On the payment method side of things, I'm curious what methods are being requested by buyers that we are missing? We do allow users to accept checks and bank transfers, so just wondering if there is a specific method we're missing (aside from PayPal)? All in all, just want to understand exactly what you are looking for in terms of that last mile support from Stripe!

Checks: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/invoices/paper-check-payment
Payment Method Overview (incl. Bank Transfers): https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-methods/overview
This is an important step, and reminder, that governments can and should be held to account for things such as human rights violations.

It is extremely disappointing that there are no whistle blower laws that can provide adequate protection for leaders of such things. Like Julian, they will likely be hounded for life.
This is the key point that I wish people understood. From an economic standpoint, articles like this one are really just arguing that the supply and demand in several different markets should be lumped together and aggregated. the claim is that these different markets aren't actually selling a different product; so there is something like Marx's labor theory of value going on or something. But it just seems dubious.

It's different if you are arguing that they will inevitably merge. But if you're arguing that we should artificially merge them, that doesn't make a terribly large amount of sense to me. Or that we should not merge them but we should just act irrationally in a market to be consistent with our actions in another market, again, that sounds like people being excessively idealistic.
The author really does not make that argument, they make the argument that your location does not affect your work, not that all people should get equal pay for equal work.

But this ignores the fact that the labour market in the whole of the US is not the same as the labour market in SV - so it is a pretty poor argument.
What I Learnt Reading 80 Articles on Product Validation
academia != education

The education system incentives students to be teachable to conserve teacher resources.

Transparent calculations are more important to help folks with low numerical skills.

I think this is actually a really hard challenge to communicate simple calculations easily to a wide audience.
That's my point, I too went from a 3rd-world country to a developed one, haven't seen many people doing the opposite.
TLDR; No extradiction.
If engineers are not paid based on their local market, and also not paid based on the value they create, what is their pay based on?

I can think of a few other alternatives:

- some new "remote workers" market that doesn't exist at the moment

- the pay of the lowest paid region in the world

- the pay of the highest paid region in the world

I can't see the last option being reasonable in any way, and the second option also doesn't seem like it would work in practice. My guess is you'd see something in between the first two.

This would take a long time to stabilize, so it's not straightforward for companies to implement I think?
I guess this boils down to what your mean by "inspiring"; let me give you some of my favorites by category:

> Movies about people doing stuff, usually investigating something - makes me want to get up and get stuff done

[1] Cold Case Hammarskjöld - IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9352780/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

[2] Tickled - Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOBXuCYB4jQ

[3] Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles - Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIWpJ5Jl4fE (full movie is on Youtube, Too)

[4] The Cove - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cove_(film)

> Movies about ... the human condition, human life on earth? IDK, but if you watch the trailer, you get what I mean. WARNING: Might evoke the urge to travel

[1] Koyaanisqatsi - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi - Pruitt Igoe Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq_SpRBXRmE

[2] Samsara - Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCkEILshUyU

[3] Anthropocene - Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikMlCxzO-94 (Check out his other movie "Watermark", too!)

> Movies about the work of particular people:

[1] Playing God - Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knK4lE3tZBM
Painting a Selfie Girl, with Maths
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B3%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%8...

ʝ is the voiced counterpart of ç (the ch in "ich"), so you might be able to get pretty close by pronouncing it "Chiros" but buzzing your voice box during the initial consonant.
I'm personally of the opinion that this isn't the same thing and I'm saying this as someone who wants to do this in python.

Unless you've figured it out? In which case please say, because I want to code python like this.

Specifically I write code in my editor, hit a keystroke and all the code at the cursor gets sent to my running python and evaluated. The editor needs to be aware of python's indenting rules so it can do this, but once again if you've worked out a nice way to do this please say. Minimal keystrokes required would be great =)...

I'm not really requiring that the evaluated output gets sent to the editor, though of course that would be ideal, because in the worst case I can side-by-side the editor and the terminal.

From my perspective jupyter notebooks get kind of close, but I'm not coding in a file, so it's not quite ideal.
Seems to me employers have a choice of only unfair options, for historical reasons.

A company starts with an office in London, and employs a bunch of people at London market rate. Some people move from Poland to London to take those well paid jobs.

The company grows for a few years and needs to open a second office. They open an office in Poland as paying market rate there costs a lot less.

Then along comes Covid-19, and some of those Polish employees in London want to WFH from Poland. The company has a bunch of options and they're all shitty for the company:

* If they let the Polish employees in London work from Poland while earning London market rate, they'll have two sets of Polish employees earning radically different wages for the same work in the same country.

* If they tell the Polish workers they'll get a pay cut if they move, that's arbitrary as they're doing the same work regardless of their location - and it deprives them of the family support Brits can access, and it's essentially unenforceable anyway (who's going to report themselves as due a pay cut?)

* If they cut everyone's salaries to Polish levels, the London office will evaporate instantly.

* If they raise everyone's salaries to London levels, why open a Polish office in the first place?
Canada has almost quadrupled their M0 supply. This is going to have big consequences for people, but I don't know what those will be.
Did Someone Work Here?
I'm IOS developer (2 yrs exp). Did someone work at this mobile development company madappgang.com/? I got an offer, but I'm not sure. Maybe you can recommend more companies with decent working conditions? Thanks in advance
Kevin Gosztola: "The United States government's mass incarceration system just lost them their case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange" - https://twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1346048531249958914

Matt Kennard, investigative journalist: "Brilliant news, but be in no doubt. This ruling is utterly chilling for investigative journalism. Baraitser sided with US prosecutors on pretty much all of their arguments. It was the barbaric nature of the US penal system that saved Assange." - https://twitter.com/kennardmatt/status/1346051928011235328

Rebecca Vincent from Reports Without Borders responding to the judgment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm3JMUREH8A
I use Alexa on a daily-basis - which can be seen as a chatbot. It provides plenty of useful functionality, especially Alexa-auto which I bought my wife for Christmas. She loves the ability to add items to her todo list whilst driving, asking it questions about the weather, playing music, performing communcation tasks, etc.
Identity, Unlocked Explained – Episode 4
Daniel Fett joins the podcast today to talk about the security BCP document. #Identity #Unlocked
The role of freight forwarders in distributing the coronavirus vaccine
I work fully remote from a very low CoL area (house under 100k, monthly expenses for a family of 4 under 2k, etc.) and if I demanded SV pay I'd immediately be fired because my neighbour, who also has a low CoL, will apply for my job and work for 70% less.

That being said, I still do much better than I would with local employers, and I like not stressing out about heavy liabilities.
Liqo: Liquid Computing with Kubernetes
People don't particularly care if they will improve over time if they are made to deal with broken early-stage technology now.
Thinking about it a bit more, QNX clones might suffer from something akin to second system syndrome. There's a simple working design, and it likely strongly invites people to jump right to their own twist on the design before they get very far into a clone.
On the other hand it might not have spread quite as far before people realised the danger. Global air traffic almost tripled between 2000 and 2019.
So is Julian Assange going to be released now or what?
> TUI Emacs has the terminal emulator (and also commonly tmux) limiting and conflicting with the clipboard, keybindings, colors, and more. None of these limitations are present in GUI Emacs.

Is it me, or is this telling me that the terminal Emacs experience is just severely crippled compared to the GUI one?
Victory for press freedom.
This. If I have to support my parents financially and physically, my cost of living are higher in a rural area than living like a student in SF. So what makes cost of living? It’s a BS metric.
Nope, but we've had plenty of asymmetrical wars where larger powers have supplied missiles.

It seems rash to bet the farm on that not happening with something that can take out an aircraft carrier given that the tech already exists.
Quite surprised by that verdict. Reading the commentary from Craig Murray [1] I thought it likely he would be extradited.

Maybe Trump will pardon him and Snowdon on his way out as well.

[1] EG: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/10/your-man-in-...
Can't wait for the "they took our jobs" (south park) movement from SWE in US.

I think governments will try to prevent that with some sort of taxation.
The lines have blurred. Algorithms have been patented as have things like 1-click purchasing.
Because, as jwr says, it was never meant to be. The mental model is that of regular mail that gets collected at post offices, then split by major destination, sent on, and finally ends up in a mailbox.

Mail servers do not even have to be on the internet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Internet_email_address), or on a network at all. It was fairly normal to have a time sharing system dial in to a mail server every day for a few minutes to exchange mail messages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Mail_routing))

Also, of course, it is harder to accomplish in a decentralized system that isn’t controlled by a single party.
Code Smell 52 – Fragile Tests
Assange Can’t Be Extradited to U.S. to Face Espionage Charges, U.K. Judge Rules
introductory short video:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VQUl_hf6yo8
Not really. Reports say that it was just the concern for his mental health / suicide risk.
It wouldn't be a post about Singapore without someone bringing up the 27 year old article
as I understand so far, the new regs are as follow:

price <135 GBP = VAT exempt for import
price >135 GBP = VAT has to be collected by point of sale and handled there.

The main difference is that previously, above 135 GBP you paid VAT as part of customs process, on importer side. Now you will have to worry about their VAT registration etc.
Quite. The European Commission generally consists of people who have lost an election in a member state, and have had to find something else to do... :-)
I'm not sure they were ever replaced; the terms co-exist. I believe the terms all stem from the general concept of writing a name on a piece of paper.

To "register" your interest in an something, you might sign a piece of paper, or instruct a person to "sign [you] up".

To show that you entered a physical event, you would sign an entry log on a piece of paper, then having "logged in" or "signed in", and then do the opposite on your way out.

Similarly you might refer to reproducing your physical signature as having "authenticated" yourself, if there's something to compare it to.

What makes one particular set of terms the right set given the apparent origins?
If released , will he be safe?