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I am convinced Power Users are not the target market for Windows 11 (or maybe even windows). I mistakenly updated to it and have regretted it. Did you know they turned off animations when using Virtual Desktops [1]? A power-user feature on all the other OS' that took Microsoft till 2019 to adopt was crippled in little over 2 years after release.

[1] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/report-an-issue/windo...
Can't the reverse be argued? Why should they pay you more than the value of your work just because you live somewhere expensive?
> This year it feels the most like it’s driven by hype (and marketing, hi Vercel!)

A few developer YouTubers I used to enjoy watching have all jumped on board this train and are now only making videos about products built by companies that are paying them.
I thought I read somewhere that they broke that workaround now.
Tech industry’s three-day work week may change the future of the office forever
I did something similar for Bandcamp. Back in the day, Bandcamp had decent RSS feeds, but they dropped them several years ago. Following labels on Bandcamp is one of my main ways of music discovery, but using Bandcamp's "feed" or getting emails wasn't cutting it for me.

So, I wrote something simpler using imapfilter to filter Bandcamp emails and convert them to RSS feeds, which I can read with my freshrss self hosted instance.

https://blog.line72.net/2021/12/23/converting-bandcamp-email...
You called women trophies, they didn't. You can hunt for a job etc, it is a general term for when you put in effort towards finding/getting something.
You're right. My comment was uncharitable and US-centric. Sorry. I found it hard to not react because of the personal stake I feel I have in this sort of conversation. I'll try to do better.
To play devil's advocate: someone who is in NC (or a lower cost-of-living area), if they're paid the same as someone in the Bay Area, is effectively being paid more for doing the same work.

Their purchasing power is significantly higher; their dollars are just worth more. We're not talking small amounts, either – a difference of 25% or more in purchasing power is easy to find when you're comparing CA to the South. [1]

So, when you look at it like that... why shouldn't Google pay less? Even a 10% pay cut would amount to Southern workers still making an effective 15% more than their Bay Area counterparts.

Again: I'm playing devil's advocate here. In another comment on this thread, I totally agree with you: the argument of "same work, same pay" is very hard for me to dismiss, and I really don't have any argument against it. I just think there are very convincing arguments in both directions.

Edit: another counterargument for anyone who is stridently in the "same work, same pay" camp: What if you were working at a job in North Carolina, and your company told you that you needed to move to New York in order to keep your job, and they weren't going to give you a pay raise? Do you still feel that "the same work deserves the same pay"?

https://taxfoundation.org/real-value-100-state-2019/
> We have access to individual-level desktop browsing data of a representative sample of the U.S. population via the market research firm Nielsen. Participants are incentivized to install a software that records all web browsing activity and fill in a survey of basic demographics, such as gender, employment, age, education, and income

This seems to be an inherently flawed collection methodology. The users that one would expect to be involved with these "install this software, download this app and earn free money!!" schemes would also typically be associated with certain activities that would not necessarily reflect the overall population.

The experiment groups themselves are flawed, but then again, I also cannot think of an ethical/legal way to conduct this kind of research.
How to Build an Ecosystem
The original PNAS paper referenced in the Guardian article is open access: https://www.pnas.org/content/119/8/e2113947119

Some brief highlights for readers wondering about significance:

- Most rivers have one or more compounds above detection limits. About 26% have one or more compounds above PNEC [1] levels.

- The most commonly detected compounds (caffeine, metformin, carbamazepine) were not commonly detected above PNEC levels.

- The compounds most often detected above PNEC levels are sulfamethoxazole (antimicrobial), propranolol (β-blocker), loratadine (antihistamine), amitriptyline (antidepressant), citalopram (antidepressant), fexofenadine (antihistamine), verapamil (Ca channel blocker), and ketotifen (antihistamine).

- The worst affected areas were middle income countries. The authors hypothesize that these are regions where populations can broadly afford pharmaceuticals but where sewage treatment systems lag behind those of high income countries.

[1] Predicted No-Effect Concentration (PNEC) is the concentration of a substance in any environment below which adverse effects will most likely not occur during long term or short term exposure.
(it usually is)
My guess is that compilation time could be increased, which would let Go in the same boat as Rust or C++. I suspect every nice or must-have feature you add to a language, you must take the choice between deal with it in runtime or compilation time. Not adding features, no choice to take.
What's confusing about this? It's asking whether you want bigger ads or in-mailbox ads, which have their own negatives.
On one hand they cut my base salary by 25% when I went remote in AZ, but on the other I'm paying 35% less in housing to own a 3 bedroom house instead of renting a 1 bedroom apartment. I get the annoyance but there's something to be said about being grateful about the overall purchasing power increase.
Banking is a bad example. Anyone with 2+ years of experience gets a VP title.
> why shouldn't _you_ get to pocket the difference in the cost of living?

When I pay $x for something, I pay $x because I am betting I will not be able to get that something for less than $x. If I think circumstances have changed and I can now get that something for less than $x, then I will try to get that something for less than $x.

I might fail, or I might succeed, but at any given time, it seems prudent for me to be shopping around for the best price for me.

I assume others also behave in the same manner.
You avoid this by using visual cues. E.g. strongly looking into the direction that you want to go. I suppose that most people learn this at an early age. And these robots should too.
Without looking up any sources, I would say that Google is even more pervasive. I would estimate around 80-90% of the websites include some kind of Google tracking.
I'd recommend Ubuntu also. However I can't stand their default desktop environment, so I'd either recommend Ubuntu mate, or (what I did) the latest and greatest Ubuntu, and then just sudo apt-get install cinnamon-desktop-environment which will give you a desktop with a start menu more akin to windows.
The problem with email on iOS is that there's no way to do instantaneous notifications without paying Apple at least $100/year for a custom app with a certificate to do push. The mail app only does polling (no IMAP IDLE) so the latency on notifications is very high there.

The consequences of the iPhone on the internet are extreme and I don't think most of the people involved in internet protocol design have fully realized just how bad it is.
> demand for premium-priced energy covering the reduced efficiency and new capital costs of greener technology

"Greener technology" does not have "reduced efficiency and new capital costs." Solar and wind cost a fraction of any hydrocarbon-based energy sources and solar in particular has been plunging in cost. Coal plants for example, are being shut down left and right while solar and wind deployment is skyrocketing.
That certainly works too but with my approach you can run "snap refresh" manually whenever you feel like updating.
Theoretically, by removing bullshit and friction from the job environment, employees will get more done, therefore making the company more money, therefore providing a larger pie to divide between them.

So on the topic of employee retention, there would be a "both/and" rather than an "instead of" argument, it seems to me.
God damn this would be awesome
whyd they get rid of iGoogle
I don't get why cost of living is factored at all.

The biggest expense is typically housing. And if you bought the house, it means the biggest expense is... building equity into an asset you can sell afterward.

Keep in mind the engineer who purchased a 2 million house in Palo Alto can sell it for two million, and then move to Ohio to a much cheaper house purchased in cash. The reverse isn't true.

Now, let me tell you a little secret. These "official prevailing wage calculators" are all "corporate policy from HR" and aren't real. There are a lot of engineers that have special deals with their organizations and keep the same salary bands, no matter what HR says. Just make sure you are at a profit center.
A Russian invasion of Ukraine would make the chip shortage much worse
I’m impressed with the adoption of both Rust and Go. Seven years ago I wouldn’t have been surprised if Rust had just become a language for PL enthusiasts and Mozillians, and that Go had just become a language for worse-is-better enthusiasts and Googlers. :)
When you consider that Zuckerberg lies all the time about everything, it makes sense
The French fry lover in your life may go head over peels for this perfume
Where did you get that idea? It's not true at all.
Any throwaway account from Google current or former higher ups can chime on this?

I can think of one reason is to be keep employees in few locations concentrated to get some political leverage.

Mr.Senator from CA, if you are doing this X, there are 50K of our employees in the State of CA paying taxes so we may have to move them to AZ kind of lobbying. May be some tax rebates or other incentives from state or city.

Google wants to maintain a certain strength in certain states -- if their workforce is diluted across US - they may not have these kind of levers. So, they are using COLA based pay to get people to move to their favorite location(s).

Or it could be down right -- hey employee X will be paying $10K in less taxes -- how about we get $8K of that. May be petty or may be not!
What would they be striking for? Collective bargaining is just that – a bargain. At the end of the day, the goal is to come to some kind of agreement.

I guess the answer is that, assuming the union were national, they would try to set nationwide salaries and enforce them across the board.
Curious: were there any takeaways for the question "what to build for what outcome"?

As in, was there an association with time building + time in market = greater sales price? Did Higher Free Cash Flow or Higher Growth lead to a better ratio (cash v stock) for offers?

Very curious -- four successes is quite the batting average
LXD does all of that since a long time, eg here's a tutorial from 2015: https://ubuntu.com/blog/publishing-lxd-images
I mean, yes; part of the reason that these jammers are illegal is that it'll happily wipe out all service, including 911, in the affected area.
I don't believe it makes sense to have every website in the world implement this in a half arsed JavaScript implementation when it could be done once per major browser. Same with the cookie nonsense.
Weird, I just tested on my proxmox instance and I was able to create a snapshot of a running container (PVE 7.1-10)
Instead of hand coding a scraper or subscribing to email driven webhooks, and managing that bespoke code - take a look at Pipedream.com

You can chain together low code steps. An email address can be a trigger, or just a simple timer.

Then you can post results to Slack/Discord with pre built actions, it's a lot less work. No hosting to worry about either. You just build in the dashboard and the steps are hosted by Pipedream.
Your example is a good one. However, I must emphasize that there are a lot of examples that are not in the extremes. People who are not as "low" as laborers but, say, school teachers. Their pay can be well enough that it makes a major improvement to the opportunities their kids have as opposed to had they been a school teacher in their own countries.

It's hard to get a visa to move to the US and teach at an elementary school. Yet you can do that in the Middle East.
Although the title could suggest otherwise, this is talking about a five-day working week with three days physically in-office.

> Here's what it looks like: Tech workers are beginning to go into the office midweek while working from home on Monday and Friday.
I use FreshRSS which is hosted on my home server. What it does is allow you to categorise the feeds and you can also do some further things like hiding them from the main feed if you choose to. Then beyond that it pulls article tags from the original sites which you can search or predefine a filter for and you can also label individual articles you find. What it can't do unfortunately is allow multiple tags for a site to be applied, so its not possible to classify content from a source multiple ways and have it surfaced in multiple places while only having it shown once and read once. You can put a site in multiple categories but reading it in one place wont read it in the other.

It is one of the better systems I have used, its by no means perfect but its fairly quick and easy to use with some decent shortcuts for working through the sites and I manage hundreds with it and it happily works across every platform since its a website.
For the average person email alerts are going to be much more useful than RSS "alerts." Almost everyone uses email where very few people use RSS.
> I remember being told that it was compiled from his notes but I guess that was mistaken.

You may be confusing the Dune Encyclopedia with Brian Herbert's novels, which he claims are based on his father's notes (but probably aren't).

Frank Herbert actually wrote a foreword to the Dune Encyclopedia, in which he noted that:

"I must confess that I found it fascinating to re-enter here some of the sources on which the Chronicles are built. As the first 'Dune fan,' I give this encyclopedia my delighted approval, although I hold my own counsel on some of the issues still to be explored as the Chronicles unfold."
Seconded. Paul's contribution of the Fullmoon web framework is a great way to promote the stunning Cosmopolitan viewpoint.
I don’t think employers should adjust for cost of living. But I do think that As long as remote work is not universal, an employer in location X will have to compete with other employers in and around that location, in pay, benefits, or otherwise.
You're worth that 25% more though. The value you provide is not based on your location.

You deserve better.
The whole concept of nuke keys is snake oil unless they're implemented with something like a TPM or HSM, since otherwise the attacker can just restore the pre-nuke image if you set it off.
That's why you capture an asteroid... link at the end of the post. A million tons of rock is GREAT armor.

Traditional naval theory is that you can build a battery onshore 10x bigger than the one on a battleship. Things change when you are in space though. Missiles have to escape the gravity well. Lasers have to get through the atmosphere. Sure it's expensive to get up there, but if you have space superiority, you do have certain advantages.
Deciding Between Docker Desktop and a DIY Solution
My real-time morse code audio decoder handles this pretty well [0]. Just make sure to enable the "Full speed" setting in Morse Codle.

[0] https://ggmorse.ggerganov.com
I've read it's partly for security. If browsers started to let you style and change the login UI then nothing is stopping bad-website.com from making it look like your bank's login site and fooling you. Yes you should be checking the URL, the SSL certs, etc. and not entering your password blindly... but real people don't do that even though they should. So the thinking is the browser will completely control the login form and make it super generic and obvious exactly what website you are logging into.
As a Canadian developer who frequently works for or with Americans, my entire career has been one where I'm acutely aware that my American coworkers make significantly more than me for the same level of responsibility.

Yah, it stinks. The alternative is moving to the valley; it used to be that the calculation was in the tune of a 30% pay raise or similar, but nowadays it's likely closer to a 2x or 3x difference in pay. I have no doubt that those working in North Carolina, or in similarly "remote" areas, will find their wages stagnate as well.
dang does a generally good job, though there have been times that HN has allowed some discussion that I find quite immoral and heinous, and I was chastised by dang for speaking out against it with strong words. However I get that I am very far left, and this is a website that is generally pro-capitalism, even despite its many failings - and that I am the outsider in this perspective.
Is spending $15 on an alarm clock wasting money? That thing will probably last a decade or two and outlive a couple of phone generations.

You’ll get to lead by example and perhaps even improve your sleep.
Lots of companies engage third party companies that give "industry averages" or "comparable company averages". The company pays them with dollars and also their own average pay information.

None of the companies are explicitly getting together and saying "let's keep pay at this level", but there's definitely some fishy stuff going on.
This is a great analysis.

I'd also add that the value of being able to work in-person is not zero - some roles can go fully remote, but things like user research are much more difficult to conduct remotely (particularly with hardware).

Finally, the reason the Bay Area / NYC cost the most are because they attract on the whole, highly qualified talent. It's not unexpected that the salary scales would be where the senior, high performing talent is implicitly located.
Would take me less than an hour to learn enough to drive a semi truck from point A to point B.
Hey Ian, thanks for all the very thoughtful content over the years. I started reading Anandtech shortly before Anand left and I remember being worried. However, in hindsight there was clearly nothing to worry about.

Your analysis helped convince me to go all in on some AMD stock purchases that ended up really saving me over past year. It’s beyond appreciated, and I’m far more knowledgeable about semiconductors thanks to you! Best of luck in your new journey
> but assuming we find out it is bad, and kids must be disconnected at any cost

Maybe, but that's a really big precondition.
>This is some really complex stuff

No that's just I and Qs !

(sorry couldn't resist)
Indeed; any other blockade of the nation's capitol would have been violently broken up 3 weeks ago. That the federal government needed to declare this a national emergency to prompt the police to act is, itself, quite telling. The indigenous activists I've heard speak of this express hope that future protests will be treated with such honor, grace and respect.
Selection bias is kind of a HN go-to for dismissing this people don't agree with.

Bit something I learned in my college statistics courses is that with a large enough sample, self-selection bias stops becoming a problem.

It was a long time ago, so I can't explain the math here. But from what I remember, you need a surprisingly small sample size to actually achieve real representation.
if it's ok for employers to pay you less for the same job because you live in egypt, it's ok for a shop to charge you more because you don't live in egypt
Careful with not reading other comments... it's already explained.

I misstype GB and Gb all the time because I talk about disc sizes and network all the time, but you see humans can adapt to my misstake and correct without having to tell me I'm wrong again after the edit timeout has expired... Xo

But to further expand on the battery solution: humanity needs to move away from centralization ASAP, and the most efficient way to do this is to host servers at home. If you only use the fiber you have for consumption you are a slave but if you produce (and potentially sell) something of value from home you are a king.

Unless of course the companies and governements take your external IPv4 away, then you're a slave again, so it's important that EVERYONE that has fiber with an external IP to use it as hosting now, so it's harder for them to undo!
My feed is full of former groups being overrun with blogspam. I've noticed it spiking in the last 3-6 months. That type of thing needs armies of people, and... well, facebook doesn't care.

Like the pre-google (well, and google search as of now) search engines, being overrun by spam signaled the end of the viability of the product. Either they don't have the resources to defend it, or they don't care. Reason doesn't matter.
Haha good question! I have actually been using it to invest, and have made a decent amount of money using the AI to buy options in companies like Google and Amazon where the AI is pretty accurate.

However, it's hard to make money, if you don't already have money. Also I only buy these options when the AI has a confidence above 75% for these stocks which doesn't happen often!

My goal is to make the AI more and more accurate and offer it as a free tool for everyone, but I have to start somewhere!
> This whole approach of paying what the local market offers, rather than what the job is worth kinda sucks.

What is the job worth? Outside of sales (or dealing with money directly like finance), it becomes hard to pin an exact $ value on the worth of a particular job. The reality is, almost all salaries are market based. What I expect to see over time as more companies move remote, is for the salaries to normalize to a country/region market which means less money in SF, but more if someone lives in the south.
I never heard about this. I never worried about this.

The idea that there is a rule that says that you must assume that the probability has a uniform distribution is ridiculous. The probability is never uniforms except in very special cases that are build on purpose.

In a similar problem, the first step is try to guess a good model for the distribution of the probabilities, and then refute experimentally all the alternatives.
Very interesting idea

I agree on the civilian applications - probably the best way to get a traditional VC's support would be to have some kind of dual use technology for defense/civ
They cannot possibly be this short-sighted could they? What is their rationale??
Sure, but the ‘80s is within living memory and so is more easily comparable.
I have wondered this too -- honestly the big co's best strategy is either: truly hire you with an upfront bonus or wait for you to die out and pick up the pieces. Those that go for flashy deals to fly with the stock price seem to suffer from what you note above.

Heck you could even say the Amazon Whole Foods Acquisition was a loser -- they haven't leveraged the store network like Walmart has.
>I don't believe many companies can compete with Google on salary. Paying "market rate" is well... market rate.

In my broader circle, I see a lot more movement towards the likes of Google than away from--and most of the latter are senior people who don't need the money (or really didn't click with the job). Most companies that can will do creative things to snag or hold onto the people they want but I expect that most people who can land a Bay Area-salaried Google etc. position will just take that if money is the deal-breaker. Because most companies won't match in general.