skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, though it’s just most criminals that are dumb in my experience. There are some that are quite smart and also find themselves committing crimes. They are a real bear to catch and prosecute.

A lot of complexity in the legal system is so that at least most of the time even if someone is smart and can hire someone who has built their career on covering their ass, deflecting blame, understanding and using all the technicalities, obfuscating the facts as much as possible when not in their favor, calls to emotion when it helps them, calls to reason when it helps them, and all the other tricks (aka high end defense attorneys), we still end up with outcomes that aren’t clearly obviously wrong eventually.

And at least most of the time if someone is a real dumbass and can’t afford someone to at least help them pull their foot out of their mouth (aka low end defense attorneys), they don’t get railroaded and we end up with outcomes that are clearly obviously wrong either. Most of the time.
> How would a union work here if the company just turn around and say "sorry - your members are already at the top of the rate in this market. Our policy is not to pay more than the market rate. End of discussion."?

Then you have to change the market rate by withdrawing supply. That's essentially how strikes work. Sure, if they can sack everyone and find and onboard several hundred programmers overnight at the same rate, it's not going to work. Tends not to be that easy.

Of course, the main reason programmers are already paid quite well is that the supply is short and the market rate is pretty high.
> But I just can't get over the very basic logic of "same work, same pay." It seems deeply, critically unfair to me – and beyond unfair, it seems like a quick way to make anyone outside SF feel "lesser-than.

Would you pay a plumber more if you could get another plumber to do the same work for less?

Would you pay more for groceries if another grocery store is selling at 50% cheaper?

> On the other, it's hard for me not to agree with the employers' basic arguments. In a capitalist sense, they're gonna pay what they need to, nothing more: market-based pay is just that. PR aside, they're running a business.

Everyone pays what they (feel) they need to and nothing more, not just employers.
Why would any sysadmin that maintains a fleet of servers with varying maintenance windows (that may or may not be dependent on the packages installed) want to feed snapd a list of dates and times to basically ask it pretty please not to auto-update snaps?

It is much easier to give sysadmins back the power they've always had to perform updates when it is reasonable to do so on their own schedule without having to inform snapd of what that schedule is.

I really don't appreciate being told by Canonical that I have to jump through additional hoops and spend additional time satisfying snapd to maintain the systems under my control.
Only 31%? Are you sure? I mean, I block all Google domains, including fonts and stuff, but 31% seems low. Does that count things like fonts from Google domains and other things that could be used to track users? It feels like whenever I check my ad blocker's block settings for a page, I see Google stuff.
Why is It important to know who wrote these serial numbers?
What does this have to do with the article? This reads like you're just taking the chance to rant.
There are a number of interesting projects already doing this, either doing it manually via the c FFI or using projects like ocaml-rs [1] or ocaml-interop [2] for example

[1]: https://github.com/zshipko/ocaml-rs
[2]: https://github.com/tezedge/ocaml-interop
I use multiple non-admin profiles for different activities and I think this will ruin my strategy. I always make the first user a local account and never use it for anything but adding normal user profiles.

I log in with my personal Microsoft account on one profile. I use a local account for a work profile that also has a MS365 account added to it (to avoid being joined to the domain). I have a second MS account for a side project. I have a second local account for a second job that uses Google Workspace.

I use Windows over Linux because it’s more convenient. Although that’s only because I’m forced into Office for work. I could probably switch to Linux for 80% of my stuff. I have a Linux install for development, but rebooting to do a quick task is a pain.

I think the government needs to break up big tech. The anti-consumer behavior they’re engaged in because they have no competition is crazy. IT costs for small businesses have skyrocketed in the last decade. Everything is a subscription and costs 3-10x what it used to.
> 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.

They're paid the same in fact, they just spend it poorly (on expensive Bay Area real estate, mostly, but also other services the area makes more expensive.) Why should Google help subsidize SF Bay Area real estate? Historically, the answer is just, "because so many employees are here and we like them here", but will that cut it going forward?
I remember refreshing slashdot to see the announcement introducing accounts. Teenage me decided to be one of the "the concept of accounts on this site is dumb" folks. (For months after slashdot introduced accounts there were all sorts of AnonymousCowards talking about how dumb the idea was). Eventually I relented and got my 5 digit uid. Years later I would cringe thinking about it, knowing I had an opportunity for a 3 or 4 digit one (when it was still cool and relevant to have such a thing). These days the fact that my reddit account is almost old enough to drive, and my HN account is 14.25 just makes me feel old :D.

The place I really miss is kuro5hin. That site was a gem.
have you ever been a manager?
That's OK, we're just used to different systems.
I was told by a friend that when they uploaded a picture with me in it Facebook auto tagged me. I have never created a Facebook or Instagram account. I want no business with that company. I am annoyed that I am still profiled by them.
The people who are least valuable to a society are usually the ones who think their rights are violated when mandates are drafted to protect those with no other option.
I’ve found that Fastmail’s webmail is actually a nicer mail client on my Mac than either Apple’s Mail or Microsoft’s Outlook.
Looking at openbenchmarking.org, it seems they are related to Phoronix?

As to why - essentially, Phoronix benchmarks are crap, for a number of reasons:

1. They don't provide things like standard deviation

2. They compile software in improper way

3. They don't even know what are they measuring in the first place

It's been pointed to them numerous times, and honestly, I think it's a waste of time.
Canadian citizens can pretty trivially acquire a TN visa to work as a software engineer in the US. Your living situation is less secure on a TN visa compared to permanent residency however.
Throw yourself wholeheartedly into whatever comes into your lap right now.

Whether that's a full time job, or a business with traction.

Don't worry about whether it's "worth it".
Dig deep into anything and at the end of the day it is all meaningless.

What you're concerned about is feeling fulfilled and joyful.
That stems from within and how you approach life.
It has very little (other than basics -- food, shelter, water) to do with your work.

You can take this to the bank -- giving your absolute all in any given situation will give birth to the fulfillment/meaning you're looking for.
A lot of people don't these days.
One of the authors here…

Scaling certainly is one of the next big challenges, the current network sizes severely limit us in our inference performance.

Just to clear things up: Our circuits were actually trained via backprop.
This is what allowed us to reach performance levels very close to equivalently sized but simulated SNNs (and even rather close to the accuracy of ANNs of the same size).
But it isn't based on Cost of Living.

Somebody working in Raleigh-Durham is paid considerably lower than somebody working in "Remote-NC." In fact, the Raleigh-Durham office currently pays the least of any location in the US because their equity calculations are also affected.
> I don't get why cost of living is factored at all.

It isn't. It's cost of labor, not cost of living. "How much do we have to pay you to keep you from switching to a plausible competitor."

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
Erm, no, self-selection bias never disappears or even attenuates with sample size, the best you can hope for is to reweight the sample according to known demographics of your target population, which does indeed get a bit easier with larger samples.
You mean like Google fonts? Yes, still an issue.

https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_...
> 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.

Would you apply the same reasoning to two people both living in the Bay Area? The cost of living of different people in the same area isn’t the same. Should Google decrease your pay if your mortgage is lower than your coworkers’?
Rate limiting works, and isn't discriminatory against "non-standard" clients.
I don't think your argument quite works in this case.

> Someone who has a child and pays for childcare, or a parent in a nursing home that they pay for, is getting less purchasing power for the same salary.

This is not what purchasing power means.

It's true that different people have different lifestyles and different costs of living, but even given that fact, different areas simply have different purchasing power outside of that.

To be a little clearer:

Bay Area worker A lives in a 1BR apartment with no car.

Bay Area worker B lives in a house with a kid.

A and B have different costs associated with their lifestyles, but their dollars go just as far. A just has more money left over. If A has a kid, or decides to get a house, they will end up in (roughly) the same situation as B.

Meanwhile, North Carolina worker C lives in a 1BR apartment with no car. They have a lot of money left over.

But if C decides they want a house and a kid, they will still pay less than B does, and less than A would have to pay to upgrade.

Do you see what I'm getting at? Workers in a lower-cost area simply get more for their salary, independent of their life choices.
> I get the sentiment, it isn't a particularly long duration of time, but three days offline can feel like an eternity if you legitimately have an internet addiction.

Sure, and 3 days without heroine might seem like a long time to someone with a heroine addiction. But still doesn’t mean that someone writing a an article of “I went 3 days without heroine, here is my insightful report” and stating that it actually wasn’t that bad is somehow not deserving of a bit of healthy critique.
dis viewpoint be silly
If Copenhagen's experience is normal, then ample bicycle (etc) parking won't change the parking behaviour of rental scooter users. They will still dump them on the sidewalk (or in the bike lane) the instant their journey has finished. They'll also ride two or three on one scooter, without any awareness or regard for cyclists in the bike lane or pedestrians crossing the road.

I strongly suspect the companies encouraged their staff to put them in slightly annoying places as advertisements -- if you trip over a scooter, you've noticed the brand!

Copenhagen ended up banning them from the city centre.

https://www.eltis.org/in-brief/news/e-scooters-allowed-back-...

(Copenhagen already has pedestrian and bicycle space, so the scooter companies weren't bringing anything there -- only taking that space away. Many other cities are so bad, the scooter companies are probably still a positive influence even with the terrible riders.)
You're talking to a diehard Anthropogenic GW proponent, at least 20 years.

Space will be rounding error on suburbia in emissions. At this point it's necessary because population and resource consumption growth has exceeded Earth's footprint by quite a lot. We need people and resources moved to space in the long run.

The military sucks as a funding source morally, but it is as big as you can get as a practical/politically achievable one. Where else can you get a trillion dollars? We need asteroid mining, space habs, launch loops to get humanity to space.

GW has to be addressed through urbanization (centralize people in cities), electrification of transport, artificial meat, synthfuels for long haul transit, alt energy for power gen. I'm not saying we'll make it with those, but at least all of that is somewhat underway.

Consumer culture seems to be defraying birth rates. So while consumer monoculture is bad in many ways, if it perversely constricts population growth then it's good. Kind of like if the oligarchs effectively starve everyone of money needed to have big families... it is perversely good for the environment.

But you're talking to someone who's political alignment is "despotic environmentalist".
The Nvidia thing is funny to me. I have never had any issues with them on Linux - NOW that said - my hardware is typically about 5 years behind so all the kinks have been ironed out.

Being the computer scrap man I am and using nothing but hand-me-downs and things I find people throwing out. It has worked out well for me from a compatibility point of view. ;)
That’s just absurd. Browsers, or User-Agents, should be where this is implemented. “This site would like to fetch external resources. Allow or Block?”. Same goes for all those cookie prompts.

Then the consent question would actually be presented in a balanced way. And the preference could be stored even if you wipe cookies. At moment if you distrust cookies, your preferences expressing your distrust of cookies is constantly being reset forcing you be re-prompted again and again.

(It might be harder for regulation to require changes in browser though, and then there's legacy browsers, so I can see how we ended up here)
I'm probably the tiny minority here, but I think this is a great thing. There are simply too many competing factors for me to refine my reasoning into an argument that is impervious to casual pedantry, however the gist of it is that I believe tech workers are becoming far too entitled. I keep seeing numerous comments about unionizing to demand fair pay and treatment, and yet the individuals who would form these proposed unions are (almost) all pulling above 100k annual salary (base) which leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.

The median household income was $67k in 2020. That means 50% of all families, potentially with both adult members actively working, earned just over half of what your typical software engineer earns.
It is, for sure. It's an old external hard drive.
Entire teams were relocated to the Raleigh-Durham area. People were told that they'd get a 15% pay cut to salary but instead got a 25% cut to both salary and equity refreshes. No other location in the country was cut in this manner.
Olympics photography workflow: Going through 2000 images to deliver 25
Some stink you just can’t wash off.
It's more about vaccine mandates, but yeah mask mandate (all mandates) in general.
Including specifically for the truckers recent laws that effectively boil down to: either you get vaccinated, and show proof of it, or you lose your job.
> Going from being ghosted to having MS release their own version of your OSS project after they've asked you a lot of technical details about how it works would leave a sour taste in anyone's mouth.

I don't think they asked him a lot. The code was all there, and WinGet doesn't share anything with it.

To me, it sounds like he failed his PM interview. That's why they stopped talking to him.
What "cheap services" are you talking about? Moving around the world (including SV and several places in Europe), the cost of services and rent never seriously reflected the differences in pay. iPad costs iPad price everywhere, food is about the same in western world as well, plumbers aren't working for free either.

So what services are you talking about?
Crazy that this gets downvoted. smh HN

Parking spaces dedicated to scooters are vastly better than parking spaces dedicated to privately owner cars. A scooter parking spot will serve vastly more people than a car parking space.
LXC is quite different from Docker. Docker is used most of the time as an containerized package format for servers and as such is comparable to snap or flatpak on the desktop. You don't have to know Linux administration to use Docker, that is why it is so successfull.

LXC on the other hand is lightweight virtualization and one would have a hard time to use it without basic knowledge of administering Linux.
I didn't see it coming a mile away. Satya seemed to be a major departure from Ballmer.
That’s a very generous way to calculate it, but that is not market rate.
Are the any configurations of LUKS that could achieve this?
Another annoying thing about this wrt them discouraging it, you need a Microsoft professional/enterprise account (I forget what they call it) to see the sha256 hashes, which they used to make publicly available until a few years ago
Well, there's some stickiness to locations. Partners, children in school, social networks/family, even just liking the area (which I can see in the case of the Bay Area versus many LCOL areas notwithstanding the cost).

I live in a moderately HCOL area--although not in a particularly expensive part of it--and have no desire to move for essentially a one-time moderate windfall.
If you don't like the pay, vote with your feet.

I suspect the reason pay is lower in North Carolina is that not enough people are switching employers - this is what helps the market find the equilibrium point in terms of pay.

And clearly Google isn't paying too low - people are taking the jobs after all.
your worth to any innovative firm is definitely based on where you are located.

On an average, Long Run, By collaborating with Silicon Valley minds, in-person, you'll generate more value than sitting Remote or hanging out in North Carolina.

These would have been never been possible if Jeff and Sanjay were remote
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
Or pay to remove the ads, as they suggest in the link on that same prompt.
what about contractors and vendors?
> I have a charging station setup in the kitchen for all their devices.

Isn’t that considered a fire hazard? I mean to charge gadgets overnight when there are no one close by in case something catches fire.
Well, rather than have my private key stored in a remote repository, I upload only my public key to Userify, and that shim thing automatically distributes my public key to the authorized_keys file in my homedir, exactly in the same way as if I was doing it by hand.

If 1Password was ever compromised, the attacker could use my private key to log into any server that I have access to at any time forever, and in fact I won't even know! But, if Userify is compromised, then the attacker can only deploy their OWN public key but my private key is still safe.

This means that if 1Password is compromised, ALL private keys are compromised forever. If Userify is compromised, the compromise only lasts for as long as the attacker is actually logged in as you, and the prize for the attacker isn't getting your key (because it's public already), but only that they can deploy their own public key (and that produces a notification).

So, you're right in that you still have to place some degree of trust in a third party SaaS, but the simplicity of Userify's model and narrow scope which minimizes access to any secret material is very appealing because it's very easy to understand and audit. Userify is about as close to Zero Knowledge as you can get for an SSH connection.

And, if that's not enough, I can just buy my own Userify Express server and close it off on my own private Wireguard network or VPC and never let the outside world anywhere near it.
In most cases I agree, but in this case it is BS. There is no planet where the cost of labor in Raleigh-Durham is lower than in REMOTE-NC (or REMOTE-WY). Folks in REMOTE-NC didn't get their equity refreshes adjusted down. The people in Raleigh-Durham did. The Raleigh-Durham office pays less than literally every other location in the US.

Also a Googler.
being able to pipe dune through opam would be cool – write human stuff to stderr and opam input to stdout. And then run e.g.

$ dune runtest | opam

dune and opam would have to agree on how to talk with each other, however.
Debian is extremely opinionated. I swore them off after they made it extremely difficult for many years to install Firefox because of some ideological purity bullshit.
That's pretty sneaky. Most users will select "more space". Clearly a deliberate Catch 22 for users.

Such a disgustingly unethical design. What kind of sick people come up with this stuff?

Edit: Perhaps showing ads in line with real emails is less visually intrusive then traditional "banner" ads. I take issue specifically with the false choice presented to users in order to manipulate them.
>Windows 7/8 are the last good versions of Windows IMHO. Yeah they have security issues

Windows 8 is still supported upto 2023. As for Windows 7, ESU and turning off a lot of unnecessary stuff (ATMFD, Windows Installer unless you're installing an update, etc.) can get a reasonably secure configuration.

[EDIT: ATMFD is a dll for old Adobe Type fonts which almost nobody uses. It doesn't exist on newish Windows 10 builds and above. Given its security history and the nature of Turing-complete font hinting, the odds of there not being another security issue are IMHO low, and since nobody's looking there anymore...]
The company doesn't pay cost of living, but cost of labor. Living in an expensive place doesn't imply high salary (case in point - London).
Thus, if another employer pays better, people leave and your current employer needs to pay accordingly. If none pay better, what option do you have?
Microsoft’s Programming Language Czar Anders Hejlsberg: The Interview
A coworker who grew up in Pakistan was telling stories one day. He said the place that he grew up in had the best police in the whole world. There were no unsolved crimes. The police always got a confession.

XKCD-538 has an implied third panel:

Right guy: Wait, we can use the $5 wrench? Why not just hit him until he confesses and names all his friends as co-conspirators as per normal?

Left guy: Yes, let's skip the geeky stuff entirely. We will be done before lunch.

People that use torture are not interested in any sort of objective truth. Otherwise they would not do that.
It’s hard to beat windows native office. MacOS version stinks and the web version is pretty slow on complicated stuff. That’s why I use windows on my work PC ans WSL for the dev stuff.
>> This whole approach of paying what the local market offers, rather than what the job is worth kinda sucks.

I mean, it does and it doesn't. In my limited experience, it works both ways almost exactly the same percentage of time.

- Developers who want to move and work remotely in low cost areas but want to keep high salary

- Employees of any kind who move to a bigger city and want cost-of-living wage increase, even though their job is the same

Further more, "What job is worth" is so incredibly dependent on the market, I don't even know what other feasible (as opposed to theoretical) definition there may be. "Paying what the local market offers" and "what the job is worth" might as well be synonyms in a practical sense.

OTOH, Anybody who wants to say we should pay salaries based on global market, should be aware that vast vast vast majority of developers worldwide get tiny fraction of SV salary. Even up here in frozen Canada, I have zero understanding of the salaries HN team members post. My understanding is that UK is similar - and that's without going to Easter Europe, or any other continent.