skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, US is obviously not the _only_ international target (I guess I was primed by reading about their team in LA.)
I'm remote for Meta/FB I can say that remote means remote. There is no pressure to come to the office, and they are OK with people relocating away from the office. The comp gets adjusted based on zip code or something like that. You are probably coming out ahead anyway, from what I have seen the adjustments are smaller than the cost of living and tax comparisons.

I do live in the area and meet up with coworkers from time to time because I enjoy that, but there is really zero pressure to do so.

The home office thing is because when I get devices they send them to the closest office first, then they will get delivery to my home. Never heard anyone having an issue because they are too far from an office. I do have coworkers that live far from offices.
> I feel as though year of the Linux desktop is on the horizon, it's definitely a possibility.

What would that mean, for you? It seems like free desktops already work quite well for you.
I came across this today:

https://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/academic/all/

"Note: Since 1987, Stephen Wolfram’s intellectual efforts have not primarily been reported in academic articles."

To be clear - no serious scientist believes that a scholarly output which is composed predominantly of non-peer reviewed publications is a serious or valid output.

Essentially, Wolfram is a glorified blogger who runs a tech company. That's not nothing, but it doesn't make someone a scientific leader.
Oh I agree it's noticeably different, just wondered if that was contributing to your preference.
Surely you can see the difference between things like salary, whether you're expected to commute several hours a week, etc. and whether you're sitting next to a window or not.
> almost all of the actual homes and activity is on the (more expensive COL) California side. Why is that?

The NV side is pretty rugged and what buildable land there is is also shared with resorts / casinos. Otherwise, you pretty much have to go to the North Shore and Incline Village, but that's a tax haven with some real fancy homes driving up prices. From Zephyr Cove to Incline is really steep and large parts are State Parks or Forest Service land, so aren't buildable.

> but housing prices went from outrageous pre-pandemic to oh-my-fucking-god post-pandemic

Yes, everything is about 2x what is was 7 years ago. The most affordable family homes are in Zephyr Cove and up Kingsbury Grade in Stateline. The county also recently passed a restrictive vacation rental law, so many folks will see their short-term rental permits expire (or continue at reduced capacity) throughout this year, which might drive prices down, in addition to rising interest rates.

Also, NV houses are about 10-20% more expensive than the CA houses because of the tax benefits of Nevada.
https://mfarstad.com/

For right now its just a nice little copy of my resume, as well as a place to store my music catalogue of albums I've published.
There are multiple definitions of "good at {something}".

For example, the n men in the last men's 100m Olympics sprint were not the n men with the best sprint technique. (Some were on both lists, but some weren't.)
I think it's somewhat context-dependent, but people do have a general preference that applies across situations.

Particularly if it's a topic where you don't have the expertise needed to evaluate what someone says, falling back on presentational heuristics is pretty common. For Wolfram, I'm not a dual-PhD in math and physics, so I think I'm not qualified to really understand his claims. Thus thinking "this person's communication style makes me think of people who're exaggerating their achievements" colors my view of his likely correctness -- not enough to come out and say he's wrong myself (since I don't know), but rather to make me sit back and wait for someone who sounds more trustworthy to validate it.

I do admit it's a difficult situation, because if you do sincerely believe that you've come up with something that'll revolutionize all of science, it's difficult to say that in a humble way. (I feel I could do better at that than Wolfram, though, particularly if we take this article as representative of his style. :D)

To continue the Trump analogy... a lot of the people who believed what he was saying didn't have any deep knowledge of, say, immigration policy; they just heard someone who was giving (to them) "I am a confident and capable person" signals who was saying something was important, and they trusted that in part because of this bias.
What does your research consist of? When Steve from GamersNexus posts a video of him benchmarking a bunch of different cases with temperature gauges and the exact same internal hardware and workloads to tell me which one cools the best, I can try to independently reproduce those results myself, but that requires purchasing all of the cases, so there is no gain there. If he turns out to have been lying, I lost the money anyway.
People just assume anyone with a reasonable amount of common sense would be fine with it I imagine.
I don’t see why they only poll pilots about this. All people are affected by lead.
I would love to see solid evidence that advertising for an established product is meaningfully effective at increasing revenue beyond the cost to produce it.
> - The root cause of this knowledge deficiency is the inability to run proper controlled experiments.

There have been a number of experiments over the last few years. For example, tax cuts don't pay for themselves (or, in the most positive interpretation: we're on the left-hand side of the Laffer curve):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment

* https://www.npr.org/2019/12/20/789540931/2-years-later-trump...

Expansionary austerity was also tried and found not to work (as predicted by Keynesians):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansionary_fiscal_contractio...

* https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2015/apr...

Then there's the whole anti-QE thing:

> We believe the Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchase plan (so-called "quantitative easing") should be reconsidered and discontinued. We do not believe such a plan is necessary or advisable under current circumstances. The planned asset purchases risk currency debasement and inflation, and we do not think they will achieve the Fed's objective of promoting employment.

* https://economics21.org/html/open-letter-ben-bernanke-287.ht...

Most economic ideas put forward by the political right seems to have been found not to work over the last decade.
Interesting that you trust Google more in this regard. Given Google's terrible history of deprecating products, I would not trust any "real world" business to any of their services.

Also, at some point I was playing with Serverless in both Google and AWS. Google's Serverless examples were broken (Google cloud was returning 500 errors) while the same stuff in AWS worked smoothly. That left me with a bad taste.
This is nothing but pandering for votes before an election for those who don't understand this won't have any significant impact on affordability of houses for Canadians.

There's a reason why we still also pay the highest telecommunications bills in the world - industrial complexes have captured our government, and even it's far worse that that; regulatory capture.

Edit to add: 3 points down to 0 points; downvotes are an embarrassment to civil and critical conversation, and you should be embarrassed if you use them.
Just tried to search "t-sne" was pleasantly surprised the first result [1] was what I found on DDG and a good result. Compared to Google which couldn't even find it on the first page. Most of Google's result are not exactly useful, and the only useful article is not my favorite in terms of quality. Order being.

1. Wiki article
2. Github repo
3. API documentation
4. Introduction with Python Code(Not my fav quality article)
5. Guide in R
6. Research article

I can't quantify what is better. But Google didn't give me what I wanted but DDG and you.com did. So congrats. My only issue is seeing Medium articles above the web results. While Medium might have the answer in this scenario the top web result was correct but de-prioritized which was incorrect from my prespective.

UI is nice and fast, different too. Not sure if I love yet, but will keep trying. Thanks for the link.
[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/t-sne-clearly-explained-d84c5...
ACM is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. It's not like they're profiteering (cough Elsevier). They have to cover costs somehow.
slightly tangent: is there any reason OP preferred "," over "."? It looks so disturbing to me to be honest.
> [...] Turn off the ads, and the revenue goes away.

This is the experiment from the article. It showed that ads did not affect revenue.
> The USA is the most diverse country in the world.

Is it. I was curious, and the first google hit I came across was:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-dive...

1. Chad - 0.8514
2. Cameroon - 0.8426
3. Nigeria - 0.8306
4. Togo - 0.8118
5. Congo (Dem. Republic of) - 0.8111

Not sure what this measure of diversity is, clearly the US is not the top of this list...

For example, in terms of language, Nigeria has 525 languages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Nigeria
The main downside that people always mention is it takes a long time to clone or pull a large repo. This is actually a flaw of git, not a flaw of the monorepo as a concept.
Every background check that companies put you through include any history of litigation against employers, no need for recruiters to talk to each other.
In the meantime it's okay to take 2 minutes to celebrate that nuclear wasn't such a bad idea.

We should just have doubled down on it 50 years ago.

So much geopolitical trouble would have been avoided if bad actors in the middle east and Russia wasn't flushed with cash.
Indeed, I think this the central argument and conclusion. What o find interesting is the delayed effect. We had "more money" for a while until the dilution caught up and affected prices across the board.
That's factually untrue. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb all have a huge monorepo. Splitting it out is obviously not necessary with the right tools.
Number 4 is an interesting point. Personally, as a hiring manager who works exclusively remote (though my company does have offices) if I thought someone was borderline or even under the line at handling remote work, I would not make them an offer at all.

Well, I might if we were talking about an internship and there was someone on site I trusted to keep an eye on them. Otherwise, one of the most important things I look for in any direct report is the ability to do their work without the need for a lot of hand-holding. IOW, if I don't trust them to work remote, then I just don't trust them.
I genuinely can't tell if this is satire or not. Assuming it's not, unless your "own research" consists of actually buying a wide swath of competing products and testing them against each other, then at some point you are indeed relying on "influencers", whether those influencers are Consumer Reports, Amazon reviews, your parents/neighbors/friends, etc.
If you go out searching for meaning, you're not going to find it. "Is this meaning?" you might ask, for every choice or circumstance you face. The answer will always be "no". Because you can analyze anything to death. Poke holes in any situation and find some reason it's not full of "meaning".

Finish a big project at work before the deadline? "Is this meaning?" Obviously no. The big project won't impact the mega-conglomerate's bottom line. And if it did, what's it mean to increase the revenue of your employer by 0.001% YoY? For you, personally, that is. Etc.

Just got married? "Is this meaning?" Again, no. Anyone can get married. Most people do get married. It's incredibly common. You're not special for getting married, yet people spend lavishly on weddings to force some amount of "meaning" on the occasion. The day before your wedding isn't different than the day after. I've been to a dozen weddings and can really only recall the details of maybe two of those.

I've not seen a more miserable group of people than /r/fatFIRE on reddit. They have insane wealth, go to retire, and find their life hollow. The mistake is thinking there is some reward is at the end of the journey. I have $30 million dollars, I've retired, now what? You either fill that hole with giant amounts of crap (new Lambo, fancy house, huge TV) or "experiences" (which really translates into traveling to places where poor people are your temporary servants because of the gross power imbalance wealth has granted you). Or, more work. The real secret to retirement is... maybe don't?

Hayao Miyazaki is still working, and certainly doesn't need to. He also doesn't believe that personal happiness should be a goal (it's a very Western point-of-view), and considers filmmaking to be suffering[1]. And I suppose that's the real reward for having kids. The meaning is the work and the pain. You'll change a child's diaper thousands of times. But you'll also get to see them smile and laugh.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag7zxdENmas
This +10 (if I could). "Remote" from a recruiter is no different from "35% annual raises", "perfect match for your skill set", "insta-vesting stock options", or anything else a recruiter tells you.
When people use FAANG in these discussions. Is it literally those five companies and a handful of other high end growth companies (Nvidia, Microsoft, Tesla?)? The number still being single digit. Or is it representing a handful more companies than fhat?
Didn't he invent a numbering schema for classifying CA? That should count as an achievement.
I really would like to see more modern CPUs supported
Both The Witness and Outer Wilds were two highly acclaimed games that I fully expected to really enjoy, but with both of them I left feeling very disappointed, for different reasons.

I respect what the Witness does and the craft of how it's all put together, very clever. But it just ends up feeling like a bumper book of puzzles to me, after a few dozen of the same kind of puzzle I just get very irritable. I was expecting a more Myst-like experience where the puzzles are varied and integrated into the environment, where there's equal focus between world/story building and the puzzling. To me The Witness felt like it took a long time to say very little, it's very rare that I use the term pretentious but I do feel like it applies here.

The Outer Wilds also has some very innovative and interesting ideas and craft, but left me very underwhelmed. I won't go into details but I honestly think it's pretty overrated. It all hinges on how well the story and world captivates you though, I can see how many people would like it.

Riven is still the absolute high point of the explorative puzzle genre for me.
> When they pointed out they had been hired as remotes they were met with a collective shrug

That sounds like an exceptionally stupid thing for the employers to do in the current market.
Doesn't work older Angular projects. My monorepo is a hodge podge of technologies.
Virtaul Apple ][ Oregon Trail
Don't pretend attribution is simple or solved. If that were true there wouldn't be dozens of attribution products, who are still far from perfect.

The Dunning Kruger effect is strong in marketing. The more you learn about marketing the more reason you have to be unsure.
tenuousemphasis says>"Is that a fact, or opinion?"

I'll muddy the waters here: neither, it is a belief.

I prefer to avoid the term "fact" b/c it leads to too many arguments, just as is happening here. Rather than "facts" we have beliefs and some things we believe more than others.

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"...in this analysis we shall approximate the horse by a sphere of radius r..."

- physicist's monologue in joke about racehorses, engineers, chemists and physicists.
ELI5: What is "channelized" I/O? How does it differ from, say, handing off I/O to a DMA controller?
And force couples to buy in one (the citizen)'s name, etc.
I wrote assembly language on IBM/360 in ACP (Airline Control Program) and TPF (Transaction Processing Facility) for KLM. It was fun. A totally different world.

My manager/mentor had worked with punch cards (phased out just before I came in) and was known to only get two errors on average in the nightly compile batches.

(People could only compile once per day, and one program could be comprised of hundreds of card).

Very impressive for assembly.
Efficient-VDVAE:Open-source memory-efficient deep hierarchical VAE
For your case sure, you only deal with iOS 1% of the time. For me it is 50%.
I have a couple friends obsessed with the “digital nomad” term and are swayed by things and jobs with terms like remote or digital nomad

That crowd is almost incapable of just applying for jobs that have always been remote, if the job description doesn't lead with that in the title. Many software startups and the development consultancies they rely on have been this way for many years.

So instead they get led on by things catering to the remote and digital nomad industry than just having a job that already had supported the lifestyle they wanted!
It gets worse than that. Often, code is pushed into an absurdly wrong level of the development stack, just because it makes testing it easier. For example, something should be a database trigger, but in-memory testing database gets in the way. Other times it strikes all the way to architectural topics - message queues replaced by REST calls, because the former is difficult to mock
Or a Trust at a bank.

I don't think foreigners can buy land in Mexico either, but you can open trust at a bank in Mexico and the trust can own the property.
So all that data is valid? Are you sure you want all that first grade personal info out there publicly? Probably makes ID theft and a lot more way too easy for any scammers no!?

(other than that, love the site!)
That's how most of Europe do decimal places, using commas instead of full stops.
Probably because the OP is from one of the many parts of the world where “,” is the decimal point and “.” is the thousands separator.
I think so too. Win + Office was plenty good enough. There was better, but people had to really need it, because this combo was an easy deal, priced right and free for anyone willing to mooch.

Interestingly, that same basic GUI on NT 3.51 was the same thing in workstation space. SolidWorks came out in 95, a clear signal that this was all going to happen. And for anyone willing to try back in those days you could new real Computing and engineering.
Depends on your definition of undesirable. There are many remote, hilly towns if you enjoy nature and potentially living off-grid.

But yeah, if you're looking for sun, water sports & nightlife in CA, it's going to be very expensive.
I'm not sure why comments mention CA. His physics theory and the multicomputation stuff does not make use of CA's (at least no more than any other abstract machine).
So far that has been my experience with a handful of FAANG interviews the last couple of years: I get a recruiter coming to me talking about 100% remote positions. I get to phone interviews, ask the people I'm actually interviewing with what their thoughts on remote work are and am honest that I'd be most interested in 100% remote myself (but I am flexible on it). Most of those stopped at the phone interview because it was generally clear the recruiter telling me that 100% remote options were on the table had me interviewing with 100% "can't wait to get back to the office" teams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator (i.e. not everyone uses a period)
That seems like a very specific case, though.

Looking at wikipedia for this movie (which I'd never heard of), the all-star cast was: Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anne Bancroft, Chris Kattan, Louis Gossett Jr., Val Kilmer, and Malcolm McDowell.

Apparently development started in 1999 (so the cast makes sense), and animation started in 2001... 2001 -> 2008 is pretty bad timing I think, both in terms of just raw number of years, and also in terms of... I mean those were pretty busy years in terms of CG, right?

I bet whoever owned MGM in 2008 found it in their stack of stinkers and figured "why not shovel it out the door?" Movies seem like a bad example for this sort of thing as a result -- big investment, want to recoup some of it, but sometimes a failure is pretty obvious, so why invest further in a big (and one-off) ad campaign?
Mother Theresa has caused a lot of pain and suffering. She would get world class medical treatment, while people would be dying in severe pain in her hospice and she would tell them some bs about suffering making them great.

They also had poor sanitary practices at the hospices and would contract HIV.

She is very much NOT a saint.

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-dark-side-of-mot...
Did this never come up in ANY of the interviews? I just went through hours and hours of interviews and I talked about this with the interviewers all the time because it impacts team cohesion, collaboration, company culture so obviously a lot of questions were targeted towards remote work. At least the hiring manager would have been able to clarify any wrong assumptions, no?
Not everyone is as expert at job hunting as you are.
Would it be profitable, though?
Facebook/Meta can for sure assign team before bootcamp. The candidate can still change teams during bootcamp, but there will be a spot ready for them. At least that is how I have seen it.

One thing to notice about FAANG and other large companies is that the team assignment is not as important as you think. Reorgs are often large and frequent so suddenly you work on something completely different. How much choice you have in this process varies based on many factors, the company being one of them.
Is anyone aware of similar resources for learning BSL (British Sign Language)?

I've done a couple of in-person courses, but I'd really like to learn more vocabulary at my own pace. So far I haven't found much other than a couple of dictionaries (e.g. https://www.signbsl.com/ and https://bslsignbank.ucl.ac.uk/dictionary/), but it's not been hugely helpful in learning which signs are common in my region. I also find that just looking up examples of signs I don't know never really helps me learn.
I think they would contrast themselves with other European national identities but not deny that they are also European.

I haven't taken a survey of this but that's my intuition.

Ps. I suspect this contrasting of Russia and Europe may be quite old. I think of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and Peter the Great. That kind of contrast was very much under discussion in that time period as far as I know.
Dogmatic unit testing is overrated.

For backend testing, I've had amazing success following a few simple principles:
1. Abstract and mock code you don't control that require network calls.
2. Use frameworks that support database abstraction out of the box
3. Test end to end functionality. Every test should basically be getting your DB into a specific state, then hitting an API endpoint and validating the output and/or state change.

It's not that hard, you can get decent and worthwhile code coverage for not much work, and even if you only write a few tests with low coverage, you can easily add regression tests later if you notice a bug.
Well, the engineering panels around here believe I'm qualified to do my own electrical work, but I wouldn't get on the bureaucracy of convincing my local power company.

Anyway, home wiring is not hard, and many people do it for a living with a ridiculously low amount of qualification (and competence). If you are not touching the public wires, the safety rules are very simple and the odds are good that you can give them more care than somebody that has been doing the work every day for a decade.

(But well, if you don't know how to do it safely, or if you won't be bothered to follow them, you shouldn't be doing it.)