skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If we rescale (by double!) the vertical axis to fit here, a pretty amazing picture emerges:

That second chart with the "amazing" redline is comparing it to 2010 through 2017 era CPUs. Now compare it to a current generation zen3 based $599 AMD CPU in a $350 motherboard with $450 of RAM.

Or a $599 Intel 12th-gen "core" series.

For $3999 nevermind $7999 you can build one real beast of a workstation that fits in a normal midtower ATX case.
A lot this loss is due to changes in the value of rivian stock. Should that go back up (which is most likely won't) then it'll trigger a gain and higher EPS during another quarter in terms of GAAP. Of course we're ignoring operating results and cash flows here.
They will probably be more like fromunda.
People in hcol cities still need to move around. People from outside of the country move to hcol cities because of their reputation. Rich people live in hcol places because they can.

My logic doesn’t really need to track with whatever you are talking about- look at the cost of housing in high cost of living places; has it gone down during the last two years of pandemic? Has literally -everyone- becoming a remote worker driven down the cost of housing? No; it has made it worse.

Is it cheaper to live anywhere on the planet now than it was 2,5,10 years ago?

Take for instance where I am from- Kalamazoo, Michigan. This is a great town I love with all of my heart but have no wish to live there. Houses are difficult and expensive to buy there! And compared to Seattle it is pennies. Wages aren’t rising in Kalamazoo to match the money coming in: but houses aren’t getting cheaper in Seattle either.
Zip-R sheathing is exterior insulation, from R-3 up to R-12

https://www.huberwood.com/zip-system/insulated-r-sheathing
> While you’ll be responsible for getting proper work authorization, we’re actively partnering with local governments to make it easier for more people to travel and work around the world. Today, 20+ countries offer remote work visas, and more are in the works. While working from different locations isn’t possible for everyone, I hope everyone can benefit from this flexibility when the time is right.

I think currently this is a big caveat. Getting a work permit in other countries is not that easy, even for Americans or other countries with more prestigious passports. Maybe with AirBnB clout it is easier than without but I'd say it's still quite an issue.

That being said, I'm really excited for what the future could provide with AirBnB focusing on this. Maybe it will be easier not just for Americans and the like to work in other countries but I really hope it will be easier for others from places such as Africa and Latin America to work in Europe and the US as well.
That's pretty good. These avatars are now managing to climb almost all the way out of the uncanny valley. In particular I found the more dynamic body language of the Maia avatar disarming.

Actually articulating what's still "wrong" is getting harder (but here goes):

The head movements are too smooth, with fairly even "easing" between positions. The speed should vary a bit, people aren't that consistent.

The head movements are divorced from the speech. People indicate emphasis, however slight, with the timing and magnitude of their movements in concert with their words. The nods they've added help, but those are only between sentences.

The head movements seem limited to pointing the face in slightly different directions (ie. pitch and yaw). There doesn't seem to be much in the way of left/right tilting, or shifting forward/back or side-to-side.

Overall, the current head movements convey a somewhat floaty or dreamy impression, though again, the nods do help.

With the exception of the Maia avatar, the postures are too consistently upright and neutral. There is movement, so the avatars don't look stiff, but no one leans forward at all, or shifts one or both shoulders back, or shifts their weight from one leg to the other. It's faintly menacing, as it's my experience that only highly skilled martial artists are that consistent in maintaining themselves in a relaxed and balanced posture as a matter of course (as opposed to doing so for a few moments as an affectation).
From the article:

The limitations appear to be expensive materials and scale.

20w per liter
.3 liters per hour
Glad they are doing this. I got a great offer from Airbnb last year but I turned it down because they required an SF presence.
They used ADP for payroll. I have to believe if it was as simple as checking a box they would have just done it.
The engineers in less expensive locales are not used to the high pay. Even without remote, my team is pushed to hire in the offices outside the Bay Area because engineers demand less money and retention is higher.
The Archive of A. Ershov
I would be happy to call the police on you in this hypothetical situation. It would be a pretty open-and-shut case :)
It would take until well after 2050 to build those, and they would cost many, many times as much as renewables + storage, and produce zero kWh in the meantime. Just the money spent on coal, in the meantime, not counting nuke construction, would be more than the cost of building out enough renewables.

No "breakthroughs" are needed for storage. Everything works already. All that is unknown is which will end up cheapest.

But you already knew all of this.
What about school?

It’s nice for summer break but it’s really hard to take kids out of school or to switch schools mid year.
There are big thermodynamic problems with those, the phase transition requires a lot of energy... Generally the main places where they work with any kind of acceptable efficiently and decent yield (where there's high enough humidity) are also the places where it tends to rain a lot!
That's just HR being lazy. The process for handling it is an afternoon of filling out some state forms and handing them off to the payroll company.
> Drop it off at a mechanic and have them inspect it, if all looks good, move on with your life.

This isn’t free. So I should pay a mechanic to inspect because of their action?

If I steal your car for a day and bring it back, is that ok with you? Do you have better things to do than file a police report?

Note, I don’t think the owner needs to sue them. He just needs to have the police charge them with the crime they committed.
Is there any good argument that backward compatibility is what holds Windows back compared to other Microsoft faults? So there are a few variants of the Control Panel. That should not have prevented MS from porting every setting that mattered to the new panel already at Windows 8 (while keeping the old panel for apps that used it), and it isn't clear why they did not.
Windows backward compatibility is something I cast a jealous eye on. It leads to the idea that a platform can actually transcend sand-castle transience and get to a place where it’s sufficiently stable to provide decades-long investments in tools.

How often do you need a new roof? That’s the level of intervention we should be shooting for. Maybe longer considering bits don’t literally rot or rust and all most software needs to run is compatible system calls.

Wouldn’t even stop those who decide they want to learn new apps every 5 years.
The article explicitly says they’re paying everyone the same pay across localities now.

But for the many company’s that don’t, the justification is simply that the cost of Human resources is not based around output but around market dynamics like other resources. Fresh fruit in Japan costs more than it does in California not because the Japanese fruit is better per se, but because the cost of production is higher.
I found this randomly while investigating some other topic. In this archive is quite an interesting historical account of an important computer scientist's life. You can even find interesting but random things in it like documents from restaurants he visited while in the U.S. [1].

Apparently he left behind roughly 500 folders of these documents.

http://ershov.iis.nsk.su/en/node/777062
That's not new. There are mountains of awful software still being used. I just got done spending hours setting up a Windows VM for a student they needed because of an arbitrary requirement at their school.
I think the point this article proves is actually not that apps have a limited lifetime or that breakage should be expected. It proves that mobile APIs are terrible designed and each new version comes with its own terrible design.

Microsoft has gone above and beyond to keep applications working properly but in many instances where the APIs were used properly, user mode applications are nearly impossible to make incompatible. Basic system APIs were standardized almost thirty years ago and to this very day you can take a Windows 3 Hello World program, compile it, and run it.

If I can run twenty year old Windows applications on Windows 11 but I can't run a calculator that hasn't been updated for two years, the problem is clearly not with the concept or with development. iOS APIs, as well as Android APIs, have been atrocious from the beginning and every release deprecates some of that terrible, badly-designed old behavior. The biggest breakage for userland code was that the assumption that all code was running as an admin was challenged way back in 2006 with the release of Vista, and even that was easy to overcome by marking the shortcut as an admin only program.

Someone should look into getting Wine running on mobile (well, Android, iOS probably wouldn't allow such a subsystem to execute) so we can run some Windows CE/Windows Mobile/Windows Phone? applications. The Win32 API has been the most stable API in the history of consumer computers. It's a real shame that old Microsoft, the comic book villain of the tech industry before Jeff Bezos made his first billion dollars, is outperforming modern API designers. This is not a tragedy of lazy app developers littering the app store with their cruft, this is a story of badly management by the surviving mobile tech giants.

UNIX/POSIX has had an even better track record, but Linux is in a constant state of helper application API shift, be it X11 vs Wayland, PulseAudio vs Pipewire, systemd vs initv. The parts that count for the experience, like GUI elements, are all non-standard with their own tastes and preferences, which is Linux's power and weakness. Yes, Windows 8+ and recent macOS have been going more "move fast and break things", but both of those platforms still maintain their old APIs without too much of a sweat. The real challenge is the drive model and other kinds of superprivileged code, and Microsoft deciding it needs a new GUI API every time the CEO sneezes.
They intentionally removed parts of his car. Seems pretty vandalizing. And they claimed they were going to replace them.

If you came home and someone had removed the tires off your car, would you consider that vandalism? What if they said they were just testing out some other tires and would replace them?
I hear you, jelsisi... honestly, it’s more a bug than a feature as I was too lazy to design a proper homepage, lol. I’ll get around to creating a proper homepage soon.
> The most effective way to eliminate bad patents would be to increase the amount of time patent examiners get.

I disagree. I think the most effective way to eliminate bad patents would be to eliminate patents altogether. If there are no patents then there can be no bad patents:)

More realistically, it would be more efficient to stop bad patents before they make it to the patent office and waste patent officers' time. And the best way to do that is probably to reduce the incentives to file bad patents. I don't know what the most effective way to do that is though, maybe expire patents sooner, limit the number of patents an entity can file in a period of time, increase the fee for each additional patent filed, a penalty for patents that are rejected or invalidated, require you to actually produce (or license to someone else to produce) the thing you patent in order to keep it, etc.
It works because most zip tools today will ignore all bytes before zip's magic number sequence, because concatenating a zip onto the end of something else has been common since DOS days. So almost every tool can find the correct offset - it's easy, as you pointed out.

Now, it can break if your "other" file happens to include the magic bytes. But that's rare enough that you only have to be aware that it can happen.
There are companies like TriNet that hire your workers directly on W2 and administer all the payroll and benefits for you. You then just pay TriNet directly instead of doing payroll yourself.
I was just thinking the other day about how I wish there was a social network with the rhythm/vibes of email and hey look, fraidycat turns whatever into basically that!
or you are, do, or participate in something marginalized in that time
So I was thinking about the fediverse and blogging, and if we already have blogs then why not publish them using ActivityPub? As in, using your fediverse account to follow blogs instead of just other federated accounts.

I know there is an rss-activitypub server out there. Are there other projects/solutions like that? Something that'll work for static blogs?
Because that starts to verge on telling you who to find fuckable instead of who to treat as a peer. Plus the level of baggage is completely different. I'm surprised at your surprise.
Laws are delayed reflections of our collective morality (or more cynically, the morality of the elites). Here, the concept of protected groups are to keep companies in check.

I'm curious about your proposal for curbing discrimination.
Seriously, Office depot will handle it for you for $6 an employee per compensation period.
https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam
A lot of IT people have very detail oriented memories.

If they remember you had an issue, they usually watch out for you within some X amount of time period so if there is a follow-up its short and sweet, not drawn out, its all about doing the least amount of effort for the most amount of work.

If you've ever seen the IT crowd, I'm talking mimeograph here.
It just defies basic logic. The reason most central areas became so expensive was the need to cluster close to them for work. And in some areas, leisure, but that's the exception.

Residential real estate prices skyrocketing has more to do with government interventions. I fully expect ex tech hubs such as the Bay Area to trend down in prices in real terms over many years

Foreclosure moratorium, eviction moratorium, stimulus checks that allowed new households to form (kids moving out) as well as preventing the normal level of foreclosures, Fed buying trillions in MBS pushing rates artificially low, massive amounts of cash out refis to use in ad hoc projects that sucked up labor and resources for new builds.

Yes migration from HCOL to LCOL will drive pricing up too, but to say HCOL will go higher because remote work is here does not track logically at all. Sure, leisure areas will go up in value, work areas should logically decline. e.g. Manhattan, Chicago, SF, Seattle
Also you could in theory have tokens without a blockchain. That's essentially the way modern fiat works.
> Yes, and they still lead the global market share for desktops and laptops.

Which means little, because no one is competing with them.

> who wants to develop for somebody that says "anything you make on my platform will be obsolete in 2-3 years"?

Anyone who wants access to Apple's base of high-value mobile users.

Note too that "obsolete" is inaccurate here. Those who've bought an app can continue to download and use it as long as it still runs on their devices, as I do with several apps that have aged out of purchasability. What's accurate is that devs need to update their app at least once every couple of years or so to keep it available to new customers. If I were running a business that depended significantly on app installs for revenue, I think that would be a reasonable bar to clear - at any rate, it's posed no problem for those businesses I've worked with that do.
I know some people are very excited about that, and some think that is going to be a new norm. I have not worked for the corps for at least 4-5 years, but before that I always assumed there are only small amount of people who can really work for company remotely.

I definitely saw people calling that they are going to work from home, but saw very little work to be done that day. Which probably means that people used that as excuse, as they had some business to do outside work, and they did not want to take PTO.

I have very little believe that a majority of people can work from home, especially when travel. You are at new place, you going to work like 4-6 hours instead of 8-9 hours. So I do understand why airbnb is telling their employees to do so, but curious how long it is going to last, and curious how real it is going to be (considering that it could be up to management approval as well). But I doubt that other companies will follow that.
When does the definition of talent extend beyond developers and system architects and product delivery? Airbnb’s support organization, particularly with respect to guest advocacy, is abhorrent.

I was just recently in a situation where a host rejected the rental price after booking, and convinced the support team that i agreed to the adjusted price, which was then charged against my card. (To be fair there was some messaging back-and-forth between myself and the host prior to the booking that gave credence to this, but nothing official.) When i rejected the new price the host agreed to cancel, then again convinced airbnb to execute a guest cancellation, forfeiting all but $613 of a now $4400 booking.

It took me roughly a week with those funds tied up before i found someone in their support team (O.G. Lou G, i love you man) to actually listen to me and reverse everything.

This on the heels of renting a condo with hammer drills running upstairs 8 hours a day for the last three days of my trip and zero consideration or recompense from the host or airbnb.

https://youtu.be/3raZyaHhiyU

(TV max volume from six feet away for relative comparison)
There is a search field, and you can pin posts. Also about half the time people just click on my name and message me directly.

I'm on there because all of the different communities from developers to creators in this ecosystem are on there.

You are kind of implying that something like a forum or FAQ would be better. A forum would be nice but the search feature would end up making it about the same as searching a forum. But the thing is, 90% of the questions they ask are self-evident from the UI or explained in the Help section that is right on the form.

I think a lot of the people that message directly or in the chat are looking to interact with a live person as much as they are interested in the answers. They want to make sure there is someone available to help in case they run into a problem. And/or they feel like asking questions is going to be easier than having to search or read instructions that are in the web app already.
“Atmospheric Water Generators”

At first I thought you were just using a marketing term for dehumidifiers but I looked it up before posting.

I see that term is used for tight mesh fabric that’s hung vertically as a passive matrix to collect condensation.

While those are actually game changers, they unfortunately only work in special regions that have the needed weather and topography to make them work.

I think there’s only one place on earth that has the perfect combination for AWG: weather, drought, and humidity. It’s an awesome technology for them but that’s about the extent of it.

I’ll try to find the region and update my comment with more info.

Edit: here’s a video that talks about what I think you’re talking about.

https://youtu.be/YxRONAZoMDk

It’s providing water in the Atacama Desert near Lima Peru.

Edit 2: They’re called fog collectors and apparently Morocco uses them too. https://youtu.be/0F7CQMd6mQ4
I doubt this will be the case, unless they're willing to substantially shrink their labor pool by not competing with large tech hubs.
Lots of GCed languages do use escape analysis. That's what escape analysis was invented for!
Yeah. 90 days and 180 (sometimes 183) days are the magic numbers in most locations, that treat you as a non-resident or tourist. You still technically owe taxes abroad if you work any period of time abroad, but usually, if there is a formal process, it's much, much simpler for remote work on a short-term visa.

90 days is the magic number for almost all countries for the length of a single tourist visa.

The status quo though, is that almost no governments have legal frameworks for a digital nomad to work legally in a country (as a remote employee) on a 90-day tourist visa. Most look the other way for rich, western tourists not "taking jobs from local residents", if it comes up. They mostly use tourist services and the money which could be taxed never enters a local bank account.

I'm curious how AirBnB ends up solving this. Maybe they'll just contract a big consulting firm with broad international exposure to file taxes for each employee paid abroad. It definitely sounds like they're going to try and figure out how to pay taxes on behalf of employees in up to 170 countries, which, will be interesting to watch.

Hopefully some good comes of this.
Advice can be useful if you try to make it so. Number three on the list is "Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become." I was given this same advice as I was starting out my career. It made me reevaluate my approach to work and lead to some profound changes in my life. Years later, I can confidently say those choices were the best ones I've ever made. I will forever be grateful for receiving this advice. It's important to try to look forward at how following the advice may impact your life, rather than looking backward for confirmation of your currently held beliefs.
To write the problem out another way.

It's the contrast between what primordial lizard brains want. And what reality actually is.

Often I see:

Lizard brain wants: Simple, agreeable, opinions from authority. Stated confidently.

Reality: Nobody is completely sure. Probably requires some nuanced discussion and critical thinking.

Problem is, if someone expresses an unconfident opinion. And I reckon I see this all the time:

Primordial lizard brain computes the message as:

"This person isn't knowledgeable. Reduction in status."

IMO there isn't a good way in life to say "I don't know" about a topic. Without primordial lizard brains treating that as a reduction in status.

It's a huge problem.

I think our brains are just wired to be attracted to simple answers, have a bias for action over discussion. And avoid deep, reflective, critical conversations.
Oh, I'm not knocking back compat for its own sake! A hundred years from now, Windows will probably provide sufficient case-study fodder for at least half a yearlong course in engineering for it, assuming we've figured out by then how to teach in a systematic way what we actually do.
Actually…you probably can, but it’s going to be more expensive that you…or your group (if it’s employer provided) will be willing to pay. So in those cases it’s not even offered.

My wife sells dental insurance to businesses. These brokers are doing plan designs that specifically exclude certain services to get monthly costs down to the expected competitive floor pricing. Think of it this way, you have 100 people in your group. 5 are willing to pay for implant coverage at $100/mo, but to get that rate, you need 75% participation of the group. 95 people will not participate if it’s more than $20 a month. Your plan design is going to be designed to appeal to the 95 over the 5 and that broker is going to bring in a plan that is as close to $20/mo without going a penny over…and hope like hell that their competition isn’t lower with a similar plan design.