skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had an interview a few days ago and I asked something similar. I asked about the possibility to travel to the US to greet my coworkers and work alongside them.

They said they won't raise my salary and they expect me to stay in my region (Latin America). They also said that if I go to the US or Europe, it would be though to live there with my remote salary.

It felt somewhat insulting tbh. As if they said "we want you as disposable cheap labor, not to become a part of the company" directly upfront.
The message is - don't look up
Yup. I have to pay Google a chunk of change every month to do something I used to be able to do for myself for free. Because suddenly they flagged my domain and no one would get any of my e-mails.

And there ain’t nothing I can do but pay.
I think it's important to consider the downside risk here; your current employer could consider your code and business that you made while being on their payroll as their own intellectual property and fight you in court for that. Even if you have an airtight contract, they can still litigate it, and spending time in court will detract from your business and cash flow. Meanwhile, taking some time to go interview at other companies is much lower risk, but can still yield a large increase in pay.

I'll also suggest treading carefully with "just start your own business". My read is that the first 3 months will be "program 14 hours a day and make something awesome", and the rest of your life will be meeting with customers and preparing slideshows for your board. If that's what you want out of your career, you should definitely do it. If you just want to be locked in some basement writing a lot of code for a lot of money, you probably want a non-customer-facing engineering role at FAANG.
Hell yes. If they're gonna condemn sites to oblivion for hate speech, I demand they be consistent about it. They need to stop neglecting their duty as arbiters of right and wrong. There's so much wrong on the internet. Better get to work.
That’s beautiful to hear. I love the idea of writing transforming you based on frequencies.
I can't stand micromanagers either. Fortunately there are plenty of well-paying jobs in the US without them.

When an EM starts nitpicking engineering work products (code, designs, etc.) or demanding specific work hours, it's time to leave. EMs should not behave like retail or fast food managers.
3) something about not trapping in a high salary job - I dont even know what to say about this. I would love to be in that trap instead of the one I'm in right now where I'm being forced to migrate, where I would loose my family, friends and all the support structures I've built around me, to receive the same benefits as my peers.

You don’t have to agree with it, or think it’s barely reasonable, but you should understand the argument at least.

It’s not about worrying that you’ll feel trapped and that will make you feel bad.

It’s worrying that you’ll feel trapped and won’t quit even if you are very unhappy. Instead you will stick around and be a drag on productivity and morale. Companies would most like workers to be happy and productive, but if they can’t have that they’d rather they quit than stick around unhappy and non-productive.
50% of SP is not OK, but 80% is OK? Honest question. I can think of principled arguments for equal pay and for fully COL-adjusted pay, but I can't think of any for equal-ish pay.
Mycroft does run on your own server.

It allows you to use the Google text to speech API for more natural voices, which is a cloud product.

It is a yaml config to use on device tts instead.

Install is flashing an sd card.
In the job market you are willing to work in, can you get the $s you are wanting? By that, I don't mean there's a possibility some company might pay you the $s, but that it would be reasonable to expect quite a number of places to pay you those $s. If not, then your market value isn't the same as it is in other locations. You already demonstrated in your question that there is value in a particular location, for you, family and friends. For companies, they operate in whatever locations they think is best and pay competitive $s for that location.
Something Europeans forget about America is that individual states have their own healthcare plans like MA, NJ, NY, CA, etc. Others that don't default to ACA (aka ObamaCare) if you don't have health coverage. These are generally means tested insurance schemes but if you have no income then you generally have some form of free coverage.
hello, please, how does one apply for the SRE role?
It's easy to see politics as a series of non-sequitur causes when you esoterically model your workplace as a tree of maps where normal humans are reduced to control points on a biezer curve.

I'm sure somewhere near the start there was the intent to help OP and by the end of it we are talking UBI for some interdimensional reason.

Game theory and economics already exists if you want to model business relationships, without cracking open some vaguely esoteric metaphysical mess. Though I do enjoy a good metaphysical discussion.
6 Pro here as well. I've generally had a solid experience with some minor quirks - I have had issues with inaccurate GPS/compass needing constant calibration and Chrome freezing up every now and then.
Yeah, this use-case fascinates me as well. I've been noodling around with the idea of a 249-gram drone that flies SD cards between locations. BVLOS is still problematic in the US regulatory environment, but perhaps useful elsewhere. And I can always do demo flights indoors.

It would be ultra cool, IMHO, to fly SSB and NNCP traffic between "islands", whatever form those take. For bonus points, do it with pigeons, which have the advantage of operating in a GPS-denied environment.

I don't mind the full sync for SSB, I mind the lack of any progress indicator while it's doing so. But that seems like an easy UI tweak and maybe they've addressed it since I last played with it. What I haven't figured out is whether a brand-new user can sync from another existing user on the same island, or if they need a real internet connection for that first bit.
Interestingly, the acquisition happened only a few months before the kit you received was packed:
https://www.eetimes.com/cypress-buys-anchor-chips-to-bolster...
The other advantage of hydrogen is that a driver can go get one and swap it quickly; no need for a dedicated parking space with electrical service added.
Sounds like you should hire Canadians!
I've said this before: it's not really that there is some inherent thing about being from a country that makes people better or worse. But it certainly correlates, because of education, etc. I (and most remote north America workers) could go live in India and get the same money I do now. Nobody cares about location, but they do care about the labor market based on skills and education, and that's what they are hiring from and that's why people get paid less.
I was tempted to respond that having children is a lifestyle choice (one that not everyone gets, mind you), but I suppose where you live is a lifestyle choice too. It's just frustrating to have the rules change after you've already committed to living in the expensive place.
You still are paraphrasing events and viewpoints, which provides an opportunity to spin them.

In any case, even if harassment is purely subjective, isn't it in within anyone's personal purview to take personal action if they feel something is harassment?
Livesite by a Thousand Spikes
The radix complement in base two. They are closely related but not identical - the two's complement representation of a negative number is the ones' complement representation + 1 (ignoring the final carry). In ones' complment there are two representations for 0 (all 0s or all 1s), but every number has a positive and negative representation. In two's complement, there is a single 0, but there is also negative number that doesn't have a corresponding positive representation (INT_MIN).

In fact, for every numerical base there is an equivalent. For example, in base 3 you can represent a number in twos' complement notation (each trit X is replaced with 2-X, so -3 is represented as 212 on three trits, with +3 being 010) is or in three's complement by adding 1 (212+1 = 220). For base 10, you can do nines' complement (-3 on 3 digits is 996) or ten's complement (996+1 = 997).
I especially like your idea because of the modern-age allusions in BotW. The Shieka-stone seems a lot like a smartphone with “apps”, that even lets you take pictures. The map in the pause menu could also be such an app, given its detailled geographical information and zooming/panning and marking capabilities. Why could it not have something like street view? :)
None. Some walk you out and lock the door immediately.
This is what I do, though I do think helm is also pretty cool: https://thehelm.com/products/helm-personal-server-v2?variant...

I like the idea of having a node I can just plug into my network. I run my Urbit on a Mac mini with tailscale (which works great).

The core of what he writes about is correct though, email failed to be truly peer to peer (as imo all non-urbit-like federated systems will) because of the incentives that lead to centralization (spam, difficulty of running nodes, etc.)

We’re suffering the consequences of the local max we’re trapped in currently because of this. The promise of the 90s internet was a bunch of people using decentralized services they controlled - instead we're primarily thin clients connecting to a small handful of powerful ad companies. We're mostly serfs [0] allowed access if we give up our data for ad targeting, follow EULAs nobody reads, and don't say anything the company earls disagrees with.

[0]: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/07/14/the-serfs-of-facebook...
I’ve only ever seen it labeled as cost of labor, not adjusted for cost of living. The labor market where you are at has essentially pegged you to a certain salary.

You feel like a cog in the machine because you absolutely are one.
Small company hired a certain VP who the engineering team reported to. He had experience in our industry but was clearly not adept at actually managing us. He had extremely unrealistic expectations, like he'd demand hour estimates for each ticket, and whatever estimate we gave he would just shave a couple hours off, and then chastise us for being too slow when we didn't make his own artificial deadlines. Occasionally he would insult us in very unprofessional ways and when one of the engineers complained, he played the "English isn't my first language" victim card like we were the unreasonable ones, even though he had been living in the US for 20+ years. In my mind, that wasn't a real excuse for when he told the team "Maybe you're just too stupid to figure this out".

I was severely underpaid anyways, but it was a fun job until that guy showed up. I know at least 1 of my coworkers on a different team quit because of the same VP.
I agree with you it's horseshit. What you're saying sincerely makes total sense to me. Has to feel terrible. I would feel detached from my work as well, I think.

You're experiencing alienation from the fruits of your labor. Your labor being exploited to maximize profit. Unfortunately, the comments here are right. It "makes sense" in the sense these experiences are characteristic of life within capitalism as a laborer.

Functionally, your location is being "colonized," so to speak, by capital. I don't know if there's a real phrase for it, but I suppose it could be described as "telecolonization." Management has found a resource (your labor) that can be cheaply extracted by alienating you, the "telecolonized," from the value your labor creates.

It is bullshit. If you want solutions, your recourse is either collective action/unionization or finding a new job. You're being exploited by capital more than your coworkers. That is the context from which this sense of unfairness arises, I believe.
That just spoiled the thing that had been nagging me for years now - where was that photo with the horse statue taken?

Good excuse to fire that game up again, though.
There's no particular reason they could have accelerated the development compared to all the other companies designing digital cameras.

Didn't they hold some early key patents?
The difference though would still be that, if they don't use unsafe or proper synchronization in Rust, their code won't compile. In Java, their code will compile just the same whether they use `synchronized` or not.

Of course the Rust compiler can't force you to write correct synchronization, but it can at least prevent you from forgetting about synchronization entirely.
Canada has a higher life expectancy, lower infant mortality rate, and lower death rates overall than the U.S with its supposedly inferior health care system.. something is working, maybe just not the way that you would prefer.
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Line managers usually have no control over what your initial negotiated offer is. Unless your line manager is the equivalent of director+ of course.
Curiosity is the explore part of the explore/exploit trade-off. We have some particular neuro-chemical sensations which correspond to exploration. But in this sense curiosity should be a pretty general feature of any intelligence that needs to adapt to dynamic context because the explore/exploit trade-off is quite fundamental.
The tables looked fictional in the first screenshot, but after seeing the rest in the replies I’m not so sure. There are enough relevant tables for an app of this scale to make this seem pretty legit.
I’d easily believe there’s a country bias: the Netherlands has so much more infrastructure encouraging non-enthusiast usage whereas here in the U.S. most places are still selecting for more adventurous riders.
Have you read this?

https://joplinapp.org/spec/e2ee/

Master Keys

The master keys are used to encrypt and decrypt data. They can be generated from the Encryption Service and are saved to the database. They are themselves encrypted via a user password using a strong encryption method.

These encrypted master keys are transmitted with the sync data so that they can be available to each client. Each client will need to supply the user password to decrypt each key.
Huh I've not experienced much instability with Lineage OS, other than a nasty bug that was fixed in the next update. Certainly not to the point that I couldn't get an uptime >48h. Actually I don't think the phone has crashed at all, maybe an app might have crashed at some point.
Sounds like a dream, really. And you could always have it be user-driven action, like "Copy this line and paste it into your email provider's whitelist", framing it as a positive win for the user since they have total control over who is allowed to communicate with them.
I don't wish to sound harsh, but you've got selective blinders on to the arguments that favor your position. And your position is arguing from the point of view of someone who already has the benefit of a job in a company and asking the company to justify itself why they don't pay you more.

Here's a different point of view.

A company can choose to consider people for work either close to their offices or remote. People who get hired close to offices come with an expectation that they will go in to work at some point, and be collaborative and possibly more effective than people who are remote. This point is debatable, but is up to the company to determine for itself whether it's true or worth the premium. There is a limited set of people living close to offices, and costs of living are generally higher, and pay reflects those factors.

If the company is to consider people who are remote and are not going to be coming in to work, that opens up practically the entire world for them as a labor pool (modulo time zone issues, etc). People in many other countries get paid far less and are willing to do much more work for the same pay than in the US.

If you are remote, you are competing against the labor pool that is similarly situated. If you can show that your value is disproportionate to the average, maybe you can negotiate.

Try to reason through things in a way that reflects more objective reality rather than your perception of it, or your feelings. No one is "forcing" you to migrate or do anything. You are seeking high pay and remote work. You're totally free to go out there and find the company that's offering that. Your company is offering pay and a job, at rates that you can decide to accept or decline. You make your choices, and either feel good about them, or not.
People are pushing them. That's why the iPhone passed all Android devices combined in US market share last week. That's the pushing. A lot of longtime Android users have obviously finally gotten tired enough of the quality issues and have fled to iPhone.
I'm surprised that you didn't just whitelist the email after the repeated ham events...!
As a non-US worker I definitely agree. My big advantage over US-based employees is that I'll work for less. Why would I insist on getting paid exactly the same as a Bay-area employee when I could ask for significantly less and be well ahead of what I could make locally?
Dr Tamitha Skov has some good videos:
https://www.spaceweatherwoman.com/

There's also a lot of material in ham radio circles on magazines, web sites and books about this stuff because it directly impacts radio propagation.
Li KaShing's son.

More specifically head of PCC - a digital conglomerate from/in HK.
Agree, I would just replace all this with, “can you talk about the tech stack, developer experience, etc?” and then explain what I’m looking for in more detail but without the pointed questions or snark. Also, this is a “final interview” question, like the questions you ask once you know you have the nod and are now just trying to ensure it’s a good match.
Sure, I was mostly speaking hypothetically. The reality right now is that for this sort of false flag attack to work the speaker must be deeply unpopular, especially with media figures. This is why due process is important to prevent inequitable treatment, but woke ideology is ironically demanding that companies abandon due process if this would be harmful to shareholder value. The idea that left-wing activists would be flirting with Friedmanite shareholder primary would have been unthinkable 10 years ago. So much for corporate social responsibility!
Microwave your shoes for 5 seconds, kill that chip. ;) For everything else, no idea.
When I was there, you could have whatever on your workstation inside the office. No source code was allowed on any mobile device, though. For a while I would use sshfs into my workstation when coding on my laptop. Google's version control system is pretty fancy, though, moreso than simply just storing files on your local filesystem (client in the cloud). At some point it became easy to write code in a browser based text editor, and I did that both on my laptop and on my workstation; it had the best code search integration.
> Negotiate with my company and threaten to leave? Not fully sure of this. More alligend to leaving anyway as I find the excuses for location based pay pathetic.

You should negotiate, but do so from a position of strength and leave emotion out of it. The reality is that location-based pay is standard. This reason for this is labor market incentives. Whatever your manager says is not reality, it's just a story to try to placate you. How defensible the story is or how angry and demotivated you are about it is absolutely meaningless in terms of outcomes, and the sooner you come to terms with that and look at the situation from a purely rational perspective the better.

What matters here is how much leverage you have. The best leverage is having an offer in hand for more money. Short of that, if you are perceived as a top performer, that could confer some leverage, but keep in mind that location-based pay is probably baked into the cost structure of the entire office. You are likely better served by a strategy to demonstrate your individual value so that your raise isn't seen as precedent for why the entire location pay scale needs to increase.
And touch type. Or that while the internet is great, it should be viewed with a distance and skepticism.

Probably the biggest thing I wish I could share though is general civics and history knowledge. A lot got cut from education since then in the US. Plus what 90s America felt like-freedom before “terrorism.” (Quotes because there are many great books on all this that I’m not able to even point at right now.)
I'm going to generalize here. It's important to note that there are exceptions, but they are _exceptions_.

You're working for a company, not a person. Companies exist as a way to make money: they have _no_ other motivation. Notions of fairness, decency, humanity, etc, have zero relevance to corporate behaviour. People who work for companies are actively discouraged, even prohibited, from using human morality or fairness as criteria in deciding what to do: corporate decisions are about the short-term financial gains for shareholders.

Employment policies exist to codify the processes used to achieve this goal, because people a fallible, and tend to have moral scruples, and that gets in the way of perfect implementation of the corporate will. They're necessarily a blunt instrument, with inefficiencies, but in a company staffed by humans, that's the best it can do.

The costs of employing someone have several parts: salary + benefits to the employee, taxes due to the locality they're employed, and the costs of equipment, services, office-space, etc, needed by the employee.

The goal of the company is to get the best/most output for the least cost. With some initial overheads (setting up foreign legal entities, structuring to support remote work, etc) foreign workers are often a means to this end.

The only reason the company talks about "cost of living", etc, is because that's what potential employees tell it when they negotiate (or refuse) a job offer. It doesn't care: it just knows that unless it pays that much, people will work for its competitors instead.

The reason you're paid less is because you'll work for less. And if not you, then someone else in a similar location. If the company can get more output for less money elsewhere, it will. The only reason the company has local staff is because it believes that not having them will ultimately cost more (in quality, in agility, in reputation, whatever. Often this corporate belief is biased/racist).

So, what to do?

Find a company that realizes that the best people are not all magically located in California, and is prepared to pay more so that it gets the benefits of your work rather than one of its competitors. As other commenters have mentioned: in negotiating your salary, point out that you have other options, and if they want you, they need to be willing to out-bid their competitors.

But your current employer has limited scope for this: you really need to move. Once you're employed, the company counts on you being risk-averse enough to stay, even if you're relatively under-paid. The only way to level up is to move.

Good luck!