skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ascribing limited-lifespan human motivations to potentially infinite lifespan non-human intelligence is the core mistake here though.

You look at running an empire with hundreds of years of message delay as pointless, they may view it as totally necessary. After all - if from your subjective opinion you blink and you're in another star system (hundreds of years later), then are you even worried about that time difference, or are you worried about whether they're still flying the right flags when you get there?

(you can imagine a similar arrangement of times working out for social relationships over such timespans - duration might not much matter if everyone sort of agrees they'll wake up for X amount of subjective time before meeting up again in person).
> the youth in this country are seriously lost

When you were a kid, don’t you think your parents and grandparents said the same thing?
The world is moving towards more closed borders, so moving is getting harder. But in the end we’ll all need to move to low-income countries like Yemen, Togo, and Ethiopia, to lower our costs, and be most competitive for employers?
Put that bus on rails instead of tires and operating it autonomously becomes infinitely easier and more realistic in the near term.

As far as profits on rural lines… each line doesn’t need to be equally profitable. Some might even lose money, as long as the popular lines can make up for the less popular ones. There is a significant value to a community in having ubiquitous coverage.
This is commonly avoided by not putting memory pressure on your O_DIRECT application, which is probably an RDBMS on a dedicated single-purpose host.

Not saying more work in the space wouldn't be welcome and interesting, just that it's generally the assumption whenever I've seen O_DIRECT (since the Solaris days and through today) that what's using it is the only thing of substance on the box.
Here you go.

2014: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Here-we-go-again-Gian...

2012: https://www.nydailynews.com/2012/10/29/san-francisco-giants-...

2010: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/sports/world-series-damage-r...

As for doing so on Chinese New Year? I honestly think this Waymo got stuck in the crowd at the wrong place at the wrong time. Waymo has a good track record and still does in my books, but this car shouldn’t have been near Chinatown on Chinese New Year. It’s just stupid that it was, and unfortunate for the car. Those streets really are narrow and yeah, it gets crowded, so I’m inclined to think this was more a crime of opportunity. A mob gathered, some of them drunk and/or edgy, one thing led to another, etc.

Also it’s possible I overplayed how much of this was an SF phenomenon. It’s the City I know best but I found reports of other sports fans doing the same across America and Canada when I was Googling those links for you.
yes if you're a citizen of one of the US, CA, EU
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What about (iii) pay a salary that would be in between absurdly high and absurdly low?
It's easier but only at the beginning, when the needs are simple and you dream of unpredictable QPS spikes that cloud will magically handle for you, summed up pretty well in https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-have-left-the-cloud-251760fb
Those deaths I heard about in the past year were all due to careless car drivers.
Maybe it's different in the US.
And following up to myself:

Being able to work from where I happen to live and I have thought about whether I would like to work for them.

That it's a good product would certainly be a motivation. However, frequent incidents being resolved fast must be incredibly stressful for the staff. I prefer to stay where we make heavy releases only a few times a year for regulatory reasons. (Even though stress levels can raise until the last MR for the release has been merged.)
Maybe the best engineers want to live in SF?
It’s the shift of perception from technology being “geek stuff” to a lucrative field on par with finance, medicine and law. Before, someone who knew a bit of programming was likely to be passionate and with high potential. Now they may still be, but also they may just a way to get rich quick.
Yes. From just the past month: https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/02/4-cars-set-on-fire-in-san-...

Usually it’s limited to sports championships and other special events though.
I think this is the most pedantic discussion I ever participated in. Rules for a park do not involve jail time, but leaving the park for offenders. And if it is a park excplicitely of seniors sensitive to noise, then yes - low decibel rules apply. If it is a common park, then obviously no. All that can be specified if necessary.
So it should not be assumed to be a functioning first world country?
"and ethnic people like black people and ukrainians"

I agree with the gist of your post but this quote sounds crazy to me. Are there humans that are not "ethnic"?

What, exactly, are you trying to say here?
Do you live in a city where there are only 4 trips per hour in an entire square mile? What city are you talking about? I'm assuming it's a US city because of their characteristic sprawling layout.
You also know that companies are looking to optimize margin, so those US level salaries are only temporarily. Given enough good people in India, or other low-income countries, that pay level will drop significantly.
Maybe contrived wasn’t the best word, but I’ve been asked to implement a simplified feature of the company’s product. So at one company I was asked to create a simplified model for their product with support for undo/redo.
They may have. That being said I don’t recall ever defacing private property at that age, even while under the influence of several substances.
You don't think this is the place to share a sensible solution to the problem we're discussing?
The problem with option 3 is that even a small drop below light speed becomes a large multiplier when looking at galactic and intergalactic distances. Let's say you can manage 0.5 c (pushing far beyond any current physical understanding of what is possible), that means we would have up to a 40,000 year heads up on an approaching galactic civilization. Even if it was 0.9c we would have up to 8,000 years notice. Even with something crazy like direct antimatter - matter conversion the amount of energy to bring a ship to that kind of speed would be a gigantic beacon in the night sky. Barring science fiction we can be relatively confident none are on their way right now.
Yes it depends.
But the thing with a birth is, that the day is not clearly defined. Which is common knowledge and works in the companies I know(in germany though). With - when it is time, he needs to leaves that moment.

But when you say "x days off for personal reasons" - they would like a date.
https://archive.ph/TtIcY
Well, info that some problem does not exist elsewhere at all and there is an obvious solution to that is useful.

Even if that means that situation in USA is sad/broken.
What issues itch you?
The police ignore all sorts of reports of crimes. No, they do not get in trouble for it.
Their terms say
https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-applicatio...

Unless you are an Enterprise customer, Cloudflare offers specific Paid Services (e.g., the Developer Platform, Images, and Stream) that you must use in order to serve video and other large files via the CDN

https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-developer-...

The Cloudflare Developer Platform consists of the following Services: (i) Cloudflare Workers, a Service that permits developers to deploy and run encapsulated versions of their proprietary software source code (each a “Workers Script”) on Cloudflare’s edge servers; (ii) Cloudflare Pages, a JAMstack platform for frontend developers to collaborate and deploy websites; (iii) Cloudflare Queues, a managed message queuing service; (iv) Workers KV, D1, Durable Objects, Vectorize, Hyperdrive, and R2, storage offerings used to serve HTML and non-HTML content; and (v) Workers AI, a Service that allows customers to use Cloudflare’s inference infrastructure to invoke select third-party machine learning models (subject to applicable open source licenses or third-party terms of use for such models).

Based on their terms, serving video in R2 should be fine.
The approach taken by Igalia (a co-op) is quite interesting: https://wingolog.org/archives/2013/06/25/time-for-money. Basically they target equal pay but adjust it for cost of living, rather than cost of hiring.
Meh, it's fine for 99% of use cases. Rails only becomes a pain in my experience if you have random, huge swings in traffic or a ton of active users with websocket stuff (mostly solved by anycable). But very few products are going to reach those limits and if they do those problems can be solved too.

Stripe, GitHub, and Shopify are the shining examples of Rails scaling in all kinds of ways without problem.
As a tiny data point, I've used javalin having moved from scala to kotlin and it's absolutely fantastic.
And it suggests that they may be just as uncordinated in a real incident.
Add safari for macOS to the list
I understand your frustration about the "I'm from Europe" comments, but you have to appreciate that those comments come from a similar frustration.

The universally shared image of the US is that they loudmouth how great they are compared to the rest of the world. So when news comes out on how the US fails so dramatically on very basic public/social services, it leaves people from outside the US stumped.
Not the same thing at all. The digital equivalent to trespass is unauthorized access to secured locations / resources like servers.
I was more concerned with the lack of training by the hotel, everyone arrives either by private car or taxi via the local train system and in a hotel of that calibre I simply expected better awareness from the front desk. I have nothing against that particular person. So regarding this french village, I hope they give residents decent directions training to help the lost travelers if they expect them to go without their phones.
Probably accurate,

and underlines the complete disconnect between lawmakers/law enforcement, and modern technology.
so why not set a “total remuneration package” as it’s known where I live. It’s the total value, inclusive of compulsory payroll deductions and taxes, and set the salary to match that. The cost to the company is the same, but your take-home depends on where you live.
> You are supposed to pay an employee based on his/her abilities, not her location.

You are supposed to pay them the minimum amount it takes to get them to show up to work. When someone moves to a less competitive market, where getting another job is harder, then they are more likely to show up for lesser pay.

And remember that a country may have a less competitive market, even if the workers are remote and not seemly bound by a local market, because governments often love to put up huge roadblocks when it comes to international hiring. If you are being paid less than you were in another country doing the same job for the same employer, this is almost certainly why you have agreed to take a pay cut.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'No_Way_to_Prevent_This,'_Says...
But the vast majority of people who go to programming bootcamps don't get rich quickly, or rich at all. Same with most people in the world who practice medicine or law

Or did you mean to convey that people who go to boot camps think it's a way to get rich quick? Your wording is a bit confusing toward the end there
Bottom line you want the best people, which are spread around the globe, but within each country is a different price point for what you pay the best people. Bidding too high is wasteful to your resources, too low makes it impossible to compete in higher pay areas, and middle ground is the worst of both worlds: loose out on high pay areas, be wasteful in low pay areas.

I hope future generations will better understand that accumulating wealth should not be the goal of life.
? A region has such a weak rule of law, that police can terrorize a man without consequences - and a person from a vast region of various states were that is rather unheard of (and people travel way more) is provincial for calling that out? I'm honestly confused. We had some "valley rulers" in europe, but the law tends to get rid of them, bloodfeuds and other idiocies included. And any low point ought to remain shocking. Getting numb to pain is not normal.
Automated vehicles enable a service between taxis and buses. Think a small bus/minivan that travels a general route, but drops you off nearer your house, for instance.
Pregnancy and maternity are desired by the society as a whole. So they might receive some positive discrimination.

(Stress on might and some, probably still not enough in may rich countries to stop native population from shrinking.)
You could also argue that difference in pay is less discriminatory. You are paying employees to have the same quality of life, same type of housing, same opportunity to provide for family, send your kids to the same type of schooling. These things cost differently in different countries, so require different income.
in general i agree, but the problem with location based salaries is that they are working for locals, but not for expats. expats everywhere have higher living costs than locals, in part because they will get more expensive housing that is more up to the standard they are used to, and they also may have kids that they can't or don't want to send to a local school, and they will buy more imported food that they are used from home.

when i looked at their salariy calculator i figured that i could not live on the salary they would offer for my location. school costs alone for each child are as much as i pay for rent.
> Also it’s possible I overplayed how much of this was an SF phenomenon.

Yep. This is a phenomenon everywhere. I don't have hard data to support this, but I'm under the impression that soccer fans in Europe are even crazier.
Define best engineers first. I seriously doubt that hiring in SF will give you the best engineers, it might have one of the best ratios of good:bad engineers compared to many other places but it's not a given whatsoever that hiring one living in SF will be a slum dunk. I worked with many terrible engineers from SF over the past 20 years.

Which makes the point: why would a company pay such a premium on hiring from a single location if, in the end, it can only get the best engineers from there if it pays an even higher premium than the ridiculous salaries from the place? It doesn't make much financial sense, seems to be mostly based on "feelings" during hiring, like yours.
Oh please. I am 47 and can't find a job, no matter how hard I try. And I'm in Product (coding is even worse). Ageism in tech is a real thing that's not often talked about.
Bad leadership is the best explanation. Not every decision can have an insurance policy that covers your ass.
BTW, if nothing changed the last year or two, then even if you want to run in a single AZ, but also to have (automatically) replicated RDS instance, then I believe the replica MUST be in another AZ. Meaning that any potential failover puts you in exactly that position you have mentioned - apps running in one AZ, database in the other. Suddenly you pay 0.01USD/GB for transfer between those, billed in each direction separately.
If I work for you, and you're willing to double my salary to subsidize my moving to an area that has wildly more opportunities for me (which is precisely why the salary is higher there), don't mind if I do move there.

You just need to ask yourself if offering incentives to get your employees to move to hot job markets is in your benefit.
The reason a lot of people travel from a small area to a small area is the nature of existing public transport.

Enable a different sort of public transport and that promotes decentralisation, which is much more humane as well as more economically and environmentally attractive.
> If you won't move, there's likely a reason why

Kids would have to leave school and all their friends behind, wife hasn’t finished education here - there’s those reasons as well.
> Senior positions come with its associated risk and stakes

Strong doubt on the risks part. Sure, for founders. But for executives at established companies, the more senior you are the less risk you have. Severances get larger, firing rates get lower, and you probably have more cash in the bank.
> Wrapping a tree-like interface round incremental parsing that doesn't require eager parsing or retaining arbitrary amounts of data, and doesn't leak implementation details, sounds astoundingly hard, perhaps even impossible.

I don't think they promise this and I suspect this fails to parse some pathological but correct JSON files, eg one that starts with 50 GB of [s.
in many areas salaries must be specified as the take-home part (including the taxes you pay as employee, but not including the part that the employers pay, which is not part of your remuneration), because doing otherwise would be confusing and could be considered deceptive.
Tokyo ward using garbage bags with herbs to combat rats
"Highly ranked" probably refers to a formal metric like the impact factor. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_ranking
Good enough people from India move elsewhere in no time. You still get what you pay for.
So why do you think it is necessary in the US, to swat someones house because of a anonymous call and not in europe?
Secure External Backup with ZFS Native Encryption (2021)
While the blades are still fiberglass, it seems that the tower could be built of wood - Here is a 2MW wood turbine - https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67718719

(2MW isn’t cutting edge anymore for onshore turbines)
And it's utterly useless.. What good does a tank against a drone with an rpg7 head. Real resistence by a gang would obliberate a Swatteam. A cold War style armament spiral between gangs and police can not end in success.
Putin ChatBot
I know I know, but I just couldn't resist.

Also has access to many of his previous speeches, scraped from http://www.en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts

I don't endorse war or killing of any sort.
Same for Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH)
Stripe does use Ruby, but not Rails.
That's not (entirely) true. You fill in the tax forms online on the website of the tax office, but only the known income, bank accounts, and mortgage have been filled in already. If you're an independent contractor, own a company, have stock, pension plans outside the normal pension funds, donated to charity, etc., there's still a lot to be filled in.
Nah I doubt they would accept it.

Wikipedia is not the source of truth at all.

And it's very clear knowledge that tear gas canisters cause fires in enclosed areas:

https://sourcenm.com/2022/08/05/tear-gas-grenade-thrown-by-b...

https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2000-07-07/77866/

Now you go update wikipedia, if you want.
Of course, but that still requires the attacker to specifically target me. Attacking some random service I have an account with and getting everyone's account info isn't enough.
They happen on class b highways at night. They often get hit from behind.

There are more than just human factors. Self driving cars can't control pedestrians or guarantee they will follow traffic laws or not be inebriated. Also weather happens and snow and ice change everything.

Self driving is not magic. Sensors have limitations, and can even just get dirty.

Drivers won't ever follow rules. Automaton that allows our even requires driver intervention will probably not offer any improvement in fatalities.
OpenAI Chat down (at least) in Europe
https://chat.openai.com/?model=gpt-4 delivers a "Bad Gateway" error page by Cloudflare, while https://status.openai.com/ currently shows no issues.
My example was meant as satire, making fun of your "400ft AGL" amendment. And I don't think my example answers questions "without confusion"; the more specific you make the rules, the more cracks and gaps you create for litigious-minded park users to squeeze through.

As far as this applies to moderation: having simple rules, with an overarching "Use your common sense" rule, seems more practical than trying to make rules that cover all cases. Of course, that requires moderators that possess common sense.
I recently spent a few minutes applying to a Gitlab position, only to get a link to some Gitlab wiki explaining the list of EU countries they hire at is limited, and mine isn't among them. I wish whoever posted the ad had spent a few seconds copying and pasting that list from their wiki.
> you're asking for SF salaries, and those in India are asking for NL salaries(or SF salaries)

No. You got it all wrong.

You're asking for equal pay for equal work. If all your team members are paid in full but you, in spite of doing the exact same work, are paid a fraction of what they are paid, then something is terribly off.

Your contribution to your team does not depend on where you're currently located. How much time you waste on commute does not change the expectation placed on your output. If your office location is prohibitively expensive that means your company needs to sort their mess and work on a location that's more affordable. It makes no sense that you need to subsidize your employer's bad office location.
I think we are talking about two distinct policy goals here:

1) humans, including children, should be able to move through the public realm safely, no matter if they walk or bike

2) we do not want all the space in cities to be taken up by cars

Self-driving cars help with reaching goal number 1 partially, but it is not sufficient. Bike paths and other non-car infrastructure is also needed.

In terms of goal number 2, self-driving cars might open up a political chance to ban on-street parking.

You're right that they alone won't fix the problem, but I think they don't make it worse either. Traffic in cities is already limited by capacity, not by demand.
Yeah, I think for learning, the 4(?) octaves is probably sufficient.

And cost is probably due to first gen, yeah. Plus, hardware development is pricey, I think.
Same here. The reality is that what company chooses to pay is the minimal amount they can get a candidate to accept for that location.

If the candidate had other better offers, then they can either reject the offer or propose a higher counter-offer. If the company received a counter-offer and chose to accept it, then this amount becomes the new minimal amount.

Over a period of time, if there are enough counter-offers (or rejections), this continues to increase. Since, the two (or however many) locations don't necessarily have the same demand or supply, it's inevitable that some location will end up with much higher compensation than others. It's the nature of free market and why some companies engage/d in hiring collusion (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...)
I'm not sure if "nice" is a logical word to use in this context.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

Be assured it isn't "just" drug addicts but increasingly profit minded criminals and misguided teenagers, 'etc. They smash the windows anyhow and occasionally set things on fire for kicks.

And there are more and more organized and semi-organized groups.
Is it so?

https://www.academics.de/ratgeber/haw-professur

https://www.academics.com/guide/haw-professorship

https://haw-professur.de/en/

https://www.thm.de/site/en/university/profile/job-and-career...
Maybe. But I don‘t think so. Many moved away during the pandemic, when they had the chance.

Most engineers seem to life in SF out of necessity, more than anything else. After all, that is where most jobs are.