skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A worker in country X or country Y are very different for companies' balance sheets. For instance, my company is Canadian, and we are eligible for significant tax credits through SR&ED[0] for software developers. If a software developer moved their permanent residence to outside Canada, even if we could magically pin exchange rates to pay them the CAD equivalent in local currency, it would be a significantly different financial impact on the company as they aren't eligible for that program. I'm not an expert, but I imagine there are many equivalent programs in every country, state, and even municipality.

It works both ways, anyway. If those friends had moved from Thailand to Switzerland, would it be discrimination to pay them more?

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/scientific-...
I don't think that rule holds in general. For another example besides religion, you can choose whether or not to marry interracially.
Does Google offer 100x the network performance of Hetzner? Because egress price is 100x more.
If everyone in the city took a taxi, the traffic would be unbearable, the city would be clogged, at least a standard European city. One thing I like about metro systems is that they usually take up no space on the ground, many of them are already completely autonomous, they cannot be stopped by manifestations or traffic, and of course they are much more space efficient for transporting people.
Good police elsewhere tend to worry more about whether they have the correct address as reported, whether the correct address was reported, and whether or not the report was factual or made up to waste police time | harress people.

You know, innocent victims and all that.
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Anarchist mobster here, I think people just don't like roving surveillance wagons.

Also, actual anarchists are not going to vandalize bikes and public transit. It's kind of important that we be somewhat precise about our terminology as otherwise you just stoke political division to no real end.
De Maistre (an alt-right figure fl. 1800) perhaps anticipated moments like this: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre#:~:text=Tout...
Many people can’t choose where they live either. Getting a visa to the US is a ludicrous process and even if they wanted to they maybe tied by family obligations.
Yeah the cops are negligent. Now scale this across the entire country and tell me BLM doesn't have a point.

"How could this happen?!?" The cops are willfully stupid thugs who are willing to be cruel and violent for an easy paycheck. Worst trained police force in the developed world.

This is the problem we have. The cops don't care. They just don't.
i think it only makes sense for referring to programming languages. someone who wants to get a job in the usa, understand their favorite anime, study the buddhist scriptures, or write a new translation of the odyssey isn't going to 'spend so much time deciding what is the "right" language'; the right language is almost uniquely determined by the application area, being respectively english, japanese, pali, and homeric greek in those cases. it's only programming languages where we dither about whether to learn c, scheme, javascript, or rust, because we can do the same things in all of them
I recall being on a software engineer interview loop (faang), my topic to interview for was around practical problem solving. The candidate performed poorly, unable to write any solution to a basic log parsing problem in the language if their choice. In the debrief, apparently the candidate did very well in the algorithmic interview part of the loop. I dissented on the decision to hire, because of their inability to solve basic real world problems, the group proceeded anyway..
Same in Germany where Fachhoschulen (hogescholen) marketing themselves successfully to internationals as "University of Applied Sciences"
+1. I've always described this phenomenon as "everything you love will get better but everything you hate will get worse."
Over a timespan of hundreds of thousands of years.

Which is short in geological terms, but an eternity in technological ones. We would have plenty of time to solve that problem.
In the UK, the Equality Act (2010) protects: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership (in employment only), pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.

Pregnancy, maternity, marriage, civil partnerships and gender re-assignment are usually chosen by individuals, not forced upon them.
Can you share more? First time I hear this.
Is SF really that bad for cars being set on fire via random celebrations/riots? Paris’s suburbs I get, but SF?
How will self driving cars lead to more cycling?

Automating car traffic will lead to more car traffic. Today the number of cars on the road are limited to the number of drivers. If the drivers are removed, there can be even more cars, just driving around empty to go get someone. Even if demand for transit remains the same, driverless taxis have the potential to double the number of trips that need to be take. From going to a place and returning home (2 trips), to empty to pickup, go to a place, empty to pickup again, and returning home (4 trips). At scale, this will be a nightmare.

To reduce car traffic we need to build alternatives to cars (protected bike lanes, rails, etc). We will never get people away from cars by building more/better cars.
I agree with this in theory but I can't see how it will work in practice. There isn't a global "value of ability" to base the pay on. It's valued differently in every location.
Ability to live anywhere in the world is a choice?
VR/AR won't become the Next Big Thing, but prices will have stabilized and demand in most developed countries will be steadily increasing. Will never become as ubiqitious as smartphones in developing countries.

People will be happier, but I can't predict why.

India won't have progressed in a significant manner. Corruption will be as rampant as ever, and Hindutva will still be the prevailing ideology. The youth will try to protest in ..certain ways, but they will not be successful in bringing about the change they would like. Mumbai will be one step closer to being a dead city. Bangalore won't be its successor. The higher education system will not become better in any meaningful way but the importance of IIT/NITs will have slightly declined. For most students they will remain the only option.

Tech jobs will have lost their allure due to oversaturation in India. We will see a funding winter in 2030-2033. We will see more skeptics.
I remember getting this bug on accident when I was a kid. I was building a tunnel, but clicked the wrong tile. It popped up a huuuge sum of money and I got scared that I messed up and I'll go bankrupt, only to realize I now had 2B dollars...
Or could it could instil good habits in your children? Obviously looking after/active okay with kids is better, but I don’t see it being selfish to also enjoy yourself and encourage a valuable hobby in them too. It’s hard being a parent, make time for things you enjoy too!
Are you baiting me into calling you delusional? Because that's exactly what I have to think from all your nonsense comments.

Enjoy your trolling elsewhere, this conversation is over. I've supplied very relevant information proving you are wrong, and you've provided nothing but your feels. Enjoy your sub-optimal computing experience. Goodbye.
I took a taxi to/from work in Beijing even though I eventually lived on line 10 which would do much of the same route (well, a bit more walking in the work side). I shifted my work schedule to really early to do it, and I think it was worth it. The subway is slow, has annoying security to line up for at the stations, and you often don’t get a seat for most of or your entire ride. I tried it a couple of times and it just wasn’t worth it unless I needed to travel during rush hour.

I’m sure if it were Tokyo instead I wouldn’t have a problem (or even the option given the higher cost of taking a taxi).
Them officers should have noticed how many times they were called to raid a same home earlier but no they continued...

On slightly unrelated note, i found court documents related to the swatter "Torswats" (though pages are plastered with "unofficial") and shit is crazy to say the least, especially on materials found by detectives and cops. Such material are messages from Torswats and cops handpicked his diatribes against jews, government officials, homosexuals, black people and ukrainians.
"Relax, " said the night man
"We are programmed to receive
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave!"
I struggle to understand why companies force employees to change their password every few months.

There’s no evidence that my current password was compromised…so let’s change it to something else.
Europe's deepest mine to become Europe's deepest battery
I can't tell you how many smashed cars I've seen with rolled down windows and notes begging people not to trash them and that there are no valuables inside.
You see even more as a motorcyclist because you have a direct view into vehicles.

In Germany it's honestly not that bad, but a lot of people text as red lights.
Pls also consider the egress network speed. I got burned by scaleway when they changed their blob store pricing. Trying to my grade out to Hetzer would have taken months at the network speeds they were providing
I’m in the US, with European family (parent, cousins, etc.) and I can’t count the number of comments that I’ve heard or read that begin with “I am from Europe” and go on to make a very sensible, reasonable assertion about how things ought to be in the US.

Well, they aren’t that way. However your town works, Detroit is different. NYC is different. Tampa is different.

At some point the person who is repeatedly surprised at what doesn’t make sense to them has an obligation to either accept that their expectations aren’t universal, or to dig deeper. Maintaining perpetual shock and confusion is not a sign of moral righteousness or principle, it’s provincial.
My conclusion after reading this is never give it your all unless it's your own company. Burnout after working for someone else in tech should not happen at all. The post overall has negative undertones so it feels like the burnout was really bad after all this time, I hope the author recovers and finds joy and peace working on their own projects.
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That page continues to just get worse and worse. Truly awful.
Regarding gitlab performance:

I moved from using bitbucket, first own servers and later SaaS to gitlab.com SaaS in early 2018.

I cannot say anything else than gitlab performance and UI being much better. I was permanently complaining about bitbucket, but very happy with gitlab most of the time. They had rather frequent partial outages, but resolution was always quick.

Maybe starting 1 year ago I noticed gitlab.com reponse times going down. It's not that things hang or are super slow, but they seem to consistently take 2 seconds more than what they used to. (The number is a complete guess, I have no measurements either before or after.) It's still usable, but no longer the pleasant experience it used to be.
I feel bad that I understood this joke. Poor Claude.
They also rely on a lot of people travelling from a small area to a small area. The square mile around me has fewer than 4 journeys an hour to anywhere, so how does that work with anything other than an automated taxi or at most minibus?
Thank you, I understand now!
JSON has a lot more optimization that XML never got. Which I think says more about general interest in XML more than anything. Even today my experience is that XML processing varies wildly from "perfectly reasonable" to "maybe I can just do this with regex instead" even with widely used parsers.

Also XML has a number of features to care about like attributes as well as elements, and also potentially about schema. It's also needlessly verbose. Even though elements open and close in a stack there isn't a universal "close" tag. That is, if `<Tag1><Tag2></Tag1></Tag2>` is always considered malformed, then why isn't the syntax simply `<Tag1><Tag2></></>`?
Like scaleway
You can do that right now. Sabotage Linux rewrote the one and only perl dependency in awk years ago.

Grab https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sabotage-linux/sabotage/ma... and clobber the perl script in the Linux source.

Then: sed -i -e 's@perl $(srctree)/$(src)/build_OID_registry@awk -f $(srctree)/$(src)/build_OID_registry@' ./lib/Makefile

They also removed the perl dependency for ca-certificates since one of the goals was to remove perl dependencies from the core system including its toolchain and kernel. It's not needed at all now.

This Aho project is neat because it has the potential of removing the perl dependency on having a git client, which was a problem prior.
most things you have to rehearse or practice, or you'll forget them. only a few things (foods that make you vomit, for example, or neighborhoods where you get mugged) can be learned from a single exposure with no later mental rehearsal. better encoding helps a lot, but it's not a panacea
A/D conversion itself wouldn't add much at the sample level (say 48KHz sample, it's about 50us per sample). However, packetisation will - a 256 byte packet of 128 samples is 128*50us = 6.4ms right there at the transmitter, and the receiver won't notify until the full packet is received. So a naive digital approach would be 12.8ms (2x6.4ms) even before anything else.

A pure analogue approach (modulated RF) on the other hand shouldn't have any human-detectable delay - it's effectively distance/speed of light with a bit of a phase shift (addtional delay) introduced by the electronics - should be only a handful of microseconds in total.
Anecdotally, as a foster kid at one point I lived in a new construction home in the desert outside Reno with no shrubbery (newly poured walkways so no landscaping) and there frequently being scorpions in the natal kid's play area.
yep. People vastly underestimate how difficult the logistics of "pay an employee for services" can be, particularly when you don't have a legal corporate presence in the country where the employee resides. There are services that handle this for you and they charge a 30-40% premium on top of the employee's salary. And sometimes this is still worth it, because many countries charge an absolutely obscene incorporation fee for foreign-owned businesses.
So good to see they are still around! Thanks!
Great retrospective, and apart from the personal burnout story, could be titled "what happens to a startup when managers start to run the show"
I haven’t seen any statements but here’s the context:

It’s Chinatown, San Francisco. It’s Chinese New Year. The Streets are tiny, narrow, crowded and full of the young and the drunk celebrating the Year of the Dragon, and nobody at Waymo thought to tell their cars to stay away from this area at this time (or they did and this car missed the memo and ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time anyway).

> It's intriguing, people in a city with over $300K GDP per capita burning an AI enabled transportation robot.

That GDP per capita figure really misses the mark on what San Francisco is like. Also: not everyone here is in tech, or cares about tech.
Generally speaking people don't get banned here, also they have ~75,000 internet points so they know what they're doing.

Either this thread will get flagged to death because ultimately this is a VC forum or dang will come in and dish some well deserved scoldings if anyone goes too far but that's about it.
Yes, the result would be that they wouldn't have any employees in the Netherlands, let alone in the Bay area.
That’s different: it’s just drug addicts looking for drug money and the citizens being too nice to get their police to crack down on that. But lighting a car on fire for anger and kicks is something else.
Who cares if you don't have Bay Area engineers? Their ability isn't based on where they live, is it? If they want to lower their costs of living so they can compete they can "just move".
It depends on the country, but here in Germany no
Why are you supposed to pay based on abilities? Where is that stated?

As a company you need certain abilities, and you pay whatever the market decides these abilities are worth, and nothing more. Depending on location, the market will set a different price on these abilities, so you pay different.
He should charge the police for hosting training exercises for their swat teams.
I think you're confused
Any advantage over Synergy?
It s based on suply and demand indeed. The legal requirements might affect minimum pay.
Sorry, that example seemed to occur in a public venue so isn’t the most relevant.

This one may be more appropriate: https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/11238632.armed-police...

At least to a layman not at all versed in firearms, armed police responses in the UK look a lot like SWAT teams in the US and feel similarly intense, but perhaps there are material differences here. I’m genuinely not sure.
It's much less impressive when its given an explicit internal model (stockfish move probabilities).
> The paperwork gives as an example a $55 toy that is sold by an FBA member that is featured in the Buy Box while a non-FBA vendor that offers the same item for $51 is placed in an alternative sellers box lower down.

Amazon is doing exactly what many Amazon shoppers want here. That $4 "savings" comes with the likelihood of a worse and slower shipping experience, worse return experience, and generally worse customer experience. Leaving aside the many cases where there's no savings at all because the shipping isn't free.

(Not that FBA is free of problems; Amazon also needs to stop commingling products from different vendors, and do a better job of eliminating counterfeit products.)
The law of reversed effort: Harder you try, harder you fall
They help create the problem to sell you the solution.
In this aspect, things in Europe are actually much better. We in Germany can use a software called ELSTER, which by now has become quite usable and can be used to file all your text reports. I heard in the Netherlands the tax office sends the tax report to you and you will just have to check the numbers.
> A worker in country X or country Y are very different for companies' balance sheets

Yes, but quite often, workers are in the same country (or even same state!) and still get paid differently based on CoL.
To clarify (the first thing I wondered) each computer needs its own HDMI cable plugged into its own input on the monitor. So not true KVM as many people would think of it, but this saves you from having to use the monitor's input selector.

At least one of the computers must be on and running Windows, but maybe only one?
It doesn’t help that the terms don’t translate 1:1.
Those areas often have buses to fulfill ADA requirements, so a lot of the riders are mobile challenged. Vans might work. Or those bigger taxi cabs that can take a wheelchair. I’m not sure how that could be self serve, however.
Disagree on gender re-assignment, people don't choose to have gender dysphoria just like they don't choose sexual orientation.
We're not only talking about swatting. Add to that death due to firearms, drug epidemic, extraordinary rate of incarceration per capita. There are a lot of statistical coincidences and anomalies, at some point you gotta ask whether it's worth the risk.

If I were living in sub-Saharian Africa, would it make sense to move to the US? Without a doubt. From the United Kingdom or the Netherlands? Ehhh, I don't know about that. These statistical differences would have a much bigger weight given all the other similarities.

Most of the pull of the US is due to propaganda rather than actual increased standards of living. "The land of the free" and all.
Ruby now has Fibers and other constructs for async like Ractor.

> Rails is a great framework and the productivity is unmatched, but with time a 2-3 years old Rails project is always tricky to maintain.

It isn’t any less tricky than a Django or Express project. With any codebase discipline and regular tending to the garden of code is important to prevent weeds from growing.

If anything that Ruby (and Rails) has going against it is still the raw language performance and higher memory requirements/usage than its counterparts, which makes it less desirable for workloads that require low latency or small memory footprint
> The time it takes to deploy code is vital to the success of an organization

I've found this to be one of the most important metrics (if not the most important) for maintaining developer velocity as a startup scales.

Context switching is one of the most expensive operations in a developer's day-to-day work, and also one of the most ignored.

Managers love to build team schedules around their personal schedules, but this is often disruptive to ICs' "maker schedules."

Many orgs identify this and focus on the scheduling cost w.r.t. context switching, but the build-to-deploy time is equally (if not more) important for developer ICs.
The first objective is to develop a robotaxi service convenient and affordable enough that people come to depend on it.

The second objective is to enshittify the service. (Try not to say that part out loud)
>That GDP per capita figure really misses the mark on what San Francisco is like. Also: not everyone here is in tech, or cares about tech.

That's why its interesting. Extreme wealth next to poverty must be a hotbed for things happening.
And if they make revenues and aren't overburdened by debt, you can sue them to recoup the damages from those revenues.
A park does not contain a billion people.

A very big nation does.

That is the slight difference in between the 2 things. The difference in simple and complicated. Because the more people you have, yes, the more complicated it gets.
From the other angle: There exist companies that do not do location based pay. If you're hired, you get a US level salary, whether you're in San Francisco or Poland or Indonesia.

These positions are phenomenally competitive. You have swung open the doors to the world, and said "Give me what you got!", and you reap the benefits by having a much, much larger pool of applications and talent to sift through, with a lot of truly exceptional people in there - mostly very intelligent, very driven people from poorer countries.

That's how supply and demand works. If you are offer to pay people more, you usually end up hiring a higher quality candidate.
We have seen signs, they were called UFOs but are called UAPs now, at least by the US government. People have tried coming forward over the years and talk about the subject, but was met with ridicule.

I suggest googling David Grusch to read about the whistleblower from inside US intelligence services. Also search for “Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet ufo” and you’ll find additional comments.

This is the greatest coverup in human history.
Cloning without logging can be seen as important:

- It makes it simpler for millions of CIs to check out the code unauthenticated,

- It enables usecases such as “Here is public data as a JSON, it’s our list of IP addresses, just integrate that to your firewall”,

- NPM. NPM entirely.

- Isn’t it required for open-source? If they restricted it behind a login, could we still say we deliver the code to our customers?
That argument goes both ways of course
Pedestrian fatalities - they happen when drivers speed, run red lights, hit pedestrians in crossings while turning. Self-driving cars will probably eliminate 90% of these. Same for people who are killed on bikes.

With Motorcycles, I don't know. But I bet that at least half of these would also be eliminated if car drivers followed the rules.
All computers use the same monitor. This may be an advantage or disadvantage depending on your setup.
Because if you can't escape the surveillance in general, it's the next best thing.