skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For skilled programmers, pay in Germany tends to be $5k to $6k per month after all taxes and the highest level of health insurance and a generous retirement insurance and disability and private unemployment insurance (additional to the government one).

That is enough for an entire family to rent a house and live a very comfortable life pretty much everywhere in Germany, except maybe Munich city center.

There are strong overtime protections, I've heard from people who were paid 4x their regular salary because they were called in on a Sunday.

I'm sure the FAANG pay better, but maybe house + family + free time is nicer than high numbers in your online banking?
This was what worried me before installing the beta, but I had zero issues with third party apps.
> Cycling is dangerous. Don't make it more dangerous by adding unpredictability to the mix.

This framing makes a lot of assumptions about city/road design that are not universal.
I'd say that cycling is inherently an incredibly safe activity. Driving is a dangerous activity to those inside the car, and even more so to those outside the car.
I just don't understand why all this work didn't go into making an iOS text editor. Why did they choose Mac OS? It's the most saturated platform when it comes to editors.

Meanwhile, the only thing that keeps me from using my iPad Pro full-time is the lack of a serious text editor and terminal.
I did read the ordinance. You've suggested as long as people don't park there, they are fine. That's wrong and anyone who takes your advice could be looking at a misdemeanor. They are restricted to using the Bay-To-Foothills trails (and entering and exiting at those specific points).

> Only residents of the city and regular or part-time city employees, members of their households related by blood, marriage, or adoption, and their accompanied guests are entitled to enter on foot or by bicycle or vehicle and remain in Foothills Park. (emphasis added)
maybe I missed it in the article, though I read through it twice.. Why do this?
Yeah, anyone who knows about a deadline for a project for a month and hasn't bothered scoping it or estimating with their team is massively failing at their job.
It doesn't appear to work well with multiple monitors. I could open apps on different monitors but not move them between. The native GNOME shortcuts just caused the windows to flicker and their shortcuts don't have anything to do with monitors.
Gotta be vim or dwarf fortress
It happens in the UK. I know plenty of devs here who complain about the "crunch" on projects that really don't need it.

Mind you, I also think there's an element of developers lowballing estimates and then putting in extra time to make themselves much more productive than they actually are. I've worked with a few people who management believed were fantastic but who actually just worked 50% longer hours. I fight hard against those kinds of people being on my team because it destroys morale and absolutely ruins my burndown charts any time they're not available.
Is there a place a someone could go to buy something like this?
I think it's because you're off on #1. If you're going to create a district that will overwhelmingly vote for one party, you want it to vote for the other side. All votes over 51% are wasted. It's called "stacking." It's complemented by "cracking," where you break up a unit that would vote for the other side and add them to multiple districts where the other side will only get 40%.

The "cracked" districts will vote for you no matter what, but certainly not at 80/20. You're looking for 51% + a safety factor of 10-20%.
Can I Be an Engineer?
Sure, supply chains exist everywhere (and managing them is a field of its own..), but usually they are more explicit at least on each "link" of the chain. Can you imagine producing pencil in full anarchy where people just do random stuff and somehow you have to fish out the things you need and hope they keep the flows going without any explicit agreements or contracts? Where you get wood from logger because he happens to like logging that much, or he had some leftovers after doing a gig for someone else? That imaginary world resembles more the current state of software.
Is anyone making a similar standalone without forced FB ?
Yeah it's like celebrating shooting yourself in the foot.
They've had this with Beats for a while as well, definitely since before Airpods, it works really well.
> not being able to use the sidewalk would increase trip time by 3-4x
> That's by design

My point is that it is perfectly safe for me to ride sidewalks along one-way streets. Normally there are very few pedestrians. I always dismount in crowded areas.

It is not safe for cars to do the same.

> If cars could not care about pedestrian crossings and speed limits trips would be 10x faster

I disagree. Most of the traffic in e.g. midtown Atlanta is either highway-bound or fresh off the highway. It's the first or last 10 minutes of a 30-40 minute trip. Pedestrian crossings are a minor inconvenience. Even without pedestrians, there would be red lights to allow the other direction of traffic through.
Penny dropping..

Now to figure out how to set boundaries in the abusive relationship.
I just used black electrical tape to secure the DAS to my Quest :)
The park has had that restriction almost since the day it was opened. In 1965.
Wow, I suspect milage may vary depending on where you work.

I've only been at well run tech companies, and have a very different experience.

I would never refer to my manager as "boss". Lol, I've rarely been told what to do next..

My current manager describes his job as "herding cats" :)
> I'm sure there's a VSC plugin for that

This part of your comments nails 100% why, for me (web developer, 90% in typescript these days), it's nearly impossible to justify paying for an IDE.

Visual Studio code has almost everything that I need, and what it's not baked in, is easily done with a plug-in, which in the worst case I can write myself. But that's really a worst case scenario, since to this date it has never materialized as all my needs are covered by existing, and excellent, plugins.
While I understand the concern, isn't the blame to be made on the company behind the implementation? (In this case, the developers of Onward?).

Most PC games nowadays offer a free "DLC" for extra-high graphics you can download, which means they maintain compatibility but for those who have beefy machines it also can provide super high fidelity. Why didn't they do it that way?
They're actually called trusting trust attacks (the original paper on the topic is "Reflections on Trusting Trust" if you want a guarranteed search term); I'm not sure why userbinator used a eponym instead.

I'm also not sure why they would be relevant for a general project, since the source language being easy to write a alternate compiler for only matters for the compiler itself: once you have non-infected compiler, you can bootstrap gcc or whatever and compile everything else at whatever C standard you like.
IDEA has the lead on raw features (and integration, since all the core plugins are made in-house), but at least on macOS the editor performs like trash. There are hundreds of milliseconds' latency for nearly every interaction, and that's despite spinning up the fans and impacting the rest of the system. I'm not a latency-buff; I happily used Atom until VSCode came along. But IDEA is unbearable in my experience (again, I've only used it on macOS so YMMV).
>When you're on two wheels all cars are trying to kill you. No other threat model makes sense.

I realize this is a low value comment, but this is absolutely true. Whether through negligence or not, they display over and over again that it's true.
Someone took ir camera footage and counted the leds.
Yes but every time you connect to the network you have a new identity- by design - with signal you would still want a way to identify yourself across sessions
I'll keep my Ctrl on Caps Lock, thank you very much!
How about the last part of that quote?

>"....which puts Facebook's original statement into question. The FB rep may have been describing a downgrade in frequency or power for those LED bulbs in Quest 2 controllers."
That's a really trivial and unfair dismissal of a honestly presented comment. That's a net negative contribution to this discussion.

Edit: and now you've deleted your comment, abawany.
I'm much less concerned about this being used by a private citizen to keep license logs along with dash cams, integrate ALPR output into dash cam footage, etc, than I am about the surveillance State as a whole.
Some of the changes make sense - IE they won't store your documents for free any more, and you can't use their server rendering farm for free. But others are just punitive, like not letting you export certain file types.
Don't sneer at tiny flats – if anything we need more of them
From the update: "Option to set your default email and web browser".

Finally!
A benefit of the Quest is that you will have a wider range of apps. You can run all the apps that you can with Reverb G2, plus all the Oculus PC apps and the Oculus Quest apps.
This is a basic part of the human OS. It’s a skill that can be seen from 4 years of age. It’s the other way around: We learn not to do this.
As a former product manager with lots of experience with both engineering and management: no, that's not what deadlines are designed for.

Deadlines exist because software doesn't exist in a vacuum, but other people depend on it being delivered. Whether so it can be sold to make money before someone goes out of business or a partnership fails, or its features arrive on time as promised for the start of the school year which can't be moved, or as the foundation for another project that has its own equally valid deadline later on.

Deadlines exist because people need to make plans and be able to rely on them, which is how our entire society and economy function.

People work overtime in every industry to meet deadlines, it's not just engineers. The only question is whether or it's good for you financially.

Whenever you take a job, it's up to you to do your due diligence in talking to other employees to find out what the working hours and flexibility are like in practice, and judge that against the salary, and decide if it makes sense for you.

Fortunately, there is huge variation in both salaries and expectations of hours per week, and the best thing you can do about places that pay little and work you long is to not take their job offer, or leave. Then supply and demand can do its thing and they'll be forced to adjust or go out of business.
> virtue-signalling [...] Forcing people to do worthless things (wear masks,

Hello! Would you take your right-wing cant elsewhere, please?

Decent people are thoroughly sick of the likes of you right now, I'm sorry to say.

Two hundred thousand are dead, thanks to people spreading unscientific lies like your unsourced claims above, and the rest of us, who haven't gone mad and decided all of science and medicine are wrong, wish you could go back to your death cult and stop screaming at the rest of us.

Thanks, and have the day you deserve!
I'm confused, what part of her story involves "spoon feed[ing]"?
You have actually tested it before saying you know better?
That's also leaving out information. The full-full text here is this:

"But Facebook's policies make that "standalone VR" magic harder to recommend this time around. As we've previously reported, Quest 2 requires a Facebook account to function; without one, you cannot run the system's built-in fork of Android, nor can you toggle the system's "developer" mode and sideload VR-optimized Android apps of your choosing. (Speaking of: New rules coming to the Facebook VR developer portal will soon force anyone who wants to sideload apps to either supply a working phone number or a credit card. Yes, that is separate from the FB account requirement.)"
try PokerStars VR if you haven't, it's a great and free social app.
The people you're replying to aren't realizing your mistake, and you're not reading their replies. You're doing a worse job the more of your vote you have in a district of Type 1. You're creating districts of Type 1 for the other side. Every vote over 51% is a wasted vote, and there's never a reason you would shove all of your voters into one district if you were in control of districting.

> To the extent that a politician is benefiting himself in style #1

There's no possible benefit to a politician in winning a district 80/20 rather than 60/40.

edit: If 6 people want to vote for me, and 6 want to vote for you, I want to put 3 of your voters in one district, and have three more identical districts each with 2 of my voters and 1 of yours. The first district is what you're referring to as Type 1, and the other three are what you're referring to as Type 2. If you can find a more ideal districting arrangement for my party, I'd like to hear it.
and by "almost indistinguishable" you mean "nauseating lag every time you turn your head"
You are definitely not Panic's target audience.
I've quoted that before, but never heard it called "Grey's law". Who is Grey?
I feel LaTeX relates to MS Word like OpenScad to FreeCad.

The scripting makes making technical parts often much easier, and more maintainable. I for instance wanted to replace a metal rod in an antenna with a smaller diameter, and changing several mounting parts for the rods became changing a single variable. Plus, being eble to comment scad files makes it much easier to meaningful share parts (the STL files on Thingiverse are hard to modify).

The usual caveats apply: people tend to either shy away from the few days it takes to learn OpenScad, or, once they invest the time, there's a tendency to over-engineer scripts and not focus on tasks at hand ;)_
> There was gorgeous old architecture to be had on the cheap, if...

St. Louis really punches above its weight in gorgeous old architecture, so there are well-maintained, affordable neighborhoods with pretty old red-brick houses, too, but the real value is to be found in plain working-class neighborhoods where the houses never show up on Instagram. That housing for actual working-class people is unsurprisingly where most working-class St. Louisans live.

Of course, nobody who has ever used the word "gentrification" on twitter has any interest in living in any of those neighborhoods, so their existence is rounded down to zero in the discourse.

It wasn't that long ago that even the coolest neighborhoods with the best housing stock were wildly undervalued against their fundamentals. And hipster St. Louis isn't thrilled that the secret is out.
My thoughts exactly. The title should be updated to reflect this (I was expecting some sort of theoretical limit to a magnetic field).
This doesn't really tell you much since the compulsion to breathe is caused by rising CO2 levels, not lack of oxygen. If you breathe out, the remaining air quickly saturates.
Cost per sq. Ft. may not have gone up significantly (adjusting for inflation) but if all you can get are larger houses (i.e., builders are not making 1300 sq. Ft. houses like they used to) then it really doesn't matter. See https://www.manhattan-institute.org/reevaluating-prosperity-...
Its good that Facebook is over-reaching. We are in too early for one headset to be the only player in town. This will give others a chance to move into the space, I think. Looking at you Nintendo :)
Cory Doctorow has been irrelevant for 15 years. There is a good case to be made for people not reading any more, and a concern of amazon owning the listening time of people like they own the delivery and server space, but a marketing gimmick from the former editor of boingboing.com aint gonna turn the tide.
Joblib: Running Python functions as pipeline jobs
I'm neither a driver nor a cyclist - just a pedestrian - but my impression is that, at least in my part of London, cyclists carry on through red lights much more frequently than cars.

Obviously, purely anecdotal.
I can just imagine you as a doctor. "We don't need to know what's causing the disease - we'll just give you medicine, that has to work!"
> Adjusted for inflation the median cost per square foot of new housing is almost exactly the same as it was in 1990

Now go back to ~1970, when real wages stopped keeping up with productivity, and old housing started to increase in value instead of depreciating.
Who is "sneer at tiny flats"? To the counter, there are several TV series who make their monies on "tiny homes" and similar.
Because in majority of the case engineers after manage to hit the deadline. That is managerial experience. What management learns over time is that engineers say it is impossible but if you insist they will then do it.

It is by trading quality pretty often, but that often is exactly trade off managers want. It is often by trading future productivity - engineers burning out or at least having drop after deadline.
For those interested in the quiz:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=U5VCAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT5...
https://docs.rs/typed-arena/2.0.1/typed_arena/
So I know "person with a neurological condition sees everything through that lens" is a genre that gets old real quick, but as a dude with ADHD I can't help but read

> it doesn't feel like I have any say when it comes to how I spend my time and energy

and conclude that you are asking for advice on how you can both can do Executive Functions.

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Emotional advice:

1. Say to yourself, "This is hard. This is worth it. We will carry on through." or something in that spirit.

2. Embrace homeostasis.

A company is made of living humans responding to an environment. There is no "finally land and support a big customer". There is no big-bang refactor that cleans everything up. There is no "finally do the demo that gets things to be 'Good'". The company will always have endless series of problems until it dies.

Breathe in. Breathe out. There is no final destination. The path just goes on.

3. All paths have endless problems, but there are better and worse paths. Choose the path with the problems that are more rewarding (personally and financially) to be solving week-by-week.

4. Embrace the discomfort of risk with balance. Neither lose yourself in it nor try to escape from it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx4gdlfamo

Oh, and both continually grow in the practice of setting boundaries and avoiding self-deception. (Warning: this can also be hard)

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Directly actionable advice:

1. Write "Q4 2020" at the top of a whiteboard.

2. Draw an X and Y axis. Label the Y axis "Impact" and the X axis "Effort"

3. Get a bunch of notecards and magnets/stickytack.

4. Write each business outcomes on one notecard. Phrase these as capabilities "User can do X" or "CFO can quickly report Y".

5. Get a huge number of Green and Blue dot stickers.

6. Every business person in the room puts a green dot on a notecard if they have a way they would observe the revenue/conversion/sales/risk impact within 2 weeks of the feature/outcome going life.

7. Every engineer in the room puts a blue dot on a notecard they feel confident in their ability to estimate the effort of doing it.

8. Plot the notecards on the Effort and Impact axis in comparison to one another.

Argue. Endure the discomfort of arguing. Do not agree to disagree unless you think you're only 20% out-of-alignment or agree to take the notecard off the board.
> is it so hard to imagine that the mind may also be sub-optimal to an unknown degree when it comes to reckoning about the complex reality we live in at the object level (physical reality and events), while concurrently executing a "proper" abstract background process to do things like evaluate logical consistency and epistemic soundness of the primary object level processing, particularly on sensitive topics?

Agreed. To add to the point, one can't help but consider given what we know of the evolution of the tree of life of which we are a part the particular factors that do and do not lend themselves to survival. Namely, "reckoning about the complex reality we live in at the object level" is probably not a skill needed for survival in the way that developing hunting, language, and social skills probably were- not to mention "while concurrently executing a "proper" abstract background process to do things like evaluate logical consistency and epistemic soundness of the primary object level processing"

In my own experience, had my experience in a severely altered state of consciousness persisted for more than maybe a day or two, I would have needed a lot of assistance for basic survival things. In that state I perceived the world differently, if not more objectively, but was not well equipped for survival.

So, no, I see no reason to think the mind is well equipped for that kind of reasoning when evolution might select against that kind of adaptation.
For 3d modeling you can still use it. Parametric design is not killed from the product. You just can't make simulations anymore.
I cycle a lot, and I don't drive. And yes, I sometimes break rules for my safety. For example, I refuse to use stupidly designed cycle lanes that:

* Mount the foot path and then return to the road.

* Force me to use pedestrian crossings at roundabouts.

* Railroad me onto the side of the road when I actually want to make a turn (ie: force me to dismount and use a pedestrian crossing instead of using the correct lane for that turn)

* Vanish abruptly

But a lot of cyclists I see (in my city anyway) are just inconsiderate assholes who have no road etiquette. They run red lights, ignore one way systems, cycle on pedestrian paths, or (the very worst) cycle the wrong way on cycle paths.

And don't get me started on lycra clad (always male) cyclists who 'come at you' side-by-side on a cycle path that fits exactly two cyclists. I'm not sure if they expect you to slide into another dimension, but a loud, sharp c-word generally jolts them out of their idiocy.
On the path to solidworkification..
I do use phpStorm for its interactive debugger during the rare instances that I need to. In any other language I would set a breakpoint and navigate the code from whatever terminal was running the code, but PHP is so awful that I can’t do that.

As far as IDEs go, I’ll give it 4 stars, but it still pales in comparison to writing VIM macros on the fly, jump-to movement keys, setting and jumping back to markers, being able to select lines in visual mode, pipe them out to any process I want and pipe the results back into my buffer, etc.

Running build tasks via clumsily configured toolbar buttons is absolutely horrid in comparison to make or any other CLI-driven build system that I’ve used (except maybe all the JS ones).
Maybe one should assume the people who say the hanlon razor saying are advanced malicious actors.
Sure, but that would also apply to other companies who could have bought Oculus. I think the way it fits into Facebook’s overall company strategy explains why they would bid the most.
I've read many have had success with that strategy, particularly in the early days of the FrankenQuest.

But these days you can buy the adapter on etsy for under $5 ($20 full kit), which will keep your stuff from needing to get tape residue on it.