skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my metro (DFW), the neighborhoods of houses built in the 60s/70s/80s are dwindling because nobody will buy them. There are neighborhoods of perfectly fine ~200k houses just sitting on the market for months because "ewww, I don't want to live in Grand Prairie/Garland/Irving". Then those same people pine over the newly built $500k mcmansions in Frisco or the $2m mansions in Highland Park and lament about how they'll never be able to afford being a homeowner. Do you see the disconnect?

An alternative hypothesis would be that suburban development patterns don't work generally. I don't know anything about the DFW area specifically, but it's possible people don't want to live in those cheaper areas because they are poorly laid out and the infrastructure maintenance is higher than the revenue the area can generate. This may manifest itself in different ways (poorer schools, sidewalks, amenities), but one way or another, these neighborhoods are signaling decline.

Many first and second generation suburbs are in death spirals because of this problem. Buyers who can afford it chase newer development because the areas have an optimistic future and no obvious maintenance problem. Unfortunately, many of those areas will be in the same spot 30 years down the line.

> But these days, millennials seem to think that they are automatically entitled to live downtown in a 4 bedroom, newly renovated/constructed house with full amenities next to the main park and hip shopping center and zero crime while on an entry level salary.

I'm not saying there aren't some entitled people, but I haven't encountered this attitude very often - it seems like there are plenty of other reasonable explanations for what is driving consumer choices without stereotyping.
> Which user asked for a password manager!?

Likely not many, but that's likely at least partly due to a lack of exposure: The market is still severely under-saturated - Everyone should have one, but not that many non-techies do. Thus if you're in a position to make someone try your password manager that may be a serious advantage.
casual user heard about vim? no way!
The picture this paints of a career in software engineering is utterly unrecognizable to me, someone who has worked in this industry for well over a decade at this point. I can't tell how much of this is pertains to whatever specific situation the author finds himself in vs. how much of it relates to the author's worldview. If I treated team members like this author describes being treated, they would leave in an instant for any of the myriad of companies hungry for engineers that will not treat them like crap.
Not by default, no. The street must have a sign allowing it ("Radfahrer frei"). Many have them but quite a few which should don't.
Thankfully, I'm a young and healthy adult and wish to do my part to continue living my life while doing due diligence to protect more susceptible people around me. And if you want to look at it in a fiscally conservative way, prevention of spread is cheaper than treating those it may have spread to.
There's a great Reply All episode on this: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/49hr6k (#74 Making Friends)
> Cycling is dangerous. Don't make it more dangerous by adding unpredictability to the mix.

I agree, but at the same time I think the laws should be changed so that stop signs become yield signs for cyclists (so called Stop as Yield laws). Then it would be predictable and the laws would be designed in a way that makes sense for cycling.

This is effectively what I already do and most cyclists I know do as well. I would be lying if I said that I never skipped stop signs. The general difference between reckless/unsafe cyclists and others is less the skipping stop signs versus the when to skip. For instance, I would never skip if there was already a car at another stop sign.
Maybe I should! I didn't know about the Pimax 8K.

Will all of these have access to the same software titles, or are they built on closed or incompatible software ecosystems?
What is the FOV?
It's not like that where I work. Scheduling and tracking tasks is hard but it sounds like the author needs to find a new job.
These same numbers applied before dating apps. The most attractive people at a bar, festival, club, park, etc. have more options.

Same can be said for most things though: sports, engineers, etc.
Having a job is an abstraction. It allows you to trade predictable effort for predictable pay. Deadlines are an abstraction leak: Ultimately, market dynamics and business P&L exists, it can't be totally ignored in a healthy organization.
Advanced malicious actors often feign incompetence when caught, to take advantage of the naive and forgiving.
Cases where memory allocations fail on linux include: hitting memory resource limits (ulimit), overcommit behaviour is set to stricter than the default via sysctl, kernel heuristics with the default overcommit settings end up failing allocation, container / cgroups limits, 32-bit virtual address space is exhausted - i'm sure there are more.

The default overcommit-within-reason algorithm is designed to deny allocations that are obviously unrealistic I think.

Using semi conservative ulimit settings is pretty common in interactive use to catch runaway / swapped to death situations.
Apple accuses Epic of ‘starting a fire and pouring gasoline on it’ in new filing
That's a good point. And except in fixed-price contracts, there is no incentive to become more productive - they would rather you work more hours.
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I used to bike a road that was one way for cars, two way for bikes. I almost got hit because I didn't have a stop sign and the crossing car stopped and didn't look my way. (There were stop signs for bicycles going either way elsewhere, but this intersection markings made it clear I wasn't supposed to have to stop so I didn't)
It's especially dangerous when you're cycling on the right side of the road and come across cyclist going the wrong way.

Had this happen to me recently on a 55mph highway with no shoulder. The other cyclists didn't even take it upon themselves to move, they just headed right toward me.
Any VR headset with a tether is a dealbreaker for me, period.
and YO
This is not factual, this is Apple marketing.

There's no indication Apple is doing anything noteworthy regarding privacy.
The Default Mode Network codes for your sense of self in time and with others. DMT basically turns it off and that's why you feel that sense of oneness with everything right?
NYC is spending $500M/year to clean rail and buses in an effort to combat COVID (https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/0...). It's not nearly as cheap as you would think.
Last night I did the final iOS 13 update on all of my devices. I no longer trust any iOS or OS X update at launch -- I wait several months.
the whole mandatory facebook thing has made me want to sell my quest. Its a shame, I think its truely the best device out there. I was able to play have life alyx totally wirelessly and enjoy the full experience, and I dont think there is anything close out there to emulate this.
It's the same across almost everywhere in Europe

But then you end up with a lot of bikers hit by cars, because if you take a turn on the wrong side, you are practically invisible
Also has the effect of having most engineers with a track record of "missed deadlines" and "failures". So they are continually in fear of their managers and review time.
Amazon has officially stopped delivery in Portland due to the air quality. It's a hazardous work environment for their delivery workers.
They don't have bottoms, because at the bottom you have logical assumptions like e.g. classical logic. These only exist because of history, only because it was the easiest way for someone to say something "insightful". Going down the rabbit hole, you have to choose some arbitrary point to stop at; it would be a point at which you think that you can apply the knowledge you have gained so far, in a way that other people will "appreciate".

Or you can just not stop, and try to go even deeper. But then you stop being a mathematician, and you turn into a madman, a philosopher or a theologist.
What do you think the policy effects are in each case? In your second scenario, you have three politicians in two parties who are all basically unconstrained. In the first scenario, you have three politicians who all nominally belong to the same party, but their behavior is constrained much more sharply by the closeness of their districts.
With all due respect you gotta come out with a grand slam to get me off of VSCode. This ain't it.
It’a much more usable than Google’s but limited in number of languages.

Also Safari’s ability to translate websites seems to be geolocked to the US.
It's not that simple or as simple as the other replies.

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
I feel that wireless and better tracking are the biggest technical differences that favor the Quest 2. WMR, whether deserved or not, has a bad reputation for tracking. I don't know why Reverb didn't support a base station option since it was supposedly about "no compromises". Oculus would be superior for non-sim games and would be near equivalent in sim game performance when it's linked to a PC.

The facebook requirement is a hard sell for many people though. The lack of IPD adjustment may be a be killer for a lot of people, but I'm pretty sure that's one of the major things that brought down the price to $299
Go check again, you got everything wrong. ^^

That flat is southeast England in the middle of nowhere.

Not london, not greater london by any metric, it's nowhere.
You are absolutely correct. Unfortunately, I can't edit the post, but yes I did mistakenly write Bay Area where I meant SF metro.
Init scripts in /etc/init.d/ are not used when there is a systemd unit of the same name. Other than being in your filesystem they have zero effect on you.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=w1mUAVPaX98&feature=share
Perhaps some managers think they are a clever Cpt Kirk who's gotten wise to their Scotty's miracle-worker tactics, even though they're a manager with an honest Geordi La Forge.

No offence to Geordi La Forge.
I lost count of the times I was nearly hit by cyclists in London who think traffic lights don't apply to them!
I suppose, but you can excuse pretty much anything that way.

"This restaurant serves spoiled eggs."

"But I don't eat eggs, so that doesn't matter."

> I value convenience over abstract rights.

They're not abstract rights, Amazon in the real world has taken over pretty much the entire audiobook market and used their market dominance to force publishers and writers to bend to increasingly unfair terms. The lock-in isn't abstract, I've talked to people in the real world who are interested in getting other readers but feel like they can't because they'd lose their existing library. Real people are being prevented from moving services in the real world.

You might not care about those rights, and you might not care about how they influence how the market you participate in evolves over time and what innovations from that market you get to access. But even if you don't care about that stuff, all of it is real and has real consequences. To say they're abstract is an even stranger position for you to take:

"This restaurant serves spoiled eggs."

"The eggs aren't on my plate, so they're entirely theoretical."

> You can’t take leftovers home where I live it’s considered gross.

Minor sidenote, but you're missing out. One of the best parts of eating out is that you have some leftovers for supper that night and don't need to cook. I highly recommend it if you've never tried it before.

Also consider: it may be culturally unacceptable to carry leftovers home, but would you be arrested if you tried to? Would it be a federal offense?
Long-awaited. Enjoyed Coda for a long time, then switched to Atom. It looks like a polished Atom version, and Nova is likely going to replace Atom for me.
>> In other parts of the world it's abnormal for adults in their 20s to be living anywhere but with their parents, often even with a fiance or new spouse in the mix.

The difference is the prudishness of US culture. Those couples are living life as a couple. In a US household they would be treated as kids, with many parents not allowing them to even share a room.
That “and so much more” block on the end is such an SEO grab.. you can open RSA and ECDSA keys? So can vi.
This would not be a sustainable model for a capitalist market.
m-labs sponsors SolveSpace development.

https://m-labs.hk/software/solvespace/
there are sex games for the Oculus Quest 1 (and a streaming pornhub style app). seems very unlikely Facebook would be stupid enough to intefere with the latter, not sure about the former.
I think that most people vastly underestimate how important lighting is to a living space. I frankly think that a $500K house with great lighting feels like a much bigger, higher-end $1 million house.

Get lots of high-CRI lighting, at daylight and warm white color temperatures, have them automatically shift from blue to red on a daily basis. If you can't do a permanent installation, get those 5-arm floor lamps.
Here is the thing: most developers have very weak personalities. So yes, the sociopaths figured out that by stressing the engineers, they can get more work done, until they burnout at least.

You owe it to society to let a deadline slide by a large margin.
Enabling the write ahead log makes sqlite behaviour much, much better under (write) contention:

> PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL;
Why not write it in betterC?

https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
This reads more like the"engineering manager" has had a sales role for too long. I think most frequently this is at the VP level.

The direct eng manager (or PM sometimes) should be in a position to fight against this sort of absurdity, give the IC a few days to scope the project, etc. One of the eng managers at a previous employer wasnt a great technical mind but was stellar at playing defense against managament. We all had great respect for him repeatedly taking it on the chin for his team.
Talk about a misleading quote. The full text here is this.

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.
IDEA has excellent log support, SQL, and CVS/JSON support including loading as a table with search.
We don't even need to be that frugal! 100% of the net increase to VHCOL compensation can go into VHCOL housing expense increases with plenty of room to spare.

If we would pay 33% of your income in LCOL housing, and move to someplace that pays us (net) 100% more, we can afford 4x(!) the rent we did previously.

We're bidding against everyone else who wants what we want, so it's no wonder housing is insane in the Bay Area, since household incomes are so much higher.
What kind of latency are you getting with the headset and wireless remote rendering
Swift 5.3 Released
Oculus isn't getting out of PC VR. They are converging on a single headset for both PC and standalone VR.
That's a shame. I love the vibe of this project and the VSCode monoculture gives me a vague sense of unease, but sadly it's really hard to compete with a tech giant that's putting all their effort into a free product.
Looks nice and innovative. But GNOME already lost me as a user. Wish they'd make it independent of GNOME.
First bicycle lesson for kids here is to ride on the sidewalk.

The other options just invite broken bones and head trauma.
"Everything is fine. This is all normal."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/science/bird-populations-...
>> Unfortunately, many of our companies appear to have become Orwellian machines that put these people in power, and once there, they create utter chaos for the rest of us.

I keep saying this because it's relevant to so many topics and so many problems that people talk about these days...

The way all newly 'printed' money enters into our economy is through big financial institutions - This means that the financial institutions are in the position of choosing who will get a share of that new money (which the Fed printed out of thin air).
Once you understand that the global monetary system is a scam, you'll understand why psychopaths rise to the top; because the psychopaths who run the world can't rely on altruists to keep their mouths shut.

If you don't believe me, just watch Hidden Secrets of Money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyV0OfU3-FU&t=2s

The good news is that this is likely a sign that the system is on the brink of failure.
I hope that they come, but only after an app has been installed. I don’t want yet another thing to tap NO on when surfing.
This is pretty interesting, but it'd be great if the author explained their reason for building such a large keyboard... even if it's just "for reasons".
Is this article set in the late 90's. Times have changed, get a new job.
Also remember that Mark Zuckerberg himself demoed the Samsung Oculus headset to everyone. That was a really big deal at the time. It's possible that this is a pet project he's adopted and really wants to see succeed. However, practically, it's a great jumping off point for AR and we know that Apple is experimenting with Augmented reality headsets that are tied to your phone.

Facebook might just be trying to get ahead of the game, betting that the next step past phones is VR/AR.
Man-made vs natural isn't a matter of morality or anything, it's just about whether we can do something to avoid our destruction. If an asteroid hits earth then it's not man-made but also inevitable. Climate change isn't a threat to the world -- it's a threat to humans, and if we don't do what's in our power to avert it, we'll wipe a large fraction of us off the planet and precipitate world war. That doesn't mean we still won't have a climate event that wipes out advanced civilization -- but we should do what we can.

If there was a natural climate event that would decrease temperatures by 20 degrees and we could only prevent it by clear-cutting forests and polluting our environment then that's of course what we would do.
A few years ago they broke the lock screen twice and didn't fix it for half a year or so each time. Made the phone excruciating to use as would take a full minute to get in as the lock screen restarted.

Needless to say I don't update until the last minute with most releases any longer.
We have a two-way cycletrack on a one-way street here in Berkeley and it's basically a death trap for those on bicycles because the people entering the street only look up the street to check for cars and never look down the street to check for bicycles. This problem also exists every place there is a crosswalk where one-way streets meet. I'm sure people who walk in cities are familiar with the experience of having to wait for a car to pass while the driver stares in the opposite direction.
Isn't understanding the capabilities of the people they manage the job of the manager? I always thought that was the whole point. If they don't know this, then maybe they shouldn't be making any promises at all.
Thank you for that recommendation - I am now a customer: the membership price was cheaper than Audible and the selection looks great so far.
"Not killing the planet would be too expensive."
Highly recommended read: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...

My recommendation: try to evaluate your employer on the above.

I've traded stupidity for money for money earlier in my life, and it made sense. But people underestimate the break-even. You deserve a lot of money (50% or 75% premium) for some of the stupidity I've seen.

On the flip side, i've also traded a salary discount for a well-run org -- a job where i have 90min max meetings a day with lots of good ASYNC communications, good project planning, estimation, and good sprint cadences. I work a lot, but only when I want to (often late nights), bike outside when I want to, work heads-down w/o disturbances, etc.

Just be careful when headhunters come offering a 10 or 15% increase in comp except w/ a very different culture. You have to compare like to like.
I change platforms many times a day (macOS, Linux, occasionally Windows) and VS Code being cross platform is essential for my use of it. Being Mac-only is a complete deal-breaker.
As a former cyclist, the headline is 100% bullshit. I generally broke laws for the sake of efficiency. Having said that, there is a huge distinction between breaking overbearing laws designed for cars, and going against the common norms of the road. Treating red lights and stop signs as yields is fine. Ignoring the existence of intersections and forcing drivers to yield to you is being an asshole on a good day, and deadly on a bad one.

The things I did do for safety (eg riding out far enough to not get doored, taking a lane to turn or avoid obstacles) generally weren't illegal. Although I could see this being different in a place with different laws that weren't worded in terms of safety.
I've also never worked at any consulting firm that gave an annual bonus, except for one, and it was a joke. I think I got $1.5k one year, after having worked 65hr weeks for the entire year (and some part time while I was supposed to be on family leave).
I thought half life requires a cable to the pc?
LSP isn’t “most plugins” though. There are tens of thousands of useful plugins, and only a tiny subset of those add support for new languages.
I don't know... Facebook hasn't detected a single one of my 6 fake facebook accounts, and I've had them for years. I have been using one of them with my Quest ever since I got it, and they still haven't caught on.

Maybe I'm slipping through their net because my accounts are old?
I generally ride on on trails, but to save time to drive to trails, I've started riding on roads since about 4 months.

Behavior of some riders surprises me, they'll switch between pavement and road whenever they wish to. Just yesterday, someone jumped from the pavement onto the road a few metres ahead and the car in front of my was caught by surprise. Then there's people who will zoom past stop signs without considering there might be other vehicles and ignore them completely. I get what you're saying.

I always try to stay on the road, stop at stop signs, just ride as if I were a car. I've never had a close-call and always try to make my movement obvious.
kinda wild that something so important is buried in a huge list of other things. LSP is critical for _anything_ that even _wants_ to compete with VSC.
That seems like a weasel-word, and “partial” was not the gist of your comment, and I have seen similar comments to yours like it is a meme.

Your implication is that the pool of talent is limited and that there is some sort of zero-sum game being played.

The pool of talent is clearly not limited and there are multiple indications of that e.g. a rockstar developer would be employed at rockstar prices of millions (or signed on at millions as per your sports analogy).

If Google were to take a talented person out of the pool, the loss to the competitors is the marginal difference in talent to the next lower talented person.

Put simply, the variation in measurement of talent is large, and training can make huge differences to talent levels. Your premise can’t work without some sort of perfect oracle.

That isn’t to say it doesn’t happen at some microscopic level, or that it doesn’t happen with some particular individuals... Edited: there are just too many sensible reasons why I think it couldn’t happen systematically.
Not only in tech, e.g., modern portfolio theory.

Agree that it would be better to use more descriptive names.