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I sort of disagree - and I think most VC's would too.

The point of VC funding is not to pay salaries, really. If you squint it seems close enough, but it sets a terrible precedent that most VC's wouldn't want: looking at venture funding as how the company pays its bills. That's a natural way to read your statement - but also counterproductive & undesirable.

The point of VC funding is to take a profitable business and allow it to scale. Ideally the company could turn $1 into $1.25, before funding; that is, ideally it's making money. It should be able to pay some bills.

The VC funding is helping it to make more money, faster, and shortening the loop from sales -> payment -> expansion. It's helping it to leapfrog its competitors. That's what that money should be doing.

But what if it hasn't found product-market fit? Well, it's still not good to look at the VC's as "where our money comes from." That source is supposed to be customers, and you never want the focus to stray too far from there.
I have the Pure and the classic. The classic is actually pretty affordable and has a built-in PPM sensor which makes me lean towards it more than the Pure.
1. That might help some, but it won't fix it. Wherever else taxes are cut won't be on property, therefore the "land value tax plus some other tax cuts" will work out worse for property owners. That's kind of the point. But it's also, as hash872 says, the thing that makes it politically impossible.

2. Make it revenue neutral? Who's going to do that? Some legislature somewhere? Are they actually going to do it? Or are they going to say "Yay, more money!" and find new things to spend it on?

I have zero confidence that a Georgist tax would be revenue neutral, no matter what theory says should happen, and no matter what promises are made.
Definitely. It'd be very Decision Transformer and prompt programmingesque: you declare what the high-level intended result should be, with requirements, test cases, examples, and then let the model condition on that and figure out the implementation. Why would you do it backwards? You're going to have to explain what you want anyway, after all. (And of course, you would ideally do it both directions, similar to image/text: neither direction is privileged, you want to be able to both generate images given a description, and generate a description of an image, and both tasks help the other.)
I have the interest and skills to work in a position like you described. If you’re interested, I’d be happy to give your process a shot and give feedback. Feel free to reach out, here’s my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/qwertyq
Electric is heavier but they’re also much bigger. I could fit 4+ manual toothbrushes in the space that my electric toothbrush travel case takes up. I think it doesn’t include the charger either. And the shape is quite inconvenient too which constrains packing
It's used throughout Meta. The Post Composer, and Comment Composer on Facebook/Workplace, on Messenger, WhatsApp Web, Instagram Messenger, and many other surfaces too!
then that city would die and everything around it would flourish
I also find his writing very unnatural and hard to read. It makes me seriously doubt his method, which he claims he's been using for twenty years.

The first thing that stood out to me was the robotic nature of his writing. It seems like he's going so far out of his way to remove "unnecessary" words from sentences, and remove "unnecessary" sentences from his paragraphs, and to stringently vary his sentence lengths, that he winds up writing unnatural language. If you write in a way people aren't accustomed to, your readers are going to have a harder time understanding you.

"Sometimes short. Sometimes long."
"Cut three lines. Paste them up above."

This isn't how English is used.
If I understand it correctly, LVT would allow people to state what they think their property is worth and pay taxes accordingly. They could put down any value but anyone could buy it from them at that value. And this is supposed to be good?

Forget politics, who thinks its a good idea to force people into economic transactions? I could see a whole new line of blackmail, akin to patent trolls, looking for people who under-priced their property or really don't want to move. It sounds terrible.

Any billionaire could kick you out of your home in a moments notice. Sure you get paid, but you probably don't want to move. How could you even say the property is yours? People get upset with government forces them to sell their property using eminent domain. This strikes me as a hundred times worse.
> why don't you think some other company has come along and toppled the Jira crown?

Because it's really hard to kill off the market leader when the market leader is embedded into the core of how a company works.

I don't buy that it's a matter of competitors not being better. It is more about inertia.

The argument you have here could equally be applied to C++ or Cobol "Why is new code being written in these languages? Why is C++ so popular even when there are many other competitors? Certainly tons of languages have tried."

I currently work in a field that is disrupting existing products that were, no joke, written in the 90s in VB6. It can be super hard to sell our product to a lot of people, not because our product isn't better, but because they've been using our VB6 competitor since the 90s.
I don't think I've ever heard someone mention their carbon footprint ever in real life. Only on an internet message board would someone be surprised that a blog post didn't mention it.

Quite a bubble. But I also think it's very performative which is why it doesn't show up in day to day convo. For example, even the HNer wanted to see a feel-good aside about saving the environment or at least some sort of atonement for their sins.

It's one of those things where we don't have any central entity to blame, so we look for small payoffs by holding random individuals to the flame.
I totally agree. My approach is to just turn of the monitor.
Be thankful that they've given you a way to restore your account. They didn't to me. I suspect I was supposed to be thrown into the same verification pipeline as you, but something got messed up along the way and now I have a completely unresponsive app (black screen with a refresh button that does nothing) with no instructions on how to fix it. I thought maybe it was some weird Android bug, so I bought an iPhone and logged in on that only to find that it is also unresponsive.

I just want to delete the account at this point, but I can't, since trying to access the deletion link returns an error telling me to open the (unresponsive) app to regain access to my account.

I've contacted a lawyer who works in the field, since I'm pretty sure preventing me from deleting my account is a violation of their TOS. Who knows if that will go anywhere. I'm kind of at my wit's end here. If anyone has any better ideas, I'm all ears.
So, boil the middle class rather than setting them on fire? I won’t call it unprecedented.
I feel like a lot of great programming talent has been wasted by very smart engineers who felt the pain of their current ticketing system and spent years building countless startups only to end up with something occasionally marginally better than Trac (2004).
One way to solve the issue of people being taxed out of their property would be to give the option to put a lien on the property if they’re earning less than a certain income (or over a certain age). This way, the owner gets to stay in their home, but the city is (eventually) getting the taxes it’s owed.

I haven’t fully thought through all the incentives it brings though. However, it seems like a better solution than telling people to reverse mortgage their houses. Especially given how predatory that industry seems to be.
>why don't you think some other company has come along and toppled the Jira crown?

Why haven't cowboys found a different way besides horses to get around? They're not interested in what those under their asses think or feel.
That's a very serious accusation that I don't believe and Google can't find.
This looks really nice but it scares me to think of what my large (60,000+ employees) employer would do to it. Thanks for sharing though- I'm going to check this out.
What features in particular are you missing? We haven't really discussed a deadline for 1.0, as we've been trying to take our time making sure each release is impactful and correct.
The manager sounds exhausting.
The Great Resignation continues. There's an obvious fix, but bosses don't care
> We're moving to 1-stage interviews, offer on the same day. Higher risk but we have no choice

Anecdotally, I've seen people actually been put off by this. Perhaps make it 2 interviews just to not seem desperate. It's not my own reaction, but I could see why people might think "They're really desperate, there must be something wrong there"
I'm with you, but I wonder if this is the sort of "only people on this site care and the vast majority of the readership wouldn't use it" thing ... I'm not sure it is, but it could be, and I wonder if somebody with their ear to the ground/access to more analytics knows.
Like a doctor's unhelpful glance
Having (or having had) an outstanding bench warrant for your arrest sounds like the kind of thing that could really mess up your employment prospects, though!

I'm really not sure what you're trying to dispute. It seems like you and OP agree that there are many ways that someone can get themselves a criminal record and that a record shouldn't be a lifelong burden that prevents you from getting a decent job.
> I often wonder what the 37signals guys would do if they ever decided to tackle this problem.

Wouldn't they build Basecamp?
Tru dat — but actually I think mine's better...
You are paying a market rate for the 4 hour technical assignment of course? Wait, you don't want to commit that kind of resources to someone who's not an employee yet? Well it works the same way for them.
kagi search is best search.
Chrome intends to ship:has from CSS Selectors Level 4
> "Jira is the worst project management tool, except for all the others"

I came here to say precisely this. In addition to Jira, I've used Clubhouse, Trello, monday.com, and GitHub Issues. Jira sucks slightly less than the alternatives I've used.
> Also it’s really annoying when I try to copy something from a ticket description but it starts editing the whole description field.

+1. Absolute garbage interface.
Except there are still winners and losers. The losers would be people who live in single family homes in expensive suburbs. A.k.a. the people with the most political power. The winners would be the young who don't own and those who live in condos, A.K.A the people with the least political power.
One thing that irks that shit out of me in reviews -- not normalizing or banding for cost.

Measuring performance without taking into account cost is meaningless.

Hat tip to (old) Tom's Hardware for being the first site I knew that did this well, with their cpu / gpu hierarchy, which attempted to rank the last 2 generations or so of product against each other.

It boiled it down to two columns (Intel, AMD), with gaps where each manufacturer didn't have product for that performance.

It really helped in "Should I buy previous gen +spec, or current gen -spec, given they both have the same price now?" questions.

Sadly, it seems to have devolved into this, which is less useful: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html
9 times out of 10 the issue with housing isn't that housing is truly in short supply - it's housing within a reasonable travel time of desired locations that is in short supply. To view the solution myopically as we must change people to allow more housing in their backyard, is only one frame - and not even the most effective one. Innovating the urban -> rural transport chain is the most challenging, but its implications are paramount.
> I do think they've made significant improvements with "new Jira" (I think they call them team-managed projects now).

I feel totally the opposite. If you've ever had to administer Jira at a large company than team-managed projects are the bane of your existence. If you think, there's even a small chance that your company will grow to 300+ engineers any time in the next several years then do yourself a favor and turn off team managed projects entirely or else you'll face a painful migration away from them.

Though I will generally defend Jira as a product for many of the reasons you said.
> The company employs around sixteen hundred people, and the online platforms it owns, which include Pornhub, RedTube, YouPorn, and Brazzers, received approximately 4.5 billion visits each month in 2020, according to a company spokesperson—almost double Google and Facebook combined.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/20/the-fight-to-h...
I'm on the same page as you, I don't love Jira either, it's not something I think about in the conversation of "software/services I enjoy using" - but I think it's _fine_.

Jira cloud in our organisation is also reasonably fast, the front end can be a bit janky sometimes, but overall considering the complexity of the application, it's not too bad.
I mean, you are making a jump from correlation to causation. There is a reason science does not use anecdotes and relies on statistics, p values, and, confidence intervals.

That being said, did you happen to know what ingredients were in play, since he was using the same product for ~>20 years it sounds like, maybe the carcinogen landscape was much more under researched that long ago? I mean leaded gas was still sold in the US 'til 96 -- even though theres just so much evidence of it being harmful to the nth degree.
I think the point is that aesthetics matter to you but not a lot of people care if they have a box fan + air filter stashed away in their bedroom for a cheap airfilter. Maybe if it was more prominent in the living or guest bedrooms?
Interesting you say DX is a large aspect of what you are going for. ProseMirror is awesome but the API can be somewhat complex for simple things (but at the same time incredibly powerful when you get to understand it). I absolutely love TipTap[0] which is providing a much more user friendly API on top of ProseMirror, along with a clean Plugin system.

Going to have to have a play with Lexical, excited to see Yjs support!

[0]: http://tiptap.dev
Revoking the religious tax exemption would fix it quicker.

Better yet, do both.
I made a twitter account, followed a few accounts, and then it was locked and twitter demanded I send them a scan of my government issued ID to prove I was a real person.

I decided twitter wasn't worth that kind of identity theft risk. Same thing this happening with instagram - I'm not sure why anyone would want to volunteer this information to these companies whose whole finance model is abusing your personal information.

I personally don't think any of these social media companies are worth sending pictures or ID to.
A LVT can be implemented while other taxes are reduced to make up for it.

If income tax drops by X% and a LVT of Y% is implemented to, theoretically, keep the same revenues - some people will win and some will lose.

The idea that all of the middle class, upper class, and wealthy will lose seems absurd.

Some people seem poised for a loss - all the people living in SFH in the middle of a city where lots are worth $2M. All the parking lot operators, etc. And that's kind of the point...

Perversely, it's easy to imagine a poorly implemented LVT that incentives the opposite of what proponents want - it reduces overall tax burdens on suburbs because the "land" is less valuable than the cut land - driving people to leave the city and live in the suburbs.

It all comes down to implementation. Blanket statements seem out of touch
Agreed; if you have to have the 4 hour assignment, paying a market wage for a senior dev for those 4 hours, at least shows that you are serious about filling the position.
When you're right, you're right.
I had a similar thought: Jira is very customizable; if people hate something that is so customizable then part of what they're hating is the organizations customization of it.

I've seen the same thing at multiple companies. Someone comes up with a Jira workflow, it doesn't match the needs of some people, but the company wants to standardize on that workflow, so now people are stuck using a stupid workflow that doesn't work for them. I've also seen a bunch of stupid custom fields on every single ticket. Is this Jira's fault or the organization's fault? You complain but the word from your immediate manager is that the team is already in hot water so escalating complaints about the Jira configuration isn't going to help, etc.
Demand Destruction
If I'm interviewing at multiple companies and they all do that, that's 4 hours per company I want to check out. And let's be honest, most of these I've been asked to do weren't reasonable to do, and do well, and double check, in four hours, despite the claim. Eight hours is more reasonable to do them properly, usually.

If I interview at three places, that's three days of unpaid work (or 6+ evenings after I've already worked a full day at my normal job), and if I'm already making "multiples of the median American family's income" elsewhere, then it becomes less attractive to put up with that, especially if other companies aren't asking for it.

Like I just can't find the energy to put up with Amazon's 2.5 hour span of unbroken time take-home test, no matter how desperate they make themselves sound or how often they contact me (which is almost every week at this point). When I last considered it, I was already having trouble juggling just finding holes in the day to manage about 30 interviews I ended up doing, across about 8 companies. I had no energy to study for, and then do, that exam on top of it (I did do three 45-60 minute exams, across three evenings, for three other companies, though).
Show HN: Generate RSS feeds with Podcasting 2.0 support using Python
This is sort-of cool, I guess, but also very much not what you would want to do?

I mean, people agitate against `curl blah.xyz | sh` for a reason.

And this, by any measure, is much worse. Also: 'By default iPXE does not compile in HTTPS support'
What I guess the parent is implying is that by taxing something, you’re effectively disincentivizing it. Tax land value, you’re punishing people for making land valuable. Tax pollution, you’re incentivizing people to pollute less.
> I have zero confidence that a Georgist tax would be revenue neutral

It's pretty trivially easy to make any tax revenue neutral. Just return 100% of the tax revenue to the people split evenly between every person or adult in the country.
1. Post the comp levels if not available on something like levels.fyi. If the comp is above average, sell on it.

2. Make it a paid technical assignment. I don't think your process is unreasonable except some may object to the assignment. If you make it paid it is much less objectionable.
Prefer Map over Object in JavaScript
Yeah I've been defended Jira here in the past, too.

My opinion is that Jira reflects the organisation that manages it. It's basically a whole lot of customizable UI and permissions hanging off a user-defined state machine. You can set it up so that individual teams can fully administer their own projects, or you can go all the way in the other direction and have centralized, locked-down management where you beg some internal specialist Jira admin(s) to make your changes.

Also, in the last couple of years it's got a lot better. It's faster, there are options for simpler configuration, and more stuff out-of-the-box (assuming you're on Cloud, but isn't everyone these days?).

In detraction: configuring it can be a huge PITA. So many screens, concepts, and so much clicking. But when it's done it works, and I think most of the hassle is just inherent complexity from such a configurable tool (if you haven't Admined Jira: you can change almost anything).
Jira is practically called out in the phoenix project. Their solution?

1. Don’t use it

2. Do a manual process

3. Get buy in and deliver actual value

4. Run into scalability issues

5. Now automate which could be Jira but now you know what value your process is achieving

6. Don’t let Jira be the end in itself. Focus on the value of the process and tune that

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17255186-the-phoenix-...
YouTube and other distractions open too easily when I'm at home. I need the environment of a bunch of other people around me also working to get work done.
The best way to fix the housing crisis, at the state/federal level is to create incentives for employers to move to less densely populated areas.
But what makes it a bit more complex is that, ideally, one would, try to relocate entire technological hubs. But I do not see why it shouldn't be possible.
Sort of. I'm not super familiar with the EN, but ISO is a non-governmental organization, and is funded by 'subscriptions' from every participating nation (which are apparently based on GDP?)

They are also funded by selling access to their full standards reports. You can see a preview for the one in question here: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:29463:-1:ed-2:v1:en

It's only 88 CHF (~90 USD, I think?)

I'm a lot less familiar with the European Standards, and the ISO above is apparently derived directly from the $1148 doc mentioned in the article (https://www.emw.de/en/filter-campus/iso29463.html)
`:has` allows matching a parent on the basis of matching selectors in the children - e. g. the coveted `section:has(input:checked)` will match section elements containing a checked input.
> Tickets should not be THAT easy to edit. How often do we want to change a ticket's description, or title? I'd say, not often. If we do, there's really no harm in having an "edit" button.

It's very useful for when the user submits a ticket with "My computer isn't working" as the title and "excel is broken" as the description.
On the other side of that is the also white-hot rage of the under-housed. We live on a street with a bunch of single family homes, almost all of which are rented out. There was a (literal) screaming match between a couple (one of whom is an MD) who couldn't afford the rent increase and a broker who was showing their apartment.

Renters are close to out-numbering non-renters by double digits.

Those are incredibly new phenomena. It's hard to over-state how different things are now compared to even 5 years ago.

I will be surprised if there isn't an open electoral revolt against land owners in my community over the next 10 years. And not just pro-housing policy, but policy explicitly designed to punish.

I don't have an opinion on LVT, but the idea that home owners are the primary organized electoral power base is, I think, shifting quickly in many communities. Landowners, I think, I have two options: find ways to fracture/disempower the rent base in the communities where they invest or else find a way to keep the number of non-renters well over 50%.
TL;DR -> just ignore this post as it has no substance and it has no arguments. It is just a rant about something which is not clear, but not even examples are given to make their point.
Interesting point. For whatever it may be worth, I live in Canada, though I don't believe dental school here is especially less expensive than it is in (say) the US.
Isn't that what Basecamp from 37signals is meant to be? Perhaps I'm missing something as I've only used it a bit.
Next step: create a corpus, and feed into a CycleGAN with landscape paintings & photographs as the other, so you can turn a book into a landscape.

Final step: since CycleGAN goes both directions, you can decode an arbitrary landscape painting into a 'book' and use a language model to fill in all the words with the highest-probability word that fits.
I still can’t figure out how to search it
Or improving rural broadband access so more people can WFH forever. Hint, fiber is cheaper than roads.