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Ultimately employment is a market. You're expecting something in exchange for some money.

Your objective is to get as much of "something" for the least amount of money.

The candidate's objective is to get as much money for the least amount of "something". Junior candidates are more flexible on this as they might do it for the passion of the tech or to make a name for themselves but seniors already have a "name" and no longer need to work for "exposure".

Your current situation seems to be that your competition offers a better deal than you do - employees manage to find other places where they can either get more money or get the same money you're offering for much less "something". That "something" includes the overhead of the interview process such as the tech test, etc.

In short, either offer more money or demand less "something" and make it known. 4-day work week, flexible working hours, no on-call, etc.

In addition, you're asking for specialized skills which means you need to consider markets beyond employment. If your prospective employee can make the yearly salary you're proposing in a 3-month consulting gig, there's no reason for him to even consider your offer. You mention that most applicants dislike the specialization you're asking for - maybe because those who like it don't even apply, potentially for the above reason.
> Apple is going to kick Meta's ass in the long run just by virtue of their privacy stance

I think you're discounting (ha) the allure of free/cheap to people who don't have disposable income. Which is to say, most people.
When you look at a monitor, you're looking at a quad at a set distance. Your eyes are focused on that quad in the exact same way they would focus on anything at that distance.

In VR, dynamic depth is simulated using stereo-screens where each pupil is pointed at a dynamic focal point BUT stero-focus is not the same as lens focus. Because of this, VR produces a disjoint sensation where stereo focus changes to the simulated position but lens focus remains fixed.

You can experience the difference by holding up a finger and looking at it, then look at a distant object. Notice that you'll see two images of your finger as you focus away. That is stereo focus. Now do the same while covering one eye. Notice that the finger is now blurry but not doubled. That would be the lens focal difference.
> The thing with 4hr technical assignments is that you're saying no to anyone with kids, which I'm going to venture applies to more senior people than juniors.

Completely agree here - like a fool I recently went through an entire day's worth interviews for a role (hello Stripe recruiters!!) that required both me and my wife taking PTO, with her looking after the kids while I talked to one junior dev after another about data modelling and "culture fit".
Thanks for sharing the second part! I’ve worked places as a DS where we were ramping up A/B tests, and it’s honestly one of the worst experiences a DS can have - everybody is asking why you need such large samples, then when you get null results, everyone wants an explanation for why (“this idea didn’t do what you wanted it to” isn’t an acceptable answer), etc.

You’re entirely right that running a bunch of tests is a really effective way to advocate for better resources to run the tests. While I’ve never worked anywhere that ran out of ideas to game the testing incentives, it’s definitely true that people who initially fall into the trap of gaming the tests come around with some experience and in general the org builds better intuitions and culture around how to use tests.

It may be that an org that _has_ a culture of testing just has them constantly running in the background but they’re minor in terms of time spent running them, but that building a culture of testing initially involves the whole org focusing on it to a seemingly ridiculous extent, as it’s the only way to generate enough momentum to get the infrastructure and institutional knowledge right.
I'm curious how you'd account to factors like `npm audit` failing on probably most javascript repos out there on reasonably high CVSS settings due to including items like https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3807 ? And particularly, how to fix that, or Working As Intended?
Look really interesting!
I found his recent conversation with Lex[0] interesting (though I haven't listened to all of it). It is obvious that he is personally interested in the future of VR. When he talks about it, he seems more relatable than usual.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zOHSysMmH0
1) Senior Dev referred me to his hiring manager. Regular job interview from there.

2) Hiring Manager I worked with for a few years prior agreed to give me a job. Ghosted me a week later.

3) A guy I worked closely with for 2 years later became a medium-sized startup CTO. I asked him for a job. He said yes, then referred me to the hiring manager. Normal interview from there on out.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just to clarify: I'm not complaining. I have no problem going through job interviews to prove myself. But, it would be nice if I could figure out what I'm missing and not have to do that. Maybe it's a difference in reputation? I'm not seen as the hotshot. I'm the go to guy.
Zelle is typically free to send and receives funds immediately, and is implemented by almost all major US commercial banks and a bunch of smaller ones [1].

If you’re a merchant, you’re likely to take a credit card, although I have paid contractors four figure amounts for work with Zelle (splitting payments across days if limits are too low) as the merchant fee is material at larger dollar amounts. Zelle is designed for both peer to peer payments that previously would’ve been cash or a check, but also business transactions.

(I won’t use PayPal or Venmo due to their business practices)

[1] https://www.zellepay.com/get-started
The low-income people are often the most impacted when an emergency hits. I'm sure if someone had $1000 for an air purifier, they could get one the next day, in most circumstances. Though I'm not low income (now), I got a reminder of it when local materials were totally gone and I would have had to pay through the nose to keep my place breathable. It was bad. The hallways in our apartment building had a haze of smoke 24/7. Fortunately the city let everyone know about the box fan solution, so that's what we did.

For me, being unprepared in a new city, and for low income people who aren't prepared, choosing form over function was a luxury.
For sure they can - in fact that was the issue with the current thread.

From an HN perspective the important thing is not the version number, nor even the significance of the release, but how recently the project last had a major discussion.

There's one workaround for this that might work sometimes: if software has undergone major recent work that is interesting in its own right, then an article devoted to the specifics of that particular project—the why and the how, with interesting technical details, and an explanation of that makes it hard and also what pain it solves / what makes it worth doing—might have a chance of generating a more specific discussion in the comments. That's what I would do if I had a big release that I hoped to get attention for on HN.

Even then, people are likely to mostly post generically about the project—just as announcements of new things from $BigCo tend to attract lots of generic discussion about $BigCo too. But if there aren't too many of those, we can downweight them and then the more specific comments can hopefully float to the top.
>It's always taken on from the position of "well, it didn't make my specific use case easy", but never with an appreciation with some of the complexity that Jira needs to solve for other users

Your insight is the same reason why people hate boarding selection for planes, or McDonalds breakfast ending at 10:30am or fill in the blank.
>Same here, I really don't get the cargo cult hate against Jira.

That's funny, because I've always thought of Jira's most ardent defenders as a cargo cult. As this comment section indicates, Jira can do no wrong. It can only be done wrong. Cult.
How do I find an old story in Jira? *Without searching my email.
There’s a huge difference between being there from day one vs day 2,555. Between being a founder and an employee who joined later on. He hasn’t had to sacrifice anything for this company.

> He’s done real work for you in that time.

…and he’s gotten real (competitive) wages.

> I’d be expecting that employee to leave. Do you want that?

I’d rather that than give away stock and not feel good about it.
> What is this obsession with writing not being boring?

This may come as a surprise, but sometimes a piece of writing is not technical documentation.
The best dentist I ever went to had a picture of his airline pilot wife on the wall - and from how he treated his patients and charged, I got the feeling he worked because he liked to, not because he needed to.

However, if you have a "flat fee" dentist/doctor you could be now encouraging the opposite - do the minimum work necessary to get done with the day. It's hard to legislate "be a caring, honest professional" but we can at least remove some of the incentives to not be.
Another application of Amdahl's law.
Yeah. My employer has company managed projects on by default, and there are several features which still haven't been re-implemented from OG team-managed Jira, particularly around workflow automation, that have tickets from 4 years ago saying "we're looking into implementing this in the next year!"
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As someone who still uses pen and paper for sketching out ideas and books for reference, I do not understand the appeal of VR for productivity. Going from 2 to 3 monitors was only a slight productivity improvement for me - one monitor is now dedicated to Slack. Being able to have a huge viewable space to work in seems like it's not going to be that much better. Meanwhile there is fatigue from the headset, having to charge (or tether) a thing you're always wearing, and a disconnect from the physical world which makes some things less convenient (e.g. writing things down).

Finally, there's an issue of who owns and controls the space you work in. With WFH, it's nice to be in a space that I fully control and can customize to my needs. If history is any guide, a VR space will become heavily monetized, if not by Meta then by someone else. And the possibilities for surveillance - either by your employer or the "owner" of the space - are now limitless. I'm not naïve enough to think that history won't repeat itself.
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My profesor at Uni predicted, that the next computer revolution will be "invisible computing". That firstly basically all everyday items will get chips inside (ie "Smart Things", it was way before Iphone &co) and then computing will bee something in the background. IDK, but it seems plausible to me and looks like we are moving into such future. VR is not compatible with that vision. Most ppl prefer real life to escapism. And event if you want to escape drugs are more fun and more addictive.
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I've tried to reach Google to reinstate my google business listing profile after the incident https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31777650 but for some reason they blocked my account and I can't even create a new account. Anyone had the issues before?
This is a great point that I wish was made more often.
That's why a serious user sets up their own server, serves the images that they have selected and checked, and doesn't serve outside of their known netspace.
Are there any Android phones where the default is to autocorrect and suggest profanity?

Not "can you go in and unblock profanity suggestions" ( https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/disable-android-offensive... ) but rather "is this the default"?
S3 Buckets have _always_ been private by default.
Yes, but also Jira the tool with it's horrendous UX, janky markdown (which is also different from Confluence's wtf), memory foortprint, slow loading, slow everything, controls moving from under your cursor just as you're about to click them...

Honestly, it's a horrendous piece of software however you look at it.
On the consumer side, Google has begun charging for services like storage. It also sells Pixel phones and licenses Android. Maybe it's still heavily subsidized but it's not that clear cut.
Unless you explicitly set O_BINARY on stdout/stderr then LF is converted to CRLF, aka "text mode" vs "binary mode" for files.
I appreciate the sentiment, but I don't think such a society has ever existed. Every society has taboo and heresy.

I imagine it's something of a structural feature, not something we could do away with the right policies or education.
What kind of work?
LVT’s don’t cover the cost of education, roads, police, etc that scale with population. What they tax is proximity to places people want to live or resources to be extracted etc.

This tends to minimize the distance people travel to work, but it’s hardly go to force a billionaire to sell land they want to keep.
And yet, our current medium of exchange relies on artificial scarcity as well, controlled by central banks. This is where your average crypto proponent will follow up with their spiel on the benefits of decentralization, but I personally believe decentralization is a distraction, or at best only relevant for those in charge of the supply of the currency. On the demand side, what cryptocurrencies really bring to the table is an alternative, asymmetrical channel for currency and values to move through; and in a capitalist system that naturally skews towards inequality, the more money changes hands, the more likely it is that the next hand to take it will be that of the rich. So as far as the rich are concerned, the incentives to bootstrap the crypto economy and keep it funded well enough to slowly suck up conventional economic activity is already there.
I just got my passport renewed.

The new US passport is pretty crazy. The photo page appears to be one giant NFC chip. The picture is barely visible. I suspect that it is meant to be inserted into some kind of reader machine, that will display a high-resolution version to the Customs agent.
It is not untrained amateurs it is also people who do stuff from tutorial and think they know everything.

So my post is not about Kubernetes per se - but about narration "it is super easy 6 year old could do it", well no not everyone can do it and one has to spend time with any new technology.

Besides nmap in that scenario is not helping as well, beacuse I have to expose port 443 to serve my customers and Kubelets expose https endpoints. If someone runs simple nmap scan sees 443 open and concludes all is correct because he will be serving https websites - so your "you are done in like 30 seconds" seems like shooting oneself in the foot.
Jira is bad, but the worst part about it is that it makes it non-trivially more likely you'll also be using Confluence, which is an absolute blight upon the software landscape.
It has gone significantly worse over the years. About 3 years ago it did not have any issue even when mixing languages in the same message. Now it gets confused all the time and puts stupid suggestions even in the keyboard's language. I am not sure what is happening, but it is very annoying.
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BTW, mouthwashes don't do diddly squat. I tried every one of them, including prescription ones. A waterpic is only of marginal utility.
All the smart people left.
They only have a monthly pricing option I believe

https://mullvad.net/en/pricing/
I think it's maybe a bit of both? I worked at an org that was using Trac for most things. It's probably fine for a small, engineering-driven company, but it's not very full-featured and isn't great for PMs and other business types.

So once the company got large enough, management wanted to switch. Many of us essentially said, "ok, that's fine, but please please please not Jira". And yet, they went and hired some consultants who were like "oh, Jira is the industry standard for your line of work, you'd be taking on a huge risk not using it, blah blah blah". Management bought it, and they've been on Jira ever since.
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I think one of the greatest barriers to VR adoption is not resolution etc. but motion sickness. It is caused by the conflicting signals the brain receives from the body and from the eyes. Currently the only way to get rid of it is through training, but I'm not sure how many people are willing to go through the process. It took me about a month to fully get rid of it, but I assume it vastly differs from person to person.
I de-googled a few years back, but I noticed the same thing when I still using Android with a Google account. Google News tech section was almost entirely gaming news. I don't game and don't care, so definitely don't buy any claim that feed personalization was causing it. Google News in general did seem to somewhat respond to my requests to hide sources and my explicit downranking, and it definitely tried to show stuff similar to what I'd clicked on before, but you can only personalize with reference to a baseline, and if the baseline for the tech news section is everything is gaming-related, there isn't any way to get out of that. Hiding everything won't make other stuff appear.

Frankly, I think they need to just break it out into its own section. Game releases and reviews especially are entertainment news, but Google had a similar issue there where the actual "entertainment" section was news about celebrity gossip, not development leaks and reviews for film, television, and music.

Same thing with "world" news being overwhelmingly about war and "US" news being overwhelmingly about election horserace crap. War and elections should have their own dedicated sections so it's still possible to read about other things.

Their categories just seemed poorly defined in general. The only one that really seemed to give you what it says is sports. That actually gives you player movement, current league stats and standings, and recent box scores. They still muddy the waters a bit with the sports version of celebrity gossip, but at least it doesn't dominate everything else.
One of my wisdom teeth is laying sideways and I've been told I need to get rid of it for ... twenty years now and still haven't bothered, since the cost of getting rid of it now and when it starts to do whatever horrible thing it's plotting to do is basically the same, I continue to punt.

My current dentist is ambivalent about it.
> I assume writing a check and mailing it is a fairly typical thing everywhere

It absolutely is not. The only time I've seen a check was a gift from my grandfather in the 00s, and I don't think paying bills by mailing checks was ever a thing here.

Checks also often become very difficult and expensive to cash when going cross-border. E.g. most banks here (Finland) refuse to cash foreign checks altogether.
It was actually Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge that really got Zuck excited about the possibilities of VR—he read it a few years before he bought Oculus and talked about it a lot at the time.
Sure! It's a NextJS app that pulls data from the public HN api https://github.com/HackerNews/API.
The source for it is here: https://github.com/chiptopher/hackernoise
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Is this a serious reply? Do people travel 1.5m miles by bus? Think critically.
And as Searle responded to that argument you are bamboozling yourself with speed. There is nothing that prove that accelerating the computation to a given speed that will make the consciousness emerge.
We are building a container/machine hosting provider for the East African market at KwaWingu.com. We have a core group of dedicated users at the moment who we are growing with, and eventually we aim to support e.g. M-PESA payments given the high adoption of mobile money in the region.
> There's no VR content that is held back by the graphical fidelity atm.

Sort of. Discomfort/nausea issues hold back VR and will be addressed by this work.
https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/5802651c24d88b2f7d2...

> // Check for any random auto-added <br> elements, and remove them.

> // These get added by the browser when we undo the above mutations

> // and this can lead to a broken UI.

This made me laugh out loud. Browsers!

Until here our approach looked quite similar. Leave the observer connected during reverts and avoiding double-peocessing using .takeRecords never occurred to me, I always disconnect it. Maybe some of these brs are causing chaos…
It is way faster. Has 6 cores, can run VS Code for example. But officially the cameras don't work yet. Although megous has it recording video.

I do the same thing, put the batteries in, update them (run both Mobian/Phosh and Manjaro/KDE Plasma Mobile). Then turn them back off. I have a TMobile number for it but the pro also has this sleep/wake issue. Where it will not wake up after a while. It's more apparent with the plasma Mobile than Phosh.

I think it's worth it with regard to saving money, supposedly the price will bump up. But as far a s a daily driver/main phone I still use an Android.

The external display detect/reliability is buggy still too as in, plug it in, nope, plug it in, nope... There it's working. That kind of thing.
Hygienist: "Let me check your plan, we'll do everything covered" is probably what they hear.
I was extremely skeptical of VR until I got a Quest 2 and spent a bit of time with it. I used to think it was just a tech gimmick that added no value, but I think I was wrong and I've completely reversed my stance on the idea. This device is still rather primitive and far from great, but IMO it's just good enough to show you what's possible in the very near future.

I still really hate facebook/meta and don't have a lot of faith that they can make the world a better place, but I now feel like VR can add a lot of real value and is fundamentally a good goal.
JIRA is the definition of building everything for everybody and let them customize it, it's got complex and to a point highly productive engineers don't want it anymore, it's a OVERKILL!
> I'm shocked at how many people take inflation numbers seriously. To me, it's just obviously government propaganda.

I agree that the current way of dealing with monetary policy feels closer to rain dancing than actual science but people are taking it seriously because they're seeing it in their grocery and fuel bills every day.
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Same here. It's fun getting doctors offices coming back and asking me "Do we have your email right?"
"the overall performance improvement gained by optimizing a single part of a system is limited by the fraction of time that the improved part is actually used"

Thanks for teaching me the name for this principle!
There are multiple ways that your eye/brain senses depth: binocular vision/vergence, lens focus, and relative correlated motion to name three. When these depth cues don't match each other well, it is distracting and can cause fatigue or headaches after extended use.
Sounds like you have your answer then :)
Came to suggest the same thing. Locals could have been completely freaked out and found it extra fit to burry them as well.