skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that depends on where in Europe you’re located. That’s about 80 sqm if I’m not mistaken and it’s definitely on the lower end for a family of four in Germany, though clearly not outrageously small. (+) Our friends from my wife’s part of the family in eastern Poland happily have flats that many Germans would consider shoeboxes - I’d roughly estimate 2/3rds or less of the size.

(+) for example social security rules for flat sizes that need to be paid for are (roughly) 45sqm for the first person, plus 15 sqm for each next, so 4 adults would get up to 90 sqm.
It’s not as high as I’d like, but I’ll take it.
This is actually insulting to senior developers. You're gonna ask for a four hour take home and presentation like it's show and tell at hight school. I know how to code and don't have to prove to you that I can. If you think I do then you have a real problem.
The housing capacity of neighborhoods can be greatly increased w/o destroying their character. Seattle is now permitting additional dwelling units, e.g. "mother-in-law"s and tiny houses, on existing properties and I can assure you that they are being built. The rents on them are well below what a developer of the density buildings, (which steal the views and charm of existing homes and transfer that value to developers and to realtors like Redfin), would charge.

LVT is a good idea. If it convinces neighborhoods to accept re-zoning then fine. If not then just use the tax dollars to promote housing. One good use would be improving transit to help neighborhoods handle more residents and to reduce the need for cars. Fewer cars could mean fewer garages, which in turn could become more auxiliary dwelling units.
Realism is not and has never been VR's problem. VR being a pain in the ass is VR's problem. The hardware is annoying to break out and get comfortable if you wear glasses. The software is an absolute nightmare. Backwards compatibility is pathetic compared to a PC and you're never quite sure if a game you heard about is going to be available for whatever platform you invested in. There's also no faith in durable VR products. The people who bought a headset and phone to use Samsung VR got fucked. The people who bought a headset and a Google Daydream-certified phone got fucked. The people who bought an Oculus Go got fucked.

Maybe when I can get a headset that offers onboard focus-adjustment and some kind of omnidirectional treadmill I'll sink another thousand dollars into VR but until then I am done.
Mic positioning and proper gain control is a big one.
Again, how is this a web3 service and not just a version of SSO that allows for a couple not-so-commonly-used centralized authentication services? Taking payments in crypto doesn't really seem to me to be anything "web3"-related apart from their finance department participating in the speculation game on the backend.
Fuck Facebook. Do not ever use anything they touch. Burn it to the ground.
Entitled much? Instead of 4 hours of your time [0], you get to waste up to 90 days of an employer's? (or more likely some multiple of that, counting interactions with others on the team)

[0] it probably takes even more of the employer's time in reviewing and discussing the application.

Hiring sucks for all parties. Everyone should try to meet half way, and be respectful of the other's time.
Same bandwidth over my local connection, mildly more across backbone connections, not a big deal in total.

I feel like if the bandwidth used by content distribution really mattered, we'd see a lot more effort being put into multicasting. Even a basic stateless "multiple destination IPs" version could save so much bandwidth.
Some ideas to help you stand out:

* Post the salary in the ad. At least a range.

* Pay folks for their take home assignment time. A few years ago, we paid senior folks $500. It is a token, not a contract, but it shows you care.

* If it is the people that make it great, profile them so that potential hires can see their awesomeness. Help them grow their profile (speaking, writing, OSS) if they want.

* Are you properly developing your junior folks so they can grow into seniors? Giving them autonomy, learning opportunities and salary bumps?

* Have a shorter hiring process. Maybe cut out the recruiter screen?

* As a hard bitten senior engineer, I can tell you that I value equity at zero. If I get an equity win, awesome! But I don't count on it. (You don't mention it, but thought I'd share that.)

* Sponsor a meetup (~$100/month). This is a long term play.

* Any other benefits/things that make you special? Why should anyone want to work there?

That said, I like a saying that I learned when I worked in the real estate industry during the great recession: "there's no problem that price can't fix".

There's no hiring problem that higher salaries can't fix. The higher salaries may cause other issues, but you'll get your hires.
The original Computer Vegan, complaining about the coal used to power a computer while at the same time using a typewriter that is made of steel that had to be fired and forged probably using coal. I'm not saying he's wrong, but unless he mines his own metal and has a solar powered forge, he's fooling himself.
We’re in the midsts of a move to JIRA, and my own previous experiences with it are >10 years old at this point so I assume it to be a different experience and I’m willing to give it a shot. I made a glib JIRA hate comment to a very experienced friend and he retorted with this quip which I found amusing and suspect is probably very accurate:

“There’s only two types of people that hate JIRA: 1) those that haven’t tried any of the alternatives or 2) those that didn’t have a dedicated team to configure and maintain JIRA for them”
I think that V developers and contributors are well within their rights to address criticisms of their work by detractors. Additionally, the OP has ran away from engaging in debate about various errors and opinions from their review, in an apparent attempt to leave an arguably underhanded one-sided negative impression (which includes suggesting not to use).

So we have a situation where the OP created a hit piece with no feedback from V developers or its community, and detractors are elaborating on it, that leaves few other public options to address it.
Yes, and it's called Bitcoin.
funny you should say that given a bunch of these rants on the article link sound very much like the cloud version in terms of amount of JS loaded and network requests.

Also no shortage of folks elsewhere in this discussion talking about cloud slowness.

We've had plenty of irritations with our on-prem, but slowness, not so much. And yeah, for us it's mostly about keeping the data internal.
Why exactly do they think people look to get hired? For fun?

It's important to me that I think my employer is doing good stuff for the world, but I'm there to be paid so I can get food and housing and internet.
I'm not suggesting any type of "framework" (which suggests inversion of control). Terraform, CF, etc make the same API calls that the console does, they just keep state. Whether you understand the services is orthogonal to whether you use automation to deploy them.
We should not celebrate this luddite.
What is the reason for writing the code?
That’s insane to me. Atlassian pushes very hard for everyone to use the cloud-hosted version, as the on-prem version is hella expensive. You know, that SaaS app that was recently down for over 2 weeks for some customers.[0] I don’t know many companies that would be OK with having no access to their ticket tracker for an indeterminate length of time. Do you have a customer, or worse, regulatory deadline coming up, and all your planning was done in the now-offline tool? Sucks to be you!

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/atlassian-estimates-cloud-outa...
There is a few issues.

Nobody (at least in the West) are denying LGBT people exist. Companies who put the flag up are just virtue signalling.

If the app icon was changed for a single day for Juneteenth would you sympathize with the OP?

The OP was not complaining about the actual political issue. He was complaining about changing the app icon to push their politics. The OP just wants to be able to easily find the app: "As part of that bargain, you have to identify your app visually so I can find it" and doesn't want the app author's politics on his home screen: "I might actually agree with your political cause, but you crossed a line. My device screen is not an appropriate place for your political statements. So cut that shit out"

Let me ask you a question. Would you still be making the same points if the political activism was putting a Russian flag as the app icon? Maybe they feel like there is a dehumanizing effort against Russians since Russians are being called orcs by Ukrainians. Based on your logic that would not be political since a vauge assertion that Russians exist is not political.
Which necessitates that somehow, there's some law of physics important to operation in the brain who's effects aren't computable. Yes?
Weird how they let you fund your account and make trades, then, but only have an issue upon withdrawal.
It’s pretty much impossible for humans to be unbiased. All we can do is work around it like with double blind experiments for example.
> like a fool I recently went through an entire day's worth interviews for a role

whats the alternative though. why do you consider that foolish?
Similar story here. Some years old IG account, logging in maybe once per month. One day few months ago instagram decided to deactivate my account and wanted my selfie to get it back. I never really used the platform so I'll just stay without.
Yes. We should be able to joke about those things.

Your comment has an extremely sinister tone, I’m not sure if that was intended.
Basically anything here had the Wordpress plug-in whining:

https://www.techtarget.com/contributor/Gordon-Haff

And that's probably after I made a few token changes to make the plug-in happier.
The cost of switching matters (and is talked about in the article as well). If there is a significant cost, then that means less competition, and it makes it hard to categorize them as the same market. Compare the friction of switching between a Samsung TV and a Sony one, vs the friction of switching between an iPhone and an Android. Most people wouldn't mind the former, but would mind the latter
> What is the jurisdiction of "the internet"? There isn't one.

It’s the US, except for when it’s China or Russia.

You may feel you aren’t under their jurisdiction. It turns out it doesn’t matter what you think though, much like if an elephant is charging at you, your opinion of the situation doesn’t really have an effect.
Because everything about the last two hundred years has been explosive tech growth - and the countries who were players in 1800 are basically the same players today (plus the two startups Germany and Japan from 1860s) - they all just held on through steam, turbines, internal combustion and electrical.

What chnaged in those countries and cultures that was not driven by (at minimum) power generation methods?

Plus it may be an observation (I agree with) that companies eventually corrude and decline - but why? what is the mechanism - can we observe it? Chnage it?
I can only speak form myself of course, and from a UK perspective, but here are my 2 pence: Most seniors are either already employed, or are consulting/contracting. Those employed will need serious incentives to move. You can read that as "significantly higher pay and lower friction on entry". That excludes the 4 hour assignment - I would have declined you there and then. I simply don't have the time to give you 4 hours on a maybe basis.
Those consulting (myself included) are even a higher barrier to breach - you are unlikely to match them in pay requirement. However, here's another option: hire a couple those consultants for 3 months, pay them whatever day rate they want, and have them level up all your juniors.

You will then have the problem of retention of your less-junior staff.

One other anecdote, which is a pet peeve of mine - I used the words Senior/Junior because you referred to it, but I have a dislike to those tags as it's vague to what they means. Junior/Senior in years? in experience? in talent? Some of the best people I've worked with had zero commercial experience when I met them and they blew me out the water with raw talent.

P.S. If you do want to hire a top dev-ops consultant and don't mind him being remote, I know one who just became free and he won't be for long. My details are in my profile.
A nifty feat, but just because you can doesn't (always) mean you should.
Not being able to embed images in comments sucks. It's not always clear which images people are talking about when they all get dumped in to the "attachments" section.
Sometimes I wonder how many of our impressions of ancient civilizations were just some dude who got kicked in the head by a horse as a kid and spent his life being eccentric.
It doesn't bother me; I grew up poor and my wife is foreign so we are used to "small" places. :)
But if you built housing out near these extensions you can build for a relative fraction. Contra costa zoning / permitting is much easier to deal with than SF for example.

Concord avg home price is in $600K range.
SF avg home price is in $1.7M range (3x higher).

And it's easier to do different stuff in Concord. My guess is you'd be 5x cheaper per person unit in concord. 10x cheaper if you get out to places like modesto.
Proposing opening an LLC is a pretty involved workaround that again requires more supervision and gatekeeping (e.g, for many people and many countries this is not even possible). Cash like settlement with any person on the planet without any intermediary is a pretty big technical achievement that absolutely was not possible before blockchain.
Very interesting!

Note lambdas now can have urls if you want to set that up without setting up API Gateway

Looks like the other rough edges are from being understandably overwhelmed by AWS. Would love to chat with the author of this article about how we can make WASM an option in SST (https://sst.dev) so this is becomes a much easier option
Consider that VR dates back to at least the early nineties. This may be more like the third generation.
I think it's perfect. It's hard to miss the giant white sidebar that pops up. Actually, I think it's safe to say nobody is going to miss it. Keeping immediate attention on the hamburger icon that now switched to an 'x' gives users information on how to close the sidebar if they wish (as opposed to swiping it left or something). If the "distracting" animation we're omitted, the site could have a different problem that users didn't see the 'x' and now don't know how to close the sidebar. I think this site found a perfect balance on usability.
> If every US citizen had by birthright, a small parcel of land with no taxes owed, they would always have somewhere to go.

And at some point you run out of land, after which point you'd need to shrink everyone else's parcels to make room for new birthright parcels. Further, not all land is equal; if one parcel has a bunch of features that another lacks, then it stands to reason that unless the former is smaller than the latter, the citizens assigned to either would be on an unequal footing.

In short: what you call a "land dividend", once you've addressed the above, is literally Georgism - specifically, LVT plus a citizens' dividend (more modernly known as "UBI"). This results in a self-balancing system for ensuring every American enjoys one's equal share of America's land value. Own more than your fair share? You pay more LVT than you get from UBI. Own less than your fair share? You get more UBI than you pay LVT.
> being able to create pointer to objects inside the map (I never did that, but do other people really do that?)

Yes, we do it at my day job in several places, where we take advantage of the pointer stability to improve our overall performance a lot. And a much more impactful performance improvement for our overall product, than micro-optimizations of the unordered_map's insert/erase times would achieve.

Think of, for example, multi-index containers. Or an ordered hash-map (one that is both a hash map and keeps insertion ordering).

In such cases you can keep the actual objects in an unordered_map, and only store pointers to the nodes in other containers (e.g., vectors).

Obviously you can achieve the same thing with open-addressing hashmaps, by making the map's nodes unique_ptrs (i.e., creating the actual objects on the heap externally), which is what such hashmaps tell you to do if you need pointer stability.

But you asked if anyone really used pointer stability, hence my answer.
HDTVTest is good for TVs. The reviews are boring as they come; the same objective measurements on every TV.
Well, at least only the truly old school Nigerian snail mail scams will get to him!

Seriously, if you have parents going into their 70s and 80s you need to really start limiting exposure to scams or the ability to send them money. Otherwise, you won't know until it's too late, their bank account is empty, and their CC are maxed out on cash advances. Also, immediately contact the IRS and Social Security, because they've probably redirected returns and payments to their accounts.
Gold is useful as a unit test of physics theories, since most of them until the modern day couldn’t explain why it’s yellow.
really hope they cut out this referral stuff. These guys have turned all of silicon valley into incestuous bro-land. This needs to be made illegal.
It seems to me that we over-value our own sense of consciousness to the point of mythologizing. Blake Lemoine suggests that LaMDA's consciousness is more akin to that of an Octopus' hive mind than our familiar human-style self-analytical ego.

The linked article, and many others I've read that are making similar arguments, seems to be saying that consciousness is so complicated, it must be more than mere computation, it must be something really very special, because I experience having consciousness as something really very special. Ipso facto.

They seem to be making the case for the soul, unwilling to call it a soul because that would be magical thinking.

I'm of the belief that determining the possibility of computational intelligences is linked to the question of autonomy and free will. From what we know about the physical universe being most probably deterministic, we seem to overstate our capacity for free will, even as we appear to ourselves to be autonomous. Somewhere in there, it seems to me, is where a workable definition lies, but it would require us to come to terms with our own consciousness and how computational our own existence actually is.

I do think we are hobbling ourselves by the desire to make this an either/or. It seems there are likely big differences between human consciousness and octopus consciousness and we have no way, currently, of quantifying them. Still, we make very grave decisions based on our belief that one is somehow inherently more valuable than the other.

Love your detailed analysis.
Bitcoin falls below 20k and Ethereum sinks past 1k
> When I worked for a technology analyst company, we would ask for writing samples--which most potential hires would already have. But, if someone didn't, they'd have to create one.

I have a github/gitlab full of code. You want to check it? Go for it. Happy to provide a portfolio on demand.

Make me write an api client..? No, get lost.
I do think this is actually a viable option. Possibly inevitable. And would necessitate actual discussion internally. More so than happens today at even the most "open• companies
I thought it was pretty clear that the author objected to it on principle.

I think I do as well, I don't really want all the icons on my phone changing colors and shapes every other day since that is just bad UX when I'm hunting for the right button.

And when it comes to politics I don't want anyone else's politics pushed into my personal life when I don't expect to encounter it, even if I agree with it. It is particularly difficult these days to donate to any worthy cause because you know that it is interpreted as an invitation to harassment and you'll get put onto lists that get sold and get bombarded with mail, e-mail and door-to-door solicitation.

I've practically had to throw people off my property -- for causes that I agree with and donate to similar organizations -- because they're just being rude about my personal space.

If you show up on my porch waving a pride flag I'm going to be very irritated and ask you to leave. And you might want to be careful about asserting that anyone who doesn't like having a pride flag pushed in their face is automatically homophobic/transphobic. There are those of us who are non-neurotypical who find all the demands on our attention by society, in total, just fucking exhausting, and you might want to keep in mind concepts like consent and privacy.
Video is terrible as a medium though. Can't skim, can't grep, not trivial to index. I hate that more and more content is moving to video (or podcast) format.
Taylor Swift lost the rights to her music to her earlier label in a bitter dispute and ended to re-recording the songs to gain control of them
The same way I account for the fact that people can use different languages to communicate and cooperate to build things, including cars.

Language is arbitrary in the same way, because it is basically just a way of encoding information. There's nothing essential about words that give them their meanings.
I’m not exactly a “dev ops” person like the original person is looking for. I am the classical definition of dev ops. A software developer who knows cloud and consults with companies on how to develop “cloud natively”.

Before my current job, my last three jobs (2014, 2016, and 2018) were as a bog standard “enterprise” Senior software engineer/team lead/de facto “architect” who was hired to help the company mature. I got my job by talking to the manager, director, CTO based on my network and discussing my past successes and how I would go about helping then with their real world problems.

I am 99% sure if and when I leave my current job in the cloud consulting department at BigTech and probably go back to smaller companies I won’t be asked to do a “take home test”. My network is stronger now than it was before I came.
> The assumption that the default mode of civilization is prosperity for all.

First off, I'm not sure where you're getting that from reading this article, but maybe I'm missing something.

Secondly, Berry is a Christian so of course he believes that there can be enough for all - this is (at least used to be) a central tenet of Christianity. Christ said: "25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these."

Berry is coming from the worldview that God created a world of great abundance and that if we share, there is enough for all.
It could also be Ukraine. There have been a lot of blue and yellow logos lately.