skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is false, LVT only cares about the hypothetical economic value not the actual economic value.

No, it’s not false. It’s the fundamental characteristic of LVT. There is no separation of the hypothetical and actual.

> Let’s say you buy some farms in the middle of nowhere for 10k/acre and put a theme park on it. Your LVT taxes are in theory unchanged, though depending on how it’s calculated the value of land around that property increases because it’s near a theme park. Then your LVT increases when people start to build hotels etc around your property.

Right. That’s the point. You buy land and the taxes are such that you must improve the land or otherwise produce economic value to be able to hold it. As land around the theme park becomes more valuable taxes eventually go up and then the economic value of the park must continue to increase in order to support the taxes (at the same profit level).

> What’s interesting about this model is your incentivized to develop land as a single unit. A sports stadium with associated shops and hotels is valued as if none of it was there, but split it up and each pays more due to proximity to other businesses.

I’m not following this very well. I think it makes you think more holistically, but I am not tracking well that building a sports stadium and shops and hotels would cause the value to be as though nothing is there. Can you elaborate? I would think that someone developing the parcel to include all of these things would be doing so to decrease risk, increase economic engagement so they can afford taxes at a specific, desired profit level.
I'm having trouble following your reasoning here. How would using climate change as a scapegoat help maintain the status quo?

If we were taking aggressive steps to avert climate change I can see that might work, because they could argue that the taking care of climate change will take care of the water problems and so we don't need any separate action now on water.

But we aren't taking aggressive steps on climate change. So tying that water problems to climate change actually strengthens that case for taking separate aggressive action on water usage, which is the opposite of what those who want to maintain the status quo want.
Let's solve problems created by massive regulation using even more regulation and government involvement. Brilliant idea, why has nobody thought of it earlier??!
> private companies/app makers can do as they please. You consented to them doing as they wish

However, there is a license, and this goes both ways.

Or would you consent to the statement, "Yup, users are private individuals and can pirate software as they please. The developer has consented to this by publishing the software."?
Why was it so hard to fill?

Was it lack of interested candidates, or were your requirements such that you rejected all the candidates until you found an excellent fit?
> what kind of web do you think could be built by and for those who don't trust FAANG?

basically the whole thing

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> I am just asking you to think of an alternative.

uh thanks, alternatives predate them by decades
Wow, that's a hot take. Not only are you blaming the fat people for being fat, you're also implying their preference for food is a causal factor in them being less financially stable?
Thanks for the write up here’s my experience posted 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22962588

The worst part about it is not the deactivation itself but the fact that you can’t get support until you give them what they want otherwise they refuse to help.

How that’s an okay business practice is beyond me.
>though salary isn't posted in the ad

why not?
I love his writing, it makes total sense that he would see no value in the virtual world

Patch Adams is another character who has got everything he's wanted out of life without ever needing to touch a computer, at the age of 77 he corresponds by handwritten mail as he always has
I got this onto the front page a few years ago: https://andrewrondeau.herokuapp.com/takehome_vs_whiteboard_c...

Honestly, if you want to know why developers like me aren't applying, you you need to post your job description here. It's impossible to give good feedback on something that I can't see.

(And by the way, I very rarely do take-homes, unless I am between jobs and see personal value in doing it.)
Unfortunately using outrage to inform comedy doesn't discern between honest critique and genuine bigotry.
The political machine that handed out those subsidies also responded to the incentives set in front of them. The lobbyists and entrenched interests also were acting naturally in accordance to their incentives. By this logic, everyone can always pass the buck.
The first house in in zip 50112, which has a 90% higher crime rate than other cities and town in Iowa.
You do not have to find optimal solutions to find good ones.
The key question is WHERE in the process you lose applicants.

Do you lose candidates at the 4h assignment stage? If so, that is probably the issue. Otherwise, look elsewhere.

1. Title inflation. Many here are making glib comments about "not actually senior". Great! Call it a "Principal" role and see if that helps. You can always promote any existing Principals to Senior Principal or Staff or God or whatever the new better-than-old-senior title is ;-).

2. Actual inflation. What are you offering? Are you sharing that in a job posting? Hard truth: if you're not FAANG or a handful of other companies, everyone assumes you can't afford them. If you CAN afford them, share numbers in your job posts!

Senior at my FAANG is around $500K at the moment. If you can't beat FAANG, the best way to get people is to offer them more autonomy than they can get at FAANG. But at the Senior level that means making them part of leadership (assuming you're small); Senior at FAANG likely already has more technical autonomy than you can offer. So management and strategy autonomy is a great carrot.

Good luck!
DJ Heartstring are fun. It's actually two guys from Berlin who mostly spin their own productions [1]

I wasn't aware of Courtesy until your mention, but very good indeed in that direction.

You got any more?

[1] https://soundcloud.com/djheartstring

[1] and a mix https://youtube.com/watch?v=DvyyGCg-P8A
silly contrived comparison you're always going to have both. knowing there's a fire doesn't do much for you if it flashes over before you can leave. sprinklers are ridiculously effective.
remind me which part of faang is involved in this website again
Trying to figure out how to create a stable orbit makes me think of "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)). The characters in the book have to figure out something similar, though more complex and in a VR like world.
419M-Year-Old Chinese Fossil Shows Human Middle Ear Evolved from Fish Gills
I'm not sure if it's possible to make that distinction. Trades are funded by brokerage cash. From the customer perspective, brokerage cash is a pool of cash available for trading or withdrawal. It may have originated from an ACH, wire, trade liquidation, or a combination of any of those things.

However, I am confident that I funded trades from deposits that were made after the withdrawal ban was put in place. I made multiple deposits over ~8 months in which the withdrawal ban was in effect, and those deposits funded multiple trades. Which means Robinhood is happy to deposit and trade funds from an account in an "unverified" state, but not allow withdrawals. If my account was truly compromised, justifying an unverified state, then I wouldn't want them funding trades from an ACH transfer from a bank account that was added when it was in a verified state.

The policy, whatever it may be, clearly serves Robinhood's purposes and not the customer's.
Perhaps a web extension could block such content, in a similar style to ad blocking.

Alternatively, you could utilise a closed set of resources: Dev docs, offline manuals, StackOverflow, man pages, arxiv, wikipedia, etc.

Wide platforms appear to inevitable blue the lines.
Paul Nahin's biography of Oliver Heaviside is a find, too. Nahin and Sobel between them have sewn up the historical science biography field. Heaviside's own books are available to buy, and are filled with neglected gems.

While I'm here, Don Eyles's account of the Apollo program and his role programming the moon landing, "Sunburst and Luminary" is notable. Ordered directly from his website https://www.sunburstandluminary.com/SLhome.html , it was delivered with gratifying alacrity.

Further afield, I read "Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth", by Marcia Bjornerud aloud to my kids. Their attention did not wander. Mine either. https://bookshop.org/books/reading-the-rocks-the-autobiograp...
Your very insightful last paragraph makes the preceding ones an unnecessary appeal to high mindedness. They absolutely should be collecting granular user data if the user and the jurisdiction is willing to let them, and it makes them money. They absolutely are capable of operating what they've built if they're financially healthy despite being a dark pit of nothingness to randomly fucked users. Not prioritizing users can work as a business model for some time. Maybe that's the time horizon their shareholders care about. Don't judge.
I'm happy with the idea of a pairing exercise. I've felt regretful about every time I've gotten involved with a take-home even when my submission was successful, so maybe that's why I'm reacting badly to it here. You mention scoping, but there really has to be a way to enforce that other candidates don't spend more time on it than you do. Otherwise it is a resource consumption contest.
„Having a say“ = making demands / threats when you are unionized.

Employees already have a say.

Startups trying to survive don’t need the distraction and overhead of unions. What is the point of ideal conditions if the company won’t exist.
Yeah that had occurred to me. But I'd used TFS (which didn't have light-weight branches) with Agile-like development practices and it wasn't that big a deal. Maybe if the codebase was 10 or 20 times bigger it would've been.
Can you provide more specifics on this?

I reviewed the register https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/12/27/2011-31... and the link you provided.

I don't see anything that would extend the coverage to a service that is providing a read-only view into the account, or anything that mentions password sharing. I _think_ I could see what you're describing in maybe the description of the transitive nature of Regulation E to cover "non-bank payment providers", but I don't see anything that would protect me if I shared my bank password with Mint via Plaid?

I'd love to know more, and as a lay person I'm having a hard time working my way through all the language of Regulation E.
I would argue that practitioners of the faith rarely know the content of the faith they practice. Hence the extreme anti-LGBT stance pushed in their politics and preferred media, despite the conspicuous lack of relevant scripture.

And this extremity is definitely something LGBT folks see all the time. Their states are passing laws banning them from sports and bathrooms. LGBT issues can no longer be mentioned in their schools. So don't play the pity card when Christians behave like monsters, and the non-Christian world responds in kind.
> My neighbors are American. I'm not sure how you don't see the argument you're making is just the globalist version of mine.

That is the point, genius. That wasn't about you specifically. It is a general problem in America. And the one's who think America must come first in any situation, are just mildly better. But of course tends to just be the politically aligned subset of the population of their own particular state. Woo.

> A lot of your argument seems to be rooted in idealism. I don't want my country to collapse because we were so arrogant to think we could save everyone.

Strawman

> Yes, that was my point. What do you think will happen if America is trying to help it's allies while it is bleeding out?

America is not bleeding out
Mailbox providers should build in an unsubscribe feature that actually works on a local level. Essentially which creates a filter and doesn’t show you the emails. It’s optimistic to let the spammers handle the unsubscribe feature. AI is getting good enough to have two buttons “unsubscribe from all” and “unsubscribe to emails like these”
I don't believe VR going mainstream is really the point. And also why Meta's approach feels off to me. Even when you read Cyberpunk literature, the concept of a cyber decker is as rare as a modern day hacker.

As for the Ready Player One experience. There is a different issue to be addressed and that is the finite experience offered by modern day "games." Taking a look at Diablo Immortal and it should be clear of what little runway there is to live your life in VR. Experiences extended by lootboxes.

Even games that don't use that mechanism are bloated through artificial grinds. Economy resets and just lack of budget for story outside of 80hrs. Why even sink the development time in if you have the former to fuel profit margins?

There's a lot more to be said inside the scope of what XR is and how it will impact. And its not just comfort or accessibility preventing adoption. There is no killer app and it's the same with crypto. But that's more to do with the current limits of concepts we have relied on to get to this point.
It baffles me you decide to ask other people in your position instead of the people you actually want to attract. What is this?

And as a side note, is the 4h assignment and posterior presentation close to what day to day would be?
That usage doesn’t seem idiomatic. Like it’s literally saying the rain in this area is heavy.
1password has an integration now with Fastmail that automatically generates one-off email addresses for you when registering on a website.
I was recently accused of googling during the inteview even though i didnt touch computer. it made me feel so sad for days.
I kinda feel like VR is still in the "Should I get an Amiga? Or an Atari? Or a TRS80? Or a ZX81? Or an Apple II?" stage.

One day it'll end up consolidated into some equivalent of Windows/Mac/Linux, probably categorised into the same sort of "business/professionals", "artists/creatives", and "geeks/tinkerers" approximate major demographics.

If you need some hints about which platform(s) will "win", keep an eye on what I buy. And avoid them. I have a GearVR/S6Edge - on a shelf with my Apple Newton, Sinclair ZX80, and Betamax video recorder. I think perhaps my only technology win is the turntable I bought in 1985 and still use...
I've heard that before, and if we felt there was a significant risk we were putting off good devs from applying, I'd reverse that decision.
But I like to think we made our tests a fun & interesting enough challenge that applicants were happy to spend the time doing them.
A massive and continually updated discriminative dataset used to train a language classification model. Build and update continually via mturk or similar and retrain daily. Audit raters (itr) periodically to ensure they're finding signal or at least not disagreeing.
Recall the root cause here. The buyer is not the user. This isn't just true for Jira but the vast majority of enterprise software. Enterprise software is bad, not just Jira, or Confluence or whatever Atlassian product you hate most.

If you are working on enterprise software it's probably bad. Even if your sales and stock are doing well, your software is still probably very frustrating to end users because they have no say in how it's made. The only users who do are admin, governance, legal, or other non-productive user. Their voices get heard and they tell the Director/VP/CTO they are happy and then the software gets renewed and seats expanded. Nowhere in there is the end user who is beating their head against a wall consulted.

Enterprise software is bad and it's worst for people who make software because we know it could be good.
My biggest takeaway from this article is that it costs thousands of dollars just to see what EU standards actually say. Why?
Pride Month is not a left-right issue unless you make it one.
No. The accuracy of the encoder isn't the whole picture. The machining of the two blade pairs and the depth gauge are also important so that they all zero simultaneously. The cheapies also don't have absolute positioning.
Just because there is land and we can plop a house in it doesnt mean that it can support more people.

It takes a lot for liveable cities. Mostly natural resources that aren’t renewable.

We are not food sustainable nor do we have a small food footprint. We need more trees and grassland to sequester carbon.

Lots of land doesn’t mean it’s all habitable. There is a reason the tropics are the most populated. Most of earth is not friendly to humans and are better suited to support environment and habitat and climate. It is futile imagination that makes us think that we have an abundance of resources.

In fact..everything runs on fossil fuels. Even food is fossil fuel turned into calories.

Population at half of today’s level is still above carrying a capacity of earth. I am a big proponent of E.O.Wilson’s Half Earth where half the planet must be returned to nature ti be rewilded and habitat must be restored.

This isn’t to say that procreation must be penalized. We need human beings to keeP our species from going extinct. What we need is an environment that nurtures all species. We rely on other species and habitat as we are a super apex predator and need them for our survival.

It’s overpopulation that is endangering our survival. The solution is simple. Women don’t want to be mothers because they are called birthing persons these days. Give women back their power.

This planet was formed by wise women… maiden, mother and crone held the power as life givers. Give it back to us. Women will nourish the species and the planet back to health. First we need to examine the reasons for over population that is unsustainable.

Start with getting rid of men and religious heads dictating what women can and should do with their bodies. Every woman has maternal instincts. No woman wants her body to be exploited by men. One of these instincts win. Right now, the latter is winning. Our species will perish. Unless women seize back the power over their own bodies.
Most americans also don't take 40 flights per year on average.
I think this really depends if you want to come up with it's expected value, or you care about e.g. the p50 or p25 or worse scenarios. Worst case is probably too negative most of the time, but occasionally you might choose to join a company that then implodes or has some really nasty problem surface that tanks the stock value. It really just depends on how risk-averse you want to be as to what metric personally makes the most sense.
That keyboard does not look like it will last many years. Can it be replaced economically?
Ask HN: Increasing of Apple Hardware Issues?
Is anyone else experiencing a ton of Apple hardware issues with their laptops?

My girlfriend has a macbook from 2011 that is still chugging along. Even charges still (tho not long battery lol). We just had 3 machines break in the span of a week at work, and we only have 4 deployed macbooks. My friend just had their M1 display break. And my old macbook (like 3yo) just stopped working entirely.

Sure there is applecare - but apparently it will take 4wks for the part and 1wk for the repair??? what?
Director is where you really need to expand beyond the engineering domain and understand and speak the language of the business.
As an engineering manager we can still get away with really focusing on execution. Making it work. Making the team work. Interacting with the other disciplines that we are adjacent to, but really operating from the mindset of engineering.

Director has got to be able to step back from that. Understand and identify when the issue isn’t in engineering. Understand how to effectively collaborate and innovate with groups that are on much different cadences and timelines than we’re used to. I think https://www.reforge.com/blog/overcome-the-tech-strategy-spir... has a lot of very relevant thoughts. (Disclaimer: I have been the EIR for the course related to this post).
I'm talking about pills developed in the 50s, and which cost nothing to manufacture, and almost given away in most of the world except in the USA.
Throw a copy of iPXE on USB, then chainload it. Super easy. If you're using virtualization then there might be a chance iPXE is already used, in which case it's super easy. Not sure if that changes much with Pis though, as they tend to be a different beast.
I interpret it closer to being pro-choice while hoping to not personally need an abortion. Unions form when workers feel they aren't being heard and aren't being properly represented. Having a union form at your own company is an indication that you failed your employees in one way or another. You can be pro-union while hoping to personally never need one or have to sit across the table from one.
So? If the SMART goal [0] is to discourage these governments from passing such legislation, how does the pride publicity in the countries that DO NOT have that problem help? No multinational company is putting rainbows on its stores in Turkey or Pakistan, but there are plenty in North America.

I personally only see the downsides of the current approach:

1. It attracts people that enjoying making others uncomfortable, and all kids of trolls/attention seekers.

2. The former group keeps pushing the limits, demanding more and more unrealistic things, slowly pushing the public opinion against the minority in question.

3. This is used as an excuse for more restrictions of freedom (like the hate speech laws), that are further abused, igniting more and more tensions between people of opposing views.

[0] https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/how-to-write-sma...
> mandatory acknowledgments

Who mandates that?

> shielded from a lot of criticism

By whom? From where I stand, a lot of folks have stated calling me and mine “groomers,” which is pretty critical in my book. They seem free enough to criticize to me?

> while another subset is constantly being ridiculed, mocked and villified

Each side mocks the other; so it seems to be a moot point to me.

> Pride month would be fair if we also had, let's say, Fathers' month

> Or housewives' month

> But no, the media has decided that all these things are not important

The media certainly has not decided as much. This is still what we, as a society, glorify. What would you say shows that the media has decided these things are no longer important?

> one's sexual orientation, a very private thing that makes many people uncomfortable and has zero relation with actual business, needs to be broadcasted on every corner.

The world broadcasts heterosexuality on every corner. What’s the difference?

> So the whole idea of a politics-free workspace is that we keep these things to our private lives.

I would disagree. My experience has been that “politics-free” spaces in fact allow the dominant politics to be expressed, while silencing other groups.

> And giving one subset of people different rights from another one (even if it's non-monetary tokenism) makes a workplace toxic and increases tension.

You can’t say that one group is being given “different rights” and then in the next breath say that it’s actually “non-monetary tokenism.” Rhetorically, that’s nonsensical. It uses the gravitas of a “right” to make a point but then immediately admits that the point was false all along.

So let’s drop the nonsense about “special rights” - this is about acknowledgement, or “tokenism”.
On Mac there is a "control center" that is not the system's settings? What is it for?
It's really popular with kids and at least one of my uncles, I couldn't be so fast to dismiss it the quest2 clicks with a lot of people
Remind of the the 5 y/o mother => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina
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