skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not qualified at all to do a deep dive, but I've got a FORNUFTIG and a STARKVIND and can give you some thoughts.

The STARKVIND is a LOT bigger than the FORNUFTIG. Assuming you're getting the standalone model, it's probably the depth of two or three FORNUFTIGs. This really surprised me. The table version is very interesting because it eliminates that problem by being a functional piece of furniture.

The STARKVIND filters are different than the FORNUFTIG, so no filter sharing. Conceptually they're the same - a paper particle filter plus an optional carbon filter. At its highest setting it's louder than the FORNUFTIG's highest setting, but at its lowest it's virtually inaudible. If you leave it in Auto mode you'll hear it ramp up when it detects particulates in the air and ramp down when the air quality returns to normal.

The main reason I bought the STARKVIND was the Zigbee interface. The IKEA Home Smart app is functional, but after the initial setup I only use Home Assistant to control it. In Home Assistant there are sensors for particulates and filter life, and controls for fan speed and mode (auto/manual). I'm using the IKEA gateway for my STARKVIND since deCONZ support wasn't completely ready at the time. Overall, it lives up to expectations as far as control goes.
Is it though? Technology is progressing, sure. And it will find its use, but what are the datapoints or other clues that predicts that AR/VR will become mainstream? Not saying it will not, but what makes it, in your opinion, "inevitable"
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> - Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate's choosing

I refuse to do this since I don't do unpaid work.

And frankly, you want me to sink .5h+1h+4h = 5.5h unpaid on your demands? Nope. Not going to happen.

And I work as a senior AWS & Azure cloud/systems engineer. My resume speaks for itself. And if that's not good enough, I'd be glad to have a sit-down with a few of your own system engineers. If that's not adequate for you, then the problem is you.
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Facebook doesn't want Apple cut down to size for you. They want them cut down to size so they can get around their privacy controls to spy on you.
It might be difficult for us to imagine a shift to VR version of social media. But think about the next generation of kids growing up with these kind of techs. They will mass adopt them and we will follow. For Facebook, it was millennials who adopted first and for Snapchat/tiktok, GenZ.

And Facebook will get the opportunity to own the platform completely for the first time. So the soon they reach their goal, the better. Actually, it is a smart move.
This process has saved me from an outage more than once.

I keep a dashboard of running pids, and get alerts when any of them take more than N minutes (excepting autovacuum). Once every few months I have to psql into prod and cancel one.
ATK is, as far as I am concerned, the gold standard for kitchen reviews.
They clean between the teeth and the gums where the gum overlaps the tooth. The evidence is your gums bleed the first time you do it, which is evidence of inflammation. A few days doing it, and the bleeding stops.
This is an excellent landing page that immediately draws my attention and shows why I'd want to use this. This is a great example of how a landing page can demonstrate a tool quickly.
I hate going to the dentist for this reason. It used to be they cleaned your teeth fixed any issues, come back in 6 mos. Now, I feel like they make up issues, they have cleaning or super cleaning - how about just do the damn cleaning, etc…

A couple years ago I had one recommend putting on a crown on a back molar. I asked why b/c I had no pain and they couldn’t really explain. Every other dentist I’ve been to since never brought it up again.

At the moment, I go to a new dentist every 6 mos. to a year because I can’t find one that doesn’t feel like one step above a used car salesman.

Final note, get a SonicCare. Dental friend (sadly in another state) says those things changed dentistry/brushing/teeth cleanliness.
Okay, I'm stumped. Why do we need a "seek-friendly video encoder", which will compromise video quality and file size, when DASH and HLS define seeking in a more flexible and effective way that also allows for adaptive streaming and content steering than "range requests for a multi-gigabyte file" ever will be?
Soon, from space, which is a good start: https://filecoinfoundation.medium.com/filecoin-foundation-an...
Why gas is so expensive in some U.S. states but not others
> I’ll still stand by some web3 idea like using an NFT as some kind of license to access a service using web3 auth is a true and valid use case.

How is this different from setting up a website and requiring a password to access it?
This appears to support just photos and document scanning. And also seems to use BT and WiFi.

I have a friend who lives in a high rise with incredibly crowded wifi spectrum. Anything wireless that involves latency sucks in their apartment. They tried to use an old iPhone for VC, but the jitter added by their crappy wifi made that a non-starter. By contrast, this product uses a USB connection, and I'm guessing would perform far better for them (and really anybody with crappy wifi, which is most people).
https://archive.ph/Cnpiw
What's the secret of making it acceptably responsive? Asking for a friend.
"Global payments for the internet"

I was intrigued...

Then

"currently the Strike app is only available in the United States*, El Salvador, and Argentina"
But we're talking about the same companies who will sell your data for a fraction of a cent. I don't think they care about being "not cool"
Because, while extremely imperfect, making a modicum of effort to make sure someone is a real person still screens out a lot of bots and anonymous scammers--which is at least a start.
I had a 4-hour assignment requiring a full weekend (10 medium to difficult queries on an unknown 20 table database and document with business analysis for the query results + additional code to extract from api and save to db with your own schema + additional queries on top of this).

I also had an 1-hour where i couldn't build the provided code and had to go through maven repos and older versions of the major test component to make it work after a couple hours and then lost any motivation to write the simple exercise.

I also had an honest one once, where the instructions were clear, you will need a full weekend to do it. I liked the job and i completed it, only to be rejected because they didn't like my scala syntax.

Sorry, but i won't take home test again and have to gamble whether it's an actual 1h test or a full weekend one, or some random guy will spend 1 minute only to reject me.
Optometry at least you can track it (if you actually do need and use glasses) because the differences should be noticeable on the prescription.

What does happen is that if you buy a new pair even with the same exact prescription, the fact that it's new and clean and not bent in anyway will make it look much clearer. So that can trick people into thinking they need yearly new glasses.

A good optometrist will tell you when your prescription has stopped changing and when they expect it to start changing again (usually in your 40s).
You and I have fundamentally different world views. I don’t see an increase of commerce = more inequality. I see it as more services and goods being provided and more needs being met. I like when commerce happens. It means people are voluntarily exchanging useful things and mutually benefiting.
I'd be willing to say that subscriptions are a dark pattern when they don't automatically stop if you stop using them.

A fundamental part of healthy business relationships is value for value. E.g., you give me money, I give you a sandwich, you take the sandwich, eat it, and are happy with it. If you keep paying me for sandwiches but I don't give them to you, that's not healthy. Ditto if I put them on the counter but you stop taking them.

Personally, I think there should be a law that all service/software subscriptions auto-suspend after 30 days of non-use. Because right now there's a big incentive for businesses to get you to sign up for things they think you're not going to use, and to keep on charging you even though they know you're not using it.
The GP didn't claim this was a perfect or even good solution though: just the best currently available. That your vendor will sell you out to law enforcement/intelligence agencies is a given for ALL large tech companies. None has a clean record in this regard. I also wouldn't be super confident that an EFF approved stack would actually keep you safe from a nation state interested in your stuff.

What you _can_ buy from apple though is i) services where your data are not monetised to the highest bidder and ii) being part of a non-ad-supported culture which seems like a prerequisite for a functioning public discourse and political economy.
If "a class of" means "a subsection of" (replace "subsection" with
whatever word you feel is semantically correct), then your comment is wrong. A
substitute command is just that, a command. It is not, and never has been a
regex, or any part of it. Heres some headings to help you understand:

## Parts of regex

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## items that use regex

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Very true. I've got the genes that require aggressive and thorough efforts to keep my teeth. It's still a losing battle.
I agree, too strict labor regulations around e.g. firing/letting employess go certainly would hinder some of the innovation hapening in the US and especially tech. Though maybe there is a flavor of unions that recognizes this and pushes for other things e.g. proper treatment of contractors, or osme slight input in direction, etc?

I think the US is screwed for unions mostly because to unionize you basically have to join one of the existing huge unions none of which are run very democratically or transparently; as well as the huge anti-union sentiment and misrepresentation of what unions could be. But those things are nigh impossible to change...
Important email just doesn’t come suddenly anymore. Nowadays people will just message me to check my email address before sending an important email, although it didn’t change for years. And then, they’ll message me to ask if I actually received an email. So no important private mail gets lost ;)

Or I just receive booking confirmation minutes after booking. Even if I don’t read it or save immediately, it’s still there in inbox ready to be searched for and found if needed.

The only exception is business mail, but there I usually communicate only with people from my company or my address book, so there’s no spam problem there.
My contention isn't that it won't happen only that it's irrelevant. AR/VR is just UI. It doesn't really make anything new possible. An absolutely perfect headset will be marginally more convenient for some modalities than a phone and much less convenient for a lot of others.
> Taxes should not be conceded as an instrument of power to reorient society into a form viewed by a subset of society as correct

Why? If taxes are going to have side effects anyway, I think we should try to make those effects positive instead of negative.

> Regardless of reason, taxation is a taking of assets from its owners, and this is a moral compromise we tolerate in service of having a government at all.

I don't think I agree with that.

For example, I also think we should have a (revenue neutral) carbon tax. Part of the tax's purpose would indeed be to fund the government, but the other purpose would be to make people pay for the actual social cost of emitting carbon into the atmosphere, as opposed to passing them on to the broader public. This would allow the free market actually work properly.
Same idea was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31728350
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You're probably right, though I don't think it all comes down to disposable income.

Laziness, apathy and network effects are perhaps equally powerful forces. After all, I continue to use Google and Instagram despite my knowing how the sausage is made there.
I fucking hate software.
The new ones in 2021 added more features (the photo page is polycarbonate instead of paper), but they've had RFID embedded in the cover since 2006

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_passport#Biometr...
Why would you want to tag your addrs like this.
I just don’t get NFT as a conspicuous consumption device.
What happens to someone who lights a flare in the dark forest?
The problem is that bears can swim.

To enclose 1000Km of open sea in a "storm-proof, crushing-iceberg proof, bear-proof" barrier to keep penguins out and bears in would be... a defiant task.

If we put polar bears in Antarctica, sooner or later we'll have polar bears roaming in Argentina.
I had a blast playing pokerstars vr, it's just fun to hangout in that VR space. I would probably play a lot more rec room. again fun to just hang out in that space.

I think whoever solves the casualness of VR will become the next big tech giant. It is looking like Facebook will come back HARD.
Has been working fine for me for years on Linux. I wish it had some convenience features like automatic reconnect, but other than that it's fine. Just don't expect any performance miracles compared to NFS or cifs.
What's "quadratic behavior"?
I use whatbox.ca as my global/universal VPN. So far I haven’t seen any issues. It works in places where most VPNs are banned or heavily throttled (like Saudi/Abu Dhabi/Qatar, my workplace, AT&T cellular data, etc)
Brit living in San Jose here, just got back from London and realizing how much I miss it.

SF is a good city to live in, but it’s not a patch on London
There's an alternate universe where Zuckerberg takes Yahoo's $1B offer for Facebook in 2006 (which Yahoo sells a decade later to Pinboard for $100k) and becomes more of an Elon Musk figure, investing in and running a handful of forward-thinking businesses.

Imagine Oculus becoming Meta without the Facebook baggage – a hardware-focused company with a major services play, but no adtech business.
My "issue" here is that you're presupposing this is what the people want, and that Apple is acting incongruently with what American society was built by "us" to support.

I'd use my one vote and my voice to try and avoid that situation, but I accept that in a democracy my vote is not meant to have a significant impact.

For something like "data privacy" I'd go with what the country wants (not that I really have a choice), but I doubt the country would vote that way considering what we've built is largely based on the concepts of freedom and private ownership.

It seems antithetical to those ideas to prohibit people from selling what we tend to agree is rightfully theirs.
There was a handful of novels and light novels that explored this concept easily a decade or more before RPO. It especially became popular sometime in the mid 2000s I remember a bunch of popular light novels coming out around that time.

I'm personally imagining Zuckerberg as a .hack fanatic like myself and my brother were back in '03.
From what I've read it's the cloud hosted version that's slow. Seems to be fine locally hosted, and probably if you host yourself with another cloud provider.
Unless by "responsive" you mean works well on tiny screen devices...
The author explicitly states that it's small in the home use context. If you're talking about medical or cleanroom manufacturing contexts, yes it's a huge difference.
Shapely was around long before Mapbox, and Rasterio too. Both are based on stalwarts of the open source geospatial world - GEOS and GDAL.

Vector tiles, Mapbox GL, and Mapbox styling, and numerous other libraries however did grow out of Mapbox - the amount of geospatial developer talent they hoovered up must have made it pretty amazing to work at for a time.
I meant I don't know what to do after the SEO crud infests reddit and makes reddit worthless for searching.
Now thinking about it, I don't know why we didn't just do that. There must have been a reason, but I really can't recall what it was. If you're ever interested in contributing, this would be an epic contribution! :D
I think you might be missing the forest for the trees, here. It's not about five-word sentences; it's about the repetition making the paragraph as a whole monotonous and robotic - something you demonstrated very well in this very comment.
Option 1: Train juniors
Option 2: Pay a lot more

Stop the take homes. They suck.
This was my first thought as well. "If you want me to do homework to prove I'm not incompetent that means your interview process is garbage." and it's an automatic pass on that company.

My second thought was noticing that OP didn't actually ask for feedback from senior talent, the questions are addressed to other people hiring, so I figured I'd keep quiet.

But then I couldn't help myself. ;)
Jira should just start configured out of the box to look and work like Trello.
I've got an Android phone and I've never been able to swipe type swear words. And I'm kinda glad too. Yeah, it's a little annoying when I actually intend to type that word, but it would be way more annoying if it showed up when I didn't. I imagine it's this kind of reasoning that's behind why those words aren't available in auto-complete or swipe to type. Some people in this thread seem to be suggesting it's some kind of moral overreach or impulse to censor that's behind this behavior. I think that's an exaggeration and the real reason is the more simple and practical one that I've described.
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Property tax falls on both the land and improvements. Inasmuch as they pay a 'property tax on land', they paid a reduced price to purchase said land. If there had been no tax on land, they would have simply paid that much more in lump sum for their fee simple ownership.

The premise behind a land value tax is to take an increasing amount of the land rent in taxation, which at the extreme end would reduce the selling price of land to $0.

The objective is both to make the land markets work better and one of distributive justice. It isn't to punish homeowners. It is to redirect the privatization of land rent and return it to the rightful recipients (those who are excluded from using a location with the public acting on their behalf).

In other words, if the Georgist solution had been in place, the price of land would have been close to $0. I can assure you this is nowhere near the case. In fact, here in Salt Lake City, the land share of real estate value is around 70%.

Of course, transitions can be challenging. The prior owners of the land got away with legalized theft and you can trace this back in time from each former landowner capturing the land rent from the next buyer. This is what Georgists aim to stop.
> the work requires a reasonably deep understanding of the underlying platforms which a lot of people seem to dislike.

Why?

Willing to bet the 'dislike' is "we have lots of mismashed, disorganized stacks, and expect seniors to have 20 years experience with all of them." coupled with "Even though some tools/stacks/etc have only been around 3 years."

And... even though a senior can pick up a stack in a few days, the expectation is to find someone already skilled.

....

Here's the truth. When I walk onto a new jobsite, I typically don't even know the tech. I've worked for EDA companies, government departments, startups, geospatial corps, all sorts of new and antiquated stacks and tech.

I'm a senior, and I can walk in, and become the subject expert extremely fast. I do so all the time, it's why people hire me.

That's what being an actual senior means. Loads of market experience, which makes that learning curve flatten.

$5 says the 'dislike' is an expectation that stuff can't be learned fast. I'd scoff.
Debuggers and stack traces too. Logic is not line-based.

When you get a NPE on a line containing `thing.method(x.y.z, q(), w.e().rty())`, which item is it on? Type information is insufficient, there could be multiple of the same thing on the same line.

Some debuggers are smarter ("step to cursor" sometimes goes to in-line locations), but many are not, and most languages I've seen will give you precise compile-time error locations, but at runtime all you get is lines. Lines suck.
I can only speak to the comparison with hg, but for large repos, git's performance is literally 10x better in our case (we have two parallel copies, one in hg and one in git, so as to smooth the transition to git). hg seems more usable, but certain decisions are poor (e.g. baking the branch name into each commit); overall I have no strong preference between the two except for the speed.

But the speed pretty much drowns out any other signal.
/r/onebag will get a stroke from this
Part of our company started using Click-up. If JIRA is really bad, Click-up is levels worse than it.
I hate JIRA too, but maybe there is no a better thing out there?
Looked at it, was a bunch of crypto buzzwords.

If there's a productive use, it escapes me.
> For me a particularly frustrating aspect is the way the UI moves around a lot. I’m quite anxious to click anything until all the loading spinners have stopped in case I click the wrong thing. Then I could be taken to a page or feature I’ve never seen before.

This is a common antipattern that doesn't get talked about enough. It's very common in the era of interactive ads, websites with 3rd party web UIs layered on top, lazy loading, and just "rich" UIs in general. A user needs to be able to trust what they are about to click. This is fundamental.
Pretty much everything above is just wrong. The place is expensive, but nowhere near as much as the Bay Area is expensive. So shrug…
I usually add sth. like

ServerAliveCountMax=5,ServerAliveInterval=2,ConnectTimeout=2

to avoid it hanging for too long if the network goes away, works like a charm.
Then you fail to understand what is a fairly basic point, which is that most people misinterpret the meaning of a criminal record and think that 70 million people in the U.S. were at some point criminals, when in fact a criminal record can be issued simply for an arrest (even if you turn out to be innocent), as well as benign matters such as an unpaid parking ticket.

The FBI might not keep track of unpaid parking tickets in Texas as part of their own criminal record database, but Texas does keep unpaid parking tickets on record for their own criminal background check:

https://texas.staterecords.org/criminal.php

As that site points out, any arrest or warrant for arrest even for a misdemeanor will be recorded in a criminal background check.

Different government agencies have different standards for what goes into a criminal record so that there is no such thing as one single unambiguous definition for what a criminal record is. Consequently most people, including hiring managers, or people on Hacker News shocked that 70 million people have such a record, may misinterpret what a criminal record means, what the implications of one are and how serious having one is.

There is no harm in pointing out to people that a criminal record, in and of itself, does not mean that someone is guilty of a criminal offense or even that they're guilty of something serious. It could be something benign like an unpaid parking ticket or someone was arrested who turned out to be entirely innocent.
Wirecutter is just SEO spam and it makes very little sense to read it at all. You can't even go from the opposite of their recommendations as it's impossible to know which manufacturers caved in to their extortionist paid placement model
I would argue that VR aims to be more than just photorealism, but that photorealism is still very important for a range of use cases within VR.
Consciousness is a computation. It's pattern matching self. Can you identify what represents your self? And can you serialize it to memory? And can you find your representation in memory? Then I would argue that's all there is as requirements for it.