skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The transitions are supposed to indicate agreed-and-defined steps that work goes through. They're supposed to reflect your team/org process, to the granularity that you want to capture it in Jira. Letting anyone edit them ad-hoc is akin to saying there is no process at all for doing work. How would anyone be able to interpret the state of work if everyone has their own ad-hoc process that they can change on the fly?

Everywhere I've worked the states have been the steps, the transitions have just been there for Jira's own bookkeeping. And in the real world it's always possible to move a piece of work to any other step in your workflow - things like "the designer's realised he messed up the wireframes, put it back to design even though it was currently in code review" happen all the time. I don't think that's the same as not having any process.

In the Jira way of doing things you can't do that if that transition doesn't exist, and you probably don't have the required permissions to add that transition (if you can even figure out what they are). Couple that with Jira's terrible performance and I've been in more than one company where you could accidentally drag and drop a ticket to the wrong column (because Jira decides to finish loading at the wrong time) at which point it's permanently fucked up and your only option is to copy and paste the data (one field at a time, natuarlly) into a new ticket.
Saw this in 2016. Six years later, still no NetBSD.
Bahaha, is that a record?
Dave2D is similar style but more detailed
1) Owners and management are, especially in the startup world, tightly intertwined.

2) Uh, yes, unions do have skin in the game. Again, it's the whole "keeping your livelihood" thing.

3) I'm not saying it's the best moment for people to start thinking about a union. They should've done that way earlier. Better late than never.

4) "What happens if they are wrong and it bankrupts the company" - I am sorry, do you have any idea what unions are and how they work? There are any number of vultures that'll fleece the body of a company before a union can "bankrupt" it. They happen to be all on the ownership side.
Yes, I agree completely. I once structured a month's unpaid leave in the early '90s around a camping tour partially as an "eye's on the ground" of Mark Reisners "Cadillac Desert"[1]. It was, erm, eye opening to see the built environment for water across Eastern CA (including Owen's Valley), Utah, Colorado, and of course AZ. I have been across Imperial Valley a whole bunch of times on all of the externally connecting roads.

Agribusiness is not stupid. Climate change is the perfect wedge issue.

(I am also not a climate change denier!)

[1] Recent experts seem to dislike that book but at least it provides a nice map for things to see.
That's also what I thought.
Merino wool for everything is another nice tip. It doesn’t build up nearly as much grime as cotton and is very easy to rinse and drip dry. Being dirty is one of my worst fears when I’m on the hoof and merino really solves that problem.

I’ve not found merino shorts though. It seems like wool, as a technical fabric at least, is less durable for shorts / pants? Or just less popular? Any recommendations gladly received.
What a brilliant business technique! You have to to consent or be punished for otherwise acting like a responsible human. Then they can monetize the engagement. Everybody wins!

Let's extend that. Publish any senior executive's home address to a list containing many militant communists unless they subscribe to your engagement platform themselves! High value info to monetize right there. Then do the switch because they clicked through something. Capitalism working just like we were told about as kids...
We desperately need to overhaul how the average mail provider works. We need unique email addresses every time we sign up for an account that can then be disabled. I do this with fastmail though it's a little annoying to spend 20 seconds to create a new alias every time. At last count I had something like 470 aliases. Probably at least 40 disabled ones after receiving emails I didn't opt in for, or I disabled immediately after the first use because I had no need for further communication with that organization.
I have family. I suspect a lot of senior engineers do. My interpretation of "DevOps" suggests a lot of on-call time. Junior heavy and senior poor makes me think you're not presenting an appropriate work-life balance. Younger SWEs are far more willing to sign on for that kind of thing.
I'm pretty sure we are past the point where LGBT people need to be worried about whether a major bank will serve them or not. And yet the rainbow washing continues. Why is that?
A few points:

- 450k is not, actually, top-of-band for senior engineers right now. There are some companies where that's approximately true (i.e. Google) and some where the number is much higher (Netflix goes without saying, Amazon routinely breaks 500k, Uber is hitting 480-500k, Cruise breaks 500k, Snapchat hits 550-600k at L5, etc).

- Well, since I'm looking at annualized compensation, I am considering stacked refreshers. I don't think job-hopping ~3 times is an enormous ask.

- I certainly wasn't assuming market-beating returns, or living on ramen. But I certainly wasn't running the numbers such that one would be spending the equivalent of one's safe withdrawal rate pre-FIRE. I live unconstrained by budget concerns and don't even come close to spending half that. At 450k pre-tax I was assuming one would be saving ~200k/year, with 7% returns.

- I was also not assuming that one was starting from 0 at 27, since it's not like pre-senior one would be making barely enough to live on. Having something in the neighborhood of 500-600k saved up by then is something like the default outcome, given a typical single person's lifestyle (absent extravagantly expensive hobbies).

- Ok, sure, this gets you to 4m, adjusted for inflation (oops). Guess you gotta hit that third decade (barely).

- You aren't limited to SV; many companies in that tier support remote work and those that don't have a bunch of hubs across the US.

I'm genuinely not sure why you think that 450k is an outlier level of compensation for senior FAANG/adjacent engineers. One possible source of confusion - if you're just looking at the "Average Total Compensation" levels lists for those companies, those numbers are very low. Filter by "New Offers Only", and then remember that those offers don't include refreshers (which, over the course of the first 4 years at a company, will add something like 360k = 90k/year, assuming totally average performance and no multipliers). It might be in the top 50th percentile, though even that may be pessimistic.

As for 200k/year being shit to live on... I assume you're talking about living in Silicon Valley, which, shrug? I don't live in Silicon Valley and before I decided to substantially change my career direction, I was on-track (and that despite not even hitting 6-figure comp until a few years into my career).
Try https://mynoise.net/

Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mynoise.net
That's an uncharitable reading of the essay. So if we help our spouses that makes us subservient to them?

Sure, relying on the wife is not an option, or not a desirable option, for most writers. But the article is named "Why I am not going to buy a computer". His wife helps him and reducing his dependence on "strip-mined coal" eases his conscience. Good for him, though I don't think that the article has a lot of relevance for the rest of the world.
I tend to separate LV into the language and its graphical representation. The language is highly optimized dataflow programming with extensive hardware libraries for data acquisition and control. If your problem lends itself to a performant dataflow solution, LV is worth checking out. The machine that discovered the Higgs Boson was programmed in a custom LabVIEW.

There's a belief that LV is easy for novices to learn, such as test technicians and engineers. Interestingly, the other easy "language for the rest of us," Excel, is also a dataflow programming environment.

The graphical "language" was introduced for the Apple Mac II at a time when there was a lot of excitement for "graphical everything," and again a view that the graphical flow chart would make it intuitive for non-programming engineers. The simplest LV programs had an almost 1:1 correspondence to things that were familiar in test hardware such as knobs, switches, meters, and so forth.

Now my main critique is the sheer physical labor required to write and edit programs. This could actually lead to sloppy code, if it's too painful to refactor things. I think that if there were a good text based dataflow language, and LV adopted it, the graphical language would fall into much more limited use (e.g., for adding user interfaces to programs). That's just my hunch.
One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite
Your comment lacks explanation. Why do they need to farm? If produce isn't the goal why not leave the land empty? Why are they so opposed to housing?
> JIRA really doesn't encourage anything in any direction

Given the amount of effort you devoted to replying to multiple posts, it feels disingenuous when you make an obvious and inaccurate statement as fact.

There is very little dependency graph organization (eg subtasks), which isn't reflected in most of the UI anyway as JIRA does push toward treating all tickets as a flat set. Work is a practical hierarchy of concerns and JIRA never made much progress away from a checklist (same as ASANA, Rike, etc).
I think ARM would be allowed, but for a layman to consider it a PC, you probably do need the windows capabilities.
Yeah this is well said, that’s really the distinction from the past. Yes we have always had a level of cancel culture but now we have victim culture on a whole new level
To each their own, I suppose. It’s frustrating to me, personally, that Netflix produces a handful of shows not catering explicitly to the dominant groups in America and suddenly there’s cries of “culture wars.”
Thanks OP. If not this post, I wouldn't go there just to see it myself. While there (it wasn't easy to find where these settings are), unsubscribed from most of the email and push notifications. Hopefully, I will remember occasionally launch the app to see _some_ useful posts...
nothing stopping you from chilling in IRC or mastadon

it's just the normie networks that want real names
> So, even though nitpicks are in order, Wirecutter's pick costing $100 vs the $70 IKEA will clean the air 3.3 times as efficiently?? That seems like a good deal. Even if it uses more electricity and more expensive filters, I'm not going to want to purchase 3 units when 1 will do. (This efficiency difference will obviously extend to large rooms in the same way!)

The authors point is that if it takes 3 min to clean the room vs 1 min to clean the room, there’s essentially no difference. The efficiency just translates into time, and hardly much at that. Both will clean the room.
>Unless getting in and out of VR becomes as easy as putting one and taking off a pair of sunglasses

In my opinion it already is. I have an OQ2 and play whatever the golf simulator is, and a sailboat simulator in it all the time, but it's exactly the type of quick, 2-3 minute sessions that used to be mobile games or tiktok. From lifting my laptop off of my laptop to starting a race in the sailboat game takes less than a minute, and almost all of that is just load times on the game.

(The sailing game is marineverse, btw. Lots of fun when its 115 degrees out in Phoenix and too hot to go on real water)
Yes it's one of the reason to choose airplane for individuals. Govt's regulation for train is an another reason why dynamic pricing aren't done well but it's changing. Currently train+hotel Dynamic Package is available as a cheaper option, but it's not for single day use.
Take home test as the first step in an interview process is the ultimate evil in this. I've spent hours then got ghosted. I will never do it again. This is a "run like hell" signal imo.
How would it be "bad to the users benefit"?
That processor was discontinued over a year ago.
https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-1099-misc
And this will be the result:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
A caliper is not considered an ultimate reference measurement device. (In the scale of 3D printing, it’s perfectly adequate for that non-precision job, but they’re rarely spec’d for anything better than 0.001”.)
Surprising result while transpiling C to Go
> If management sucks and cannot listen to their employees then it’s better that they don’t get more capital/talent and their competitors suck up all their talent.

Except thats not how it works in practice at all.

Companies can run for a long while by brutally exploiting employees if they have captured the market (look at Amazon). They can exploit immigration laws to squeeze the workers. Unions can help prevent that sort of outcomes.

Theres also that little thing where companies dying due to poor decision making is just an overall loss of value for everyone involved in the short term. Why subject society to the vagaries of laissez faire capitalism when we have the tools to prevent that?
I'm curious what the split was in Mapbox union organizing interest between Engineering/Product/Design/Data and Sales/Marketing/other go-to-market roles.

Browsing the old union website (https://www.mapboxworkersunion.org/) almost all of the supporters of unionization were on the engineering side of the house, much more than I'd expect if you randomly sampled the org for job titles.

I wonder why that is?
> We're still "exporting water" to China in the form of alfalfa [2] in addition to other water intensive crops like almonds.

That BBC article is off by a factor of about 20000. Most of the water (99.995%) used to grow alfalfa ends up in the in the California atmosphere, not in China. For almonds most of the water (99.97%) ends up in the California atmosphere.

I wonder if it would be possible to grow these crops in some sort of enclosed place so that all that water could be captured and reused? Based on the export numbers for alfalfa to China, I get that you'd need about 800 km^2 of greenhouses.

That's a lot of area, about equal to the total area of all agricultural greenhouses in Spain, Italy, and France.
>I would invite everyone to remember this the next time someone wants a “politics-free” workspace. Specifically, remember that a vague assertion that LGBTQ people exist (a rainbow, on a logo), is what some folks consider “political.”

There are many things that "just exist", but one subset of them receives massive media attention, mandatory acknowledgments, and is shielded from a lot of criticism, while another subset is constantly being ridiculed, mocked and villified.

Pride month would be fair if we also had, let's say, Fathers' month, emphasizing the importance of teaching your boys self-reliance, emotional control, delayed gratification. Or housewives' month, praising women that sacrifice careers and spend countless time teaching their kids important skills that will help them achieve independence and success in life.

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

So the whole idea of a politics-free workspace is that we keep these things to our private lives. We don't argue which subcategory deserves a month of acknowledgement, and who can get by with half-a-Friday, we instead focus on actual work. Like have a month of refactoring, or a month of unit tests. Because, you know, having common goals brings people together. 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.
Maybe a little niche, but car-review YouTube has some refreshingly honest reviewers.

A couple of my favorites:
Throttle House
SavageGeese
TheTopher
Hagerty - specifically Jason Camisa's videos
SmokingTire
“hi18n”, a TypeScript-first internationalization library — getting started guide
You're free to modify the logo on your corporate office, but the app logo is part of the license deal or purchase. On the home screen, it's not exclusively yours anymore, specifically, when it comes to posting message via this logo that are not covered by that license.

(We may think of exceptions where an app is specifically about posting such messages, like an iconographic motd, but this is not what's here addressed.)
Maybe this should be posted to https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign .

It is a waste of time trying to educate assholes, avoid them.
One more data point here. As a father of three it took me a month to get around to doing a 2-3 hr take home coding exercise. I clocked in at about 2h15m, but yes, really, it took me a month to find 2.25 free hours with the energy required to even begin something like a take home coding thing.
Heh, at least they give chapter markers so you can glance at the benchmarks you want then skip to their conclusions.
A Chaotic Twitter account is one of the most incisive works of social criticism
cf. E.W. Dijkstra in 1986:
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/E...

I have often been asked why I don't use [Word Processors], and my honest answer has always been that there is for me so much to write that I cannot afford the use of these time-saving devices.

Like Berry, Dijkstra took the existence of menial labor for producing printed or typed products for granted, although, to be fair, for much of his writing (letters and research notes), his longhand was supposed to be the final form, and he had very legible handwriting.
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The education sector has found a way to make it more or less work, though of course many teachers/professors/school staff work through the summer (but not necessarily on their academic year duties). It helps that the rest of society has an expectation that students and teachers will have summers "off," so supporting industries can work around that particular schedule. You might want to consider aligning the mandated sabbaticals you mention with school breaks.
The Internet origin story you know is wrong
Splitting CSV files at 3GB/s
Covid-19 Vaccines Candidates in Clinical Trials
Ass. Access Act.
Cutting down to just essential amino acids and other essential nutrients like some select fatty acids, cushions, and minerals, isn't that hard if you can avoid carbs from getting advertised to you.
Even a non-optimized protein source like eggs easily offers ~500kcal/day at sufficient protein levels, and sustained keto doesn't really include hunger feelings. It's not particularly healthy, but if the only way to keep up a significant caloric deficit is to see the rapid results of this kind of diet, it should still be healthier than morbid obesity.
Maybe Rtings? Not for “all the stuff”, but many things, especially TVs snd monitors.

https://www.rtings.com/
Leaving all obligations on the creators is not viable. No one, no entity can project it's usages. But the whole point of tech is to potentiate each other, to enable. We cant ever predict every dampening required to assure complete safety nor should we.

Information society needs more overlay. Just as there are feeds, we need moderation feeds. The singular authoritarian moderation model is folly, constrictive, is death. We need to be open but let each of us coach and council things towarda better, away from harm, with expanding reputation & reach.

The Web Annotation Model underneath for example Hyppthes.is is a great example of how to allow society to stake in, allow wider external input.
Ahhh, but they compress the memory!

Anyone else remember Ram Doubler for pre OSX Macs?
This just doesn’t make sense though. A company is going to have some standard bands of compensation, and if you demand something way outside of the bands based on your own feelings of stock value, they aren’t going to hire you no matter how great you are. Part of the reason companies can give generous stock grants are precisely because they are the lowest tier of stock.

This also is a stupid thing to bargain: if the company keeps growing, preferred and common will be worth the exact same thing. So instead of trying to extract better preferences on the stock (which you won’t), join a fast growing company and leave if it stops growing fast.
> That said, the author didn’t tell us; so we’re left to guess.

We don't need to guess. The post was agnostic to the political cause.
I'm thrilled to share tips about the process because despite reaching resolution, I think Robinhood has more to learn about how to appropriately handle this situation. There was a point in my process when there were 5 business-days of radio silence from support. IMO a support request from a client requesting access to their brokerage cash should be handled most expeditiously.

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Note: It was difficult to tell as a consumer which government entity was the most appropriate place with which to file a complaint. I will say that I filed both a CFTC "TCR" report and a SEC Investor Complaint form. From the former, I received no additional feedback (roughly three weeks later). From the latter, I received confirmation of the report immediately, and then confirmation of the complaint having been forwarded to Robinhood four days later. Shortly after that second confirmation is when I received a response from Robinhood support that the withdrawal ban on my account had been lifted.

File your report here: https://www.sec.gov/oiea/Complaint.html

Be specific about the action you've taken so far. Include your Robinhood Support request ID(s). Don't be heated or incendiary; simply provide the facts. Knowing Robinhood Support, the facts are sufficient for the SEC to take your complaint seriously.

Good luck.
I agree this is where it goes wrong. Chasing an nice looking burn down chart.
On the climate change angle, what they said on the NPR story I heard about this today was that climate change has pushed up the schedule. Water reduction that they had planned to phase in over the next several years now has to be done much sooner.
What question? Did you even read the comment I was responding to(which was not the OP)?