skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to hate Jira with all the fervor and more. And then one day I discovered go-jira. Jira command line client written in Golang (hence the name). I wrote a few tiny emacs-lisp wrappers: to read the current backlog; to find a ticket; to list all the tickets assigned to me, etc. And that was all great. I realized - I hated Jira's UI, but its API is quite all right.

At some point, our infrastructure engineers changed something that made it difficult to login to Jira without the web interface (I don't remember what that was exactly - SSO or something...), and I wrote a Puppeteer script that would login to Jira [in a headless browser] and grab the token and use it to authenticate with go-jira.

I thought about cleaning up my elisp experimentation and making a proper Emacs package. Sadly, a few month later COVID hit the US and a bunch of us got laid off. At my new job, we don't use Jira, and I never made the package. And I don't miss Jira. And I don't hate it anymore (I think). But yeah, fuck Jira all the same.
There are other people here who will read our comment thread and I am hopeful my arguments may encourage people to think differently whether or not you will.
Meanwhile, oil and gas company profits are absolutely booming. It's just price gouging.
As an Australian, I may or may not be able to discuss said laws.

This should or should not tell you enough...
Subscriptions aren't (in general terms) a dark pattern.
This is how I feel every time HN suggests rewriting every website in C while ignoring the fact the database takes most of the time for average web apps.

Or the articles about how Python is causing climate disaster while the author continues to drive an oversized SUV.
> Berry is coming from the worldview that God created a world of great abundance and that if we share, there is enough for all.

Sure, but he/they are simply wrong about that. The natural state of living systems is to propagate until they reach a natural limit imposed by some resource constraint or other. Our current technological civilization is an anomaly produced by the sudden release, over a period of a few hundred years, of solar energy stored over a few hundred million years, with a concomitant rise in CO2 levels and global temperatures. That party cannot be expected to last much longer, computers or no computers.
I enjoyed working with RT, though someone had gone to the effort of making it easy to use and integrated nicely with IRC (in much the same way we have jira issues in Slack I guess).

In comparison I feel like Jira hides stuff from me, that the UI is excessively slow, that it's easy to get wrong and add oodles of mandatory fields..
Journalists Sense Turmoil in Their Industry
I don't know. If we're just looking at it on the basis of how many natural resources it cost to build the thing, you may have a point (although, computer chip manufacturing is a notoriously dirty business -- look what it did to the orchards of Silicon Valley).

But, consider what it would take to run the thing. Unless you power your computers by solar energy or somehow have a nuclear reactor in your back yard, you're probably expending non-renewable energy to power it. The typewriter, being made in 1956, is almost certainly a manual model and only uses ribbon and paper to keep it going. I daresay the typewriter has a lower lifetime environmental impact than any computer.
Kinda surprised by the survey results, I wonder what it is about the rust community that they prefer it so much or perhaps the data is biased.

I would really expect languages that typically implement server side APIs to be most interested. But the python/Ruby/go people I guess aren’t that into it
https://www.discovery.com/science/mexapixels-in-human-eye

tl;dr human vision is higher than 8k, but megapixels is not the right concept to measure it
I find him soothing.

Most TV these days is so "nails on chalkboard" omg-turn-it-off-quickly that I wonder how they make money.

Perhaps they get paid to give viewers anxiety.
Incidentally, this successful ad might have killed a lot of people.

https://www.healthdata.org/results/gbd_summaries/2019/diet-h...
I personally 'rank' my full day interviews. I put them off until I have a good sample of companies lined up. Then I line up my 'best' company first, and the 'worst' company last. Basically, the goal is that by the time I get to the company i'm not as interested in, I have an offer from another one. That way I can frankly tender my resignation in before I get to that interview. I may or may not complete the last interviews depending.
None of his points in this piece are wrong, including the one about him not buying a computer. They may be arguable, in fact may be highly debatable, but they're at least positions a reasonable person could have, even if other reasonable people disagree. Indeed, reasonable people can hold a variety of differing opinions, and understanding the ones you disagree with is a really satisfying activity. Good for him, not buying that computer.
I think it's a rather common dysphemism used in context of targeted advertising. Monetizing user data—while not actually selling the data (in the literal sense of the term)—is considered by many to constitute having their data sold, albeit with a layer of indirection.

My understanding is that while this is certainly superior to your data being actually sold, privacy is nonetheless adversely affected in fairly significant ways.
I bought a copy of immerssed and an occulus quest beause I loved the idea. sadly, we are still a ways off. the text was too blurry and I got a headache in minutes.

beat saber was a good pivot. its my gym when I travel now
How about ivpn or perfect privacy?
> Then, as is the case with many mapping companies, Mapbox shifted focus to the auto industry. My fear of loss of control fully materialized at this point. I’m a lifelong bicycle commuter, and I think cars are unequivocally bad. They ruin cities, contribute to environmental decline (even electric cars!) and kill people.

All these things are correct except for the ruin cities part - that’s a US city planning problem.

Japan, everyone’s favorite high public transit country with a lot of demand for maps, has a higher car ownership % than the US. They just discourage using them for personal trips and commutes via small roads, toll highways, expensive parking etc.

But once you’re a family or want to go somewhere low density and take some luggage, it’s hard to beat them.

What it looks like to me is this guy wanted to work at a geospatial PBC but didn’t know such a thing existed.
I don’t see how “most people don’t use crypto” is at all germane to the discussion. Of course most people don’t use crypto—it’s kinda new. No other explanation is needed.

At the end of the day, what I care about is that I can safely make a transaction to get something I want in exchange for something that I have. The safety protections involve the ability to identify accounts with real people within the reach of the law, the ability to reverse transactions made fraudulently, etc. If I have US dollars and want something that isn’t US dollars, then I have a ton of safe options to do that (with different protection depending on what I choose). If I instead have some kind of crypto asset and want something that’s not a crypto asset, the fraud protection is much weaker.

Yeah, crypto is kinda bare-metal. Isn’t that a major problem with it?

> And no, a wire transfer or intra-bank transfer is typically not reversed.

Yes, it sounds like we agree on this point. This is part of why most people don’t use wire transfers.

There are, however, conditions where wire transfers can be reversed. Banks are also somewhat proactive about protecting you from making wire transfers. It’s not a service that they offer lightly.
Oh no, that calculation was for equity, not for an option. An option would have totally different pricing models, and it would likely be closer in value due to the strike prices. However, options are probably overvalued a LOT by startups. They think they are like equities, when they are a lot more like... options.

Also, 10x is a little off, but I also work on infrastructure and infrastructure companies tend to get acquired rather than IPOing.

Edit - as for the actual terms of the stocks in question, it was never what you were thinking (1x preference), but I probably can't say what it was.
GPT-3 for dad jokes could be an Ignoble Prize contender.
Sounds like a deep penalty to this senior: I have learned to hate flights, corporate hotels are mostly crap (even expensive ones), it is very unlikely I desire another trip to that city, I hate wasting a day for that, and I really care about how good my food tastes.

That could sound nice to an inexperienced junior?
Not enough information. If your server is offline, I suggest bringing it back online.

Many sending servers won't retry for 5 days these days, so you'll likely miss out on mail unless you've got a secondary MX configured and online.
Since every company is a tech company now, I feel like they’re all inspired by the best (FAANG) and use tech in creative ways to increase their revenue (dark patterns).
> Learn basic statistics. Apply it to performance testing, system modeling.

Any resources for applying stats knowledge to these topics?
GuerrillaMail is down, appears to be so for the last 5 days
Salacious is a bit of a salicous word for doubting their reviewer credibility.

I get it. You disagree with me. I hope you are right because he's got quite a bit of power these days.
I would smart glasses, where I can see through to the real world, rather than pass through like the VR devives.

i.e. something like the hololens or spectacles
This is something that happens with google, twitter, meta properties and mostly all major faang companies. They track heaps of information when you signup.

They will track your ip, device fingerprint, location and everything else. And they will try to figure out if it matches malicious activities like bot usage, scraping behaviour, etc and if yes, they will block your account.

In most cases, they don't even block your account but will play dumb. You will get page loading errors, insta app will say that your content couldn't be loaded, twitter will say that this browser isn't supported, etc.
I agree in respect of the SSD. RAM is a little different on M1 machines as there is supposed to be a substantial memory bandwidth improvement resulting from the tight integration with the SoC and processor.
Most residential ISPs reassign the same IP to the same account for months at a time. It's not technically static but is certainly used as a "mostly static" piece of data by profiling technologies.
Do you have any proof of this claim?

You say that there "is no denying that the GDPR was a catalyst". Well, in what way did it catalyze it? Static pages do not need any GDPR compliance anyway.
That is a source, but I very much question those numbers. Google alone gets 89 billion visits a month.

https://www.oberlo.com/blog/google-search-statistics
- Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate's choosing

That is an instant nope.
i recall this making the rounds a few years ago but can't speak to it https://www.wired.com/2015/04/reduce-vr-sickness-just-add-vi...
I agree, it also makes for an excellent way to get rid of excess frogs! I recommend it highly as a pastime. You might even be able to sell the dead frogs off to some kind of scientific institute or something. That'd make you money too, so there's really no reason not to do it. And once you start doing it, it'll seem perfectly natural, like when you go on a diet and stop eating chocolate bars in front of your friends, except instead of chocolate bars you bury frogs.
Avoiding Escalation in Decision-Making
Respectfully, I think that's nonsense.

It's called "work" because it's what you do to get money. It's not a hobby, nor an idealistic crusade (both of those are fine things, but they're different to "work").

The reason you work is to get money. That's the only motivation. You might choose between different work options on another basis, but the reason you're there at all is money.

Anyone trying to recruit people who doesn't accept this will fail.
Nowhere did the OP state he came upon V in good faith to be helpful or seeking improvements, but rather starts with the position of whether or not it is worth it (setting up a position to dissuade). Then blasts the language in his summary and opinion (and who is he?), with a non recommendation. Never consults with the V community or opens any bug reports. He uses a throwaway name and account, then runs away from any attempt to be engaged by the V developers over errors and opinions in his review. Looks like a hit piece to me.
> As demand for vanity diplomas from expensive liberal-arts schools declines, for example, elite universities with more prestigious names and larger endowments can simply increase advertising for their lower-tier programs that accept nearly all applicants—under their official brand. Faculty will continue capitulating to administrators’ demands for lighter workloads and lower standards until the average graduate’s career preparedness hits rock bottom. The federal government will expand tuition handouts into a full-scale free college system, until nearly every young American receives his or her meaningless diploma. It’s easy for the higher education industry to avoid economic consequences. Unfortunately, this bubble won’t pop until somebody pops it.

The article claims that USA colleges are not a "bubble" in a "market", but rather a license to print money. So long as the US Government backs financial aid loans, colleges can can extend a diploma - and a bill - to an increasing number of students.

The conservative view is that, like other fiat public education, commoditization renders meaningless that which is supposed to be a credential, a record of training and demonstrated ability. If everyone gets a college diploma as a government handout, then in effect no one gets an actual certificate of merit, but rather an expensive certificate of participation.

Perhaps a liberal (US politics liberal) view would be that education is a path to address the current effects of past injustices. A way to close the gap between the most and least wealthy citizens. That it's incumbent upon the educational institutions to ensure that every student indeed has equal access to meaningful college education.

I don't know how to resolve these two ideas. They are not contradictory: both "sides" of this can be correct at the same time.

Perhaps one way would be for the government to set a cap on the price of a college education. Nightmare scenario? Colleges are very expensive institutions.
> Japan, everyone’s favorite high public transit country with a lot of demand for maps, has a higher car ownership % than the US. They just discourage using them for personal trips and commutes via small roads, toll highways, expensive parking etc.

Do you have a reference for this? From a precursory search it seems the US has a much higher car ownership rate.
> Your guess is probably correct. We all know why they aren't being explicit about it, right?

Of course: there is significant risk to saying hateful and bigoted things outright, so folks resort to dog-whistling.

> It's not vague at all, it's literally a flag. And it's not an acknowledgment of existence of some group. The most charitable interpretation is that it's a protest against heteronormativity, which many people naturally support.

I disagree, completely. The most “charitable” interpretation is that it’s a vague, non-committal statement of support. The interpretation you mention is far more specific and - when phrased the way you did - antagonistic interpretation of things.

> Of course it is political, pretending it isn't is disingenuous.

Of course it is. We agree on that point. What we likely do not agree on is why: it is only political to me because other people choose to make it so. If folks just … let LGBTQ people exist, with full equality, there would be precious little political about it at all.
> having to prove they know things in an industry where a lot of people don't know things.

The number of people I have interviewed who have been unable to code fibonacci or fizzbuzz, even the number of people with "senior" in their resume, is genuinely remarkable. I can appreciate the tiresome nature of interviews, but someone having to demonstrate that are not simply fakers is, simply, critical to the hiring process.

For people who are "hired by network", that is a different story. But if someone is coming in through the front gate, I will insist on having some kind of technical scrutiny, in technical and documented form, rather than simple conversations.

Work sample tests, according to the literature HN member `tokenadult` has gathered, provide the best predictor of future work.

My druthers today is for senior engineers to provide two work samples: code and design. Neither _particularly_ long or _particularly_ challenging, in a time frame that is not onerous. If the engineer has a portfolio with recent work, that is, IMO, a suitable replacement for code. Again, the point is to elicit fakery and have a demonstration of being able to do good work.
Oh but I can, so hard
Bank of England proposal to rescue collapsing stablecoin issuers
I usually prefer analog-everything but I always found dial calipers to be extremely drop-sensitive. Like a "shock-proof" set from work developed wiggly-needle syndrome after being dropped about 6-8 inches onto a sheet metal desk and could never really be zeroed perfectly again.
By contrast a $30 digital set from Lowes or HD got flung into the concrete by a falling part and was still accurate to a few thousandths at least.
(I did notice the "inside" gauges have slight variance between brand new pairs though, so the manufacturing tolerances probably aren't the best)
Seriously. Pretty insulting to assign a senior a 4 hr take home assignment when the hiring manager can just pick up the phone and talk to references, look up authored papers, etc. Ridiculous. Glad the tide is turning in favor of workers.
First, I'm a little embarrassed because I didn't realize I had started another comment thread with you, I thought it was a different user. I may have done that twice on this post. Sorry to have split the discussion like that. Anyway....

>the answers exist and are for the most part known

I deeply disagree with this. I am not afraid of doing some reading, but I challenge you to find a single study that demonstrates how a certain combination of neurons firing leads to the experience of tasting vanilla.
Could you expand on the tax side of that a bit?

This is the first time I've heard of using a personal retirement account to pay business expenses without tax penalties, and I'm not finding any relevant hits on Google.
I always wondered why people always say that. Why would using a new word processor make anyone write faster?
Yeah Europe is a small place compared to the US.
The number of flights is not a constant, and the number of passengers in a plane is not that big.

If you book a flight, it may push the number of passengers past a critical threshold, and the airline decides not to cancel the flight.

Or, if you don't book the flight, someone else who would have otherwise flown on another flight will be able to book that seat, and the other flight could get canceled.

Or, if some flights are often almost full, your booking may push the demand past a critical threshold, and the airline may choose to schedule another flight. And because there are now more flights, flying that route will be cheaper and more convenient, which may attract new passengers.

If you only fly a few times in your lifetime, you can plausibly say that those planes would have flown anyway. If the number of flights is much greater than the average number of passengers in a plane, your actions have almost certainly increased the number of flights flown.
Remember, you deserve 100% convenience and 100% privacy and 100% security. If you fail to get it, it's because corporations are evil and society has failed you.
The real world home usage for me is being able to install Linux or BSD without needing to manually download and image and burn it to a USB drive (in fact the reason I set up PXE booting in the first place was because I kept losing USB drives and thus wouldn’t have anything to boot from).
Awesome. Is there an active plan to make the TTS models available on ONNX? Or is it something that is possible but is not being worked on right now? Is there an issue / ticket somewhere that I can follow (Or should I create one?)
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What benefit is there in installing solar panels over a white roof, if it is in fact slightly net negative?

I can't think of a single one.
I'd prefer any kanban board app over jira.
The other thing it does (giving employees more power) is make it harder for companies to change course. Most people hate change and will fight it as hard as they can, seeing all layoffs as "bad" and "evil".

Germany's auto industry is a great example of a highly unionized industry. Pay is good. But also, it's very hard for Germany to enact anti-oil and gas policies (carbon reduction / pro-environment) because it hurts auto workers. It should also give anyone really pro-union pause to consider why Germany didn't produce Tesla. They had every advantage imaginable including a well-trained workforce, existing manufacturing infrastructure, the deepest capital markets in Europe, and existing distribution relationships. And yet, the Americans beat them to it. Why, you ask? Because workers don't want to retrain or change what they've been doing for 50+ years. There's too much inertia, too much complacency, too much "this is how we've always done things".
> although, computer chip manufacturing is a notoriously dirty business -- look what it did to the orchards of Silicon Valley

If I wanted Silicon Valley to have good air and soil quality, I would simply not have built suburbs and auto infrastructure on top of all of it.

The idea that single family homes aren’t pollution and industry is comes from 70s boomer environmentalism, which is part “if I don’t see it, it’s not happening”, part pastoralist NIMBY (because you just read Cities as Growth Engines), and part explicitly trying to stop people from having children (because you just read The Population Bomb).

I would’ve said the modern examples are Marin County NIMBYs and MCU’s Thanos. But it seems like the guy in the article is an even more orthodox example.

Note that the Bay Area’s residential only zoning may be commonly thought to keep away dirty industry, but since it was invented here in Berkeley you can just look up what the inventors thought they were doing, and they just wanted to keep out Chinese people. “Residential zoning” meant “no home businesses” and by that they meant “Chinese laundries” with a side of “immigrant corner shops”. It wasn’t about factories.
Yeah, this expectation is nuts, and it's why people who work for startups tend to be true believers in the mission. The startup has literally priced in the belief of the employees.
For more context, here's the specification of its predecessor, the I-Machine: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/symbolics/I_Machine/I-Machine_A...

A lecture at MIT about the I-Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e39LnDVBl4c
If you've taken 360 flights as just one passenger, that's about the same as taking one flight all by yourself.

As an approximately 1% contributor to each flight, you do actually make a difference. Flights get cancelled and route schedules do change based on usage. And also there is a marginal addition to fuel consumption for each additional added cargo/passenger.

If I was in a position to take that many flights I think I'd do something to try to offset it a little (idk, donate a solar installation to a school or buy an acre of land and plant a bunch of trees or something along those lines).