skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I came to the same conclusion as far as optimizing for two carry on bags.

My setup is really simple but works for me for months at a time. I have a tri fold clothing bag (an old Patagonia burrito, which they sadly don't make anymore) that's for clothes, grooming/hygine, etc, and then a messenger bag that's for laptop, kindle, headphones, emergency rain gear, medications, other similar things.

It may not work for everyone, but I found paring down to essentials was very worth it. I never have to worry about checked bags going wrong. I can wear both bags comfortably while walking for a couple hours, so if I'm moving locations or can't check into my accommodations yet it's no big deal.

One thing I like about this setup is I don't look like I'm hostel hiking. I just look like someone in business casual with an extra overnight bag. It's not fair or just, but sometimes this makes the difference about getting hassled hanging out somewhere with wifi for a couple hours.

The tri fold is roomy enough to pack a suit and plenty of casual clothing. I just hang it up when I get to my room. Unless I'm wearing or using it, items go back to their place in the bag. I never have to unpack, pack, or worry about leaving something behind.

A few simple tricks can make a big difference, but they're probably pretty personal. I pack a lot of extra socks, undershirts, and underwear, all made of thin wool. This helps me stay fresh if I'm a bit long between laundry services. In my electronics bag I carry a short extension cord, some USB plugs and charging cables, etc. That'll make you the hero in every cafe you go to.

In any case, my big takeaway was that I just don't actually need much stuff to be content for months at a time.
Who is Dynomight?

For me this piece leans pretty heavily on authorial confidence. But I couldn't find any indication of who the author is, or what his expertise is. I get why he's casting aspersions on their revenue model and how it might affect what they write. But then he doesn't disclose what his revenue model and personal interests might be.
Great points. I just scanned the article. Did Wirecutter do any actual testing? They can refute and prove the claims are wrong on paper...but it really comes down to testing. Where is Wirecutter's test data?
I'm waiting for contact lenses with a good enough resolution to serve as a screen replacement and cyberdecks replace laptops ...
The problem with what common person feel as obvious is that is based in common person knowledge. People is often unable to see (or refuse to see) the whole picture about a field that they don't master. It does not mean if is informatics, or ecology.

To start, the title in HN is misleading.

Without access to the full article, I can't really discuss the job, but I have a few mental questions to myself that would need to be addressed. Maybe they are discussed in the article, maybe not.

If all known populations of bears appear in areas with at least a little of sea ice, and none in areas without sea ice; I think that the answer to the question "would polar bears survive if the sea ice vanishes?" is not difficult to deduce.

In any case the last lines of the link: "correction, we didn't mean to say that polar bears can survive without sea-ice" are self-explanatory.
Sure it's inevitable.

That doesn't change the fact that the input problem for AR/VR is not solved. Some VR is trying to solve this by integrating back in the mouse/keyboard. Others, like Elon, are trying to leapfrog to human-brain interface.

Neither of those efforts change the fact that for current AR/VR your input is lower bandwidth than a smartphone which is already lower bandwidth than mouse/keyboard.

This input bandwidth limit means that the applications for the tech are currently very minimal and means that any product being sold today is unlikely to do well.
<sarcasm>If you are planning to build a Notion competitor, I recommend Slate</sarcasm>. Seriously though, if you need to support Android or CJK, you should understand Slate’s limitations before you buy into it. I think ProseMirror is the best choice today because it has been around for a long time and has battle-tested MutationObserver logic. Lexical is worth considering depending on your risk appetite. It also uses MutationObserver and appears to approach Android correctly. I haven’t read enough of the code to recommend it yet. In Slate, Android is a second-class citizen with an extremely bare-bones MutationObserver reconciler. The main codebase only uses beforeInput.preventDefault which doesn’t work on Android.
I’m not sure what “the usual complaint” about Jira is. It sounds like you perceive the usual complaint to be about feature bloat. You only briefly mention speed, which is the only complaint I had about using Jira as an IC developer. From the perspective of an IC I think all these systems are incredibly similar. Jira is the only one that was, very simply, ridiculously slow. As in 5-10 seconds to load any page.
Your blanket statement isn't true. OVPN for instance has gone to court to protect its data: https://www.ovpn.com/en/blog/ovpn-wins-court-order

They are a very good alternative among others.
TLDR - Where is Wirecutter's test data?
Honor. It's what powers Japanese culture. Some might think of the Japanese as historically over-concerned with shame, but shame is the result of losing honor or pride. And Shinto beliefs hold that everything in the world has a spirit.

If you're going to make a product, you can think of it as an inanimate cog in a machine that generates cash. Or you can think of it as a representation of your own worth, the worth of your company, and the worth of those who use it. If it's shoddy, that means you and your company are shoddy, and you think the users are too. And if it will have a spirit, you want to respect that spirit, as all spirits are connected in musubi.
Solved but still not enough to make it seem reel. He said that natural light has 10x more dynamic range than best monitors available.
As to focal depth - in real world there is no "screen", your eyes (or perhaps brain:) can decide which what you want focus on and what can stay blurred. On screen everything is in focus, so you need to make fake blur. But you need to know what user is focusing on. So you need to read retina movements to guess. Sounds like complicated and hard problem to me.
Because it attracts somebody 4 layers up to tell somebody 3 layers up to come up with a common Jira platform for everybody and then you don't control how your project is run and then Jira becomes the enemy, a faceless micromanager driving your work life that has strong opinions on how you do everything, a dozen steps that need to be done "right" or you get your half a dozen managers asking if you read the memo about TPS reports, er, Jira tickets.
You would have to spend 2083 days on a bus to travel 1.5 million km.

That would be 63% of his 9 nomad years.
Oh and I forgot to add that Vladimir Agafonkin and Morgan Herlocker’s JS libraries (earcut, rbush, delaunator, turf, polylabel) have dragged state of the art spatial analysis into the browser to an extent that won’t be equalled again in the foreseeable future. Just a ridiculously deep bench.
I disagree, I think it's more valuable to learn a language that's "real" straight away, because even teaching languages have a lot of details and intricacies, and this way you only have to learn those once (at the beginning).

I'm not saying the other way can't work though, I've just experienced that this is easier.
I'm not sure that is quite the right take. When someone says "Jira" they are referring to the style of product management that Jira enables, not the specific tool. Like how "Google" is used to refer to web search, even if one actually uses Bing.

Jira, the software, is far from perfect, but when one talks about hating Jira, they are really talking about the people who use Jira. The same people moving over to a competing product that offers the same feature set perfectly implemented would still leave people hating it. The software itself doesn't matter that much here. It's a people problem.

So, why do people cling to a project management style that everyone hates? There is a lot of friction. Nobody wants to be the guy who pushed for an alternative that turns out to be just as bad. "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", as they say. You know that IBM will deliver a failure, so everyone is ready when it does fail. If you hired Mom and Pop, you are doing so expecting them to be better than IBM, so when they fail equally there is a buildup of blame to go around. That's not a comfortable position to be in.

I would suggest that winds of change are in the air, but it is indeed a slow process to find a critical mass willing to take new risks.
I'd recommend hiring an agency for dev ops work instead. That level of responsibility (and probably having to be on call) could be too much for one person, and also a sign of missing infrastructure around E2E testing, CI/CD, backups and monitoring.

It seems like senior professionals reach a career crossroads where the opportunity cost becomes too high at any price. I've been thinking about getting out of software engineering for several years now for that reason. And because I'm tired of reinventing the wheel in proprietary ways, only to see the code get thrown away because most internet businesses fail early on.

In other words, this might be a problem with the industry, not your hiring process. Perhaps a #nocode or managed solution could be an alternative?
Lexical has markdown support via `@lexical/markdown`. See https://lexical.dev/docs/api/lexical-markdown.
I don't know what exactly OP is assigning to applicants, but in my experience a "four hour" coding assignment can be completed in an hour or two - and they don't have to be consecutive hours, it just means four hours is your limit and you have a few days or a week to complete it in.
Fcuking hell, this looks good!
> Landowners, I think, I have two options: find ways to fracture/disempower the rent base in the communities where they invest or else find a way to keep the number of non-renters well over 50%.

I would say they already are disempowered. It is unfortunately pretty hard to organize anything when you have to worry about high rent, not losing your job or having to move every few years. What we have seen in the last decades is that it is now hard to do much at all through organizing unless you can somehow affect the economy. Which you can't if you risk getting fired or evicted doing so. Look at Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong etc. for the results.
My point is it’s a mistake to conflate anything labeled a conspiracy theory as being automatically false, which is often what happens, or the label is applied something that’s already false. Many theories turn out to be true
> Yeah you're gonna need to back this one up chief. Not sure about you but I'd rather be living in a 1 bedroom apartment with modern appliances, internet, smartphone, and a laptop than I would in a 8000sqft that had none of these things.

That's a _very_ subjective viewpoint.
NFSv4 (not NFSv3 or earlier) is the most efficient network FS protocol (beats SMB in all my testing), but I frequently access work machines over VPN and can't use NFS because of many reasons in which case SSHFS is very convenient.

ADD: Some might not be aware that NFSv4 is a MAJOR change from the earlier versions and has many radical changes, including: time-expiring lease-based coherency, bundled requests (do much more in each NFSv4 network packet), locking built-in to the protocol. Don't don't base your assumptions of NFS on NFSv3.

Some on this thread suggests Syncthing, scp, rsync, etc, but this not really the same.
When the file system is enormous and you need to commit your changes back - it would be impractical to sync everything (many TiB of data) and a pain to try to remember which things changed.

The situation on macOS has been a bit sad; Mac Homebrew refuse to install sshfs as Mac FUSE is not open source (because the author got fed up with commercial abuse of his work).
I sympathize, but that still leaves me in limbo.
Ideally, Apple should just include a FUSE like facility in macOS as it's so useful.
For some the "VR is inevitable" predictions clash with past experience about the coming VR wave, virtual words, and failed 3D hardware (Google Glass, 3D TV, etc.). For those who invested time and money into these earlier attempts, it's difficult to believe that this will be any different despite some undeniably cool demos and compelling niche use cases.
> But these VR headsets are just a fixed distance away, so how is that really a problem?

Focal depth is one of the cues your brain uses to perceive distance, in addition to (potentially more than, depending on which cognitive scientist you listen to) binocular vision. You don't mind that monitors are a fixed distance from your eyes because you don't expect them to give you real depth (your eyes can just focus on that distance). If, however, you want something to be "indistinguishable from reality" you need to emulate changing focal depth, which means (I guess) changing the angles that rays hit your eyeballs at.

IMO that's one of the reasons that 3D movies always looked so fakey; they could emulate the binocular vision, but they couldn't emulate the focal depth, causing a perceptual dissonance.
Nah, missing the point. 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. It doesn’t need a monetary-like token but it does need a single record bound to an address stored eternally.

Jpeg NFTs are dumb, cos the record is public. But a singular record that can out of band handle authorizations? Neat.
As they touch upon, it’s more than likely they ended up there accidentally.

I recently dug a series of vertically walled pits in a forest, for a foundation.

It rained. I came back to find several of them absolutely heaving with toads and salamanders, who I of course rescued.

It’s easy to see how, in a past when wildlife was radically more abundant than it is now, a single step sided ditch could have ended up a mass amphibian grave.
Clothes washer: Staber

My repair guy would bring other techs over to my house to see our Staber washing machine. Nothing else comes close.

https://www.staber.com
Similar results for me too, also on a Mac. I've had it basically work a few times in trial runs, and it's pretty convenient (the concept is excellent), but it has been horrifically slow and flaky basically every time (e.g. takes upwards of a minute to list a directory with like 100 items in it, sometimes just silently gives up and doesn't list anything, etc). I'm not really sure why.
It's usually an identify theft thing, because if I have all the information on your state ID I can make a copy that would be good enough for ... getting access to your instagram account I guess.

It's pretty hard to fake an ID in physical form, but one good enough for a webcam photo shouldn't be too hard.
Nope, that won't fully protect you either.

> In early February, Chuck Ruoff said, a thief transferred his mobile phone number to another device through an attack technique called “SIM swapping.” The thief then used Mr. Ruoff’s number to get into his accounts at Bank of America and extract $3,450 through Zelle…

> …“I said repeatedly, ‘I’ve never used Zelle. I never authorized this,’” said Mr. Ruoff, who has been a Bank of America customer for 34 years.
> I find it astonishing that there are so many naysayers on HN, a community that in its early days embraced technology innovation.

You're creating a false dichotomy - probably unintentionally, but I find it's important to point it out. As one of these naysayers, I'm not against VR because I'm somehow skeptical of futuristic/modern technology (nuclear fusion when?), it's because I am specifically against VR/AR in the hands of a megacorp like Facebook. If all this development was happening in the open, like for example the web developed, I would be jumping on this yesterday. As someone who's dreamed of the Star Trek holodeck since I was a child, the thought of becoming an Oculus dev to pursue this dream does not excite me one bit.
> - Thousands of tickets that would probably take 30+ software devs 100+ years to implement

I feel like the company I'm working for has a reasonable attitude towards Jira, and they recently just batch closed all tickets that were older than some date in many projects. So you'd have to actively re-open tickets you had created to keep them alive, if needed. Great decision IMO.

It's an interesting exercise to be forced to deal with old tickets you've created. It gets you thinking.. "well, this thing should probably be done at some point, but then if it's actually important we'll probably think of it again and can re-create the ticket then". Might give you experience that encourages you to be careful when creating new tickets too.
I appreciate the points you’re making here but the phrase “web5” is so extremely toxic that it makes it really hard to judge the other things you saying fairly.
> perhaps pay people to complete the assignments.

Assuming this is legal at all according to current employment contracts, it's a huge pain for the new employer's payroll and more stuff to keep track for the employee's income tax.
Yeah web5 is the real decentralized monetary web project. I am keen to see new paradigms form.
Our dentist definitely noticed (in a good way) when my partner and I switched to electric. For a holiday trip there's little point in bringing an electric tooth brush along though, unless you are going for months rather than days or weeks.
> In general, when a company gets bought out, quality tends to drop.

I think you can simplify that to "in general, quality tends to drop."

It isn't malicious; it's reversion to the mean. An organization's reputation comes from its high-water mark of making the most impact and having the widest reach, and being solidly average after that looks like a step back.

This correlates to buyouts because would-be corporate parents (obviously and understandably) want to associate themselves with the prestigious up-and-comer.

However, replacement-level output doesn't compare to the historic highs. This is made more visible because the buyout acts as a nice "before/after" marker even if it has no structural impact, and it remains in the public eye because a high-profile corporate overlord can't let their new acquisition fade into obscurity.

See also the results of Electronic Arts' independent studio buyouts, where they buy out a developer at the top of their game only to see quality fade before corporate meddling sets in.
Thirding this.

Ideally this would be an emacs package.
ProseMirror is a great choice. Lexical might offer you more mileage if you're working with React (especially React 18 and the new concurrency features) and are happy to invest into a project that is still pre 1.0.
I work at Meta on the Lexical team - yes, Lexical supports markdown and rendering from markdown syntax. Lexical isn't a drop-in replacement for Draft, but we're migrating all of our surfaces internally and it isn't particularly difficult, especially if you aren't storing in the DraftJS-specific format. As for alternatives, you can also consider storing it as JSON, which Lexical supports.
On focal depth: In the real world you can look at an object close up and your eyes will adjust so that it is clear and objects at other ranges are blurry. Then, when you look at an object far away your eyes re-adjust focus.

You can test this by looking at your hand 6” from your face so it partially blocks your keyboard a couple feet away. You’ll notice that either the keys are blurry or your hand is as you shift focus between the two.

Future gen headsets will use eye tracking to understand which object in a scene you are looking at, and make that object sharp while making other objects blurry. This helps produce more realistic depth, while also dramatically improving performance as most of the scene can be rendered in lower resolution.
They're taking a loss on every unit sold. They can afford to this because they have a firehose of cash from FB, and they believe this is the "next big thing" so they want to establish dominance. Sadly, it's almost certainly gonna work. The content ecosystem will follow the user base, and a $300 headset will outsell a >$1k setup by a huge factor.
I couldn't agree with you more. This is my life.
Not quite the same thing but it's quite common for hotels (in Europe in particular) to make a copy of your passport, for auto dealerships (at least in the US) to make a copy of your driver's license for a test drive, and many many other situations. I'm sure I'm forgetting lots of other cases. (And Twitter requires for verified accounts.)
> This brings up another issue, VR is fundamentally isolation.

Wait. Why? Online games exist. They're social.

I'm not really a gamer. But it's interesting why social interaction in online video games is some secondary tier to social interaction playing basketball, for example, or just talking in coffee shop - or on the phone...
How long til he's a crypto millionaire?
I did it when I was 36, but I wasn't a quant. It took a coding bootcamp to get to where you say you are, maybe a little bit further. But given what you say, you can skip that.

While you probably don't need a full year of self-teaching fundamental computer science to be able to do the job, or to interview, you may need to drill and kill algorithms problems on leetcode or similar.
I still don't understand how git won the source control battle so decisively. I respect git for what it's good at and its power, but from what I've observed it's far from clearly being the obvious choice of source control for closed source software shops.
JIRA I can take or leave, it does the job - it's hard to imagine anyone being driven to hate it, but I can believe having it badly configured would be a serious drain on productivity.
> from a network that somebody had used for a lot

side note: I still can't edit wikipedia because my block of IP addresses has been banned for some reason. I just moved to a new house and can only edit if I go to a coffee shop!
> Tax pollution, you’re incentivizing people to pollute less.

Exactly. Taxing pollution not only raises needed tax revenue, it reduces pollution as a side effect. It's a winner of a way to run things.
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I'd throw in 2 more, power/heat and weight.

However, the resolution/refresh-rate needed for immersive VR/MR is not quite a solved problem. If you assume something like 100deg horizontal and vertical for each eye and something like retina (not screen door or blurry) 40-60pix/deg resolution, you're looking at 5k x 5k per eye at 120-180Hz for 2 eyes. You can't do that over a single DP 2.0 link, and it would be too power hungry anyway. That leads to a requirement for fast eye-tracking and foveal rendering (only rapidly refresh where you're looking in high resolution)... and gains you ~10x reduction in bandwidth/power.

Then you get to directly monitor the user's attention, build a DL model of their attention, optimize it for maximum interaction, and sell the model to the highest bidder.
I'm aware of the Simula project.

But it isn't compatible with my varjo aero headset - which is limited to Windows only.

If I had truly understood that windows doesn't have a native 3d window manager for VR, there's no way I would have bought the Aero.