skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such a taxation scheme sounds like it can potentially run into similar issues as well. For example, from Cornell's Legal Information Institute [0]:

> In the exercise of its taxing power, a state may not discriminate substantially between residents and nonresidents. In Ward v. Maryland the Court set aside a state law that imposed specific taxes upon nonresidents for the privilege of selling within the state goods that were produced in other states. Also found to be incompatible with the comity clause was a Tennessee license tax, the amount of which was dependent upon whether the person taxed had his chief office within or without the state. In Travis v. Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., the Court, although sustaining the right of a state to tax income accruing within its borders to nonresidents, held the particular tax void because it denied to nonresidents exemptions which were allowed to residents. The "terms 'resident' and 'citizen' are not synonymous," wrote Justice Pitney, "... but a general taxing scheme ... if it discriminates against all non-residents, has the necessary effect of including in the discrimination those who are citizens of other States ...." Where there were no discriminations between citizens and noncitizens, a state statute taxing the business of hiring persons within the state for labor outside the state was sustained.

[0]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-4/sec...
Even done properly, “recycling” is not environmentally friendly: “reuse” is always the better choice. That is, consume less.
If you want good people pay them and respect them. It's crazy how you have to explain humanity to people in the tech industry.

If you are good at what you do then there are two reasons you will do it.
1. You are paid well
2. You are respected

Don't be annoying about doctors appointments or time off, if they do their job just let them do it. Don't make them come into an office they don't want to be in, don't make them be in meetings that have nothing to do with them and could have been an email. It's really crazy simple, just think what you would want and then treat people the same.
and then freenode had a hard fork! weird week.
> flip flopping AMD/Intel/NVidia praise

This is a silly take. Tech evolves and companies release more than one product at a time. It would be weird if LTT /didn't/ have "flip-flopping" takes on various companies.
Exocompilation for productive programming of hardware accelerators
Just ordered new replacement windows from my house. Granted we picked out the most expensive line of windows for aesthetic reasons but the marginal increase for the CA mandated coating was ~5% of the overall cost of the windows. Do I expect to save the entire $22k cost of the windows on my energy bills any time soon? No I do not. Do I expect to save the ~$1500 that I spent on the coating? Sure I'll probably get ROI in 5-10 years with energy bills averaging ~$300/mo (no solar and it's 100 degrees outside today).
The best approach is to buy a domain name and set up your mail host with a catchall address. For example, I use Fastmail for mail hosting, and they support this at a reasonable priced tier -- but I can switch to another mail host if I want, and keep all my addresses. With 33mail it sounds like you'd be locked in.
That is true but not relevant to my question of whether Mullvad's data retention policies have been tested in court. One uses a commercial VPN to pirate HBO, not dodge the alphabet boys.
i had the exact same experience

but i don't know if everyone will have that same ability.

It almost feels like a 'home gym' vs a 'gym membership' scenario. Upfront cost for a home gym is quite expensive, whereas the gym membership is spent over time.

All-in you may spend a lot more on the gym membership, but because you eat it over time, it feels better to a certain population of people
Individual actions matter when they have some direct impact (even if small), or if they are a subset of a broader collective action.

So me running my car matters. I'm directly putting CO2 in the air, even if my contribution is small.

By "are a subset of a broader collective action" I mean as follows: if all members of a given class/collective stopped doing an act, would there be an impact? If all voters stopped voting, or if all families stopped flying, or if all grocery shoppers stopped buying meat, then yes, elections would break, and flights would decline, and meat would stop being sold. Even though my vote doesn't matter, and my family's ticket doesn't matter, and no, Purdue isn't going to stop factory farming chicked because I went vegan.

In Vitalik's case--and I don't mean him specifically, but using him as a stand-in for a broader class of questions--, two things are true:

1. There's no direct result between him getting on a plane and the flight existing. His impact on flight demand isn't small, it's zero, because flights existing are non-linear. Those flights were going to be there anyway.

2. He is sui-generis. He's not a vacationing family or a a travelling salesman. There's no collective problem of "man, excentric genius crypto billionaires fly commercial too much." That just isn't a problem. If Vitalik, or all Vitaliks stopped flying, nothing would actually change. Whereas if all families stopped flying, or all business travellers—or whatever other class the vast, vast majority of flyers belong to—stopped travelling, then yes, there would be an impact.

I guess you could say "ha! 'excentric genius crypto billionaires' isn't a collective! the right collective VB belongs to is 'people', and if all people stopped flying then there would certainly be an impact!". And that's certainly an argument, but I think both sides are arguable.

And lastly, I'm not actually arguing that he should fly: I'm asking 'what do you call this logical problem, where we want to condemn someone for doing a thing that doesn't actually matter at all except symbolically?

(Sorry for the ninja edits)
I don’t think there are that many disused hotels or condos just lying around.

Hotels are tricky. There’s rarely even a single kitchen available per floor, let alone per unit, and I would imagine a kitchen is required in the building codes.

Ultimately, conversions have to be brought up to the same building codes as new construction, so you don’t actually get rid of the problem (codes making any construction hard to do.)
If you sign up to Jira today and start a new project, you'll get the options of a simple workflow with a minimum of fields. The beginning statuses are basically "to do", "in progress", and "done". There's a fair amount of trust in those steps, IMO.

> by default regular users can't change the available transitions

I can't imagine allowing this. This would be a recipe for chaos. 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?

If that's okay on a team then that team probably shouldn't use Jira. I also would not want to be the team-lead, or anyone else trying to figure out what's going on or keep track of work!
> headed to a world [...]

I am always astounded by such claims, like have you guys ever travelled outside the Western hemisphere at all?
Yeah, but as a counterpoint: your years of experience are not indicative of your skill, just that you can meet some arbitrarily low bar for a long time.

The take-home technical assignment is to determine what, if anything, you actually learned in your 20+ years in tech.

A depressingly large number of people with that level of experience have not learned anything meaningful.
Prices for whom? Only those born into this wealth, or those who have wealth by other means.

It's a recipe for even more massive inequality.
Such a critique also misses the point of Georgism. A land value tax is pointless if there's no state, because without a state there's no private ownership of land in the first place. Georgism is a reaction to statism - that is, if there's going to be a state using its monopoly on violence to enforce exclusive claims of ownership over that state's sovereign territory, then such statism should at the absolute least benefit society as a whole instead of only benefiting landowners at everyone else's expense.
FWIW, Lambda has added support for Docker images, which can run anything. They’re not limited to 500 MB either. You just have to use one of Amazon’s base images that come with the Lambda runtime installed, or add it to your existing Dockerfile. This might be the way to go for running something like Wasmer.
You refer to poor people.

"You're forgetting the poor people"
Apple has implemented policy at scale, with a threat of enforcement which has been effective against the largest companies.

On the other hand, the GDPR gives end users the privilege to engage in a legal fight with a multi-billion dollar app developer, assuming that they can even prove the existence of such tracking in the first place.
I'm not sure I've ever found any indication of someone selling my address, but I've discovered multiple services that have been hacked.

One of them, Avvo, has yet to admit it... but it's quite clear.
> First, that incentivizes treating property as an appreciating asset.

The capital gain tax can't be both very high and very low and you seem to have agreed that very high is the wrong incentive.

So what remains?

A low capital gain has the benefit of making it easy to sell so more people will sell. Not perfect, perhaps, but an incentive to keep unused/unwanted properties on the market is better than pushing people to hold on to them forever which a high capital gain tax will do.
A lot of people have found motion sickness in VR is actually usually driven by refresh rate. They get sick because the screen doesn't update as fast as reality. If you have the chance to try a Valve Index, they have the ability (not default setting though) to go to 144hz, and you may experience way less sickness. The Quest and Quest2 can't go that high.
Related:

Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1988) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25598811 - Jan 2021 (3 comments)

Wendell Berry: Why I am Not going to buy a computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2108463 - Jan 2011 (11 comments)
Okay so now we're hiring a hiring manager and a developer, great.

...or maybe people in this thread just don't like having to prove they know things in an industry where a lot of people don't know things.
Not surprised that many are having a bad user experience with Jira. The interface design and usability is atrocious because it's a tool designed by developers. Developers lack the UX training and thinking that's needed to make the tool intuitive and easy to use.
The entitlement cannot be enforced by the kernel. There is literally no API call associated with it. If the user requests no third-party tracking, there's literally no API for the sandbox to lock out.

The entitlement is enforced by legal contract. The only thing stopping Meta from blatantly ignoring this policy is the fear of consequences by Apple.
> A company with billions of users that is routinely used to destabilize democracy and spread propaganda.

People criticize Whatsapp for this same thing even though it is merely messaging. Whatsapp is owned by FB.

But okay, your problem is with the algorithmic feed - that is a good distinction.

I will say that there seems to be substantial consumer appetite for algo feed given the success of TikTok. It also seems natural to me that they would want to maximize engagement - this is a proxy for the value that the user gets out of the platform.
Is it? I see one side blaming Biden and the other side blaming corporations but neither side is saying we need better public transit.
I've found that for the biggest numbers people expect me to memorize a bunch of bullshit from year three of MIT's CS program, so if anything I think this is better than most.

If a company doesn't bother to check how well I'm going to do the job, it makes me worried about what sort of smooth-talking incompetents I'm going to get stuck working with down the line.
I also met Paige (erratic) once, some time around 2009-2012 (possibly at Metrix? somewhere on Cap Hill), and got the impression there was a screw or two loose.
Same - lived in SF for 3 years and while the tech side is cool, but in SF everyone's either homeless or soulless it seems
First off inclusionary units are not a “secret”. But more to the point, that not the kind of affordable housing that the article is talking about: The article is about 100% affordable developments which are almost always by non-profits receiving government funding.
Yes, we switched to Jira from a piece of abandonware (simple php based bug tracker) several years ago. Jira is kinda slow sometimes, but not horrible. And yes, like you said, once you get it configured it works great.

Overall, we are very happy with Jira and it's worth the cost for the value it brings to the organization (still hurts the wallet, but it's at least justified).

...and then Atlassian comes along and rug-pulls on-prem Jira.

We only have ~80 users, so 1000-user-minimum data center isn't going to cut it for us. And there is an on-prem requirement, so no cloud option either (wouldn't want to anyway). And for that, I bitch. Fuck Atlassian and everything they do to appease their shareholders before the customers.
Know what’s better than 5% of a resale? 100% of every sale!

Tim Sweeney knows.
> My wife types my work on a Royal standard typewriter bought new in 1956 and as good now as it was then.

This was written in the late 80s, but I'd guess they're still using that typewriter over 60 years after it's purchase. Not saying I completely agree with his whole essay, but there's not a lot of computing equipment still in use (or considered usable) from that era.

> But the cost would not be just mone-
tary. It is well understood that technological
innovation always requires the discarding of
the "old model"

He's not wrong. Just try to go dig up an old laptop from ~20 years ago that you might have laying around somewhere. Yes, it might work (after you replace the battery), but can you transfer files to/from it now if it didn't have USB ports then? Or if it didn't have the current USB port that all your current devices use? Floppies were ubiquitous in the 90s, but try reading one now - it's not impossible, but you'll probably have to find some service to help you do that since it's not likely that you've had a floppy drive for close to 20 years.

As an example, I'd like to get an e-reader that would be usable in 20+ years. But that doesn't seem likely. The batteries aren't easy to change in most of these devices anymore and they'll likely fail long before that. Many of them use android and when support for your device is over... you could probably use it for a while, but eventually it's going to be difficult.

All that to say that Mr. Berry's choice doesn't seem all that crazy to me.
Just accuse everything of being GPT-3 and your outlook on humanity improves.
This made TF2 unplayable for me - I have a rare item (iPod earbuds) from the initial Mac launch, and the next few times I signed in I couldn’t get away from people spamming me to trade them.

This is one reason you wouldn’t be a crypto billionaire no matter how prices went up; you’d probably sell first.
Thing is.

What they're asking for is Digital Rights Management. The promise of NFT is DRM.

Seriously.
The security vendors have an ass-covering policy of scoring for the worst possible scenario, without any regard for how implausible it is.

If you had a cupboard in your basement storing a can of spray that had a "warning: flammable" sticker with a weak glue: the sticker could fall off, you could have used it without knowing it's flammable, which could lead you to setting your house on fire. Therefore the CVSS score of "weak sticker glue" is exactly the same as "your house is on fire".

This maximally inflated score is then combined with a primitive reporting policy that alerts about mere presence of dependencies with an advisory anywhere in your dependency tree. Security vendors aren't checking whether the dependencies are actually affected in this context or not. This is a lazy recipe for labelling everything as critically vulnerable all the time.
I never said anything about plants being "equally nourishing". I certainly believe that it is "justified" to kill another animal of a different species to eat its flesh. You can't eat an animal's flesh without enjoying it, so I don't care about your sneaky attempt to turn the simple issue of what nourishes our bodies to a morality play about pleasure. I do not feel any guilt about my bodily functions.

If I thought killing an animal to eat its flesh is not justified, then why would I think that killing a plant to eat its flesh is justified? A life is a life and to feed you have to take a life (or many). You're an animal and a cow is an animal, and so you (seem to?) think that a cow's life is more important or valuable than that of a potato, but that is an inconsistent and self-centered belief.

I don't really care about your distinction between "sentient" and, presumably non-sentient, either. That's an arbitrary distinction you have conjured up just to support your misguided ideology. In a vast universe that is almost entirely composed of dead matter, we must value life above all else, in all its forms. To value one being's life over another is an abominable injustice and it is only with extreme contortions of reason that vegans and vegetarians arrive at it. Or rather, historically, it is because of religious beliefs (like in Buddhists etc) that they do.
If the average electricity bill includes houses that use gas for heating, then the electricity bill is grossly inaccurate for houses without gas heating (unless we are discussing an area that requires minimal heating demand)
We ALREADY know how EFF / the govt protects privacy outside of Apple - they don't period. You are scammed and ripped off everywhere online with no consequence.

Ironically, it's because Apple have kept EFF / Govt OUT and enforced their own rules in this walled garden that we all are rushing into it. We wouldn't need to if EFF / govt / developers did a fairer job outside of Appleworld.
Yes this is exactly right, it’s all about top down feeling of control. You can very easily manage even a large organization with just basic Kanban boards
Awesome list and objective.

I'd like to add another point:

#. There are too many "views" or ways of visualizing the work that needs to be done, ie the plan view and the kanban view, my issues etc.

If I'm not looking at the 'right' view I'll miss something and maybe get in trouble from project management.
This is me exactly. My prior three jobs were based on my network referring me to a hiring manager (Directors and CTOs), us meeting for lunch and talking about their issues and how I would help them solve them. Then me meeting the rest of the team and them giving me an offer.

I would never do a “take home test”. Even my current job at $BigTech - working in the cloud consulting department doing exactly the type of work the original poster is looking for - involved a 5 hour behavioral loop and definitely not a “take home test”. They offered cash and real stock. Not equity that statistically will be worthless.
I would also recommend The Torque Test Channel as very similar in approach to Project Farm.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZem9C5rWjSb0B8tV3k2EZg
So in other words companies should pay teams of legal experts to fight against workers’ interests, but if workers want to hire an expert of their own to prevent themselves from being exploited they “shouldn’t be working there”?
All the confluence hate speaks to my soul. It's where ideas go to die. If you want to start a successful internal project and someone tells you to start documenting your ideas there, you might as well just move on to something else. Whatever you were going to do is already dead. It's just so ignorable. Nobody gives a shit about a confluence doc. Write up your thoughts and send it as an email to your boss, your peers, whoever. That demands a response and you'll get one, for good or ill! Getting outright rejected is still better than the sad withering away that is putting it into confluence. Anyways, what's the most common signal that people hate confluence? When they use it as a link repository to docs stored elsewhere.
What's worse is that they want full-on programming, leetcode, algorithm mashing for jobs that end up being nothing more than slinging yaml or json and maybe tweaking a Jenkins job.

That's the reality of DevOps - it's not primarily development, it's applying frameworks to infrastructure and deployment tasks. Get a senior sysadmin in operations and pay for a few courses in what you need from them.
The worst part about Consumer Reports is that they barely test anything.

They're only useful for a specific set of popular products.

There are too many categories where the content says "sorry, we stopped testing this category, this information is old."
Well it's obvious then. Apple needs to create a new and bespoke issue tracker just for radar.
“Affordable housing” is a scam.

If you want you want real affordable housing you need market rates that are affordable, not special set aside units.
Tangentially related, Wendell Berry's short stories & novels are an excellent read. They all take place in the same fictional small town and are remarkably consistent with one another in terms of timeline, genealogy, and geography. I would highly recommend them.
All for-profit companies are hostile to unions, because unions reduce the amount of economic rent that they can extract from their employees.

Tech companies can afford to be more vocal about it because a significant number - arguably, the majority - of their employees genuinely believe that they would do worse with unions (regardless of whether it's actually true).

I think at least in part this is because much of tech is in US, which has widespread "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" syndrome in general, but especially so in tech.
Thoughtful application of the Law of Demeter would improve at least half the code examples given. Judicious use of Option<> would help, also.
Don't use a VPN to promote CDN usage to save the global network some bandwidth?

Just turn off javascript and/or images.
I always appreciate when they resemble the work the company expects I'll end up doing, because I do actually enjoy the work I do.

If I don't like the take-home, I assume I'll probably hate the job too. Whereas traditional interviews tell me almost nothing about what I'm going to end up doing day to day.
Because the tenants will surely be thrilled to commute from places “nobody wants to drive to”
I don’t hate Jira. I strongly dislike working with people who love it. From https://honeypot.net/post/jira-is-a-code-smell/ :

> A useful task manager will be somewhat opinionated. It will almost, but not quite, do what everyone wants, and will annoy everyone equally with the few things they think it does wrong. A tar pit of a task manager will claim to be everything to everyone after customization, meaning that a few people will think it's heavenly and everyone else will despise it with the heat of a thousand suns.
> As far as I can tell it would have to be some physical process that affects the behaviour of a computational system, but isn't computational and it's effects on other systems cannot be simulated by computation.

I mean no physical process is strictly computational. Computations operate on abstract representations of physical things, not on those things themselves. We're back to why weather simulations don't rain on you and why simulations of nuclear explosions don't leave craters in Los Alamos.
And what businesses are hoping for are users that are paying without actually using their service. Produce nothing, but get paid every month. Sounds like a crap deal for the users.