skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But then we're on to why would the state do that, unless they happen to be a state composed entirely of geolibertarians that think redistributing ground rent is the proper purpose of government? A regular government considering going through the political pain of turfing out homeowners at least wants budget to spend on their actual political priorities

(Also, giving tax money "back" to the population is surprisingly nontrivial given political complications over which people qualify to get the rebate, political and practical complications over actually getting the money, and an expected ultimate impact - positive and negative - on the net recipients)
Prove me wrong – decentralized exchanges are a clear Web3 use case
I've seen a lot of healthy skepticism around web3, and a failure of web3 proponents to provide clear use cases. So I'd like to provide one: a decentralized exchange, or DEX. A DEX is an exchange in which order matching and execution occurs via smart contracts on-chain, rather than through a centralized entity. That gives DEX’s the following advantages over CEX’s:
- instant (minutes depending on the chain) and transparent settlement
- transparent price discovery
- anyone can provide liquidity and receive a percentage of trading fees, rather than just the exchange getting those fees
- anyone can list any asset
- you can custody your own assets

However, there's a long way to go before DEX's are ready for mainstream use. That will occur when:
- most people receive salary and payments directly to their crypto wallets, so no fiat onramp is needed
- fees reach parity with CEX's due to L2 improvements
- liquidity reaches parity with CEX's
- social logins are trusted and/or a there's an optional thin - centralized layer on top of the DEX to help with lost credential recovery
- impermanent loss risk can be 0 depending on your risk/return tolerance - DODO PMM seems to have solved this?
- robust risk management algorithms minimize the risk of cascading liquidations during high market volatility
- chain infrastructure can support millions of TPS during high market volatility

Thoughts? Open-minded skepticism welcome!
So just move the housing crisis to various pockets of the country every few years?
Ask HN: Employee wants stock; what do I do?
(Using a throwaway for this obviously)

I run a small SaaS. It’s just me and one other person. I’m CEO and he’s COO (but mainly does customer support). He came on when the company was seven years old. It’s now like 14 years old. I pay him well, treat him well, and now he’s pushing for stock (1-3%).

TBH, it doesn’t feel right— I busted my a* to build this company. I’ve been on-call 24/7/365 for the past 14 years. He has killer work-life balance— federal holidays off, PTO, clocks in and clocks out, doesn’t take his work with him after hours. I don’t. But kinda seems like he feels entitled to ownership.

Should I give it to him?

And if so, what steps do I need to take to make it happen? The company is an S-Corp if it matters. I’m the sole shareholder currently.

Appreciate any advice.
Agreed but I don't think they care about RFC's. Rather they want to be able to track people and be able to sell or leak, but really sell your email address and email canaries put a stop to that behavior and they don't like it.
This is what the series actually discusses as the most likely possibility. Essentially the idea is that PFAS or lithium could be making you hungry when you don't need to be. Hence the name "a chemical hunger."
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dentistry
It could well be something physical, but going beyond mere computationality.

If I knew what it was, I'd be waiting for my Nobel prize now :)

It's kind of as Newton's physics was missing the secret ingredient of special relativity. It was still physical, not magical, but not discovered yet.
I'd say about half of the grafana dashboards i build trigger safari's "this page is using too much memory" popups.
I think the idea runs into the problems experienced by newly-developed rural properties. Small, privately held parcels of land are absurdly expensive to service. Power, water, communications, sewage, food, waste etc. are easier to provide to people who live close together. And then there’s the problem of a social hierarchy of needs. People need someone to turn to in an emergency, input into their immediate environment, and focal points. In that sense land can be cheap, but places are innately costly, not just financially, but socially and historically.
Klarna’s potential valuation cut to $15B appears sufficiently steep
I looked at Linear and it's very software-specific. The features page says it's "the new standard for modern software development".

I do use Jira for software, but also for generic state tracking of non-software processes. E.g. some projects have no use for sprints, or code integration, or user stories.
There are actual places where it has been used and is in use. Some even in the US.
Which is why I am stoked Microsoft is going to disclose salary ranges for their roles.
Don't put that blame on the consumer. The fact that we fan fly from Stockholm to Riga for 50 euro isn't right. The fact that the EU subsidizes airplane fuel isn't right, the fact that Sweden and many other governments have until recently given millions to airlines isn't right.

The consumer simply saw cheap flights and did what they do best. The root of the issue is elsewhere.
I suspect issue tracking software is one of those domains where if a piece of code hangs around for long enough it will become a mess due to incentives. Which begs the question: What are y'all's opinion on the open source competitors? Redmine, OpenProject, Apache Bloodhound, and whatever else exists?
No, the tool is shit too.
The current system is that we're all living on subdivided Mexican land grants, which fundamentally doesn't make any more sense than any other system. So, confiscation is a big scary word, but I'm already living on a place that Pablo Vicente de Solá gave to Don Luís María Peralta 200 years ago, after stealing it from the remaining natives that hadn't been murdered yet.

When you think it through no system based on the sanctity of private property rights really makes any sense.
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I used to like JIRA, back when it was only issues/tickets. It was essentially a nice, organized database for humans that you could sift through with precise filters & searches. Bug applies here, workflow describes where handling it is in the pipeline, issue types meant you could filter by "what is this", etc.

I loved using "basic" JIRA, mentioning issue IDs in places to clearly reference a web of "why this bit of code is the way it is", so someone digging into source code can self-answer stuff like "why not do X". (e.g.: because it caused a bug for Y)

Now there's stories, and boards, and sprints, and agile, and the worst part is that they all interact like crap. Why do "tasks" and "stories" exist? Why not the old: New Feature, Bug, Improvement? At least with those you could always see at a glance what that issue is.
I'm in the US and I'm not familiar with banking elsewhere, but the "bill pay" feature I'm talking about will try some electronic system first, and if the recipient doesn't support it, the bank simply mails a check. The recipient could be as small/offline as any person at a residential address. I assume writing a check and mailing it is a fairly typical thing everywhere, and having the bank do this on a repeating schedule doesn't seem like a huge hurdle, but I could be wrong.
Cops Try to Hide Body Cam Footage [video]
Ask HN: Global Internet or AWS Outage?
At ~10:40 am EDT, we noticed our AWS site to site VPN tunnels were flapping up and down. These included VPNs in multiple AWS regions with connections across multiple ISPs. Downdetector.com and Thousandeyes.com showed an increase in issues for several services around that time.

A few hours later, some tunnels haven't returned to to service and we're experiencing slow connections.

I can not find a single status posting or report confirming an outage.

Is any one else experiencing issues today?
possible after Apple launched Apply BNPL
these are other impacted company offering https://medium.com/swlh/apple-just-wrecked-15-startups-in-le...
If you give someone a take home 4 hour assignment you better be paying contracting rates. I have been in situations where someone gives an assignment of a problem they are actively working on. I'm not working for free.
> Almost all of these review sites, not understanding the physics involved, believe a HEPA filter sieves particles down to a size of 0.3 microns, which implies that anything smaller passes on through.

To be fair, it took a pandemic for me to go to the literature of mask effectiveness and finally found the "on the filtration efficiency of fiberous filters" paper that showed the u shaped curve. it's not something that they scream from the hills about in their product brochures. That said it should be screamed from the hills.
I've done something similar to disassociate customer-ids from their logs.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenization_(data_security) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-shredding
Merino wool garments? Oh dear - I tried them but against the skin they are, for me, a huge no-no due to irritation / rash. I am unbelievable allergic to merino wool.

(The following is meant to be humorous, JIC). So I bought a herd of sheep that grow polyester wool and it has worked out brilliantly. I don't break out in a rash, I don't smell and my sweat gets wicked to a galaxy far, far away.
I don't. I use it every day and rarely ever have an issue. It's well integrated with Confluence. There's even some decent CLI tools now (still young but have promise) that mean we could automate away the interface.

All the reviews I see on that site seem to be upset that it might require training, or that their project's admins have made it a nightmare. It's not a nightmare out of the box.
Also 2019
Good. I love it when true believers show their true colors.

When your fashionable beliefs fall out of fashion, it will be your problem soon enough. Just don't cry about oppression then.
> you are really just leasing land from the government.

This is largely the point of Georgism. Basically the premise is that land is the most valuable asset a society has and since all profits tend to accrue to land holders in the long run it is immoral to have any system other than the government being the only landholder with the people being able to enter perpetual leases for the full value of the land.

They even made a song about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_(song)
JIRA configs are usually the visible manifestation of your organisation's processes. It's Conway's law applied to task management workflows.
I expect them to go after big fish like popular decentralized exchanges and DeFi projects that offer staking.
What I really hate is not Jira itself, it's the company behind it and its engineering practices. Their mediocrity goes beyond Jira.

They've had server-side-rendered features that while slow, contained the slowness to the backend and bundled it into one single slow request - once you waited for that, you had a fully-working page in your browser. Since it was all on the backend, your browser remained responsive while waiting.

Nowadays however there's no longer a single operation to wait for - they've split their pile of shit and offloaded it to your browser. You have to wait for the backend which is slow, but then you also have to wait for megabytes of JS to load & execute in your browser, all while the page moves around and your CPU is pegged at 100%. And God help you if you click on something by accident, as "undoing" that means waiting for another load. To add insult to injury, everything is clickable and triggers some actions, even elements that represent content and that you wouldn't normally expect to be clickable (nor would want to - let's say you wanted to copy the text).

Recently they've added another annoyance - in Bitbucket they've done some changes with regards to diff rendering and obviously have to let you know. They do so via a persistent floating popover in the bottom-left of the screen that you have to manually dismiss and the dismissal status seems to be contained to the browser - if you switch browsers or use private mode you have to deal with it continuously.

My experience with Atlassian products has actually deteriorated despite CPU speeds, browser performance & network connections improving. I used to have a mostly positive opinion of the company 5 years ago but that's no longer the case.
> How can I allegedly have broken Instagram terms when I just created the account and even verified it by phone?

Your account appears, for whatever reason, bulk-created. For example maybe you were creating it from a network that somebody had used for a lot of IG account creation, or you created it with Firefox on Linux and 99% of their Firefox+Linux registrations are from spammers since it's easy to automate and run on a cloud server, etc.

It's actually pretty friendly from them to notify you immediately, rather than wait until you have gotten attached to the account.

> Are there really no less intrusive ways than the above to prove ones ownership of account??

Your ownership of the account is obviously not really under question. It's a freshly created account, it can't possibly have been hijacked yet. But is it your first account or the thousandth? Email addresses can be minted for free. Phone numbers for pennies. Since phone-verified, US-IP Instagram accounts seem to be selling for about $7 in bulk, those pennies are not much of an obstacle.

But it's pretty hard for you to get selfies from a lot of people in an automated way. (Sure, you could go to a parking lot and pay people to do the selfie for you. But that's a much higher bar.)

And then if suspicion remains, it allows IG to ask for either a second selfie or a picture of a government ID, and verify that your identity has actually stayed stable.
I'm confused by this take.

If someone said they take ICE public buses to commute daily, my guess is the sentiment would be that is environmentally-conscious commuting.

Is this meaningfully different from boarding a plane? I can see a luxury vs necessity angle, but is that it? Over long distances planes are more efficient. And like buses, the idea that a single person's behavior will impact departure schedules feels wrong.
Developer Experience at Vercel
The bloggers are working on designing such a study. The good news is that weight loss studies almost all show small effect sizes so if remove a chemical exposure factor is the solution you would expect the results to be pretty obvious. I mean, if getting rid of PFAS "prevents obesity" but a McDonalds ad undoes the effect, then it was probably the McDonalds ad causing the obesity, not the PFAS. The bad news is that preventing chemical exposure is really hard to do.
I had a similar experience creating a FB account. Before I could even fully log in, it was suspended for violating whatever.
Does Linus use JIRA on that little project called the Linux kernel? Why is git with good readmes and clear pull requests not enough project management?
If you're not doing PR's you are just LARPing software development.
I don't hate JIRA, I hate "IT" employees that can't program.
Some effective ways to become unstoppably agentic
Rowan Atkinson: ‘In a proper free society, you can make jokes about anything’
Not sure. The majority of comments from Seniors with 20 years of experience so far (including myself) are of the same type.

Friendly meet and greets that are informal, no coding test or take home assignment.

My best guess is your job referrals aren't from senior level people, while ours are. The CTO is the one who wants me. Or the top Senior who has control of the process.

But I'm just guessing. The norm for me is informal conversation.
Show HN: Hacker News but it's only the comments with none of the context
It appeals to companies that think they only have to pay for one tool. It's awful for agile work but your boss sees the "agile" tickbox and says "fine"
I like this site as well. I trust them because I feel they are upfront with the level of subjectivity they are introducing. Also, it seems they at least buy and try out the gear.
I use linear and I hate it more than jira. It’s jira with all the useful production features removed, making it useless for large teams and qa teams. Beyond simple task tracking it has been a chore to use.
Nanoparticles that control flow of light could mean faster and cheaper internet
> I rarely feel that bitchers have a true understanding for the extreme difficulty of the organization-wide problem Jira is trying to solve.

I think the problem is that Jira is optimized for productivity theater and top-down management.

When an organization deploys Jira it is usually because upper management thinks that it needs a deluge of task tracking so that everyone can stay perfectly "aligned" all the time.

This creates an annoying amount of make-work on the part of Engineers and their immediate managers, slows down velocity and the vast majority of the time spent on inputting data into Jira never results in anything actionable.

Jira is just a symptom of the disease though.
> If I can get a similarly-paying job at a place that doesn't do this, I'll skip you.

Just wanted to back this up a little bit. This is exactly what happened to me on my last job search.

I was interviewing with 5-6 companies. It didn’t make sense for me to spend a whole weekend for a chance at an offer from a single company. Instead I spent that time brushing up on design. In hindsight that was the right call.
> requires a picture of the person's driver's license/government-issued ID.

I have no idea whether or not it is illegal to ask for this, but it is generally considered dangerous to send photos of your state ID.
Guess I got some terms mixed up. Thanks for clearing that up.

My taxes are assessed as land and property, with the majority of the valuation coming from the land. Is LVT a big departure from what we currently have in most US states?
Cows over those millions of years didn’t have their populations artificially increased beyond sustainable levels for human consumption. The current system of animal agriculture isn’t good for the environment. We don’t have more land to make it sustainable. That’s why “hippy scientists” are trying to find alternatives.
In my experience, Jira is the dog that begins to resemble its owner. If you are working in a toxic, dysfunctional organization, Jira will reflect that:

- Giant forms with dozens upon dozens of nonsensical fields (preferably with abbreviations as names, like "IFE App.") half of which are required so you just stuff random words in them to make it shut up

- Thousands of tickets that would probably take 30+ software devs 100+ years to implement

- Can't find your project because your project's name is nonsense (also preferably with abbreviations)

- Task descriptions have hundreds of words of nonsensical boilerplate but don't actually say anything at all

- 50 different ways each to say "Finished", "Started" or "Abandoned"

- Workflow state transitions reminiscient of the outdoor maze in The Shining (crazy man with axe optional)
I've probably said this before here but I just don't see what was wrong with Bugzilla. We spent years getting it honed to suit a good bug lifecycle model. Everything since has been fubar one way or another.
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I disagree with this. Absolutely, once Jira (or any particular project management tool) gets it's "tentacles" into a sizable enterprise, it's very difficult to dislodge.

But I've seen tons of other examples in my career of companies making larger, more difficult transitions because they clearly felt the risk/benefit was worth it: moving from CVS/Subversion to git, moving from on-prem to the cloud, moving from Windows to Mac, moving from hipchat to Slack, moving from Oracle to postgres, yada yada yada.

I'm certainly not saying it's easy, but I fully believe that if a project management solution came along and all stakeholders went "holy shit, this is so much better than Jira", that many companies would make the switch. This hasn't happened, and honestly if you hear people complain about Fogbugz or Asana or whatever that it's probably an equal "per-capita" bitch rate.
> You can't average Trash opinions and end up with anything other than Trash

But Rotten Tomatoes doesn't take averages. The reason so many people take issue with Rotten Tomatoes is they don't know how to read the data.

Rotten Tomatoes shows you the (number of promoters) / (number of detractors). In other words, it tells you what percent of the people like the movie. Not how much they like it. A score of 95% on RT doesn't mean it's a nearly flawless movie. It means that 95% of people/critics think it is, at the very least, good.

Taken directly from the RT About page[1]:

> The Audience Score, denoted by a popcorn bucket, represents the percentage of users who have rated a movie or TV show positively

and

> The Tomatometer score represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show

If you understand that, RT is a very useful review site.

[1]: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/about
Awesome - someone in real life treating user-identifying data as the toxic brew that it is!!

Refreshing and definitely a good reason to switch.
Good to hear. CDK is a huge plus.
I don't think the linked Politifact article supports your point:

> The FBI considers anyone who has been arrested on a felony charge to have a criminal record, even if the arrest did not lead to a conviction. The FBI only counts those with a misdemeanor if a state agency asks the bureau to keep it on file.

> So by the FBI’s standard, 73.5 million people in the United States had a criminal record as of June 30[, 2017].

The arrest warrants you mention from Texas would only count if failure to pay a parking ticket is a felony in TX
> The idea that the difference between 0.9005 and 0.90005 is "small" is … weird.

it is. that's one minute of filtration and the difference is minuscule. over time, this would trend to zero. in 10 minutes you'd expect to be near the steady state of the room. (obviously not completely steady state since you are filtering some already filtered air and probably introducing more particulates but close enough for an approximation)
Do you have more information about this? Searching for it only got shipping containers being retrofitted for growing them on land.
9. The text editor is still busted and I just don't understand why. It's one of the most important parts of the UX, please please fix it. Writing any kind of nicely formatted long form posts is a lost cause.
Wirecutter has gone way downhill since NYT bought them, too. :(

The only review source I trust is https://www.youtube.com/c/ProjectFarm/videos
Jira isn't perfect, but it fit our agency's needs well enough and the short comings haven't been bad enough to cause us to rethink it.

The truth is that there's very few project management tools out there that offer the flexibility to run individual projects the way an individual team wants to. When you're an agency with hundreds of projects in the system, that's invaluable. I researched 2-3 dozen competitors to find a better solution and there just wasn't. Other than maybe Redmine and its derivatives, which the team basically dismissed for being too outdated.

ETA: I should clarify that I'm using Jira Cloud and we don't have many issues with speed (at least today, anyway. Maybe in a few years, who knows)