skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of examples where it's trivial to do this now. For example, Diablo III and Immortal are owned by the same company and run through the same portal - can I transfer gems, skins, or titles between the games? If I'm a Master's SCII player could that show up in Overwatch somehow? Maybe I could play as a Zealot!

If this "transfer between games" thing is such a killer feature why isn't it happening now? Shouldn't we be seeing stuff like this in Steam games where Steam could easily expose your progress between other Steam games.
Curious to see if you considered Shadow Tech[1] as well, given the similar price point ($30/month) and possibly wider use case (whole cloud pc instead of just the browser)?

[1] https://shadow.tech/
Was hoping for instructions on building a Rocket-propelled Grenade.... :/
Five takeaways from the French elections – and what could happen next
"I kept freaking out and yelling in chats"

I think the interviewer is the problem....
> For most of the world, yes.

This is not really true for most values of "most", and the places it is true, the culture tends to be much different than you would find in California, eg) you are generally not looking at children being assigned hours of homework to perform in which they have no space to work on it, nor ability to work on it without distraction while the rest of the family lives on top of them.

> If one is looking for subsidized housing, isn't that a reasonable compromise?

You may want to look up the history of tenements in the US. Broadly speaking the answer turns out to be: no, this is not a good compromise.
If only I could get employers to stop foisting MacOS on me. sigh.
Having spent most of my adult life in Germany, I’ve seen hundreds of them, and I try to take a moment to think of the people they name.

And then reflect that Germans don’t have some special intrinsic evil that made them capable of doing this 80 years ago - every country is some hard times and a demagogue away from it.
are your clients consumer ISPs? or are they like edge CDNs doing www stuff? the impact on these VPN services would be tremendously different in each case.
It's not a super convincing argument. iOS is a closed, walled-garden platform. This is by design. It is also, however, a minority player in mobile computing. As long as there remain other platform options -- MacOS, Windows, Linux, Android -- those who WANT a different experience have many other choices.
Same. I’m always surprised by all these people on HN who claim to have had epiphanies trying the product. Especially the ones who seem to think wireless is the game changer when you’re still walking around a 5x5m space and relying on other inputs for actual movement.
This is my use case more or less. Basically I want to be able to leave the house and say "hey google, clean this mess" and it'll start my strategically placed robot vacuums and run the filters on max while that's happening to minimise particulate spread.

Mostly though, I just want some extra power for larger rooms.
The Tale of a Whale Who Took Solend's Money
dvs1 started a genius idea to help pay artist [1]. All the DJ has to do is import his playlist and enter the amount they want to share with the artist that were played in a given set. Not only is this man an absolute master behind the decks like you need to add him to your bucket list to see him hes that good. The dude reeks in passion for music and it shows in his DJ skills, it shows in the sound systems and warehouse he built. But he is also out there trying to help improve the scene.

[1] https://aslice.com/
Tons of websites don't have html fallbacks for the small userbase that disables javascript. You'd be hard pressed to convince them to support html fallbacks for what I assume is an even smaller userbase (PowerPC)
IME loudly reactionary types are over-represented in most pay-lots-to-enter social spaces (country clubs, common spaces in gated communities, that sort of thing). Or maybe it's just the flowing alcohol.
> That’s lower, but do we care? The first level is already comparable to the least polluted cities on the planet. And most people reading this probably have less drafty windows or cleaner outside air.

I wish. I live in an area that routinely goes to 100ug/m3+ during the winter.

I picked a local brand because it had all the features I wanted: a numerical indicator, ioniser and the filter was aligned vertically, so the device doesn't occupy too much space.

It has a CADR of 300m2/h or ~ 185sq ft/min. That's enough to survive the worst smog events.

I could buy three of those IKEA ones for the price though, which is actually the recommended approach, because air purifiers generally work very locally.
“It’s not drastic for a company to have lawyers” is probably the point that was being made. It’s not drastic for a company to have lawyers; it shouldn’t be drastic for a union—or in this case, a union organizing effort—to have lawyers as well.
3 issues mentioning stack overflow:

https://github.com/vlang/v/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sta...

I've never had one in 3 years.

edit: ah, you meant Rust
I’d argue that most cheap calipers are fine - if you need the precision of a Mitutoyo, you should be using a micrometer anyhow.
Way to miss the point. ENS being "privately owned" or "having a constitution" only really matters if you care about participating in the governance - which I will admit is silly - or if you want to have have some influence in further developments. But as an user, none of this matters. You can claim an id and no government or "owner" will take it from you. No registrar will give names to squatters to put in marketplaces. Actual ownership is public and transparent. Prices are reasonable. You can now have completely censorship-resistant sites by tying a ENS address with an IPFS page.

ENS is already super useful if you care about owning your identities without worrying about intermediaries.
This is not a rant about Jira. This is a rant about doing Agile in the enterprise.

I can rant about Jira, but it's about the horrible UI. It's buggy. The settings system is a mess. It's not intuitive. Even clever people need hand holding to figure out what's going on. Things randomly break for no apparent reason.
Might need to rename this event, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Frogs
There are comments here about what "affordable" should mean in the US.

I have two kids (1 boy and 1 girl, one special needs) and we live in a two bedroom (850sqft) with the living room doubling as our bedroom so the kids get rooms.

When I go visit friends or family that have 3/4/5 bedrooms it feels like a mansion, so I guess what's normal is a function of what you are used to. I will say that the challenges that come from living this small are very different from what my friends and family talk about.

This is in SoCal for location reference, and I WFH.
Depends on how you use it. I've long ago unfollowed anyone that was toxic or political in anyway. So these days I am either looking at someone's new baby, or something someone had for breakfast or vacation photos. And I participate in groups about 3D Printing, my vehicle, my favorite author and a couple of others, which are all entirely constructive.

So I get plenty of positive use from FB.
I think the comparison mostly stems from the legacy enterprise where badly configured tools are pushed top-down and workers are told to 'deal with it'. Either you'll be a developer mostly using JIRA or a non-developer mostly using ServiceNow, and if you're really unlucky in such an organisation you'll be using both.

Having a Service Desk that actually provides usable and composable tooling is a benefit for all. Having a random contractor "implement" ServiceNow because Gartner said so is a pain for all. This is of course a bit of opposing extremes, but the same applies to JIRA and AD and pretty much anything else. Hard-pushed bad implementation will ruin your workday.

Teams that are capable and allowed to self-steer and deviate from company policy if they come up with a good enough reason seems to be the sweet spot of attainable & realistic.
There's probably a niche market. Some people collect boxed games or software so maybe there's some VR/AR collectable shelf in the future to put them on, but then the price needs to reflect that its some bobble collecting virtual dust on a virtual shelf.
I am going to add one thing that I haven't heard here. You probably need to raise the cash in your offer by a lot. Most mid-size companies think that they can get away with offering equity at a ridiculous valuation and attract people who aren't true believers. Most people aren't true believers in miscellaneous DevOps that doesn't involve a lot of code.

I have spoken to a few series-C and D companies that wanted to give me $X00,000 worth of stock at their series C valuation. I informed them that I needed $X,000,000 of common stock (at that valuation) to match the expected value of my gig at the time, or I would take $X00,000 of preferred stock (whatever they gave their series C investors). They thought that was crazy. If you pretend that the people you are trying to hire don't understand the economics of your stock price, you are only doing yourself a disservice.
I bought two Coway units based off the Wirecutter reviews. Both had noisy, off balance fans (gee I wonder why there are reports of the fan blades blowing up). The newer one had a HEPA filter that reeked of VOCs and went back to the retailer because Coway refused to honor their warranty. The air purifier "review" was the thing that really soured me on Wirecutter as a source of trustworthy reviews.

Oh yeah Coway deserves a shout out for trying to sneak some binding arbitration agreement in at the end of their warranty drivel.
This is a joke, right? It gives the impression those things are super common, and some of that is obvious BS, like needing to know where the front of an IC card is when you do insert it into a machine.
UK faces national railway strike as last-ditch talks fail
I think the answer to your question is that it's because the complaints aren't actually mostly about the tool, but about the processes the tool targets. Jira competes both with different tools and with different processes that use neither Jira nor its competitors.
I'm at a FAANG and our team has the same problem. Hiring is tight right now. Pretty sure we pay more than you.

Benefits and salary are "good"? Example from another situation: I own my house not because I made a "good" offer. Plenty of people made a "good" offer. I made the best offer.
When Microsoft built Internet explorer into the foundations of their OS, they got slapped with an anti-trust lawsuit because, it was argued, they were denying users their choice of web browser and, in effect, monopolizing that sector[1]. Nevermind that users could still install other browsers and use them. You just couldn't uninstall internet explorer.

In 1948, the government brought an antitrust lawsuit to trial against Paramount pictures [1] in order to address vertical integration in the movie distribution system. At the time, theatres were either owned by studios or had to buy "packages" of films. In effect, no theatre could show the best films from multiple studios. They had to choose one production company to buy a package from and that was that. Small studios and independents were effectively blocked from showing their films. The government won, and that's why cinemas can actually show films from multiple studios and independents today.

Apple now owns their platform down to the chipset and CPU. They jealously guard their spare parts supply chain and have tried to muscle out independent repair services, while designing their products with planned obsolescence as a main goal. The same sort of anti-competitive practices that once kept indie films from being shown are now used to stifle competition for Apple's offerings in multiple spaces. They even produce their own films and TV shows now! Want to watch them someplace other than Apple TV? There are no legal alternatives to installing Apple TV. The vertical integration in Apple is just as bad as it was in 1940's hollywood, but movies are just one of the spaces Apple is trying to dominate.

We can argue that users still have choice. They can choose to use alternative streaming services. (They just can't watch anything made by Apple Studios). They can choose alternative hardware or OS's. etc. However, it's clearly not Apple's preference that users have those choices. They just have succeeded in squeezing out the competition yet.

If Microsoft building Internet Explorer into Windows merited an antitrust suit just twenty years ago, why haven't we seen an antitrust suit brought to bear against Apple for doing far worse? Given what companies like Apple and, yes, Facebook have done in recent years, perhaps it's time for governments to, once again, start advocating for the consumers that vote them into power.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic....
>I have lived as a nomad for the last nine years, taking 360 flights travelling over 1.5 million kilometers

Good CHRIST what a carbon footprint.
To a reasonable approximation, no one actually cares about "access to the BAYC community". I'm sure they made some grandiose promises about it at some point, but the primary feature of their NFT is as a social symbol. I'm not convinced there even is a "community" there to access -- realistically, it's just a customer list.
> - Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate's choosing
> - Presentation of technical assignment to the team

Are these two jokes? What makes you think you're worth somebody wasting their time with such stuff? How about you actually interview them properly 1:1 and stop wasting the candidates time?
In Santa Barbara we just had 31 1-room units built for a total cost of $1.4m. These are spaces to get people off of the streets and are quite basic.

https://dignitymoves.org/santa-barbara/

From what I can tell, the it city and county just went for using emergency rules and bypassed most planning rules (it is on county land).

Will be interested to see how it works out.
This is not the first time I see Softbank as a net negative. Too much money loosely controlled. Is there an example of Softbank doing good?
The answer is "way more than is sensible, even factoring in how absurd pricing on crap like this has gotten."

We dropped SN a couple years back over this. They were charging us about 6-7x what we pay for Jira, and we still use the on-site enterprise version of Jira.
Possible, but not as cheap and easy as it might seem.

https://sfstandard.com/housing-development/turning-downtown-...
Amusingly, it used to be great! When I first started using JIRA, it was just markdown. Then they introduced their WYSIWYG editor, but at least they still had the button to see the raw markdown and you could still edit the raw markdown (but the GUI made terrible markdown so if you wanted to use markdown you better start with that and never touch the GUI).

And then I guess at some point they just removed the markdown part?
> Of course, for many people today kids sharing a bedroom is tantamount to child abuse.

Well, then they should not be looking for affordable (as in subsidized by other taxpayers) housing, no?
I did not suggest companies emit CO2 for lols -- it is quite obvious they are responding in an optimized way (for them) to consumer demands, since that is what a company is.

But the onus to change is on the companies, and since they won't change themselves, it falls on the government. However, taxing the emitter will lead to companies passing on the cost to the consumer, which, while lowering the emissions, would end up locking away a large number of luxuries (air travel, different kinds of food like meat, etc.) from lower-middle class people. It is very easy to say "increase taxes!" when you have enough disposable income to be able to afford these luxuries anyway. I personally do not want to go back a hundred years where meat is rare luxury and the farthest one travels is to the nearest country, once a decade.
It's an interesting thread to see. The question of "do we have anything more to say" does seem to have been supplanted by an economic voice at scale...

If you are doing anything at a large scale, there are immediate and huge disincentives to focusing on concerns of detail. A bench, a doorbell? Attention to those kinds of things is even seen by some as a sign of unhealthy obsession, when working together at broader scale.

Plus, if you want to be at least a little bit values-oriented, you kind of have to admit that being authentic to a core vision probably does not mean designing a deeply values-oriented doorbell to go on a Sketchup-style, economic-incentives-focused house. At the very least you are applying some values-focused duct tape, metaphorically.

And it gets more interesting to add in the lens of economic systems. Economic systems add a disincentive for attention to intrinsic value. Economic systems will attempt to leverage the concept of value, and communicate based on value, but in fact the scale factor (above) creates a tidal effect that will lift or sink everything during powerful economic cycles, intrinsic value or no. This fact really gets a lot of investors upset. Somehow mixed in with their Buffet-style opinions on the intrinsic value of a nice can of Coke, there are some straight-up funny positions that are less about value and more about being able to buy stuff, and feeling secure in being able to buy stuff for the rest of one's life.

The last economic cycle was up, up, up. Every system was impacted by broader tidal movements. You think you need deep, beautiful icons? No you don't, go with flat and functional. Depth will capture you while you fight the tide. The tide that wants to put money in your pocket. Why fight it? Move fast and move on.

That cycle created incentives to deploy capital at scale. In one stroke of a pen, virtual or real, you'd readily create a house, a neighborhood, a city, a business employing thousands, an airport, a re-do of part of your city. Or you'd deploy a fund, a coin, etc.

So there were and are really maximalist incentives toward minimalist design: Detailed, values- or character-centered design has no leverage (it is barely seen at such scales), and no right to reveal a soul (such a thing is unnecessary and demonstrably economically wasteful in many ways).

Still, we will likely see the return of "(buy, build, sell, the thing) you can count on" narratives as we refocus on stable, intrinsic value, emerging from the current economic debacle.

Old-timey indulgences in detail will probably reemerge as a reminder that we have values, somewhere.

And tutorials on skeuomorphic logo design may really get popular again...
first off, 4h assignments are almost never 4h assignments. at best they tend to be 4h coding, 1h of non-coding stuff (check out repo, branch repo, create repo, pr etc. read specs to make what you are going to make)

I have only ever had one actual 4h assignment that took exactly 4 hours, I was amazed. They actually wanted me to spend more than 4 hours.

I also had one assignment that had a bug in a particular library that was supposed to be used, I spent 4 hours solving that bug, at the end of which I could then have spent 4+ hours to make the solution.

but most assignments are in the 6-8 hour range while advertising 4h.

Part of the reason for this is most assignments are supposedly wanting you to make quality solutions etc. which is at odds with the supposed reasons for you to take assignments which are, as I have heard it stated, that a large number of programmers don't know how to program or program so badly it isn't worth hiring them. But take home assignments are not just that you can program (so you don't make the mistake of hiring someone who then sits around for a few months not contributing before you fire them) but also that you can produce quality code, that is to say it is really worthwhile hiring this person.

think about it, you want to hire a senior, but you think a 4 hour assignment is going to really help you determine that they are a senior? I remember a fellow I worked with once had a ballpark rule that the smallest time a ticket could take would be half a day, so 4 hours. Why that? Well once you added in reading the ticket, asking about any not well specified parts, made your branch, did the code, tested, made pr, accepted code review, you were almost always at 4 hours. (it was only a ballpark rule, obviously there were some 1 lines, typos etc. that took less but most often 4 hours was a trivial ticket)

So you are able to test the quality of a potential hire by giving them a trivial ticket?

So this leads to people 'cheating' on the assignment, doing more than 4 hours. So maybe 4 hours of coding, but then cleanup, then maybe modularization, then documenting what you did sending back the message etc. This was basically what that 4h assignment that really was 4h I discussed earlier wanted, they wanted me to make everything pretty after I finished. They asked me if I had another hour what I would have done, I guess at that point if I still wanted the job I would have said I would have done these things but instead I said I would have taken a nap because I finished the job as described in 4. Because, he I am willing to take a little test or something to prove yes I can program but not waste 4 hours of my life.

I also have a family as has been pointed out is a real filter on people being willing to do this.
So now it's really just verifying you have an apple-enabled TPM chip...

One more nail in the coffin of the open web.
Turning Downtown Offices into Housing Isn’t the Solution You Think It Is
Most digital calipers use a capacitive stripe to measure distances, which consist of 0.1" grounded stripes on 0.2" centers. Using the same principle as a Vernier caliper, this gets interpolated into resolution down to quite small distances, even in the cheapest harbor freight model. Metric/Imperial scales are done in software.

You can use a vinyl cutter to make a pattern in the same dimensions, and stick it on a conductive back, and make an arbitrary sized caliper, subject to the accuracy of the pattern once applied. You could also just machine it with a 0.1" end mill.
It says 0.2 right there in the center of the home page, under the big "The V Programming Language"
WebAssembly on Amazon Lambda: Lessons Learned
My brother in Christ, you have an email job and you definitely don't need this browser.
Is it fair to say that MapBox is moving into auto services?

Or to put it another way, is it not a good idea for me to move to a different provider for basic mapping services?
It became more clear during the pandemic. Speculation is a human need. It's not going away. See the reality for what it is and not what you wish it to be.
Affordable housing has to fight through the same permitting and environmental review process as any other housing. Then there are the lawsuits and planning delays and ballot initiatives by neighbors. Then the housing has to get built, likely with only unionized workers since State money is involved. And it has to follow the same building codes: parking minimums, balconies, mandatory solar panels, etc.

With all the barriers involved, its amazing affordable housing gets built at any price.
I think you’re both making good points in this thread. I’m writing a non-fiction book in my spare time, and I’ve had to face the fact that my default get-words-on-the-page is extremely flowery.

Would it be possible for you share an example of your prose that received this criticism?
this is already done; this is what modelling and simulation is for. at least in the US pretty much all projects require some kind of alternatives analysis, and at least one of those alternatives must be "do nothing at all."

whether the model's assumptions are correct, and whether politicians actually allocate funds based on projected efficacy, are another matter entirely.
They must be losing money on the Quest 2, so there's that...