skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that there are very good security reasons for this, as the keyboards can read everything you type. There are contexts in which defense in depth is more important than convenience.
Reminds me of people getting "THIS LEG" tattooed on the leg to be removed, perhaps something similar with a stick on tooth decoration could be worth it.
I just wrapped up a take home project. When I was told about it, I told the HM that I withdraw from processes that include a take home. They told me that they understood, but that this one really did only take an hour or two, and that they’d send it over to me anyway. All they asked was that I take a look, and if I completed it, they’d send me a $150 Amazon gift card. I took a look, and it really did seem straightforward (basically testing what I’d expect a live, 30-45 minute DS interview to cover), so I went ahead and did it. I ended up spending 2.5 hours on it, but only because I got sucked into making very pretty charts.

I’m pretty anti-take home, because they’re usually scoped as “it should only take you 4-5 hours, here’s a project that would take an in house DS a week at minimum”, but if they were actually scoped like this one (and even mildly comped), I really wouldn’t mind much.
https://netboot.xyz/docs/selfhosting
Mighty: The Browser You Didn’t Know You Needed but Definitely Do
That's a marketing operation for Etherium.
If you look at a lot of Facebook's VR advertising campaigns, they're spending a lot of money on advertising to kids, making VR seem like a place they and their friends can get together and experience cool things.
lol

> Gitcoin grants quadratic funding is not just for funds allocation, it's also a great signaling tool!
Besides the take-home, which has been addressed in other comments (in short, a take-home for a senior role is just a flat 'no' from me), it would definitely help to include salary range in the postings.

When I was searching, if a company did not include a salary range, I automatically excluded it.
The money is in the app store. Video game console sell at cost as far as I know, but they make a killing over their lifetime because they make $15 on every game sold.
Despite my cynical tone, I don’t see inequality as a primary outcome of commerce, either; I do see the increased exchange of goods that the crypto economy brings as a general positive. But it’s almost always been the case that the more commerce happens, the more extreme the gap between the rich and the poor becomes; arguably it’s not always a bad thing, as long as everyone’s getting a piece of the pie. I’m just speculating on why there’s big money rolling into crypto, and there will continue to be.
> building a generic project management and tracking tool is a really difficult, hard problem

I would say building a good one is an impossible problem, because of conflicting needs both across and within companies. The primary job of Jira isn't to help work get done. It's to give managers and executives feelings of knowledge and control even when that makes everything worse.

You don't need fancy planning systems to get good work done. Indeed, I think it's the opposite. I've done many years of work with only index cards. E.g.: https://williampietri.com/writing/2015/the-big-board/

As Poppendieck has talked about, we live in a "Tyrrany of the Plan" age, but that's not necessary and it often makes things worse: https://chrisgagne.com/1255/mary-poppendiecks-the-tyranny-of...

I think this has happened because of the rise of managerialism, where management becomes a self-justifying caste. : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managerialism
I live entirely without a smartphone and centralized social media (unless you count my Pinephone but that's really a small laptop and small forums of which HN is probably the largest.) I recommend this to everyone but even I recognize it's not really a casual decision for most people anymore. I was extremely careful to not let Google/Apple manage much of the things in my life and I still felt pain leaving them behind. Most people are not at all careful and probably don't even know what they would do without the services from these two companies.
For some use cases, AR/VR is already here! There's nothing to be skeptical about. But I think it's healthy to be skeptical of the idea that AR/VR can be shoved into every aspect of our lives and it will make sense. Phones/tablets didn't replace regular computers for productivity. Will VR do it? Who knows, but I kind of doubt it. Will every genre of game make sense in VR? Probably not.

Then there's also the history of each recent step forward in technology coming along with increased top-down control and surveillance. Here, it's especially important to be skeptical of Meta's influence on VR specifically. I think Meta's goal is to create a fully walled garden where they can surveil their users freely to sell ads. An App Store for VR, but with even more monitoring and advertising. This is not a future I want, regardless of the benefits of the technology itself.
A child that's too young to see a couple of four letter words is too young to have a ducking smartphone in the first place.
Jira is like democracy, it isn't perfect and is full of flaws, yet it still is better than the alternatives.
In a somewhat related response to your question: "Is this the type of "progress" happening at FAANG?"

I recently had a similar experience with Robinhood. I found that if you use their "Logout all devices" feature, you have to re-verify your account with them. They allow you to deposit and place trades, but as soon as you attempt a withdrawal, they notify you that you have to re-verify your identity with them. After two weeks and three denied attempts to verify my identity, I got the SEC involved. Within minutes of the SEC notifying me that they contacted Robinhood on my behalf, my account was verified without further action from me.

I withdrew all funds, closed all positions, and deactivated the account out of principle. It shouldn't take SEC action to get access to your funds. And Robinhood shouldn't notify their users that identity verification is required only when a withdrawal is attempted.

Robinhood obviously isn't FAANG, but apparently this is the progress in tech more generally.
We switched to Quire (https://quire.io) - it has a generous free plan, it's simple yet very flexible, and, most importantly for us, quick enough to not be a chore to update (Jira was horrible). Some small UI bugs here and there, but inconsequential.
I've been duped into take-homes a few times. The one time I wasn't ghosted after submitting, they asked me to come in for an on-site... to do leetcode.
Pretty much every tech company gives some amount of equity to it's employees, from the smallest startup to Google. 1-3% for employee number two is very reasonable.

You should try to think about this in terms of utility. Giving this person a small amount of equity might be the difference between retaining and not retaining them. How easy would they be to replace? After 7 years I'm going to guess not very easy. Giving them equity also helps to align incentives - they do well when the company does well.

IMO you should grant a certain amount of stock (say 2%) and have it vest quarterly over four years. Meaning each year he stays he gets another .5%, and he has to stay for four years to get all of it. This is a standard deal. I would strongly consider vesting a chunk up front (say the first year) as a show of good faith since he's been there so long.

Hire a lawyer to set up a cap table, it should cost you (I think, depending where you live) less than $1k.
GitHub Webhook Issues Anyone?
I was working in a repo whose CI, which is triggered by webhooks, was working fine all morning. I just pushed and the ci didnt start. Went to look for the webhook history in github, it says everything is fine but also says the last webhook it even attempted was about 30 minutes before my last commit...
> Benefits and salary are good (though salary isn't posted in the ad)

Care to put a range on the value of "good"?

My experience when searching is that any company claiming "salaries are good" probably isn't even worth my time talking to. Occasionally I'll reply to recruiters if the role looks interesting but it's not uncommon that they can't even match my base, let alone my TC (and I don't even have that great of a TC).

Most truly senior devs that I know are working for a company that can offer considerable RSUs in addition to a solid base + bonus. When I see "salary is good" I'm assuming you're offering below 200k.

If you want senior devs to apply post that your total comp is somewhere in the 300k-400k range.

However I'm guessing that your comp is nowhere in that range, and I think it's fair to assume that most other senior devs also are making that guess.
I used to think so, it just sounds like it would be "the future", right?

But realistically, what exactly is the appeal of it? The Metaverse? I mean, if no one can figure out how to make a fun MMORPG these days, what makes you think the "Metaverse" will actually be something people will want to spend time in? And why would Facebook be the one who actually figure out how to build some super appealing virtual world, they have 0% experience in doing this. It's gonna be boring, in immersive VR, still boring. And who really wants to wear these headsets? They always gonna be somewhat bulky.

But even if you could make it super immersive, and super fun, and totally appealing, you always gonna be one thing that's holding you back: Your real body, yes unfortunately we are all tied to these meat bags, so our dream of moving into our self created Matrix is always gonna be somewhat limited.

I mean you gotta be realistic here, no matter what we do, life will always be best experienced without a VR headset on. It might have some cool fun uses, but that's about it.
I wouldn't consider a drive attached to your computer 24/7 a backup, more like a simple copy of your data, they're very different things. It's at risk of being accidently deleted or open to attack at the same time the computer it's connected to is, so it isn't safe to have it connected at all time.
You can use cron to mount a drive via uuid to a mount point then make an rsync cron job to backup incrementally. uuid shouldn't change after partitioning the drive so I'd imagine you could label them and swap them out every so often. But I haven't tried anything like that.
So, "Project Cambria" is really a "Cambrian Explosion" of prototypes?
Meh Jira is OK and people who hate Jira I feel like they really hate any process. I've used other tools and they are mostly the same.
I'm a "senior" (I was 55 when I started looking), and I didn't have a "network," because I was a manager, and wanted to get back into technical stuff (I'm very good at technical stuff, but I was paid to manage). I had a network of pretty heavy-duty people, but they all knew me as a manager, and I didn't want to put them on the spot for technical stuff, since that wasn't how they knew me.

That basically meant that I had to come in the front door to places I was interested in.

I was a bit "picky," because I wanted to do stuff that interested me. I didn't really care about making a lot of money, or beanbag chairs, or whatnot. I wanted to do work that engaged me.

I'm a very experienced Apple native developer, and I'm good at writing stuff that talks to other stuff (like client/server systems, device control, realtime video, etc.). I'm good at writing APIs and SDKs. Making devices sit up and beg is something I've always enjoyed.

So places that did stuff like that, interested me.

In my experience, I was treated like absolute crap. After a few rounds of "interviews" (which seemed to be opportunities for relatively young engineers and managers to patronize and condescend me), I just said "bugger this for a lark," and decided that I was retired. I set up a small company, so I could buy toys, and started following my own muse. I found some folks doing non-profit stuff, that couldn't afford people of my caliber, and started working with them, for free.

It was the best decision I've ever made. In the last five years, I've probably done more work than I did in two decades previously, I've learned more, every day, than I have, since my twenties.

[UPDATED TO ADD] If you want "senior" people, they are likely to come with a rather fetching shade of grey to their well-coiffed pompadours, and I'd suggest that it would be rather self-destructive to treat them badly. There seems to be considerable resentment towards us older folks. I'm not one to judge whether or not it is merited (in my case, it is definitely not), but it may interfere with efforts to recruit more experienced folks.
You can have multiple 100 inch monitors for which you can change the position in seconds.
> both of these companies deserve to be heavily regulated

They do, no question, but the overwhelming sentiment is much more single faceted. There's a lot of support for breaking Apple's iron grip on software distribution on iOS for example, but practically none for breaking Google's iron grip on the web, even though the latter is arguably far more dangerous since it's corporate appropriation of critical public infrastructure under a guise of openness.

By all means, force Apple to open things up, but in the same stroke ensure that there's no uneven enforcement that could allow other corporate giants to expand their monopolies where they previously couldn't.
> Also, how much of the hate directed towards JIRA buried resentment towards Agile

it is kind ironic, yet pretty typical and very telling, that the slow as hell Jira is tightly associated with Agile
For anyone who hasn't listened yet, Four Tet is really good. A lot of base in very organic sounding samples from analogue instruments like hand pans, chimes, xylophones, steel pan drums and similar kind of percussion but it's still pretty much techno/house electronic music (not tech house) [1]. His newer stuff [2] is starting to sound a bit more synth based but it's still really top work.

I'm glad they're doing something with fighting to get proper compensation, the industry really needs to check themselves in terms of respect for who's out there doing the hard creative work. Way to be a repellent to talent, Domino Records!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWInZ4N6C2g

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6T9Q5mUYqc
> The low-income people are often the most impacted when an emergency hits.

Yes, but it's not relevant to low-income people in general. For someone getting an air purifier in a normal situation, they can go for an ikea model about as well as any other solution. Especially considering the box fan uses a ton of power, costing money.
> LVT doesn't radically alter that, just adds a stick incentive as well as a carrot incentive

Yes, that's the point, the current levels of incentive are not working so we need to crank it up

> LVT doesn't solve the neighbours not wanting it

The point is to crank up the pain, a lot. NIMBY-ism can be very local since not every parcel of land is being developed at the same time, but the beauty of LVT is that land value doesn't vary much in a local immediate area, so it hits everyone the same. The idea is that if everyone is hurting, they will seek relief as a group by overall relaxing restrictions that would better allow them to meet their tax burden.

> For some things it makes it worse: now people protest against mass transit they don't think they'll hear or will bring the "wrong sort of people" into the neighbourhood because land near a transit hub will be in a higher tax bracket.

This already happens. Those who want to NIMBY against new development will do so in any shape or form it takes, and it's not clear that the current paradigm is really effectively addressing this either.

> And if LVT is assessed on development potential of the land

LVT is assessed on land value, and development potential is but one piece. Other pieces include convenience, good amenities like parks and schools, etc.

Part of why I find LVT so appealing is that it has the potential to address (not necessarily completely solve, but address) the US's very unequal system of things like access to good schools, parks, convenience that are more or less funded by local property taxes; if you want good services, you will also be forced to open those up to others as well to address your tax burden.
The solution is for mature adults to not behave like children because they understand being petty about brands creates serious problems both for themselves and everyone around them.

Children doing it is just part of the series of learning experiences that comprises maturation.
Wait until you try Microsoft DevOps boards
And? This is basically an argument for preserving the status quo of housing. The status quo sucks.
This. Four hour assignment? That's a hard No. Unless you're very clearly offering something far above the norm (in either total comp or autonomy or working conditions or a combination thereof), I'm certainly not going to bother with your interview process.
I'm really really curiuos who will win this bet.

I also have a htc vive pro + wireless transmitter + highend pc and i don't think at all that this will replace a normal monitor setup on a table.

Why?

Because wearing a headset on your head is just cumbersome.

I don't think anyone would ever sit in any outdoor setup with a VR headset on their heads because it looks idiotic, it ruins your hair and its too expensive to let it lay around.

And at home? At home people stoped wearing pants why would they give up a good display for a headset?
I'd add to this, as someone who runs an eCommerce business: the general public is surprisingly lazy when it comes to optimising the returns on their time/money.

We've found things like attractive pictures, high-ranking listings and reduced legwork for customers have a far greater impact on sales than the price or quality of the good itself.
As something of a counterpoint, a literal 4-hour assignment isn't that bad--especially as an alternative to a day of interviews. If they give you the assignment and it's immediately obvious that it's actually a 20+ hour assignment, you can always just walk.

When I worked for a technology analyst company, we would ask for writing samples--which most potential hires would already have. But, if someone didn't, they'd have to create one. It was very reasonably a non-negotiable requirement given that's what they'd be doing day to day.
It also reduces people’s (perceived) quality of life as they can no longer drive their F150s to get groceries and fly to Mexico and Hawaii for vacation every year. Not to mention all the reduction of gadgets and trinkets due to price increases in plastics. And smaller homes and plots of land, if not apartment style living due to needing to be closer to everything.

The solution to pollution ($30/gallon gas and $1k/hour flights, or whatever numbers make consumption go down) was obvious a long time ago. The problem is it is not going to be political popular for people to vote to kill their own dreams of future consumption.
Artistic Radiance Fields – 3D from 2d image/video
Jira/Confluence Cloud use the same markup and editor.
I've been told that drinking it via a straw is better on your teeth because the straw deposits it directly into your throat and doesn't swish it around your teeth, but in any case I suspect doctors and dentists have stopped telling people to change their diets because people just don't.
Seems like a good way to weed out people that are constantly taking time off to deal with kid issues.
When we (like, nearly everyone except maybe Wolfram) talk about intelligence, we aren't talking about computational complexity. We're talking about the ability to learn, and to apply that learning to achieve desirable outcomes. Just like swirling storms don't.

> At an abstract computational level it’s like our intelligence.

True, but abstract computation isn't what matters about intelligence. How about this thing I just made up:

By letter count, "computations" is like "intelligence".

I mean, it's true, but the number of letters in the word is also not what matters about intelligence.

The rebuttal is almost identical to the argument it rebuts: If computational complexity was the same as intelligence, then a swirling dust cloud of sufficient size would be more intelligent than all of humanity.

Which is absurd.
Two companies have offered me Amazon gift cards, one of them told me that it’s far easier for tax purposes (my understanding is that this is why user research often offers them, rather than cash). I assume they could give prepaid debit cards too, for people who prefer not to shop at Amazon.
I honestly don't see VR ever really taking off before we manage to solve the "output" problems either. Every sense except vision and hearing gets ignored. Walking is a complete mess, because real life furniture tends to get in the way. Smell and taste are usually completely ignored. Touch tends to fail completely as soon as you "push through" the haptic feedback.

VR is just not very "real", and I don't think we can ever make it real enough with the tech path it is on. Human brain interfaces seem like the best bet, but they are so far away that I don't think they'll be commercially available in my lifetime.
git doesn't know the concept of a Pull Request? https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull

Bugzilla is for bugs and that's the point, right? A project is not a set of bugs...
From the gitcoin footer:

Gitcoin is a platform where you get paid to work on open source software in Python, Rust, Ruby, JavaScript, Solidity, HTML, CSS, Design, and more.

I'm assuming that payment is in some crypto token/currency.
When I tried it, they didn't have an iPad app, but it was fine because they give you the configuration and I plugged it into the OpenVPN app.
> Every day the evening news and social media would carry a new, tearful story of a family forced to sell their home.

The same things were said with market value assessment was in introduced in Ontario, Canada:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_Property_Assessment_...

Municipalities were forced to used the market value, but could determine rates themselves. Not much happened IIRC.
> You can either have something incredibly powerful, like Jira, with a lot of sharp edges...

It's powerful. But I think a bunch of the dislike is because the edges are not sharp. They're very dull. That's why it's so clumsy to use. (Sure, it's still easy to cause damage, but that's not the same thing...)

Disclaimer: I have never actually had to use Jira. This is just my impression from listening to others complain.
But there is zero money to be made out of people who have zero money.
It'll be interesting to see where this goes. If VR becomes a big thing and we get to the point where an appreciable chunk of social interactions start to take place over it (huge if), the device would at least be as significant as your phone.

People in the US are willing to spend extra on the Apple phone. There's already drama over the stupid blue text/green text thing, imagine a world where you know that your social interactions with a Facebook user are snooped on. I think it could lead to some significant ostracization. Private party -- no Facebookers.
That is true, but irrelevant to my comment.
How exactly do you do that? I work for a company also struggling to find good senior developers and since the team is 100% remote, it's not like we'd have any idea if they were disabled or not...
I won't do 'assignments'. I understand the reasoning, but I'm just plain burnt-out on test-taking of any-kind after I left grad school. I also don't want my 'test' answer to actually get used to solve a problem they actually had. To me, that is work-product-for-free.

Most of the code I've previously written is considered proprietary and I'm restricted to not disclose. That leaves me with only being able to show-off screen shots of personal projects.
Can someone explain this expression to me? "astroturfed to within an inch of its life"