skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's exactly the same as Linux and open source software. I have never read the kernel source code, but I trust it way more than windows because I know others have read it and not reported any secret backdoors or exploits.
I remember finding out about next door and being excited because it seemed like such a good idea on the surface. It's so sad to see how poorly executed the whole thing is.
Some thoughts:

* Pay _much_ more.

* Post the salary in the ad.

* Get rid of half of your hiring process.

- The recruiter call is likely worthless, engineering managers can tell in about 3 minutes if a CV/resume is worth an interview.

- Instead of 4h homework and a presentation, do an hour of pairing with a team member.

* Come up with some other benefits - 4 day week, full remote, options/sharesave etc.

* Reward your team for using their network to get candidates.
Take-home technical assignment sounds too broad. What kind of questions are these?
Ask HN: Should a startup have a Board of Directors? If yes, what to give them?
That’s actually the only reason it’s usable for this. Because you can’t use a public database for anything at all once it’s full of spam and CSAM; not only will it get blocked but nobody will work on maintaining it.
> takes charge of our two most important senses (sight and hearing)

A quibble with this - the next gen is all about full color high res passthrough and many headsets like the Quest have open ear headphones so you still hear your surroundings. I think it's going to be much less isolating than the "VR is an isolating dystopia" people think.
Does it have vim keybindings? And does it need react or is there a standalone way to embed it?
> As a reviewer, I sure spent considerable time reviewing take homes.

You mean like 4 hours reviewing? I'll believe you, but it surprises me. Anyway I can only go by what I can see. If you've already got a candidate you mostly like, you might solicit more take homes hoping to get one that blows you away, and take only a minute each to spot that none of them do.

> As an applicant I got extremely thoughtful and detailed reviews.

That's cool to hear. I myself have never gotten any kind of feedback to a take-home, beyond "hey, you did that really well, let's move forward to a live interview", or alternatively, dropping communication.

I do understand that sync is more hassle for you than async, but that is part of what makes it an honest signal.
You need to decided his ultimate value to you.

I’ve been in the position of giving employees stock. I resented them because in doing so, I thought they would treat the business like I do. However, they still act like employees.

Don’t give him shares, give him a percentage of profit based on his continued employment. I’d also tie it to some kind of performance.
EFF can't protect the user. They have no power.

Government have the power. But giving government so much power is not something I feel comfortable.

Having one monopoly in each field is, sometimes, better than having a single entity(the government) own limitless power.
This already happens. Las Vegas has restrictions on this. LA does too. Additionally, just looking at the LA water rates [1] you see that depending on the size of the lot, you get a tiered water pricing depending on your usage. Put another way: the more water you use the more each unit of water costs you.

So you can have a big non-native lawn but it's going to cost you. Personally, I'm completely fine with that. Outright prohibition seems unnecessary.

[1]: https://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/faces/ladwp/residential/r-custom...
Your math is right, but conclusion is wrong - wholesale almonds go for $1 - $1.5 per pound, and farmer gets a fraction of that.

Yourl are talking about the privlce going up 10x.

Even if its 10%, you are more than doubling the price at farm gate.
> Instead of nurturing competition and their own tech industry or create an environment where such an industry can thrive, they somehow try to regulate it into being

Fair and efficient markets don't exist in a vacuum.

In a free-for-all, everyone would be insider trading, stealing, and defrauding.

Integrated, non-modular technology platforms are not competitive marketplaces. You cannot introduce a competitor to the Apple App store or iOS because it's a monopolistic integrated platform.

Society has to continually keep creating laws that turn non-marketplaces into marketplaces. Just as it has always done.
One thing to note is that the "free market price" for water would probably result in far MORE irrigated lawns than currently exist in CA.

Farmers pay nothing for water (they have water rights), and vastly exceed residential use. So if you shifted all water consumption to pay-per-gallon, you'd make it very easy for suburban families to pay chump change to irrigate .2 acre yards.

Not saying it's good or bad, but it would happen.
There is no denying that "Linus (Torvalds) Tech Tips" would not be extremely entertaining though. I would love to see him just go off on everything. :)
You can try and get into non programming roles. Those usually pay on the lower end but depending on the visibility, can offer a faster growth path. There are roles like Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Scrum Master, Project Manager, Product Manager.
You could also do non-programming certs like AWS, Salesforce etc if you want to get out of programming.
Trying to understand how in the same short form piece we get:
> "I still bristle at the word “career”. Not for me."

And then end it with:

> "The skills and connections I developed at Mapbox set me up for a smooth and satisfying career transition."

So do you have a career or not?
I mean, I've set up a sony a6000 with elgato, where I also had to adjust things.
When did the switch from activism to grifters occur?
In Japan they use plug Type A, and most of SEAsia they have these plugs where you can put either type A, C or F in. Type A to Type C/F is a tiny piece not worth mentioning anyway.
> After registering, I was immediately told my account was disabled for suspicious activity

> Your account has been disabled for violating our terms

I have experienced that same process on Facebook, with the same wording. However, I was never able to get anything after that.

In my case, I had deleted my facebook account a few years prior, and finally I was reluctantly making it again since I really needed access to a particular travel/region group.

What really blew my mind is that I had only gotten to do the very first step of account creation. I had not reached the point where I could have done or written (or posted or uploaded) anything objectionable. In essence, I "violated" their terms merely by signing up.

Basically, their sh*t is broken and deeply flawed, likely unintentionally but possibly _also_ intentionally.
Yeah expectations are definitely a tricky part of economics and so not knowing how to model them very finely, I had to keep things simple. I tried to integrate a kind of extrapolative expectations with regards to inflation using a linear regression over a rather long period to simulate the expectations being "anchored" and "smoothed".

It might be interesting to allow the expected trend to be changed by announcements and such as you suggested.
What I care about is that people largely don't talk about them, even though they're at least as plausible as fully immerse VR, which looms large in the collective third eye.

The public imagination is bent toward the cyber-dystopian, whereas these two technologies represent other possible futures.
Those deaths _are_ vastly more prevalent in the US than other jurisdictions.

Ditto accidental shootings by children...
you seem pretty smart about math, and pretty dumb about regular expressions. Considering that I have a RegEx bronze badge [1], I think I will just trust my own judgment in this matter.

1. https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/269/regex?userid=10022...
> California is growing lettuce and strawberries with field irrigation

Taking up as much land as possible is the point, and the water usage is secondary to that. It’s a mechanism to curtail population growth and overlaps with the comically inadequate housing supply, the troubles building transit (e.g. the fragmented mess of systems in the Bay Area, the HSR boondoggle), the freeway revolts, etc.

See also: ranching, areas now considered “conserved” (for whom?) despite being clear-cut once already, all the vineyards in Napa/Sonoma, cannabis in Mendo/Humboldt. Anything but housing.
Top-end streamers make > $1m/year.

https://dotesports.com/streaming/news/full-list-of-all-twitc...
Groovy does - I assume all Apache products do too, and I assume they get a good deal because they're doing open source stuff.
In the context of Microsoft strategy: Embrace, extend, extinguish

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...
Our "{community_name} moms and dads" and "buy nothing" FB groups are thriving and full of activity.
I have the same frustration at current $BIG_CORP employer. It's maddening to think how much productivity must be lost by 100s of engineers being interrupted many times a day by this! Granted, I know nothing about how it is implemented, but I struggle to comprehend why this is necessary - the SSO client knows I authenticated literally minutes go from this device...how is that not sufficient verification!?
Kerala Man Uses Bumble to Find a Place on Rent in Mumbai
Everyone in the US seems to be; it's a national sport.
This is a common tactic by Facebook. They tried it on me a little over five years ago and I did not comply. After resetting my password via the verified email account, I got this:
"Hi,

Your Facebook account is temporarily locked as a security precaution. Here's how you can get back in:

1. Try logging into your account and completing the recovery steps from a computer or mobile phone you’ve previously used to log into Facebook. You can start the recovery process here:

https://www.facebook.com/recover/initiate

2. If you're still having trouble regaining access to your account, please reply to this email and attach a certificate of incorporation or other proof of the legitimacy of your business, such as a:

- Utility bill

- Local business license (issued by your city, county, state, etc.)

- Tax filing

- Certificate of Formation (for a partnership)

- Articles of Incorporation (for a corporation)

Note: Your name must be on the document you submit.

If you haven't already, please also attach a copy of your personal ID. You can review what types of ID we accept and how to send your attachments over a secure connection here:

https://www.facebook.com/help/183256078471165/?ref=cr

Please note that we can't process your request until you provide ID that meets these requirements. In the meantime, your account will remain hidden on the site as a safeguard.

Thanks,
The Facebook Team"

Thereafter I was getting weekly email reminders:
"It looks like the information on xxx is inaccurate or out of date.
Please verify the the information below for accuracy.
If we don't hear from you by (two weeks), the information in question will be automatically updated."

That went on for over two years, and then the message changed to "Weekly Facebook Page update for xxx"

So it seems that Facebook will lock you out of your account if you delete their cookies from your browser and reset your password via email. They've decided that the email address they've already verified is insufficient proof of your identity, so they want you to send them a gold mine of PII to get back on. No thanks.
here's an idea(FWIW) so I will put it out here. Why don't you just "link" Missippi/Missouri to the West. Seriously its been done to death in my own semi-arid, parched City of Chennai(pop 11,235,018) where-in they successfully linked Krishna(perennial river) that originates in central India, flows through the entire central Indian plains before flowing into the sea in the central Indian coast. The Krishna River project was successfully completed in 2014 and the city of Chennai has no longer water shortages. If it can be done in India, what's stopping the consortium of the western states(CA/NV/AZ/NM) working together with MS/MO to implement this. As an aside, the guy who solves this "water crisis", at scale within the next 5 years IS going to make bank. I am not seeing any one else from the Billionaire club doing this. unfortunately. sigh!.
As an "advocacy group" Greenpeace actively and aggressively campaign against nuclear power with a fervour that they don't even apply to campaigns against fossil fuel power, despite it (coal in particular) being many orders of magnitude worse than nuclear on every environmental metric.

I'm not usually prone to conspiracy theorising, but if I were Russia in the 2000s and 2010s, I'd be throwing lots of money at Greenpeace to get France, Germany etc to shut down their nuclear energy programs.
To be fair, there's "ops to support production" and "ops to support development".

"Devops" means the latter at some companies, so it makes a kind of sense that those people don't do any dev work themselves.

But I agree with you, that's the exact opposite of the meaning "devops" has in other places, which is the meaning it was coined with.

That was the innovative approach of merging dev and ops teams to be the same people, and things like production CD, to explicitly prevent developers from just focusing on programming (which was considered detrimental when there's an outside world depending on it).

Like Agile and XP, it was a fresh new approach...
You're right. It'll be 100x more game changing than smartphones.
There are so many naysayers because there isn't a compelling use-case.

How many UIs are 3D? How many people are using motion controls?
Workers don’t have same incentives. They can push for conditions that would risk bankrupting company, and if the company does shutter, they can simply get new jobs with no loss. Meanwhile owners lose their money.
> if we simply stopped shipping almonds overseas, California would have enough water for three more cities the size of LA.

Only for a while. Things are likely to dry up a whole lot faster and quicker than you're expecting. Paleo-climatology has revealed that this whole corner of the US has historically been much drier than it is presently, particularly during the Medieval Warming Period (which we've blown past.) The same dynamics which dried up California Climate change is going to make the entire region much dryer than it ever has been in recorded history. It's not just the Colorado river of course. A lot of people seem to think the Central Valley will be fine, or could be fine if we got rid of the farms, but the coming droughts will be felt there hardest of all.

One way or the other, the agriculture will go. But that won't bring the rain back.
I had a Sony Vaio laptop (now long defunct) from Japan that had a FeliCa port.

With that you can put your Suica card close to the reader and get the info out: stations you had traversed, remaining balance.
Opensea can only make your NFTs useless on Opensea, that's the difference. You can still trade them on Looksrare or other marketplaces.

Metamask is the same, if you can't use it you can easily take your coins to another wallet and use them there, you just import your seed phrase.
Nonsense. As a non-profit founded in 1926 with 50 testing labs and partnerships with outside labs, the proof is in the test after test after test after test that is unbiased and, more importantly, the criteria and testing methods are always available and reproducible! So when you don't agree with their rankings you can at least agree that there methods are clear, not based on SEO, not based on spam, not based on money, and pro-consumer.
That's why I never signed up in the first place
I'm not letting perfect be the enemy. I'll push for whatever infrastructure I can get, i just think a lack of ambition is also a flaw. Ask for what you need, not just what you think you can get. That's how SF got a near car-free route from the ocean to the ferry building.
I'm not so sure. In the interview, we asked her about this specifically, and Daryl says that Redfin would rather have more customers than charge each customer a higher amount. They're a real estate broker, so they presumably would have plenty of business to do in facilitating transactions and connecting buyers and sellers regardless of how expensive the underlying assets were.
Org-jira is in melpa and works fine with the new Atlassian token format. So much better and there are a few riders you can add for extra features.
Frankly I'd pay out the nose for a flagship phone with a 16:10 screen like the original Note.
You need to do a lot of train travel to amortize those costs. If you just need to take the train from Geneva airport to Lausanne and then maybe the metro a couple of times, it won't be worth it.
And quite a different interpretation.

My grandmother was the idiom queen (by the time the dementia really took hold, she was communicating in trite phrases just like 'kids these days' communicate in memes) and this was one of her favourites.

The meaning of the saying is fairly straightforward - "pours" being more voluminous than "rains", it's like saying "it never trickles but it floods". Related of course to the London bus, where you wait for ages and then 3 show up at once.

Morton's seems to take the sentiment, but change the meaning - it rains AND it pours, because the "it" changes between those two verbs. A clever play on words to change the meaning of and old idiom - maybe similar to Tesco's "Every Little Helps" that's catchy because it's similar and yet different - but as you say, definitely not the origin of the trite saying about misfortune or luck.
I do the same but I have never ever caught anybody selling my email to spam companies.
volumetric displays have a lot of room for improvement but "looking glass" has been shipping a pretty slick product for a couple years now, I hope they can keep innovating

https://lookingglassfactory.com/product/overview

I don't really know what programmable matter means, sounds like biology to me :)
> Have a shorter hiring process. Maybe cut out the recruiter screen?

The downside of this is that you'll spend a greater amount of time interviewing people who are not appropriate for the role.
One downside of a long 2 month sabbatical is the startup cost of getting back into the productive mode could take some time as things would be forgotten. I suspect there is a inverted U for productivity and length of break in your job. A better strategy could be to have weekly break every quarter or so. Employees will have a pulse on their work and aligns well with others who have to match the break schedule.
Privacy Pass: Protocol Design Explanation
Just regulate lawn water usage. It's already done during droughts.
I'd suggest reading their terms of service and licensing model. They changed it on their 2.0 version and it stopped being right for a lot of use cases, either for financial, privacy or legal reasons. Make sure it fits for yourself also.
Wow. I've just had a glance at the not too distant future!
The Proton ecosystem – How Proton’s privacy services work together
What I hate about this behaviour is that it’s pure virtue-signalling and surprisingly it’s always done by the most disgusting & morally-bankrupt companies ever, the same ones who will screw employees, customers & partners alike at every potential opportunity.

It feels similar to these YouTube personalities who film themselves giving money to the homeless and that’s not a coincidence; it “feels” that way because the motive is the same: virtue-signalling.

If you want to support a political cause, donate $$$ towards it and don’t even tell me about it. Changing a homescreen logo provides dubious value to the cause (especially to an already well-known one) in comparison.
IANAD, but I work at a dental clinic, so I certainly empathize with your complaints. If you don't mind a few suggestions?

If you have a certain profile of patient who often break their appointments, you can simply double-book a certain percentage of them. That is, if you need to schedule three such patients, have two come at 1 PM and the third come at 2 PM. If you expect that one will break, you'll still take care of the other two in two hours. (adjust these times if you are faster or slower) If neither of the 1 PM patients break, or especially if none of them break, somebody will have to wait for a bit. So what? You're a dentist; your time is more valuable than your patients'. If one of these patients gets pissed about this, that's two strikes against her since she is already more likely to break appointments. You don't need a patient with two strikes.

Patients who don't have insurance or who have insufficient insurance (granted, this latter situation is sometimes hard to know in advance) have to pay when they receive service. If you explain this before the work is done (since you have informative treatment plans, patients are never surprised by a bill), then someone who doesn't pay can be referred to the prosecutor for fraud.

Never run "payment plans" through your office. Always use an outside agency like CareCredit or Lending Club. If they won't loan the patient money, then you certainly shouldn't. You do have to pay these firms, so if your schedule is full then nobody gets credit. If your schedule isn't full these fees come out of the marketing budget. If you try to handle loans yourself you'll end up paying more.

Procedures that require lab work are billed on the first appointment, and the patient has to pay half in order for the case to be sent to the lab. You explain this ahead of time, and if you're using the right labs (hint: most of them are in China) you'll still make a profit if someone breaks the second appointment.

The effective dentists I've seen have set up policies that automatically handle bad patient behavior without need for argument or personal involvement. These policies can change based on your experience. You shouldn't be on the front line of implementation, however. The people you have on the phone have to be able to schedule defensively, so you won't be sitting around with no patients. The person you have handling treatment plans has to properly communicate payment terms before you begin expensive procedures. You might have to get involved with particularly evil patients, but if you don't have to address these problems for most patients you'll probably avoid some frustration. Good luck!
Central Valley farmers love to deny climate change and blame the government for all their problems. What they don't want to admit is their "perfect" farmland was bone dry a few centuries ago, and is now reverting back to that state.
Oh, the same rhetoric used in depth about GNU AGPL licenses as well. And so nice to read the opinions of people explaining why a corporation X is not breaking your AGPL license and can use everything for free)

The reality is much simpler - in real world anyone hardly cares about licenses, companies and corporations steal all the time, it is only the matter of the amount of money you want to invest in litigation.

The only real silver lining is that all popular software licenses basically prohibit authors from defending their rights ... most prominent FOSS things are financed by corporations as a means of competition ... an or course you (i.e. me) should use a license that deprives me of any possible rights.