skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is big money coming into crypto because it is rebuilding the financial system with software protocols, assembled into building blocks, and each block is tokenized like a stock. It’s like being able to invest in TCP at the dawn of the internet. You can say this is a bad idea, illegal, and so on, but fundamentally this is what’s happening and the reason why VCs are investing.

The surest way to get rich in the world without using a gun or getting into a position of political power and stealing, is to create something people want to use voluntarily.

If I create a new widget and convince 10 million people to give me $10, I have $100 million of revenue. Let’s say my expenses are in total 75%. I’ve now made $25 million. This is certainly a princely sum of money, but I made 10 million people’s lives better! Or else they wouldn’t have voluntarily given me money.

Certain people would say, “You have $25 million when 99% of so little! This is unfair! You should give (some large percentage) of it back to society for the politicians to decide how to disperse.

And this is where I fundamentally disagree. The person who convinces enough people to give them that much money is rare. They have a unique ability to spot market needs, assemble people to work cooperatively, and work towards a goal of delivering widgets that meet the desires of society. I want to let them keep as much of their money as possible because they are highly likely to reinvest it properly, vs. the politicians which have a 99% chance of failure / theft.
Yet the US has an obesity problem particularly among the poor.

Hmmm
I'm amused at the mix of condescension and vehement beliefs contained in this essay. There is some irony as his beloved typewriter is a consumer-good technological invention which happens to be his "established" tool. There are legitimate critiques in the piece, especially around repairability, supporting the local community.

Blanket disregarding the reality of technological advancement and the prosperity it can bring is an ideologically extreme position. Billions of people can grow far beyond their circumstances of birth with access to inexpensive cellphones. We can be thankful that consumers and technologists pressed onwards with their efforts despite the dramatic moral take presented by the author.
The biggest challenge I've found is that most items in the Quest marketplace look gimmicky. As soon as you use AirLink and connect it to a PC, it is honestly pretty good. I admit it has a few meh moments, like the gap by the nose and doesn't seem wide enough to cover full peripheral vision, but for wireless VR it is great for the price.
Which is fine by me.
Yesterday I had a consultant locked down in one of these Chinese zero-economy policy snap lockdowns. Hordes of special police came to enforce the lockdown which is ongoing. His hotel was right at the edge. After some suitable wangling he was able to obtain a special paper from a petty official to leave the quarantine zone. Returning in the evening, split lovers could be seen smooching over the quarantine fence. Nobody gave a damn. We expect it to last three days then return to normal.
If I'm making $XXX,XXX, why am I even going to waste my time if I think there's a decent chance you'll offer $XXX,XXX - 20,000?

I think what you'll find is that people aren't motivated by money, per se, but they have obligations: mortgages, car payments, retirement savings. An established standard of living. Especially the more senior they get. I don't do better work for money, but at this point in my career you can be damned sure I'm not going to lower my standard of living just to work at a company with free soda and a ping pong table. I'd put up with a lot of bullshit in my current situation before taking a pay cut.

The unlikely exception would be a mission-driven company (if your company is for-profit, this is not you) that is highly congruent with my values and truly makes the world a better place.
If everyone promoting unions in the US would have your very pragmatic take on the current situation, it might actually change. Admitting it's a risk to the business and developing a strategy to try to align as many incentives as possible and iterate where its not working might help create the success stories required to fix their reputation in the states.

As it stands right now, the most vocal advocates I see for unionization can't seem to help but slather their speech with the collectivist twang that turns so many off.
I already mentioned it above, but repeating it here.

I would also recommend The Torque Test Channel as very similar in approach to Project Farm, maybe a bit more technical and thorough. Their focus was on impact drivers, but they have branched out into other power tools, LED lights and hand tools.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZem9C5rWjSb0B8tV3k2EZg
Thank you for this, bookmarked. However, I like the original example because the spinning animation on the hamburger menu almost looks like it's directly causing the side nav to appear, as if it were a hand crank. The spinning matches up perfectly.
netboot xyz does signature checking.
Why stop at an LVT? Let's punitively tax housing that is unoccupied for a long time. Even in Seattle, where housing is notoriously pricey, there are a great many houses sitting empty. If the cost of keeping them went up then they'd likely be rented or sold.
> I disbelieve, and therefore strongly resent, the assertion that I or anybody else could write better or more easily with a computer than with a pencil.

I can’t speak to writing, which I actually do find much easier on a computer since I can backspace, rearrange, spell-check, but there is certainly truth to reading. I find reading to “stick” longer in my brain when off of hard paper than a screen, most likely something to do with the physical location of the words.
> It mistakes "a thing that is in some superficial respects the same" for "a thing is in every externally observable respect the same

So does all this talk about computers being "the same" if they can, given access to sufficient human-generated inputs, produce similar strings of Chinese characters to those a conscious Chinese person might do.

If you're not stuck behind a WeChat prompts it's trivially externally observable that a big silicon box which outputs Chinese characters and an agglomeration of cells which walks, eats, makes funny faces and reproduces are dissimilar in most respects (the machine might generate a subset of human outputs which is consistently convincingly human-like, but it's trivially shown that it runs different operations on different hardware at a different speed, requires different inputs to function effectively, and it's highly probable it doesn't devote clock cycles to dreaming about the physical and hormonal release of mating with other computers.

Something which in every observable respect is the same as me isn't a computer, it's me (or perhaps a clone or twin). A computer which can produce text outputs indistinguishable from mine is a very impressive trick indeed, but trust me, my sister will spot the difference straight away when she tries to give it an EEG scan!
Also see:

Russian Ruble Is World’s Best Currency This Year (bloomberg.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31474649

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Someone who is senior is more likely to be a parent, and 4h+ spare time, may be a stretch.
Indeed. The side describes TMO in bombastic terms, but this is just an incremental improvement to zram and swapping.

Yet, a smarter algorithm to swap intelligently was long due.
Balancing on one leg may be useful health test in later life, research suggests
Because a headset could become a better display, and while the technology may not be perfected.. if it was AR, it opens new possibilities.
Wow, that looks really nice!

I'm more excited about this than you'd expect LOL
Bootstrapped companies often don't give stock because there's no expectation of being acquired. They simply chug along over the years, as you've discovered for the last 14. As you've paid competitive wages, I don't think there is any real need to give out stock.

The Mailchimp founders didn't when they sold. Some bemoaned that fact when the two founders and they alone made billions, but as I see it, their employees could have easily gone elsewhere for more money or stock. That they didn't is an implicit understanding of their employment agreement.
As far as I know. But if I am going to go down in posterity for it I want a rewrite for pith

> The solution to the tyranny of Kings cannot be a King with better people skills.
Can confirm that my harbor freight caliper burns though batteries while off.. it is otherwise adequate.
I recently did a 6 hour take-home, but was given an expectation of around 2 weeks to accomplish it, with flexibility for more if I needed it. I thought it was pretty fair compared to a never-ending round of tech interviews.
I saved a lot of headaches by just getting a set of digital calipers with a solar panel so I never have to worry about the battery.

I really wish someone made a set of micro-vernier calipers that are small enough to fit on a keychain.
> LVT + UBI would accomplish the same thing (and then some) more fairly and efficiently; UBI would subsidize the LVT for your primary residence, while secondary residences (and residences owned by corporations and other non-residents) would see no such benefit.

Sure that could work, but it looks like 5x the complexity and political will required.

Also, I'm not fully sold on UBI, because I haven't heard a convincing argument on why it wouldn't lead to persistent inflation. As the economy moves towards a you-will-own-nothing stance (to be fair, I'm contributing to this in trying to launch and operate SaaS services)

Even if UBI was the answer, the political fight is bigger, I think. Let's just be honest and straightforward about what we (well, some of us -- it is a democratic republic after all) want, we want people to stop speculating on houses and use them for living.

Assuming we can agree on the premise, tax the behavior we want to disincentivize as directly as possible, be clear about why we're doing it. Clear hearts, full hearts, can't lose. Just kidding this is politics so absolutely can lose but you get the idea.
Sorry, but I don't take ******* people like you seriously, lol. Just joking, of course. Hope this illustrates the point :)
In fact you’d be forced to sell half of it right away since you need to fund the taxes on lottery winnings.
It looks like it's only "officially" supported on Firefox, but I'll give it a try. Thanks.
Maybe, but those WAN show lectures are often starkly mirroerd by strongly worded submarine advertisement playing as segments on his various shows. He basically does a thing, then says that people shouldn't do that. To put it gently, it's exactly what someone with soft sales skills would do. He deflects like a politician. Even if he's wrong, and admitting it, he's very skilled at making it sound like its everyone who was wrong, or he's the hero for admitting it.

Narcissist is probably the word.

Again, I like the shows (well until his rabid fanboyism or petulance comes out). I mostly just don't trust him to review things.
OP made a good faith effort hoping to find a sweet and working language, and the current implementation fell short of its long-advertised promises and accomplishments. That you're calling it a "hit piece" is telling. Y'all are well within your rights to waste your time arguing. I'm just saying that it's a waste of time.
Bottom of the linked page.

https://netboot.xyz/docs/#supported-architectures
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Same here. Not my IP but a whole IP ranges probably spanning almost the whole country.
Seems like a waste of effort and manpower if you have an otherwise perfectly salvageable business and product that is being hamstrung by management. Think of the customers.
Yes but then we are talking about different things. If you want to assume that the adder circuit might be conscious then you might as well assume that a chair has some consciousness.
It seems the pro-Jira comments here are basically, "It's fine if your organization isn't a mess and you don't abuse it."

That's the problem with any tool, framework, language, etc where the defenders main argument is, "It's great as long as you don't abuse it." or to put the former bluntly "It's not the tool, it's your organization." Over and over and over again, if an organization is allowed to abuse and misuse something, it eventually will.

Good tooling has opinions and will give you guardrails to not hang yourself.
I've been tracking my wholefoods purchases for the last year or so. Just ran my first report and was surprised to see prices have been oddly consistent throughout the year

https://i.imgur.com/LeLLhV0.png
Even as an enthusiast (5 headsets and counting) I have to agree. There have been several month periods where I didn’t use VR due to driver instability.

That being said, body tracking is what made the platform click for me. Hanging out with friends from all over the world in an immersive space feels like the future.
I go with LTT if I want to know if a laptop is good to use or not.

I go with Gamer's Nexus if I want to know if a GPU used the wrong kind of thermal interface for their VRMs and what effect that has on core clocks second by second, backed by rigorous scientific benchmarks producing huge amounts of data, summarized in highly detailed graphs.
GP:

> Good typography seems to dictate a wider space after a sentence than between words.

You:

> Rendering engines can do anything they want. The question is about source representation only, for semantic purposes.

The thread you’ve commented on is literally about rendering, not source representation and semantics. I agree that you can use a double-space as a sentence delimiter, but we’re currently discussing whether it’s “good typography” to render it that way.
s/sane/greedy
They already are. At least so far, moderation on active subs and the low ranking of inactive / nothing but spam subs has kept this mostly in check.
People mean battery life for typical use, not putting your phone in a deep freezer or running a file server for your dorm.
Nice to see these world collide here on HN!
Hope you don't mind me sharing the truly dirtiest trick of them all: when you realize you didn't hit that sub 10 lbs base weight, start marking them items as worn weight. What, surely that soaking jar can make a fine hat!

Seriously though, 40 liter backpack is palatial for front-country travel once I'm in the mindset of taking only the minimum necessary items and taking advantage of multiple use items.
Take a ruler to some text that's traditionally typeset and you'll notice that the width of the whitespace after a sentence end is slightly wider than the space between words. That's either an em space or an en quad. Between-word spacing would be about 1/2 an en.

Studies examining whether or not wider spacing between sentences improved readability have been inconclusive.

There is one good reason to use two spaces between sentences, at least for text that's going to be processed automatically. It can be very difficult for software to know whether a given punctuation mark is the end of a sentence or something else, like an abbreviation. GNU Emacs, for example, is (or was) coded to recognize sentences by looking for two spaces after a ., ?, or !.[1]

1 https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Se...
We're just talking past each other, I'm saying Jira is bad because "it's a foot gun, and bad people keep shooting me in the foot" and you're saying "they shot you in the foot because they are bad". We are both right, technically, but I don't like working with foot-guns for this reason.
> You can also get it to agree that it is not conscious.

Careful about how you word this.

Only a conscious being can agree that is not conscious.

I think you mean you can get the program to output text that proclaims its lack of consciousness.
Some useful rules around Web3:

1. The most beautiful and innovative things being done in the Web3 space are much more beautiful and innovative than anything you will do in your life.

2. The most dastardly things being done in the Web3 space are much more dastardly than anything you will do in your life.

Now for the two broad camps of people I see here:

a. People who think 2. is not relevant to pursuing 1.

b. People who think 2. can never justify pursuing 1. – or even finding out about it.

Look at the kids: the day is better spent curious.
Yeah the whole gaming usecases are DoA until if/when that changes. I wonder if this backlash is really different then all the related gaming ones that proceeded it. Early Access, kickstarters, Pre-orders, day 1 DLC, micro transactions. I'm sure I'm missing some and all of these were hated by the gaming community at various times with various implementations and nuances. Meanwhile they generally seem accepted now that people know the red flags and how to judge an implementation.
'previous workplace' says otherwise, I made an escape ;)
I’ve interviewed people for the type of role that the submitter is looking for. I can guarantee you that I could see through a “smooth talker”. In fact, I can smell someone who just memorized stuff from ACloudGuru a mile away.
GitHub. A Twitter account.
I suppose the headline might be true if "PC" means "a computer with an x86 processor that can mostly run modern Windows."

But, I'd recommend most people in this market look at either a Raspberry Pi or a Chromebook, depending on what they're trying to do.
I just purchased the new HP Dev One to give it a shot. I'm quite happy with it so far. $1k. Also has a nipple mouse. https://hpdevone.com/
Lavalier mics work great, IMO, and some good bookshelf speakers (unless you're in a mixed use home environment, I guess).
That, and repo size can get huge in a game project and no one wants to have to copy the whole thing to do a check out. Svn still sees use for gamedevs that don't want to buy.
The resolution of the Quest 2 is quite good given the context: it's a really cheap headset, and the resolution is generally much better than really cheap (or even not-so-cheap) headsets of previous years.

VR as a whole still has a long way to go though, for sure. You need like 8k per eye or something crazy before you're "maxed out" on what humans can perceive IIRC.
Isn't Vitalik a billionaire or at least rich by now? Does he really need to worry about saving money and space?
I am an oldster, but never used two spaces. Probably because I never did typing lessons at school (hell I don't think it was even an option at my schools - computers hardly featured either).
Heh. The most amusing referral I had, which I didn't ask for, caused me to get a surprise email from HR saying "we have received an internal recommendation from X about your interest in our position of mechanical engineer; to proceed with your application, please send your CV to...". I had to write back and say "I'm not a mechanical engineer, I wasn't applying for that role or any other role, and I didn't ask for a referral. However, here's a list of great relevant experience your robotics software division might be interested in, on the offchance."

Two weeks later I got another surprise email from HR again, saying "this is to let you know we have rejected your application for a web developer role..."

Needless to say, it's not a company I'm interested in actually applying to.
I was on a union bargaining team once. Made me hate my job, hate management, and hate unions. I was fine being in the union before that. Once you try bargaining and see what people really think of each other, it sucks. I wont join a union again.
If you're passively waiting for resumes to walk themselves over to your recruiters then the candidates you'd like to source are probably instead talking to the engineering managers who took the time to introduce themselves and their firms. The candidate profile you're looking for can write their own ticket; if you don't have a compelling answer to why that ticket should say "I'd love to work at a fairly typical run-of-the-mill mid-size enterprise software vendor" you need to spend some shoeleather convincing people of that.

I'd also recommend radically more effort in producing artifacts which some would classify as "top of funnel" or "engineering brand" so that you have some hook to start conversations with and some differentiation with all the other prospective employers of senior engineers.
As someone from Colorado, the no-salary listings are basically a disqualifier since it demonstrates that the company is willing to break the law to try to take advantage of you.
While completely destroying a core benefit of the internet.
It's a double-whammy because not only do security vendors have an incentive to overstate scores, so do their researchers. I talk about it a little in the section on comparing scores over several years.

One thing I didn't analyse that might be interesting would be to see if there's a consistent gap between security vendor / researcher reported scores in NVD and scores given to customers by their general software vendors.
Oculus is leading the pack in wireless by offering Airplay out of the box. I’d wager that’s part of their vision too.

Also the UE5 demo running on a PS5 doesn’t mean that it could push pixels on two screens at the frame rate needed for VR.
We do 2 hour interview. 1 hr of interactive coding with a sr/lead engineer, 1 with the hiring manager.

We want to see them solve a problem, sure, but what's even more valuable is seeing how they approach problems, can they explain what they're doing, do they ask good questions, etc. Much more predictive than just looking at the final output and seeing if it passes a few unit tests.

I would never hire an engineer without them writing actual code that gets compiled and run. It's the single most predictive thing we do in our hiring process. But, we also want to be respectful of people's time, hence limiting the coding session to an hour.
As water crisis worsens on Colorado River, an urgent call for states to ‘act’
And then there is Ethereum!
"tongue-in-cheek retort", "pointless pedantry and pointscoring", it's all a matter of perspective I guess.
> Their opinion changes depending on who is sponsoring them, no?

No, to the extent humanly possible. They have reviews, which are not sponsored by anyone having anything to do with the product being reviewed. Those are their actual opinions and evaluations of products.

Separately they have sponsored showcase videos, or whatever they call them, where they won't say anything untrue, but they're just showing off whatever it is, not really evaluating it deeply. These videos are _very_ obviously different, and very obviously labelled.

LTT has top tier policies and openness about these issues compared to really anyone on youtube or anywhere.

More anecdotally, I've seen them give takes on previous or current sponsors that were _very_ not in their financial best interests. If sponsors are paying for easy coverage, they're not getting their money's worth.

> Well, no, it would work way better if he had no bias.

That would just be lying. There are no humans without biases.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zt57TWkTF4 is probably a good summary on Linus's thoughts on sponsors/funding. If you trust what he says or not is up to you. I do though.
> And what businesses are hoping for are users that are paying without actually using their service

All of them, from the local gym to Dropbox to Spotify. Subscription businesses can't make money if every consumer costs more to service than the revenue they generate. There's even an official accounting term for it, breakage.

> Produce nothing, but get paid every month

Failure to consume and get value from a subscription is your fault, not the business that fulfilled its obligation.
> Which is funny because 99% of what project managers seem to be about is making sure work gets done

Unfortunately, from the project manager's perspective the emphasis is on the words making sure

And Jira lets them think they're doing that
Because they haven't been trained on that.

Yet.