skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels pretty much the same, except there's no second car.

The first problem is that housing stock takes a lot of modification to get to modern energy usage (essentially, 0 joules after construction). We haven't started down that road in any serious way as a society, even though the technology is commercial and past early-adopter pricing. But living in that house, it's no different to living in any other nice house -- a McMansion has a big reception hall, my passive solar house has a airlock/mudroom -- that's not a difference in lifestyle, just in detail.

The second problem is transport. At a personal level this might mean EVs, except that they are so very expensive. You might afford to replace one of the family's cars, but not all of them. Public transport would appear to be an alternative, but if you don't have access to that already, then the build time for that is over a decade. So there's going to be an uncomfortable interim of, say, twenty years. Which I suspect will be filled with bikes and e-bikes, as adding bike lanes and bikeways are minor projects. There are times when your description of personal transport as "scaled up" is very true.

There are many small annoyances from being slightly ahead of the bulk of the population. But one of the things Covid-19 has done has been to make local government is far more open to change: they've flipped from sending me letters about my vegetable garden in my front yard, to asking me if I'd be happy for their staff to tour it and collect ideas.
Or it could have been designed to sound like crickets.
If neural interfacing technology (such as neuralink) becomes mainstream and widespread, let's hope they are properly grounded and tuned else you will be walking with a timebomb in your head.
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“ Another way of defining qualia is as "raw feels". A raw feel is a perception in and of itself, considered entirely in isolation from any effect it might have on behavior and behavioral disposition. In contrast, a cooked feel is that perception seen as existing in terms of its effects. For example, the perception of the taste of wine is an ineffable, raw feel, while the experience of warmth or bitterness caused by that taste of wine would be a cooked feel. Cooked feels are not qualia.” — Wikipedia
tldr; The (long) article is simply wrong.

It's true that the startup hardware scene in SV died around 2012, since VCs don't like the risk or long timeframes, but that just means more software startups.

As an illustration, if you live outside SV, try telling your friends and family, "I'm quitting my day job to start (or work) at a startup" and watch their reactions. Especially in Europe or Asia.
If they had Hunters contact info, why doesn’t Hunter have his computers? Who abandons thousands of dollars worth of computers over an $85 Bill?

And what a coincidence that the shop owner was a huge and active Trump supporter. Sure I’ll take HIS word on where the laptops came from and that he called Hunter.
>Minding is activity brains perform, exactly as motion is activity cars perform.

This is a contentious claim, for which you have provided no arguments. Unsupported assertions are entirely useless in this discussion. My argument is very clear and straightforward. If you disagree, you should point out which premise you disagree with and why. Unspecific incredulity does not make an argument.

Note that my claim that consciousness supervenes on the dynamics of the EM field generated by the brain does not make it "mysticism". The EM field is a perfectly kosher physical property of the universe. The core claim of my argument is rather mundane in fact. If you feel compelled to resist the argument at all costs because it strikes you as mysticism, you simply didn't understand it.
China's economic development comes to mind but curious of other contenders.
It's the US medical complex that makes medical expenses even a remote concern. For other first world nations, the medical costs would be a drop in the bucket.

That said, even for America the costs would fade away into the intense military spending budget if they were willing to spend it.
These icons are obviously designed for mobile apps, and they look fine on app icons. But they are plain awful on the pinned tabs. I'm not sure if only a small percentage of GSuite customers were using web apps for them to justify this.

Maybe they could have color coded these icons like Microsoft did for each product. I do like the shapes, I'm just having a hard time distinguishing them. So maybe they should have stuck with 100% red for mail and 100% green for google meet, and so on, with the new shapes. Or at least let the old color for the product be the dominant color of the icon.
The brain damage is real though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome

> Subsequent studies of the affected diplomats in Cuba, published in the journal JAMA in 2018, found evidence that the diplomats experienced some form of brain injury, but did not determine the cause of the injuries.

The crickets may have just happened to be singing at the time.

Or some person had the brilliant idea of making a brain damaging weapon also produce cricket noises to send investigators down the wrong track.
The first row still looks best. Just tweak the Hangouts green and you're done.
I absolutely hate this practice. I get bit by it daily and it's so frustrating.

Load page. Click -> oops, some element pushed the content down, sorry, wrong link. Gotta go back. Like you, now I give pages time to cool down. It drives me nuts.

The worst offender in my mind are async suggestions loaded on keypress on mobile. Maybe I've got 8% battery left so the CPU got throttled, maybe there's additional network latency right now - whatever it is, too often the result is that the rug gets pulled from under my finger just as I am about to tap on an item in the list.
I'm thinking this could also be useful for cases where colleges mistakenly email all applicants saying they'd been accepted, when they in fact had not been.
OMG the first thing I thought when I saw the title was "probable VP Urination Syndrome." And apparently it's true. He probably paid a prestigious design firm a million dollars for this shite.
> Lots of random projects, often killed, little direction

This is what happened inside Yahoo as it was imploding. Every team wanted their own dev library/graphics/app style to "win" internally. It resulted in very arrogant dev & project leads fighting with each other for no customer benefit.

It's the same in Academia though. "In the heart of every Vice Chancellor lies an Architect". Gotta build a new building so you can put your name on it.
I just gave this a test trying to find google drive as fast as possible. My eyes first stopped on google home since it’s the exact same colours and mostly the same shape.
With the recent advances in WSL2, I’d say dual booting is hardly worth the effort anymore. This is assuming you need Windows.
> Related, it really bugs me that some startups are throwing the ‘no code’ tag into their pitch decks or Product Hunt launches just to hop on a trend.

Astute observation - guilty! lol.
It’s a note taking app that has existed for at least 5 years.
Flagged because the author said Biden's son killed himself in his previous post. I don't think that's ad hom. It would be if he'd said it a long time ago, but it was 5 days ago.
Can you explain why amount of waste grows over time by design?

Here's my reasoning. Miners spend electricity. They're getting block rewards and fee rewards, they'll exchange earned bitcoins to dollars and pay their bills. So ultimately energy spent per block = (block reward + fee reward) x bitcoin price.

Right now block reward is 6.25 BTC. Last block fee reward was 2.13 BTC. Block reward will go down as time goes on.

I don't really understand economics of fee rewards and whether they'll grow over time linearly or exponentially. I checked historical data and it does not seem to grow at all. So I'll suppose that reward fee will not grow.

So in the end you'll have block reward of 10-20 BTC. That's all you have to pay your electricity bills after you mined block. So basically energy spent per block is directly correlated to bitcoin price, and that's about it.

Obviously bitcoin price won't grow to the moon and its price is limited by some economical factors.

So while bitcoin network might draw non-negligible amount of electricity, it still is limited by design.

Now if miners will decide to change bitcoin design, for example to increase block size, that's another matter. But it's not clear if that would happen.
The claim isn't EM in general, it's specifically microwaves or sonic waves.

Sonic waves would have to be of relatively low frequency in order to not be reflected or otherwise attenuated, so you would need low frequency waves, which, no matter what kind of interference you try to use, will never have effects moreso localized than the wavelength itself. If you were trying to get resonance with the skull at n<8, you'd be well within the audible range, too.

As for microwaves, the same issue is still there, I can't think of any interference pattern for waves of lambda>1mm that would somehow have effects that would have no detectable thermal characteristics yet be extremely localized to only a few specific parts of the brain.

Same for resonance, you'd need a wavelength comparable to the dimensions of the skull, and for that you couldn't have effects as localized as damaging only the optical nerve.

It's not out of the question that very high-powered microwaves could have some kind of electrical impact on the brain, but those impacts would not be localized to only the optical nerve and instead hit the entirety of the brain, and if you were able to get a machine that could create strong electrical currents throughout the brain the idea that this could happen enough to degrade a nerve without being somehow noticeable, for days to weeks is extremely implausible. Plus, a thin line would have not to be crossed where a lot of waste heat could be dumped in the room.

In all experiments done, effects were either wildly different or extremely rapid, and are thought to come from a completely different mechanism of rapid variations in temperatures causing physical vibrations. But again, this would need energies in the order of multiple watts applied to the human brain for quite a while, and would definitely be noticeable.

Not only that, but this would be incredibly easy to detect, you'd only need an antenna. The energies necessary for any of these effects are exceedingly high.

It just doesn't make sense, in many many ways.
It is also very clearly a dig at his predecessor (Diane Greene?). Seems unprofessional.
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> The need for redesign is justified,

“Understanding intent” is a far cry from justified.

I understand the intent for airlines to be profitable. It does not mean that I would find putting all of the passengers in coffins for easier transport to be justified.
> “they were much sweeter than ours, you could eat them like apples,” she says.

I like sourdough plenty, but can we revive that?!
The relations between USA and Russia are not friendly at all. With all the sanctions going on and threats of new one diplomatic incident looks like something the US would actually welcome. Would give more reasons to put even more pressure on Russia.

As for inability to detect whatever Russia might have done to the guy - what on Earth does that have to do with the refusal of medical help?
It’s snappy for a web app. If it was a native app it would be mediocre.
I separated from a high paying job where I literally didn’t do anything and was severely micromanaged. There were several factors to account for that scenario including fragility of the software product, fragility of the work requirements, challenge communicating tasks, and so forth. So I drove to work everyday and sat there, but because of the micromanagement I had to toggle the mouse all day to appear active on the computer.

Then COVID and I got to do the same from home. I missed my coworkers because the people I worked with were great, but considering the work I was actually doing it was better being at home. I could toggle the mouse while holding long conversations with the wife or do more entertaining things on my personal computer at the same time.

This left a lot of insecurity and depression about the employment. I never became a software developer for the money, but because I like to build things. I wasn’t doing anything enjoyable and felt the roof could cave in at any minute.

Now I am away on a military deployment where I am often very busy. I have a team to manage and a great many things to produce. I am away from the family for many months but this change of environment is so great for the mental health. I can directly and measurably see the results of my teams productivity.

Am I concerned though. Military deployments are temporary. I will have to go back to that which was so depressing. I have been building a side project. I am thinking of turning this into a business when I return, which is scary. I am a developer, not a business person.
Why did Richard Armitage and Scooter Libby conspire to burn Valerie Plame? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame)

The history of intelligence officers being screwed over in the interests of internal politics anywhere in the world is a long and storied one.
I would definitely love to try bread from a 4,500 year old yeast culture.
IIRC (without checking the manuals) data-definition commands might not be covered by such transactions: such as altering, dropping tables and possibly truncates.
If all you need are some show hide buttons and a CSS animation, do the whole thing in four or five lines of vanilla JS in an inline script tag. You're right that React is the wrong tool for the job, but so is Svelte and so is everything else discussed in this thread.
Whatever did I just read?

> For example, Facebook is not an innovation. Facebook did not make socializing better. It made it worse. Was it at one point a new web site? Yes. Does it make money? Yes. But it is not innovative.

This is surprisingly hollow. Facebook took Instagram and WhatsApp and basically put it on steroids. Those apps couldn't have possibly been the behemoths they are now without Facebook's ample innovative, world-class sales, marketing, engineering weight behind it [0][1].

> Next consider Amazon. Yes Amazon (which is not based in Silicon Valley) made online shopping better. However, it is fundamentally just another middleman, and will not stand the test of time. True innovation, like the silicon chip itself, stands the test of time.

No no no. Amazon is probably one of the most innovative companies right now. You don't go from selling books to building a wildly profitable IT Enterprise business to winning the Emmys by resting on your laurels or being complacent.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJl27KvUDn0&t=34m47s

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18065897
Those tools are cheaper than battery. I think they even sold with battery on some websites.
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"Sapper is dead" is not really accurate. SvelteKit is Sapper + Snowpack and there will be a migration path.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-10/go-back-...
>I didn't say I would try to understand the side that bombed my family. Those would be the terrorists. I said I would get to the bottom of what happened and why it happened. I would not condemn an entire people or a culture (unless of course every single one of them believed the same thing as the terrorists) to seek some sort of sick justice. Please don't invent things I didn't say.

I didn't invent anything you said. I'm telling you what you should do.

>It's not rumours. There is genuine proof. My own government declared it as genocide after investigation (Canada).

Alright. Show me the pictures of the mass killings and the slaughter that's occurring in China. I want to see pictures of the executions and the graves. We have pictures that corroborate the events of Nanking and the holocaust show me the pictures of the genocide that's occurring in China.

>My comment was directed at the Chinese govt and whoever supports them (obviously knowingly). I didn't call his opinion disgusting. Please learn to comprehend at a level above that of the sixth grade.

This whole topic is about a comment calling the original topic disgusting. My comment is defending the original comment. You attacking me is agreeing with the premise. Stay on topic.

>Yeah and you are selectively applying your generosity in trying to understand those you disagree with to whatever suits your needs.

I'm not. Show me the pictures and proof of the "genocide" and I'll do a 180. I'll believe you.
> Life is preferable to the alternative

Because you are alive.

If you didn't exist you wouldn't have preferences.
As a developer, I have the opposite opinion. I wish companies would stop buying this snake oil, because when the platforms do get old, the companies will take their time migrating off them. The platform will be sold to some tiny support shop in Bumfuck, Nowhere, who will gladly send representatives to HQ to renegotiate the support contract. So despite it being a pain in the ass to literally everyone who touches it, it somehow stays in the company because millions or even billions' worth of business goes through it, and replicating the exact logic in $SENSIBLE_LANGUAGE is not an expense the VP or CTO will approve because "what we have works fine". So supporting it, integrating with it, and coding around it falls to the schlubs on the dev teams. Schlubs... like me.
I thought that this article was going talk about how 2020 broke apart SV and caused everyone to scatter. But to say it was 2012? No way. That totally misses out on Uber, Stripe, Coinbase, Lyft, Plaid, and many more.
All Valid points. We can only really speculate since any information that could answer it definitively is not available.

For example, how many officers or operatives have come back from these countries with no symptoms. Is it simply people whose job it is to keep an eye on Russia?

Or maybe it’s more weighted towards people with certain known political views.

It could be as simple as Russia watching Pompeo tear down the state department and then saying, let’s do that to the CIA too.
The only real difference is when a big company does it we're supposed to think it's 'clever' but when an individual does it we're told it's 'sleazy'.

Just like when I buy something down the street and mark up the price 100% before selling it to you. I'm a bad guy for doing what every large retailer does every single day of the year.
I think we've just solved detection and prevention in one go
I admit I'm not the most poetic of people, and often have trouble reading between the lines or finding deeper implications, but this:

> I would put the precise date as November 7, 2012, the day Dustin Curtis published his infamous blog post “The Best”. [...] When I first read it I thought it was brilliant satire. Then when I realized he was serious, I decided to leave myself. Dustin and his ilk had completely perverted the message of Steve Jobs.

completely baffled me. I don't get this, at all! I read that mentioned post, and it looked to me like an appreciation of working for quality that went beyond simply producing goods to be sold. I feel weirdly stupid because I cannot figure out what TFA is trying to imply there.
This seems like an anecdotal experience that is brought up alot in the last couple years. Ive certainly had some experiences similar to many reported on this thread. However, one more recently was different in an interesting way:

I was talking to a friend of mines who recently had gotten into trading on robinhood and he was just explaining his investing strategy, as it were, to me as we walked through a park we frequent. I had my iphone on me as usual. Anways later that evening I would get one of these spam follow requests on instagram from some investing related personality account; keep in my mind I have essentially never searched for investing/market related info or content ever on my machine and definitely not on instagram, most of whom I follow are celebrities or artists.
Since when? I’m a mobile developer, which means I consume Figma designs, I don’t change them. And Sketch works much better for my needs.
> I still think it's debatable

RIAA depends on it being debateble. Debatable means you get to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars arguing over it in court. Sine the RIAA’s members business model depends on it, they are willing to spend whatever it takes. No one else is.
> I don't get where all the hatred is coming from beyond the knee jerk reaction that most humans hate to change. Most people tend to hate change and tend to react negatively to anything being changed.

This is the same speech I give after I spraypaint graffiti on people's houses.
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FWIW the tweet is dated Oct 19, 2016. That should have been on the title.
Solar power, commodity hardware, and of course distributed ledgers
Probably it is the Havanna syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome
The anti racism movement in America, finally bringing the ideals of inclusion, diversity, and equity to the forefront of the social consciousness and giving a voice to marginalized peoples in America and beyond.
Is Sketch doing anything for print? I haven't used it for a few years now and back then it was digital only.
But it’s been a worse experience for your mobile developers.
Razorpay X is a neo-bank and not a payment gateway?
It has everything to do with the antitrust lawsuit. They must show that all their apps are part of a unique package.
re: @sudosysgen: "The proposed mechanism of microwave or sonic waves is completely implausible, to the point of absurdity .."

Very reasonable and well thought piece. It is highly irresponsible for of NPR talking up the next cold-war. But I figure without a foreign bogeyman to scare the American people, the spooks wouldn't be able to justify the budget.
The Ologies podcast did an episode on this. It is an enjoyable listen.

https://www.alieward.com/ologies/gastroegyptology

As fascinating a listen as it is, though, I do find his refusal to share with anyone other than the people currently living in Egypt bizarre and off-putting.
I don't suppose the embassy received any gifts of plaques recently? Is playing the Theremin a popular pastime among diplomats?
Parent comment still applies. A detector would be cheap, small, and could be issued to everyone on a team.
People seem to be taking it for granted that these medical conditions are the result of a weapon, despite no evidence of a weapon being used.
Perhaps. It would be exceedingly unlikely that no one knows this except for Cuba, Russia, and China, which were only politically connected from 65 years ago, and no one else.

Any plausible mechanism for how this could happen and not be happening in dozens of easily verifiable ways would either cause a lot of heat or be very easily detectable.
I dunno, why go through the trouble of deathraying them towards the same goal? To send a message? To test it out? Could be anything.

Poisoning is not that hard when you're a nation state. Light coat of magic dust on your door handle is just one of many methods.
Great read, but remember this is the guy that also recently authored "Why I'm voting for Kanye West".
Being an Android developer is a similar experience. If your app gets removed from Google Play, even if it's clearly by mistake, good luck having it reinstated. Unless you know a googler or two. Then it's a breeze. Going through official channels you'll be hitting a wall.