skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at the complete schedule for the week. Almost their entire working hours are totally packed with meetings. Discussions and stand ups and status updates and briefings.

Let's assume all those meetings are productive and necessary and the results could not be achieved in much less time with emails or slack or fewer/shorter meetings. Then he is not putting enough time into each meeting. He has almost no time to prepare, to think about things, to go away and investigate issues with technology more deeply, to make plans, etc. It's just meeting after meeting and thinking by the seat of his pants.

If he is not in a position to seriously participate to the point of making productive input, and asking serious questions or making important decisions in meetings (which he clearly is not given the amount of time he can possibly put into them), then he does not need to be in them. He can skim through minutes to stay generally up to date about those things if he needs/wants.
OP here - It takes a long time for research and consumer hardware to align.

The only 2 that run this particular software right now are the Quest, and the Vive Focus 3 (which cost $1000 more). There are other virtual office interface options available, though, and those run on WMR or any Steam compatible headset.

None others that support Linux that I'm aware of, though.
I think a lot of people have memory-holed this stuff for some reason, but "Tesla killer" predictions are incredibly common for every year over the last entire decade (here's one from 2011: https://www.businessinsider.com/nissan-esflow-photos-2011-2)

And yeah, a common thing said is that major automakers will just crush Tesla when they decide to make electric cars. But Tesla is now producing almost 1 million EVs per year. This is no longer a company that doesn't know what they're doing when it comes to mass manufacturing, and it has turned out to be much harder to market and manufacture a lot of compelling EVs even for major automakers like GM (see the Bolt recalls... I'm not worried about GM long term just due to this recall, but it should make it clear it's not trivial for a traditional automaker to bring an EV to mass manufacture).

2011: https://www.businessinsider.com/nissan-esflow-photos-2011-2#
2013: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1088628_chevy-volt-owne...

2014: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/bmw-s-tesla-kill...
Bolt being called the Tesla killer in 2015: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/01/11/gm-chev...

...and that's enough. It's most certainly not a strawman after a decade of these predictions being wrong and, if anything, Tesla is more dominant in EVs than ever.
No, punch cards are not the binary. Punch cards contain source which is compiled.
Yet people talk about the 10k hour rule and how it leads to hackers and great session players. How about synthetic chemists or material scientists? Whomever figures out superconductivity at -20c will be treated like a god.
By verbatim I assume you mean quoting a string. Example query using that that you consider unsatisfactory?
I don’t know how detailed their analytics are, but using TikTok does somewhat resemble some sort of psychological experiment with fast flying stimuli. It figured me out pretty quick.
Imgur for a while had a hugely active Imgur base AFAIK. Folks who just went on Imgur, did things on Imgur, and added to Imgur. That was a meta layer on top of Reddit. The issue was most of those people wouldn’t pay for Imgur storage, and didn’t view Imgur ads
Ah yes, damn those people who would rather have a 5 minute Zoom call instead of getting carpal tunnel bike shedding over Slack. I bet they’re the same people that talk in the cafeteria instead of texting across the table.

I get that it’s fun to bash excessive meetings, but trying to hash out a complex topic by lobbing Slack message grenades back and forth over the wall is often the worst idea.
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Some friendly criticism. I was curious how slab topics work but could not find the details after a minute of trying to click and scroll around. The marketing bit about topics does not link anywhere. I finally made some progress by scrolling to the bottom, going to the support section, and searching for "topic". I had to scroll past results that described how to reorganize topics, assign permissions, until I arrived at the basics of topic usage. Even that did not provide an insight about how topics are different from regular tags, and I still am not sure what the difference is. So a "features" or "concepts" page would be nice, and even better if it was the main page. (I am an engineer.)
Facebook figures parents don’t care about their kids privacy or letting the kids be manipulated. They just figure that parents want in on it, so they’re sharing their data and tracking.
Porting Gnome to NetBSD
I think you are describing DDG.
This is why in "classic" fintech they used so-called "decimal" fixed-point numbers for decades. To not use COBOL as an example let's check something more modern, e.g. Rust[1].

[1] https://github.com/paupino/rust-decimal
>> lifestyle truck while the F150 is positioning itself as a workhorse truck.

The secret that Ford relies upon is that there are no work trucks. The vast majority of pickups in the US will never go off road. They will never pickup a load of lumber from a mill. They will never tow a rescue boat to the seaside. They are all lifestyle trucks. The lesser Ford pickups are cheap because they are essentially cars with large trunks and raised "high command" seating. The more expensive Fords are capable, but are still far more likely to be parked in a suburban garage than on a jobsite. Their sound systems cost more to manufacture than all their optional towing equipment.

The secret sauce is to make a truck that looks and sounds tough enough for use in the bush but that in fact is cheaply constructed enough to sell to the masses. I'm not sure Tesla's efforts hit that Ford sweet spot.
In the other direction, I'd be quite laudable if some Californian would put in a non-California address, attempt to cancel, then sue them when they refuse.
I feel like this is often the most obvious sign of a good manager. There’s a lot of variance in other areas, but if you’re on the hunt for a good manager to report to, look for the one that passes credit to their people and holds blame for themselves.
You have access to the Android app ecosystem.

In the event you're not a fan of prorprietary Android apps, the BOOX also does F-Droid quite well.

(I use a mix of F-Droid and APK-Mirror sources.)

There seem to be a good set of mostly-works-on-eink apps on Android. Onyx's bookreader and note-taking apps (native and with better e-ink support) are also quite good. I've been disappointed by Linux e-book support on desktop, and the even smaller tablet space is quite probably worse.

Another available tool is Termux, and while no Linux replacement, it vastly increases the usefulness of Android devices.
The second one gets little attention but it’s infuriating to me. I mean, I’m explicitly telling the engine what I want. If it’s not including it in the results, I might as well not even be here typing.

This is symptomatic of the fact that the users are not Google's customers. Google search is intended to direct you to the pages which are most profitable to the company. If you happen to find what you're looking for, so be it. If you don't find what you're looking for (because it's obscure and unprofitable) and instead get distracted by something Google would prefer you to see (because it's profitable) then all the better.

The fact that you're a power user puts you in the minority of (likely unprofitable) users anyway, so Google doesn't mind inconveniencing you. They seem to have a pretty fierce anti-power-user culture, as evidenced by all of the (power user/ hacker popular) products and features they've killed over the years.

We've got a lot of work to do if we're ever going to bring back the web we all remember from the old days.
OP here - I suffer from migraines as well; being able to work in a black void with minimal interface has helped me be functional in situations I'd otherwise just have to stay in bed, triptans notwithstanding. I didn't want to bring it up in the article though because I didn't want to make false promises or urge migraine sufferers to adopt it - in the early days of VR, the bad software IPD management in the DK2 would actually trigger migraines for me.

As an accessibility tool I'm delighted to see it working for another migraine sufferer though.
I feel some negative undertones there, like his support for Trump was driven purely by monetary gain.

This seems like a disingenuous take, Thiel was always a conservative/libertarian even back in his Stanford days, rebelling against pseudo-liberal, pseudo-intellectual mob culture in college which even then didn't take lightly to dissenting voices and tried to suppress opposition with the same bullying tactics they use now (only now it spread beyond academia).

Supporting Trump was entirely consistent with his life-long principles, as supporting someone who stands against this mob.
Google should let me fucking disable it without having to rely on a safari extension, because it makes many websites less usable / more broken in many ways. My mobile speeds are fast enough.
You can roll back Ethereum transactions without forking the blockchain if you build the rollback mechanism into your settlement contract.

There isn’t anything to “fork” in USD since it isn’t a blockchain, but different USD settlement layers get out of sync and have to be manually reconciled. If you instead tried to “fork”/replicate USD in that situation, you’d probably be thrown in jail for life. I personally prefer the blockchain way of expressing my option through code and seeing if anyone wants to follow me and not having to ask for permission.
The other charge networks are notoriously bad and many of them already support Tesla’s native plug.
OP here - Doesn't run this particular software, and it's prohibitively expensive unless you've got corporate sponsorship. Would love to give it a try, though.
I'm not sure if you're invoking Bob Marley but if you are I salute you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2W3aG8uizA
I finally upgraded to iOS 15 today just to be able to download this app. That's how much I hate AMP.
There is something to be said for simplicity in the application of nuclear warheads. though that does make one wonder....

All at once? I imagine no amount of fancy timing would necessarily get both going off successfully before one or the other's shockwave disassembled the later blowing partner.

Or I'm just grossly misunderstanding the timescales at play. that's happened more than once too.
They didn't change the plugin API, they did a massive rewrite of the mobile browser engine infrastructure that broke most of the plugin APIs, and probably the test suites as well. So they are disabled until they can be fixed and proven to work.
Reddit hard blocks you on some subreddits from the default mobile page. You have to go to the app or go to <subdomain>.reddit.com to bypass the block.

Super super super super stupid. Like why block /r/popular from the web and force it to use the app?
I have a new laptop on which I set DDG as default and have been tracking myself resorting to Google 50% of the time due to poor results.
I see no evidence that any red headed stepchildren, their parents or their spouses have been offended here.
By this token most of the tertiary sector can't be hard working and struggling, which would be more than 2/3 of the workers.

We'd also have to exclude all the workers that aren't in abusive conditions, like self owned artisan shops, plumbers etc. And exclude gig economy workers who don't literally work themselves to death and only work "a lot" for little pay.

You might be right, but the slice left is so small I am not sure it's a useful distinction in most conversations. Perhaps qualifying ditch digging and coal mining as "extreme working" and "hardcore struggling" would be a better fit.
It depends on what you are doing in your phd. Biotech $$$ jobs expect a phd. If you take up some code and do some statistics over your phd thats usually enough to walk into a lot of lucrative data analytics jobs in a number of fields. there are a lot more jobs in industry that demand a phd than in academia these days. the old narrative that phds go on to become professors is pretty antiquated, only a fraction don't go into industry these days.
That's a shame. You could have gained new experiences and taught a team something new.

Writing a program is easy and done a million times a day. Fixing a department is hard and people rarely get an opportunity to do it.
That's my experience, too. Coverage isn't a good proxy for test quality, for sure, but it's a good proxy for having looked carefully at every line. I think coverage testing is useful as long as you're prepared to throw those tests away when you refactor, or at least ignore them during refactoring.
> The author mentions lip syncing and hand tracking. That goes a long way, but it doesn't recreate the video experience to me.

The oculus team put together a seriously jawdropping demo of facial tracking using a few cameras in a headset, combined with a lot of AI. The prototype was from a couple years ago. I can't wait until it makes it into commercial headsets. I wonder what the hold up is?

Well worth a look if you haven't seen it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3XcQtoja_Y
Not true. I worked in an engineering company that has a lot of jobs that require a PhD. Pay well, too.

Lots of engineering companies have positions where they value PhDs.

Will it offset the cost of not earning all those years? Probably not.

Will you get those jobs without a PhD? Probably not.
After you do a search there's a 'tools' button. Clicking it gives you a dropdown with the option to change from 'all results' to 'verbatim'. There's also the 'Advanced Search' https://www.google.com/advanced_search where even if you enter a word in quotes in the 'this exact word or phrase' box you still get results without your query.

I don't have an example query, but it happens all the time. I put a query in quotes and google gives results that neither have the quote in the page blurb on google nor on the destination page.
Everyday credit card users who rely on the bank to protect them from fraud should not be using cryptocurrency directly. They also should not carry their money around in cash, yet cash still exists and people can take personal responsibility for the risk of loss if they choose.

A blockchain can solve "didn't receive the item" fraud because the merchant has the payment before they send the item and can refuse to refund it. Of course it creates a new kind of risk for the buyer, but that's not what we're talking about here.
Thank you for bringing up FOV. It frustrates me to no end that in nearly 5 years of VR advances, we're still stuck with a ~90 degree periscope angle of view for the vast majority of headsets.
Storage is dirt cheap these days.
Curious if the op now uses quick head movements to focus attention rather than rapid eye movement. I haven't used the Oculus, but with another headset found reading text to the far left or right difficult, as the resolution there is poor. Moving your head so the text is centered increases the pixel density and the text becomes readable.
DDG, but actually returning search results.
Motivating young females students to take up a career in science
It’s all in the box! The standard strap is very foldable and cuts the total size down a lot. Extended wear straps make the kit much larger. I have a Quest 2, with a fancy strap and a standard carry case and they don’t really work together. The simple strap is also easier to adjust.
I'm not sure it isn't. It is naturally unpopular among USians to contemplate that they might not be perfect rulers of the world. But it is pretty obvious that one party rule is not a good idea. The US is bad enough with checks on its absolute power. Heaven forbid they should be unchecked.

That's not anti-American. The sentiment applies equally to everyone. Russia should not have complete control of the world. Nor should Holland or Iceland. The USA has way too much power and influence as it stands. Thank goodness there is some opposition to provide some balance.

USians watch a movie like "The Courier" or "Hunt for Red October" and applaud the courage and foresight of a man who was willing to be a traitor to the USSR in order to save the world. But they villify anybody who would be so treacherous as betray the USA. NATO missiles in Poland: good. Warsaw Pact missiles in Poland: bad.

Unproven vulnerabilities in Huawei equipment: unacceptable. Replace it all with American products proven repeatedly to be espionage vectors of the USA government: good.

I wonder if a post like this one will attract more interest from Chinese intelligence or from USA intelligence.
Various Ethereum wallets warn you about excessive fees, and even set reasonable defaults (especially post 1559). Even if they didn’t, Ethereum devs aren’t the same as Ethereum wallet devs and each group has their own opinions about how to handle fees and UX. It’s disingenuous to say that “Ethereum devs don’t care” about any specific issue and you should be more specific about who you’re criticizing.

It’s unlikely that Bitfinex was using a consumer-faci by wallet and they could easily build those checks into their systems.
Do you want me to provide you with the email trail? I remember paying for the account.

EDIT: Did you warn customers that their data (maybe a couple of megabytes) would be deleted? Did you offer me "upgrade to keep your data"? You simply disrespect our data. Also, your service was down for months if not years!

EDIT 2: Yes, you did say free accounts would probably get deleted after just 2 months without logging in.

My email thread [0] starts with me being certain I've paid for the account - that was 7 years ago and my memory back then was outstanding. Your free account had a limit of like 500 links and I had thousands and my account was paid for sure, but I was one of you first users and probably it was deleted by mistake or some flawed data migration.

Please, respect customers' data, it should be sacred - even if they are not paying customers! It didn't cost much to store links, even back in 2010!

[0]: https://nikolay.docdroid.com/H4ZYmsS/gmail-password-reset-on...
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Oof - $999, worse than I thought:

> Every Oculus Quest for business costs $999.

https://skarredghost.com/2020/05/22/oculus-business-vr-price...
PhD programs in stem are typically funded and anyone can apply. I know people who were a professional in biotech who hit a cieling with their BS or MS and went back for PhD. If anything industry experience gives you a huge edge over students fresh out of undergrad. Probably none that are worth your time are going to let you work another job while in the program.
> The average American is horribly misinformed about the actual risks of covid, many young healthy Americans still believe the unvaccinated risk of death is about 10% for them, they're off in their estimate by four magnitudes. It's absolutely unbelievable how misinformed they are, and how they're allowed to perpetuate this unfounded hysteria unopposed.

I'm sure that's a factor, and it may even have been the main one, but of the people I know who were talking about quitting, it was more like, "if you make me choose between ever letting my kids see my elderly parents for the entire school year, and working, I choose the former" or "my kid has cancer and is receiving chemotherapy, so, uh, yeah, I quit if you're gonna make me come in and risk COVID exposure". That kind of thing. It wasn't "this might kill me" (though, for a few older or ill ones I know of second-hand, it was) it was "this will limit my life in ways I don't accept, or it would be personally irresponsible" with some sentiment of "having schools fully open is socially irresponsible" on the side. All this on top of some serious burn-out from the COVID-stricken end of the 2019-2020 school year and the scramble and uncertainty of the Summer, which was its own special mess.

I agree with you that people in general have badly mis-calibrated their risk assessment when it comes to COVID, and concede that it's entirely possible that poor risk-assessment was actually the main driver of teacher resistance to returning, nationwide—though that's not what I personally saw.

Incidentally, there were lots of parents demanding a remote option last school year, too, not just teachers. The parents alone might have been enough to make it happen—though they may well have been acting on the same poor risk assessment you bring up, of course. That's possible.
They make money from selling the better head strap, the Quest 2 elite strap is $50 extra.
It’s glitchy, takes up screen real estate, it’s hyper sensitive to horizontal swipes and will sometimes load an unrelated pages, and instantly forgets your cookies and logins (absolutely awful for sites like Reddit where I want to stay logged in).

That’s my list anyway.
I had a funny one today where I had some weird arguments for a CLI thing I was googling, so I put them in quotes, and Google continued to return results with the "not containing: foo bar | show only results with 'foo bar'" thing under them. Clicking the link just put more quotes into the search string, until my search bar looked like: wixl ''''''foo bar''''''.
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In my experience, DDG is just as bad as Google at producing results that don't match quotes exactly, and almost effectively just adding random results...

It's like they both just want to add something to the results, instead of saying "can't find anything else".
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The Tesla super charger network does 250 kw on the newest stations and they said they will roll out 300. Why would anyone want to limit their charge speed and have a bulkier plug doesn’t make sense I would guess long term us will adopt Tesla standard it is simply better.
If you don’t mind how did you arrive at this figure? It’s $5000 per month right
Assuming this is a web extension, you'll only be living amp-free in safari. (pretty sure iOS doesnt allow hijacking another domain's universal links?)
> Everyone starts a PhD with love for knowledge, the trouble is to sustain that love if your bowel is hungry, your clothes are old and torn and you are unable to give your kids a decent accomodation

This describes almost no one I knew when I was in grad school. It probably helped that I picked a school that paid well and was in a LCOL area. That's the advice I would give those pursuing a PhD.

You can choose to put off kids till you have a PhD. Plenty of people can get a PhD before 28.
His life long principles are more conservative than libertarian.
In the long run, everything is ephemeral.
A digital archive could potentially last longer than a book or a vinyl, as long as the archivist takes care to maintain the integrity of the data.. Except in a sense that isn’t true at all.
In the distant future the archived material* is actually a copy of a copy ad nauseam, but perhaps a more perfect preservation of material than the Mona Lisa today.

*”material” being the relevant information.
There's already the Redirect AMP to HTML extension, I use it for both Firefox & Chrome

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/
- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirect-amp-to-ht...
It’s fascinating to me that the comments are intensely polarized between the crowd that thinks weekly 1:1s are a giant waste of time, and the crowd that thinks 30 minutes a week isn’t nearly enough.

Out of curiosity: to the folks on either side of the fence, is this something you’ve posed (either upstream or downstream, as the case may be), and if so, what was the response?