skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't pattern match me lazily onto typical silicon valley archetypes. I know and follow basic healthy living advice, yet it is still perfectly obvious where I'm lacking regardless. There shouldn't be this abyss between tiers of people and this burning need for verbal copes should not exist either.

Platitudes are a mind killer.
Insanity ?
Driving anywhere in the US is an order of magnitude easier than in Europe so if it struggles there, i would like to see how it drives in Paris or Rome
Yeah, the bean counters really dug themselves in with the open office cost saving strategy. Just makes the office that much worse.
Problem is that, with no cars around for hundreds of feet, with dozens of seconds of reaction time, when you hit a low rise on the AZ Interstate, the Tesla Y will abruptly brake. This is with Autopilot OR with simple cruise control. Pretty stressful. Bonus impact on range prediction. So, I couldn't use either.
If a system only shows its conscience when you ask for it, does it necessarily mean it's not there?
Or do something that turns a profit on your own. Saas is a kind of magic when you can support yourself on recurring revenue and automation. You don’t need to make much to buy control of your own time back.
I am a software engineer working at FB on Quest 2 etc. I go back and forth on this stuff in my head, but at this point I get the sense that it's basically a disaster. The incentives and management strategy at FB is not congruent to solving very difficult mobile hardware/software problem that they actually have.

The Quest 2 doesn't have the horsepower to drive a good experience and it still runs out of battery super fast. I think upper management expects this issue to be solved by incremental hardware improvements, but the fact is that mobile phones are pushing up against the same moore's law limits that are hitting the rest of the industry. They could maybe extract 1 order of magnitude better performance out of the package if they put together a great hardware team instead of licensing some crap out from Qualcomm. I think this is basically what Apple is doing, but I don't see it happening at FB.

The incentives at FB are more suitable for corporate climbers and constant schizophrenic over-sharing of ideas. You are never free from the next review cycle, and it has points baked in to basically evaluate your people skills. This seems fine at first, but the end result is that every single person ends up vying for a little piece of every one else's time, in order to demonstrate some "impact" in that sense. Every day is another hour of meetings with 20 different people. It's driving me crazy, and I think it will do the same thing to any passionate low-level engineer (either hardware or software). Everybody has to be a leader, very little real work is getting done.

There is also some kind of incentive to generate more features and crap for e.g. horizons. I understand they're trying to throw a bunch of things at the wall to find what sticks, but the content teams don't seem to understand the efficiency constraints, and with so many silly features it feels like death by a thousand cuts.

John Carmack is very vocal pointing at various actual problems that need to be solved, but at this point browsing his feed is starting to feel kind of sad and hopeless. The incentives will always create messes faster than they can be cleaned up. The software will get slower while it needs to be faster. The hardware won't provide significant compute upgrades we desperately need. I guess we'll wait for 1-2 more reorgs until they move away from the failing VR push.

I think we would be seeing a very different outcome right now if Oculus hadn't been bought by FB, but that ship has sailed. Most of the Oculus people either quit or were fired when they decided to kill desktop VR in favor of mobile (a decision that is now being re-evaluated). It's just one bad decision after another.

Sorry for such a negative post. Maybe I should try some of those mindfulness classes so I can calm down.
In my world we call this victim blaming.

Go out and meet some people whose families are on Whatsapp. Whose parents or grandparents know exactly how to use the one app and that's it.

I boycott LinkedIn and I have enough trouble as it is because of that. And it's LinkedIn, a lame-ass feel-good social network. WhatsApp is a messaging app and has over 2 billion users, with a penetration so large in some countries (especially Europe) that it gets special treatment for ISPs, it's often the only way to contact some businesses, and has de facto replaced SMS for many. There aren't "thousands of messaging apps" with that kind of userbase.

Pointless for you? Good for you. Your life is not others', though, please have empathy.
There is no such "clear" label on the video or website. Tesla titled the page "Tesla Self-Driving Demonstration". Tesla's embedded video is titled "Autopilot Full Self-Driving Hardware (Neighborhood Long)" with a video description that says[1]:

> Take a ride in a Tesla with Full Self-Driving Hardware.

That's it. Nowhere is it "clearly labeled as an ad for future software capabilities".

[1] https://vimeo.com/192179727?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&...
The USS Cole would like a word with you.

Nowadays the boat would be remote-controlled instead of martyr-controlled.
> Cruise control on the other hand seems fine, because my foot is basically in the same position with or without it. The automation just saves me from having to modulate the thing with my foot, and it's not making changes that have very fast, significant consequences.

Maybe I am just living in the past with my 2007 Toyota Camry but cars have come a long way in just fifteen years. Just look at adaptive cruise control or lane assist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smf1uop7HoY

Maybe I am just in awe because I don't own a new car and don't feel the pain of things like replacing a broken windshield (holy smokes these new things are expensive to calibrate) but it is nice when these things work. However, when I drive someone else's new car I can totally see myself going fora new car if I could somehow justify it financially.
Users would see a tv without streaming capability as defective these days. They would buy a TV and assume it has these features. Ultimately even hacker news users _want_ these features, just not the downsides that happen to come bundled in.
Zoning, in general, is a compromise to a set of mutually-exclusive philosophies: individualism (e.g., private property ownership) and collectivism. Society can't function with only one or the other; there needs to be some mediation. Local governments are theoretically responsible to represent the wills of their voters, so this is probably the best way to do that. We can always argue, however, about where specifically particular zoning rules fall on that spectrum.
https://www.connectedpapers.com/ has unlocked a new level of getting lost in rabbitholes for me

Barely related but equally cool project: https://supp.ai/
Read the fine print though.

They do disable the system in complex situations.

And they give ten seconds warning in advance of this happening.

Which sounds great until you think it through…

It means they schedule the disabling of the system way earlier in the progression of any potential traffic complication. Ten full seconds is long before incidents even start unfolding. The car has to be psychic, but it's not. So in order to accomplish the ten-second warning, what that means is those warnings need to be on a hair trigger with many false positives.

The driver, if they have it enabled, will be constantly getting warnings that the system may disable itself in ten seconds when the car sees even the very slightest possibility that things may potentially get complicated way down the road. I don't see this being endurable for most people.

So my conclusion is this is just marketing hype, until they can get rid of the auto disabling thing.
All the cool people roomed up with friends in the Mission and biked to work. Even the millionaires. That is until they got hitched.
`ptrace(2)` and `userfaultfd(2)` show up when doing program tracing/analysis, among other places. I don't know of a great resource for the latter, but Eli Bendersky has a terrific series on debuggers that covers `ptrace(2)`[1].

[1]: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/01/23/how-debuggers-work-...
That sounds like helping to secure my home network from unwanted spyware and tracking to me.
> a new group who are there to just enrich themselves.

The UK’s been ruled by a relatively small hereditary aristocracy for, what, 1,000 years? A self-interested political class is hardly a new phenomenon there.
>My biggest fear is the city either has to slash spending on, say, police

I don't want this to turn into an ideological battle, but my understanding was that in SF, that is not an unpopular stance. Is this not the case?
The trick is to use your shoulders and wrists (and elbows to a less extent) for balance, like your hips, ankles, and knees respectively. Fingers help, but they're not the main contributors to balance.

Source: gymnast for over a decade in my younger years

Edit: to add, most people don't have the shoulder strength to hold a handstand, so doing workouts to strengthen your shoulders and upper back is going to contribute a lot more than just doing handstands alone.
I think that is actually a decent point. Definitely know people that bought Teslas with their Tesla stock gains.
If you automate everything, how is profit made? Say every firm charges a 5% markup above costs of materials and machine upkeep. A given firm must pay other firms' 5% markups on the materials it needs, making it cheaper for the firm to produce those materials itself. This tends toward complete centralization. There are two ways to fix this. The first is to have an economy based on many monopolies trading resources. This obviously suboptimal for economic calculation. The second way is to adopt a planned economy.

As labor productivity increases, profitability decreases, as historical data shows[1]. In the long term, this problem of capitalism cannot be avoided.

[1]: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2022/01/22/a-world-ra...
I’m a bit confused, when would we be in hard times but not in a recession? During the summer of 2020 we were already in a recession, and in response the stimulus and pumping was done. This is on top of the fact that not only are we not able to predict recessions accurately, we usually don’t even know we are in one until we are 3-6 months into it.

“It is believed they can”…by who? Other than you of course.

The severity of a recession is determined by what is done in the early days of the recession, not before.
I've owned multiple generations of LG, and without setting up Internet, it works just fine without any nagging.
Prop 13 is one of the legs of the stool of most dysfunction in California.

Some of these are gonna spark controversy but term limits, the recall and ease of passing propositions are some of the other ones.

The legislature is no longer professional enough to govern, so the people do it at the ballot box, at the behest of whom ever has the most money to spend. The fact that California is a single party state because of realignment and radicalization on the right makes all of this worse.
I don't know about you guys, but I'd personally feel less anxiety around Teslas if all this Autopilot and FSD bullshit were recalled and I could be relatively confident those vehicles are simply dumb EVs with conventional distracted primates controlling them.
Hard disagree. It is fucked up because we've allowed too many woke policies and gone soft on crime. It is simple as that. There is absolutely zero causation between "Built for commuters" and the absolute hell hole you've seen that is SF.

I feel like this stance does a tremendous amount of disservice in identifying issues and making SF better. It is always scapegoated and never confronted head on. Scapegoats come in the form of: We're kind out here in SF, we are pro-homeless, homelessness is caused by inbound people from other states, etc. None of which are remotely true, but peddled repeatedly ad-nauseum.
This has been an endless source of exposure to cool works:

https://gossipsweb.net/
Pay inequity is an actual problem.
That's an extreme view. Of course you want some zoning restrictions. Unless you're saying you're ok with (whatever loudest industry with lots of lorry traffic you can think of) being created nextdoors to you. Full anarchy is bad, super restrictive planning is bad too.
If we're spamming free DB's I always mention Supabase, 2*500MB PostgreSQL.
> Downtown as a healthy fully occupied business district is dead. Cause of death: remote work.

Keith Rabois said one of the the major reasons he moved was because of crime.
Autopilot can land and take off, so it _is_ more than glorified cruise control.
I started to think that, but actually the last section of the article, is about crime. I think it’s quite weak however, crime is in my humble opinion the very central reason for the decline of downtown San Francisco.
Even with a physical escape key, the touch bar is still a frequent source of frustration. I think it could only be made acceptable by integrating the haptic elements used in their trackpads, so that accidental light touching of an active region of the touchbar would no longer trigger unintended actions. Haptic feedback might have even made it possible to disambiguate which virtual button your finger landed on before applying enough force to trigger an action.
> In case you’re interested in constructive feedback, what you’re doing here sounds more like advocating for someone to provide some social good, but couching it in passive language.

To add to this, artists have lots of experience with people asking for free stuff and couching it in "social good" language. In their experience, these people are invariably assholes, and they don't want to deal with you long enough to find out that you are one too.
Have you benchmarked it?

Given modern commodity servers and no network overhead I’d buy it not being a problem.

My intuition is you are right but given the operational simplicity improvements it would be worth exploring.
Would you say San Francisco is the new Detroit? Something like a mill town?
And if we do choose to care, it might even be turned against us in the future. There are already people referring to groups they don't like as "human NPCs"
With more housing, the relative expense decreases, and some people will move in just because they like the bustle of living in a city. Those are also the kind of people who will patronize local establishments.

Years ago, the center of the action in "Silicon Valley" was actually in the geographical valley, in the south bay. The south bay is way different from SF - safe and sterile. Some people would move up to SF and commute all the way down to the south bay just because they wanted to live somewhere interesting. Those sort of people also tended to be the sort to start startups, and the center of the action gradually moved to SF.

I think SF can try following the same path a second time, focus on catering to the gritty hipster demographic and hope something valuable grows out of it. Added housing to push rents lower seems like a good start.
We are living in an age of media ignoring elephants so large they've burst through the very walls of the house.
Low income seniors are covered by the California Tax Postponement Program. Most states have something similar. Prop 13 is wholly unnecessary.
> In this comment section: techies giving confident fitness advice

Aside from the well earned reputation programmers have for believing they can solve any problem, this is good old bro science. Popular on the Internet. And worth ignoring, or at least being very skeptical about. Bad advice can be pretty dangerous.
Cool use of a GH repo. Thanks for Datasette, et al.!
> But even using SQLite can be significant over-engineering. Running migrations? Writing SQL? That's too much effort for me.

Key-value stores are not a replacement for SQL, they solve a simpler problem. If you actually can do with a key value store I would argue a SQL table with two columns key and value with key being a primary key will do just fine. And using it needs simple select and 'insert on duplicate key update' statements. The effort for migrations won't be higher than whatever you had to configure for your key-value store.

However, if you can't actually do with a key-value store you will end up writing a lot of the features SQL provides in application code. Indices, joins, grouping, ordering, etc. You might not notice it at first, but you will blow up complexity in your business logic reinventing existing SQL features and chances are high you're doing it worse and less performant than what e.g. Postresql offers out of the box.

SQL is just such a powerful tool that is at the same time incredibly easy to use for simple scenarios.

Added benefit of using SQLite, you can migrate to a more powerful SQL database later without having to reengineer your whole data layer.
The design alone of this entire site makes me wanna get into this rather niche political ideology: https://syllabus.pirate.care/
No, Tesla doesn't use lidar because Elon thinks it's too expensive and potentially also not pleasing esthetically.
Not that I've noticed
Interesting; never even knew this was an option – I'll take a look!

Thank you.

Follow-up edit: Not sure it's ideal, but it is VERY workable for now; thank you so much for the suggestion!
Variables rates will always be lower? At any given point in time, true.

But you can lock in a fixed rate that will be lower than a variable rate in the future when rates rise.
What about possible future software update to any hospital system? Should we preemptively stop all of those?
Here in Long Beach we have honest to God oil derricks right in the middle of neighborhoods yet our zoning when it comes to new housing is as strict as it gets.
I hated that it was a Facebook product but, the portal was invaluable for communicating with my mother who's speech and mobility had been compromised by a stroke. She couldn't reliably aim a tablet or smartphone camera and audio only was often insufficient to effectively communicate. The portal was incredibly helpful in preserving some of her independence and in giving her the ability to communicate with people not physically in the room.
It normally comes with "and fund mental health, social care, non-lethal first response, etc." so it's not necessarily a short term saving.
> I don't understand how people keep falling for this.

Every successful fraud has people it's tuned for. For example, consider how terribly written most spam is. That selects for people who are not fussy about writing. Conversely, a lot of the people doing high-end financial fraud is done by people who are very polished, very good at presenting the impression of success. Or some years back I knew of a US gang running the Pigeon Drop [1] on young East Asian women in a way that was tuned to take advantage of how they are often raised.

Telsa's only has ~3% of the US car market, so they're definitely in the "fool some of the people all of the time" bucket. Musk's fan base seems to be early adopters and starry-eyed techno-utopians [2]. He's not selling transportation. He's selling a dream. They don't care that experts can spot him as a liar [3] because listening to experts would, like, totally harsh their mellow.

Although it's much closer to legal fraud, I don't think that's otherwise hugely different than how many cars are marketed. E.g., all of the people who are buying associations of wealth when they sign up for a BMW they can't afford. Or the ocean of people buying rugged, cowboy-associated vehicles that never use them for anything more challenging than suburban cul de sacs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_drop

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/26/17505744/elon-musk-fans-t...

[3] e.g.: https://twitter.com/kaifulee/status/1126238951960993792
>> You want to buy a “monitor”, not a TV.

I bought a TV for a monitor. 55" 4K curved Samsung a few years ago for about $600. It went down in price and is probably discontinued now because curved TVs are stupid. Never connected it to the internet, so it's not too smart.

Also, a real "monitor" doesn't come with a TV tuner and this did.
> Cause of death: remote work

It seems premature to say this with confidence, though. Last time I saw the stats, remote work overall is down to 10% and still dropping pretty fast. Yes, prevalence is higher in the tech world, but still, we should wait until it stabilizes (especially with an incoming recession) before proclaiming that two years of remote work has changed the world.
Try to repeal it, you'll find yourself drummed out of politics.

I think someone who spent enough money could repeal it, and it'd help.
> You need to get it right for 1 second to call it a handstand IMO

Just kick up with the right amount of force and you’ll float for a few seconds. That can be achieved with luck.
Doing a handstand against a wall is very different to doing it without a wall.
Honestly this seems like unmitigated blessing that there's so much spare real estate to alleviate the monstrous shortage of housing. SF was a vibrant, thriving city with a ton of character before it became the new Babylon of the technology era. It could stand to lose 50,000 tech bros and let some families and earnest weirdos move back in.
But not it's value in its current state, it's as much about preserving the status quo.
The UK has a hereditary aristocracy, but it has been several centuries since it actually ruled the country.
> Interoperability

The EU is working on it
I'm not following. Postponing those taxes doesn't mean they don't need to get paid. I quickly googled it and saw "The deferment of property taxes is secured by a lien against the property which must eventually be repaid."

Which sounds like a recipe for... grandpa dies, grandma can't pay property taxes so defers it for 10 years. Grandma dies and whoever inherits the home needs to be pay a massive deferment (unaffordable?) or give up the home.
The Heaven's Gate website is pretty cool https://heavensgate.com/
People derive self-worth, dignity and meaning from their jobs. How will you replace that?
These AI text generators still have a ways to go before they can fool me!
New Jersey, a famously high residential property tax state, has the senior "tax freeze" statue in many towns.
Housing remains expensive only if too many people want to live there. If the demand goes down, housing costs must eventually go down as well.

Once the balance between supply and demand is similar, urban living should be cheaper than suburban living, because urban areas need less infrastructure for each resident.
Indeed, video decode would be offloaded to dedicated silicon blocks on the GPU for video decode (e.g. AMD UVD/VCN or Nvidia NVDEC, etc) rather than running entirely on compute blocks.

Implementation-wise though, I don’t think hardware decoders would use general purpose CPU cores under the hood (someone correct me if I’m wrong — been a long time since I’ve worked on this stuff), but would use dedicated fixed-function blocks. On hardware without a full fixed-function decode, I would think it would fall back to compute blocks with fixed-function blocks for acceleration. Some other implementations might make use of customized CPU cores like from Tensilica. General purpose CPU cores might instead be used for things like managing HDCP, etc.
What's your end goal? Do you want to watch Netflix or Hulu or whatever on a TV?

If you don't then you probably don't need any of these dongles! Just connect your TV to OTA and you're fine!
Also the hardness of handstand is strictly dependent on your weight. A normal person at 50kg should have no problem learning handstand in 30 days, 90kg with no prior fitness training to handstand in 60 days is next to impossible.
Phototoxic maculopathy induced by quartz infrared heat lamp

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5279082/
The use of the term was supposed to be illustrative and mostly facetious, hence the quotes.