skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> VR is good for the elderly because you can enjoy it without learning anything new

I hope this will eventually be the case, but with current iterations, navigating and interacting with VR UIs and experiences is quite difficult for people who aren’t already familiar with game controllers and console-like menu systems - especially the elderly.
Honestly? I’ve lived long enough and heard this rhetoric so many, many times before.

It would have been utterly trivial to make clear that it wasn’t about a specific issue. Instead, it was only implied.
Netflix braces for more layoffs this week
He lives out of a bank account.
> When you're hiring an accountant, do you give them 4h take-home assignments? How about hours of interviews with your accounting team to suss out their accounting skills and critique their style? I mean, how DO you determine if they're real accountants or one of these fakers I've heard so much about that can't even do some simple books?

I'm a software engineer. My brother is an accountant.

I know you're trying to pick a theoretical, but the answer to most of those questions is still yes. I don't think he had a take-home project, but he most definitely had several rounds of heavy-technical interviews. I'd much prefer the take home test over the BS he has to deal with.
I suspect Steve Ballmer's motives to trash the iPhone in 2010 were rather unlike those leading some of us to doubt the desirability of Meta's VR ambitions in 2022
So you are talking about magic.
Thanks!

Still pretty expensive and heavy for just a 6kW fuel cell stack alone! $27,000 is the base MSRP for a Chevy Bolt, before incentives.
Move into a dorm.
Without access to a parallel universe generator, I don't see how you could. All I'm asserting is that I think that you can't reliably say that management or workers/employees are consistently in a better position to understand the best path forward for a company. Either one can be overly focused on replicating past success; either one can be wrong about opportunities for growth.
I'm sure it's a long-observed correlation, but corporate anti-union sentiment could easily explain much if not all of that effect. Try translating it to a situation like Germany, where AFAIU industrial labor (union and non-union) has thrived across the board, at least relative to the U.S. (U.S. has still has a strong industrial base in GDP terms, but even where unions are non existent its share of the labor market has been in a long decline much steeper than in places where unions are stronger generally.)

I'm looking for a legal source for reading the paper but not finding any. (e.g. not in JSTOR.) Can you say how they came to their conclusion--does it specifically show causality or is it simply an observational correlation that neatly matches predictions from a classical economic perspective? I guess in some ways I'm splitting hairs, because if U.S. corporate sentiment is inherently anti-union, then the logic behind investment strategies is simply their logic, whether it's a necessary in some universal sense or not. And if we're not going to peek behind the curtains, there's nothing else to say.

But it does matter when discussing what's possible for U.S. labor markets given sufficiently comprehensive cultural change. Racism is endemic and systemic, there are no simple solutions, yet we don't simply stand back and say, "it is what it is, there's nothing we can do about it". (Well, some people say that, but it's not generally considered an honest assessment.) Neither do we say that inducing change would lead to a more inefficient economy, even when there's some evidence showing policy-induced disruptions and dislocations with negative effects. The nearly universal assumption is that improved social equity (as a general matter; obviously we have trouble agreeing on the meaning of that nebulous concept, but few honestly reduce it to merely meaning "whatever the market produces") would result in a more efficient economy and more productivity, we just need to do a better job of it and work harder at threading the needle. It turns out that there are many "naturally" arising power disparities between employee and employer that result in rather inefficient labor system equilibriums, slavery and serfdom being the most obvious, if extreme, cases.
Thank you for the further reading.
My relatives built a house by the ocean in San Diego. They had huge cost increases and aesthetic limitations caused by these regulations which treat inland housing the same as those right on the water. They also had to give up roof deck for solar panels, which is just stupid because there are better places to host solar panels.

I’m further inland, and I pay basically no money for energy. A box fan and occasionally, a one-room AC unit (because I work from home) or a space heater is all that’s needed. There is absolutely no justification for such energy efficiency regulations in San Diego or the Bay Area, where I used to live. Your argument about reduced cost is purely hypothetical, and not reality.

> These requirements absolutely need government regulation because the "free market" leads to a non optimal outcome.

That would not mean we “need” government regulation. Leave people alone.
or just use golang, yes it might need 10MB or even 30MB for each static binary, but it's mature and production ready long time ago.

or, how about fastcgi, that's essentially what lambda does. by using shared libraries each fastcgi endpoint executable could be much smaller than 5.5MB, it's boring and mature, just a bit out of fashion.
People can hate on Meta, and hate on VR all they want, but I for one am really excited to see that there's a massive company going ALL IN on this technology.

It's easy to be a skeptic right now. The headsets are heavy, the experiences aren't perfect, etc. But what you see now is just the beginning. The VR skeptics and naysayers are the same people who dismissed personal computing. VR is absolutely game changing and it is just a matter of time until the technology is there to truly win over even the most die hard skeptics.
Wikipedia vandalism to send a message. Not cool.
I really like when he points out his own Standards for Technological Innovation. They are very good points regardless of the current age.

Particularly to me, are the points of repairability, and interfering with real-world relationships.

There are few exceptions to the rule where most systems today cannot be self-repaired, much less taken to a local shop and repaired with off-the-shelf parts (thankfully this is slowly changing for the better.)

In terms of relationships, it would seem to be a mixed bag. In some respects you can communicate across vast distances without a second thought. In others it would seem we are headed to our own doom due to toxicity, disconnect and disassociation from those around us, etc.
Hong Kong's iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant capsizes at sea
Whew, I was worried I was promulgating another myth. Finally got one right!
They didn't change it to a runner up—they changed it to an upgrade pick, that is, still the best, but without enough marginal benefit for the substantial marginal cost. Not sure what pricing was like back then, of course, but at this point Wirecutter's recommendations run about seven hundred dollars, and NextDesk's offerings start at eighteen hundred.
Are Security Analogies Counterproductive?
Why is an ISP concerned about Linux ISOs? Or is this a code word for warez?
Yes. Everything "just works" and it's quite easy to add block rules in the Fastmail web interface.

You initially set up the wildcard alias: for any email to *@example.com, route it to me@example.com

Then you can add rules to drop emails to foo@example.com, bar@example.com, .... Those work independently from the wildcard.
Referrals aren't a silicon valley thing or even a tech thing. The first bit of advice you get from anyone when it comes to a job search in any field is to leverage your network.

It's not about discrimination, it's because the single best way to know if someone can pull their weight and mesh with the team is if an existing, trusted member of the team can vouch for them. On the flip side, the single best way to know if a job is worth pursuing is to have it recommended by a trusted colleague.

Why would you not use those signals? And why in the world would any government make networking illegal? The economic impact on every sector would be insane!
Fire risk is already marginal.
Good luck with that. Employeers need good senior staff a lot more than those senior staff usually need that specific job.
Neuroscientists create maps of the brain after traumatic brain injury
All the jobs you listed have professional associations that require passing exams. If you required the same level of testing and exams for devs I doubt half the software industry would pass.
You’ve equated the idea that “heterosexuality is normal” with “non-heterosexuality is abnormal.” That is only true in the strictest of semantic senses.

There is a very negative connotation to “abnormal,” is that what you meant to imply?
Larry Summers Says US Needs 5% Jobless Rate for Five Years to Ease Inflation
> When you hire a Michelin star chef do you make them make you a four course meal to prove they can cook?

> Do you make a surgeon do four hour surgery?

These are both poor examples. These are both credentialed examples. Both have already demonstrated their skill based on the credentials they hold.

Software development is not a credentialed field. Titles vary wildly - especially at startups where titles inflate.
In other words: you miss 100% of the particles you don't circulate

(With apologies to Wayne Gretzky)
Most systems are not complicated because of centralised tech, but rather due to the number of parties involved (countries & copyrights/licensing when it comes to music) or systems have not become digital yet (Law + Owenrship etc). NFTs can't solve for either.
I get that this comment might have struck a nerve with you, but the site guidelines specifically recommend not asking if the commenter read the article.

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

FWIW I don’t think that the parent comment is wrong, but rather over-generalizing. If you’re close to the project, I’d love to hear a proper rebuttal to what seems to be a common question.
Would second what you said. If a team does not have the ability and confidence to determine hiring based on usual interviews, the team is not worth joining.
There is a historical document by Olaf Kirch that addresses many aspects of the stateless design.

It also has some discussion of the indempotent replay cache that is also in the original article.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v2-pages-59-72.pd...
Eh, it'd be easy enough to give samples to 10 different babies to at least see if they have any flavors they prefer. Obviously digestive issues are another matter but your kid drinking it without hassle is the first hurdle.
You could say the same about all auditing. A restaurant could have changed its food hygiene standards since it was audited. But a company with a history of periodic and successful audits is certainly a good trust marker for me.
If you're carrying cash into a country, it is very easy to lose it at the airport given that they are looking for people carrying a lot of cash and have machines to detect these things.

There are private OTC desks of all sizes, all over the place, if you know where to look.
Headfi wasn’t always that way. There was a mass exodus of their scientific-minded members, who dedicated themselves to posting objective, and double-blind tests. Naturally, this created a problem with their advertisers, and most left en masse. Now, the site’s little more than a dumpster dive of anecdotal evidence masquerading as reputable sources.
There are businesses that are seasonal. They make the majority of their money at certain points of the year. Companies that are in the vacation industry are very busy during the summer. Retail companies make most of their money towards the end of the year. I'm sure there are plenty more. If you can create a business servicing those sectors you might be able to give people time off during the slow times.

My experience has been that the more we get the more we want. So after a while we stop appreciating what we have and expect more. I bet, after a bit, long sabbaticals are bound to be unappreciated. The last place I worked at had amazing benefits and lots of time off. Yet people would bitch about it not being enough. So I would make long sabbaticals a reward for the individuals rather than an expected benefit for it to continue its intended impact.
This seems like the least of the negative impacts nextdoor encourages.

i removed myself after months of watching people on this app become more and more paranoid, feeding off each other.

the breaking point was when someonea put out a warning that someone had knocked on their door at 7:00pm, “the wife and i were eating dinner when the rude knock came. we crept over to the window, peeked out, and didn’t recognize the person. be careful!”

the person knocking turned out to be a 16 year old girl who lives three blocks away who unfortunately got a flat tire and was hoping to borrow a phone to call her dad.

we live in an incredibly safe wealthy suburb and these people “crept” to a window like they’re in an old west shootout and decided to put out a warning on nextdoor about a little sixteen year old girl.

we still laugh just thinking how crazy these people must have looked while creeping from their kitchen to peek out a window in one of the safest areas in the state at a time of day when people are still out mowing their lawns.

nextdoor somehow just adds to these people’s already insane creeping paranoia.
This sounds like a case for different corporate governance, yeah?
Which has absolutely nothing to do with the point at hand.

Whether you agree or disagree with this stance is completely irrelevant.

My point was that Greenpeace don't make environmental policy, the same way the EFF does not write privacy legislation.
LG's app interface is good, my TCL just has Roku built in - why wouldn't I?

I'll agree on Samsung's end though. Everyone's Samsung TV I've ever tried has been stupidly laggy.
What happens when you die?
Just looked up mapbox after not checking it out for a few years. Oh wow, that's changed a lot :(
A strange thing, at least in NY: milk prices have (subjectively) increased dramatically in the last year, despite consistent surpluses (both nationally and within the state). The same has happened with eggs, although I don't know if the US has as much of a production surplus there.
Extreme stomach pain/sickness from lentil+leek crumbles
So, ads?
Not to mention all of the example professions require passing some form of certification or licensing exam before one may call themselves a lawyer / CPA / professional civil engineer / etc.
State Street as a pedestrian mall is interesting in light of Sacramento's K-Street Mall re-opening to auto traffic (2011) and Fresno's Fulton St. (2016).

https://archive.ph/20130221230638/http://www.news10.net/news...

https://cal.streetsblog.org/2016/06/07/fresno-pedestrian-mal...
There are hosts that give you unlimited /32tb bandwidth monthly. That's quite generous
It's the people not the layout.
> Your comment lacks explanation.

Well, I don’t entirely have an explanation, just an observation. Coming up with an explanation any deeper than “random chance arrangement of related issues” would require speculating about other people’s intent, something I consider to be a complete waste of time as intent is fundamentally unknowable. The outcome is what matters, not the intent, so I’m fine with not knowing.

What I mean to say is that these types of discussions rarely achieve anything because we’re picking away at a single issue (in this case water shortage) which is conceptually interlocked with several other issues such that no progress can be made on any one component.

It’s a pattern that repeats all over the place once you know to look for it, but let’s stick with the example from this sub-thread: there is a water shortage, in part because of inefficient land use for crops, because that land doesn’t have the transportation or other infrastructure to be economically viable as anything else, because building infrastructure is very expensive or even legislatively impossible, because Environment™, because there is a water shortage (among many other things).

They’re interlocked such that none of them would be an issue if they weren’t all an issue. It’s a Hermetic Seal in the classical sense (not as in “air-tight”[0]). Does that make any sense? Not asking you to agree with me, just that you’re right that it is difficult to explain :)

[0] https://wstyler.ucsd.edu/posts/hermetically_sealed.html
> He provides no ideas that would help the company succeed and find profitability. Only vague mention of returning to open source and that focusing on cars is bad because it bad for the environment.

That doesn't strike me as the point of the blog post. He's not trying to tell us all the things he would have done differently, he's telling us what went wrong and why he left.
https://archive.ph/ERPaW#selection-3339.0-3339.76
Gresham's law of urban planning? Auto-viable design drives out pedestrian-centric usage?
Device recycles plastic water bottles into 3D printing filament
You're focusing on ease of getting a job with a particular employer to the exclusion of all else. If you want to make an argument that one thing is better or worse than another, go ahead, but do it by comparing the positives to the negatives, not just by pointing out one single negative.
Well, a good question is what are you offering the senior applicants, other than (hopefully competitive) money for their time. Are there interesting problems to solve? Is there potential for growth?are they going to have a say in the technical direction and strategy? How about the business side?
Think of better ways to formulate the opportunity, your pitch, and ways to stand out in the market
strongly unfavorable property taxes

Prop 13: Mission accomplished.
One of the best responses I've seen on HN. Thanks for the effort of writing it.

I'm not sure I'm sold on the idea that ethics are somehow extra-cultural constants, but, we can table that discussion.
Try over and over even if it feels embarrassing. Watch how others meet new people and learn. Always say yes when invited to a group activity (within reason of course). Invite others to group activities. Smile at people. Join clubs. Read a few books about making friends. Even with all of this, keep in mind that some people still won't respond to your efforts.
Who gave the water rights? Or better stated - who owned them originally?
ServiceNow is just about the most user hostile software I know. I know that any request I make that ends up in SN will take 2-4 times as long and i will never be sure that anything is happening or that they person on the other actually knows what I want.
That's true, and maybe lower-level optimizations will start to emerge. But I suspect QUIC was intentionally left in userspace to allow for more rapid development. Indeed there are already many libraries available which means you can use it today. If we had to wait for kernels and middleware to support it, that might still be years out.
That and “Altered State”
Interesting! I was considering a raspberry pi 4 for some things but a laptop is more appropriate. Where would I find these?
> No mainstream media outlet ever covers this angle - it's a complete taboo

It isn’t a taboo; it’s fallacious. That’s the reason mainstream media doesn’t cover it: there is no epidemic of LGBT people “grooming” children. It’s a made-up thing designed to whip up a frenzy of hatred towards LGBTQ people and justify rolling back civil rights.

I appreciate your lengthy discussion of what grooming is, and how you think it’s a real problem. However, in context it sounds like you are saying that my example of criticism isn’t legitimate because LGBTQ people are “groomers.” That isn’t what you meant, is it?

> Respectfully disagree.

Everything you say after this point is interesting, but utterly unrelated to what I said. I said it’s rhetorical nonsense to elevate “non-monetary tokenism” to a “right,” and I don’t see where you’ve engaged with that idea.
I recommend "commit early, commit often" approach instead -- and rebase/squash before making a PR.

For those temp commits, I found out that even bad commit messages which would not be acceptable in any serious codebase ("reafctored foowidegt", "starts up but crashes in 3 sec", "cannot find unistd.h") are still very useful. And of course those commit messages are great placeholders for random notes ("TODO need to add unit test for zero input", "still need to hook up to main class")
Same. Did this for years and never found anything. Ended up going back to a single email address.
Not the first time this has happened. I think the last time I heard about this was about 5 years ago, though it is impossible to search for that instance now that this has happened.
Until wasm provides a way to release memory pages, nah.
Ask HN: Skills to learn at big tech job
Hello HN! I'm working on a project that I want to scale and turn into a startup. While I do that though, I continue to work as a PM at a FAANG to pay the bills.

Leaving my job is not possible at this stage, so I'm wondering if people have any advice on how to make the most of my time here.

I'm non-technical, so are there any non-technical founder skills that can be learnt on the job? Is being a good PM enough prep for being a non-technical founder? And what about learning how to code? Is it wise to change roles and become a SWE? I'd think coding on the job would help with scaling my project when the time comes, but I don't enjoy coding as much as I'd like to.
If you've worked in large construction, you'll realize just how many project managers large projects need to function.

There are an incredible amount of project managers running from place to place on a construction project keeping teams in line. Construction work, design blueprints, government regulator, there are SO many teams and SO many project managers running between them.

JIRA is absolutely a net positive in that environment.
A centralized system like JIRA alleviates that.
Ugh. Tell me about it.

There was some poor lost delivery driver in a McHouse subdivision about near me. In one hand she was holding a plastic bag with food containers, and the other she was holding a phone. Two people posted video/photos of her clearly looking at house numbers. Both people posted "be on the lookout for this suspicious person casing the neighborhood" posts.

Like, come on. How stupid do you have to be.
They do, but most people also live with other people. If you're immersed in VR, you're isolated from those you're with in real life. It's harder to keep immersed, if your g/f, wife, or kids hit you up every couple of mins.

So unless they also have headsets that are interacting with you, it's likely, that both you and they want to spend time with each other in real life, and when you go into VR, you're isolated from them.
Sounds like the maintainer had some issues with memdisk: https://github.com/netbootxyz/netboot.xyz/discussions/926
Maybe I'm cynical, but I just assume some version this happens to every company at some point in their growth. Like the author I would jump ship at this point, but I don't think I'd be caught off-guard by it
The Android kernel mitigations obstacle race
There are two types of offers that are made to me: Scams, and bad deals. If a good or service was worthwhile, it wouldn't need to try to get my attention.
Take an SEO class. Figure out your keywords. One of the best things I’ve ever done.
Where are all the crypto use cases?
"Set" covers the 2nd checkbox. Fun