skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the observable universe is too small, what about the observable universe sampled at multiple points in time? Or just an iron bar that's repeatedly sampled along a time interval, with the desired encoding changing between each sample such that the object doesn't need to undergo much change it state in order to map to distinct things. Each sample increases the number of physical states that we can create a mapping from. If we still don't have enough states, we can draw more samples over more points in time to create a longer string of bits for the mapping.

Or another way to do it would be to repeatedly sample the same object at the same point in time, and simply change the desired encoding on each sampling, e.g. on a first pass we use F_0(x), on a second pass we use F_1(x), and we concatenate the output of F_0(x) and F_1(x) into a single large bit array.

The Boltzmann Brain says that our conscious experience at the current moment is a chance quantum event. It might not even involve the whole universe, it could be a local quantum phenomenon. That seems distinct to the argument in the article, which is that physical states (quantum or otherwise) can be mapped to an arbitrary string of bits with the encoding chosen by the person doing the mapping, and the output of this mapping (which is itself a string of bits) can correspond to a computation on a Turing machine, therefore inanimate objects with sufficiently large numbers of physical states could be said to be running a proposed consciousness.exe, which leads us to an absurd/extreme form of panpsychism.
Good call on digital. My cheap analog ones are exremely inconvenient compared to digital ones I’ve seen. Typically I do something like measure a bolt, realize I’m just looking at a bunch of unmarked lines, go back to zero and get in the ballpark then slowly open while counting mm lines until I’m just around the object.
No.

I just know that nobody wants to actually do the Carlson dance in VR when they can instead push one button in Fortnight to do that emoji.

VR has some interesting games and interesting effects. Emulating reality is not it at all. We as a tech society are still trying to figure out what VR is good for.

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My best experiences in VR is and remains Beat Saber.

A few other games (Keep Talking and nobody Explodes, Super hot, the spaceship shooter game from the lab) are good and fun.

There is nothing like reality in these games. In fact, the closer things get to reality (ex: throwing objects in Superhot) the worse the experience gets.

In contrast, when you become a fantasy avatar who moves a spaceship around with your hand (space shooter from the Lab) and I can play that for hours.

The best experiences are honest about what VR does well and what doesn't work well. Real life experiences are best one in real life, not with expensive $1000+ goggles on a computer.
> You said "benefits and salary are good", but literally the only reason to not list these things in a posting is if they're not actually that good.

The other reason I have seen a reluctance to put salary in a job posting is that some companies may not want their current employees to know how much the new hires are getting.
On the contrary — almost all early-stage startups are part-employee-owned. The meta-analysis of firm performance you're linking to references specifically companies with ESOPs (employee stock option plans); the stock options most early-stage startup employees own are usually higher percentages of the company on an individual basis than public-company ESOPs.

IMO, that's one of the huge advantages early stage startups have over larger companies. Employees are highly incentivized to work together to make the company succeed, rather than climbing internally to higher positions by stepping on their peers.
Do you have even an ounce of evidence? You're being ridiculous.

You can't just sling mud baselessly and expect people to take you seriously.
great point, I consider the zuckerverse a kind of target fixation, where we are doomed to hit the dystopia because we can't look away / imagine an alternative
There are very very strong advocates who insist that huge colossal vast grants of water rights made a century ago cannot ever be redresses except by buying these natural holders out.

Personally I find this abominable & maximally distateful. Governments like all institutions make mistakes. In my view, correctuon must be possible, and not just by paying absurd prices to cancel promises that mever could be kept. The idea that law is only valid if it never changes, always follows theough on every promise without change, seems deeply deeply fallen to me.

I hate that it's come to this but these water rights holders literally cant get the vast vast vast entitlements they've held any more. There's a lot of important critical agriculture that needs some access, perhaps as you say at some market rate. These old entitlements though? They've bankrupted the water system. Awful situation which it took hitting a literal rock bottom to disrupt. Governments have been unable to respond in any way because of ancient decisions & now it's broke. Lets not prevent governance again, please.
It's a game to build the largest system that doesn't eject any planets approximated by having a limit that ends the game.
Like Project Drawdown? https://drawdown.org/
A protocol that only works on the whim of a third party corporate person is not optimal for human people. Baking in a requirement of CA based TLS is not great.

>TLS: Certificate, the certificate for this host, containing the hostname, a public key, and a signature from a third party asserting that the owner of the certificate's hostname holds the private key for this certificate
Sure. I don’t recommend books or courses because they go deep into theory whereas this is a different endeavor.

I recommend coming up with templates for the finite amount of problems.

Recursive
Graph/Tree
Linked List
Array

The array problems can be the most unique, which means a template isn’t always possible.

Practice timing yourself. This is harder than it looks.

Stop problems that take you too long or they’ll wear you out. Come back and solve them again.
There is plenty of space to do this around existing BART stations. Shouldn’t be necessary to build even more.
A big prob with the big VPNs like kape companies is their IP addresses are recognized. Does mullVad, ovpn and or ivpn suffer from the same?
Diversify your trust portfolio. I like it.
Social media companies "look evil" when they don't allow users to freely use third-party apps and clients, but they still don't, because that doesn't make them money.

And competition doesn't/won't solve either problem, because third-party apps aren't why most people choose social media platforms, and reselling hats isn't why most people choose a game.

In other words, the proposed feature is something developers want, not users.
Of course, but the digital calipers I have bought are usually packaged in a way that would survive most shipping, even if dropped. That is much different than dropping them on a concrete shop floor.
Yeah, after they emphasize the important things, they get into 14% of the costs a few paragraphs down.

They still leave some $800k unexplained for each $1M "cheap" apartment.
An easy way to get a fair number of points is a binary star system they're pretty stable.
The user can read the source code of a wallet and they know it's never going to change on them or have a service block them, and there are many options available which they can switch between at any time.

It's about user empowerment and not letting other entities have any control over any aspect of it.
Related text-based explanation of Private Access Tokens.

Privacy Pass: Protocol Design Explanation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31818700
Why should other companies be allowed to sell licenses to Apple's intellectual property? It's not theirs to sell.

The app store fee is a "roll-up" of numerous fees including transaction costs, cost of running the store, and license fees for use of Apple intellectual property (all that Apple code that you import into your iOS app when you hit compile).
It's a progression as old as time, is it not? This can be applied to so many other companies and even people in general.

What's the saying? Die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain?
Forget almonds, only alfalfa (a very cheap crop) needs to be stopped. For at least the next decade, there's plenty of water for ever current use.
You already have to do it with cars, only a matter of time before these sorts of solutions start creeping in to other products.
There's only a hand-full of companies that can make the kind of investment that VR will require. FB is one of them. So is ByteDance.
That you’re able to feel comfortable staying your opinions in public is evidence your group has won.

> Would you care to expand on those?

Freedom of speech within the rules of the law should not lead to one becoming a pariah. Morals are relative and change overtime which causes culture wars like the one we’re in now. It benefits all to reduce the impact of these wars - ie, when people are operating within the law they should not be punished.

This means that we need laws we can all agree on…but that is a much more solvable problem than the mob rule we currently have. The current social environment is might makes right.
https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1536406121249796096?s=2...

"It might be that many software business models don't work when engineers cost $400k/year."

You just cannot run a "normal" business model.

If you want cheap employees, hire Egyptians.

The US technical market is inflated because so many companies are earning $$$.

Even if you fix your "process" problems, things won't get better. You need to offer a better quid pro quo.
Smart companies will provide conditions that attract and retain talent. Companies can compete on culture. The market will discover the necessary incentives to bring on employees. This has already happened. Look at all the perks companies offer without any union involvement.

If management sucks and cannot listen to their employees then it’s better that they don’t get more capital/talent and their competitors suck up all their talent.
It's like that smart home post from a few days ago. The dream is that lights, heating and entertainment automatically turn on and off and adjust throughout the day. The reality is that someone in the house has to become the IT department, troubleshooting issues all the time. The reality is just way more work than the dream.
Scammer is responsible to bail out scammers lest the scam ends
6.9 million points and 1000 years by having an Earth at 0.2 AU and a Dwarf at 1.8 AU.

15.9 million point and 1000 years with a Dwarf at 0.1 AU and an Earth at 1.5 AU.
And your solution is?
Depends on your industry and product. Essentially the characteristic time of your product must be much larger than 2 months.
Why does the HN title say "IKEA"? How are these related?
Yup. This is why I think that if VR goes mainstream and is used everywhere it'll actually be AR.

Real world with the AR "Killer App" - whatever that is.
Google Glass will (sadly) be accepted by everyone in society eventually.



Alexa/Siri: The optimal carriage for the train you are taking will stop 12 paces to your left.
whoosh... screeech!

Alexa/Siri: Enter the door to board the train.

Alexa/Siri: The person seated 3 metres in front was recently given a 1 star Co-Rider review with the notes:"Loud shitty music."

Alexa/Siri: This person approaching you has been flagged for viol....



But it doesn't really matter. Ads will ruin everything. They always do.
No problem, as long as we can go back to checking two bags at no additional fee on the fare and airlines agree to be responsible for ensuring that the bags arrive on the carousel in the same condition they were given to the desk agent.

I'm a bit older than the usual HN person, I imagine, and I remember flying before airlines decided that checked luggage was a profit center. Most people only carried on a briefcase or a camera bag, or a small day bag usually with supplies for their children. Everything else went into the hold.

Of course, even in the 80s we had the Samsonite ad with the gorilla acting as baggage handler.
I've worked with academics directly on a couple of projects, none of them insisted on being called doctor. They introduced themselves by their first names... Maybe it's a cultural thing but in Australia (where I live) it is really weird to call anyone without an MD "doctor" when addressing them
Maybe they are trying to solve too many problems with one piece of software.
It's really unfortunate that we had 140 years to get this into law but that we only ever care about it when it becomes an issue, and once it becomes an issue it's so entrenched we can't do anything about it.

With that said, there are net-neutral transition strategies.

One of them is for the government to simply give all land owners money equal to the value of their land, but that might create inflation. Another might be instead to give all land owners a tax credit equal to the value of the land that can be spent on their land tax.

We can do this fast, we can do this slow. We can give aid, we can give tax credits, we can phase things in. If the LVT advocates, which includes many of the world's top economists, are right, then small transitions will quickly yield results that we can snowball into bigger transitions. The important aspect to me, is that eventually we reach a point where incentives align.
Totally not equivalent in my view. In traditional interviews, I’m also interviewing the company to see if I want to work with these people.

A take home assignment only shows me that they like unpaid work.
The graph above tracks products over time and for the most part I haven’t changed.

Will find a way to quantify how streaky an item is
I had to close my account to stop it. Also, it seems mainly people complaining about how a school bus drives through their neighborhood, etc.
For really large, complex enterprises managing a complex portfolio of products with dependencies between them I have found Rally to be a little better than Jira. It isn't any simpler or faster than Jira, but it's better at tying the whole enterprise effort together.

https://www.broadcom.com/products/software/value-stream-mana...
Not even just freaked out. Hundreds of frogs decaying in the sun near a settlement is going to result in a mass burial approximately 100% of the time. If not for the stink, then the sight of it. Frogs grow bloated and distorted when they die and start decaying.

It's really weird how this obvious hypothesis seemingly isn't considered.
To be fair, if you are a writer it might be better to work primarily with paper and pen as it allows quite a bit of flexibility in how you organize/edit the text while keeping everything in front of you. Having done the paper/pen work, final editing, spell check etc. can be done on a computer which would be far superior to a typewriter at this point.
How would you know that you hold belief X if you have no subjective experience ? To have the knowledge that you believe X you must experience the thought "X is true" and that is a subjective experience.
A 2-yr-old showed signs of puberty after exposure to his dad's testosterone gel
Historically speaking the current situation is not too far out of normal variation
there is clearly a cultural schism developing, i've heard the phrase "terminally online" to describe people whose social circle exists entirely on twitter

so we will have a majority of people being totally dismissive of interacting with avatars through goggles (I hate the experience personally, feels like putting on a blindfold), and a growing minority that wouldn't have it any other way, divorced from anything going on IRL
Editing Means Writing Less
If you're interested in this, read Dava Sobel's book, "Longitude". Harrison was the archetype of the stubborn, self-educated genius that stuck to his ideas, fought the system for most of his life, and then changed the way the world worked. Seriously entertaining read. You'll walk away with an appreciation for timekeeping and knowing how to find your latitude and longitude with an accurate watch, a chart of times at high noon in Greenwich, and a few odds and ends (like a stick, a nail, and a clouded view of the sun).
> employees would be disappointed but can go get another job pretty easy

True enough in tech, though the economy will tell.

> For investors they lose a lot of money. Employees have less to gain+lose.

VCs expect 9/10 of their investments to fail. Ask Masa Son how much Vision Fund's startup losses impact Softbank's bottom line, or his machinations.

> A collective of employees is not going to make better decisions than management.

Unsubstantiated value judgement.

> If management/owners are this bad then there isn’t much hope for the company.

And what's so wrong trying to save a company?

> If Union force needs to be used to get mgmt to do the right thing for maximizing profits, it’s not really worth it.

That's just defeatism!
Maybe eventually. I agree that it's very fun as a toy. Some of the games are an absolute blast. Most are trash tbh, but that'll change / improve.

However, the weird mEtAVeRsE wet dream zuck is pushing is total BS. NOBODY wants to live/work in VR. It's a fun thing to do for short periods of time for entertainment, and AR/VR is a cool tool for certain tasks (e.g. interior design).

The idea that we're gonna be flying through cyber space like some kinda Hackers (the movie) scene is just nonsense. It's honestly bad UX that people have been trying to push forever. Windows 95 had this goofy virtual world thing where you were in a room and all your software was on bookshelves and other silly shit that was a fun gimmick, but infinitely less efficient than buttons, menus, and sorted lists.

Also, unless headsets get MUCH lighter (and less sweaty) while simultaneously getting much better battery life they aren't going to be a thing people wear for long periods of time any time soon.
iOS only lets you turn off bluetooth for a day at a time.
I used my Quest 1 a lot, and had to buy another one when it stopped working (during COVID, sigh) because it was so much a part of my daily lifestyle. The Quest 2 is even better, and I got custom prescription lenses just for my VR system that solves the problem of comfort with glasses.

But I only use my VR system for fitness, and only a few fitness oriented or active apps. It is the killer but only VR app for me.

I don't think the Go was a very good product. Facebook was right to double/triple down on the Quest, but that does leave early adopters a bit in a mess with outdated hardware (although I'm on my third quest system already).
Everything counts.
I like to bring up the Newton/Palm/iPhone example when we talk about emergent tech.

If you grew up in the 90s, you probably remember hand held PCs, and Apple Newton. Those were pretty cool. I wouldn't really HAVE to have one, but those were pretty neat. Then the "PDA" appeared -- I knew many who had those and used them for business. "Regular folks" didn't really need one but they could find these devices to be pretty useful. Then Blackberry came about, and then BOOM -- the capacitive touchscreen, and the iPhone with a few killer features that drastically changed mobile computing for the last 15 years. Everyone has one.

Sometimes it takes decades for someone to "get it right" as tech matures. VR is in the pre-newton stage... if we are to compare the "final form" of VR to be what we think of smart phones now, VR is probably in the "60's or 70's era" stage of development. We probably won't see an explosion or a revolution of VR-tech for a few decades.
My brain is easily fooled as well. I nearly broke my foot trying to kick a headcrab that was jumping at me.
On the continuum between “highly flawed” and imperfect I find WC to be generally good intentioned and skewed more toward the latter than the former. Is there something that keeps it from thus threshold in your view?
I have a few things to add. For some context, I've been building software for 22 years, have ran my own company, and worn many hats. The thoughts below are also in the context of hiring senior people.

Moving fast and being responsive is really important, i.e. be lucky. I only just this week moved from part time consulting to a full time job. I think I was very lucky, but from the first moment of contacting recruiters/applying/reaching out it took only 1.5 weeks to get an offer that exceeded my expectations. It is hard to be lucky enough to capture the attention of the right application at the right time.

Include the salary in the job ad. I only applied for jobs with salary in the ad. It saves everyone so much time to know that everyone is in the same ballpark before starting any discussions.

Look beyond the resume. The trouble is over 20 years, I've done A LOT. So many different technologies, problems, industries, roles. It's too much to condense into a resume that perfectly fits your expectations. Come up with some probing questions that are relevant to what you need from a problem solving point of view, and ask those. I remember interviewing and it prompted a whole set of memories I had omitted from my resume and cover letters, all because I just plain forgot.

Be proactive. For example, I added a post to a monthly "whos looking for work" post on HN. I didn't hear from you and I would have loved to. Maybe I wasn't the perfect fit, but no way to know unless we talked. I wonder how many other potentials could have been missed?

I wouldn't worry about whether or not the take home technical assignment is causing issues or not. You will need some way of evaluation candidates in a practical way, and it might be video discussions, or it might be take home assessments, or something else. All a quite time consuming, and will exclude people who don't have that time. If people are genuinely looking and are interesting in your team, they will find a way to make the time. Perhaps be flexible in this point and work with the candidate to decide what method of evaluation works for both parties.

I don't pretend that the above will fix any hiring issues, but I think it's worth considering. In a job market where there is an overwhelming demand for senior people, ask yourself - why should they work for you?
Define ‘senior’. Doing that in a way that everyone understands will reveal your problem.
Sure enough here is a citation I was able find easily from 1860.

I should have known better. Can’t trust even simple things these days.

https://books.google.com/books?id=V2AEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA4-PA169&...
> Conservatives make the same argument about things their in group finds important as well. Taking the lords name in vein, disparaging mohammed, etc.

Neither of those examples harms or affects another person. Preventing two people from entering into a contract because of their genders does affect others. That is the difference.

However, I do agree with the opinion that changing app icons for any non app related reason is stupid. There is no need for political signaling to affect usability, which changing an icon surely does.
I stayed clear of them when they started canvassing my neighborhood.

It seems more like a place to gossip. If I want to connect with my neighbors, I just go knock on their door.
Yep you are absolutely right. It takes many years to make a high quality and performant Lisp implementation. The same way you can quickly throw together a C interpreter but it takes many years to make anything that can compete with gcc or clang.
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14838232

> The competition has no choice but to spend all their time porting and keeping up, time that they can’t spend writing new features. Look closely at the software landscape. The companies that do well are the ones who rely least on big companies and don’t have to spend all their cycles catching up and reimplementing and fixing bugs that crop up [only on Windows XP.]

so it is the same with the modern day web frameworks as it is in the old days of windows and microsoft's dominance.

Joel Spolsky was as right in early 2002 as he is right in 2022.