skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked with someone who obviously put little effort into understanding things, and shamelessly and "tirelessly" asked others to help him do things, help him make decisions, etc. no matter how incompetent or illiterate it made him look.

The coin he paid for unending assistance was charm, humor and a posture of humbleness and appreciation.

This strategy was such a constant, that the people around this person ended up self-selected to be people who genuinely liked to help others, and who had a deficit of positive recognition of their value that they appreciated being filled.

Counterintuitively to me, this occasionally involved some good things coalescing around this person - as there are a lot of talented under appreciated people and bringing them together can spark serendipity.

There were also some major downsides at times.
Also zero. I'm a product of neglect - grew up in rural USA, overcrowded/inhabitable home, food scarcity, physical abuse. Many of my childhood peers are dead, incarcerated, or in the military.

My parents didn't go to college. I was vaguely encouraged to go, but mostly as the token smart child (which itself led to ridicule and isolation from my peer group). I had some teachers guide me into a "gifted" program, but this didn't result in much because the schools in my town had so few resources. My parents were never involved in my schooling/homework, and even actively discouraged some extracurriculars.

Any encouragement I did have seemed to be from antiquated notions of success. E.g. "you'll never become anything if you don't go to college". I think many of our parents genuinely don't understand the world today and, even if they have good intentions, can sabotage their children.

What freaks me out is that I had the same exact upbringing as all of my siblings/peers, but turned out way different because of <unexplained??>. I disowned my family, moved to the big city, I'm in a loving long-term relationship and staring at a cool $1m+ in the bank. And I'm not even 30! I'm proud of me.

Using a throwaway acct. I like telling this story but it's a little too personal.
Yeah, it's not a super steep discount; I wound up getting $235 for it. Sales tax would've been about another $30 here so it was about $100 off sticker price with probably 10 hours of play.
None here. I bought a 2015 Leaf in 2017 with 19k miles for $8,500. At 75k mile now with zero issues. Just plug it in at night and drive it around town. It's a glorified golf cart, but it works great.
Many universities/professors publicly post syllabi, so if you're willing to dig through course catalogs you can see what books universities are using for related classes.
No, no. It's all Russian propaganda you see. And that Wikipedia page is part of the Russian information war.
If it wasn't so sad the handwaving going on here would be really funny. Just because it's green and "for the greater good" child slaves suddenly aren't _that bad_
So the way I'm reading the post is Tesla swapped out a battery pack for a 60 with a 90 and enabled the 90. Tesla, years later, discovers that even though the hardware for a 90 was installed it should have been software limited to be a 60. (I'm assuming that Tesla only made the owner pay the cost of the 60 battery swap even though they replaced it with a 90). They go and "fix the glitch" and set it back to the 60. Since the new owner bought it thinking it was a 90, because it was enabled to be a 90, presumably paid for it assuming this was the case and is now upset because they don't have what they thought they bought.

Sounds like all around bad decisions. The previous owner shouldn't have sold it as a 90 or at least disclosed that, "It's a 60 but Tesla swapped out the batter with a 90 and left it configured as a 90". Tesla, being notified, should have just enabled the 90 and made the customer happy. How exactly are people supposed to abuse this? Tesla put the 90 in there and they're the only ones who are going to be doing that. Presumably this cost them a fortune to do it in the first place. Why not get some good will out of it? "Hey sorry about your battery. We only had a 90 so we threw that in there. Enjoy. Tell everyone you know about how awesome Tesla was about fixing the problem and remember that next time you go to buy your next car"
That becomes AR then, I guess?
By "UTC-Facebook" time, you of course mean UTC time, the time everybody already uses, and that has no need to be broken every year, two years, or three years, and wouldn't be broken at all if we simply stopped breaking it.
That one "Keep talking and nobody explodes" game was pretty fun just as a regular planar projection game. I can see it being more fun in VR (and I think they have a VR edition)

[1] https://keeptalkinggame.com/
I'm paying your flight if you join me in the Himalaya to teach you TypeScript
See the previous discussion of manager incentives to hire here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32149937#32171559
> Cryptocurrencies are almost as old as the smartphone. You can't keep promising something useful and never delivering, forever.

I’m generally pretty bearish on crypto and the current state of web3, so I’m not here to evangelize for it.

But comparing crypto to a smartphone is arbitrary, and the nature of one does not help us understand the acceptable timeframe for development of the other.

When I see the “it’s existed for X time and isn’t popular yet so it must not be viable”, a follow up question immediately comes to mind.

What is a reasonable amount of time for an emerging technology like this to develop? The modern web took decades to evolve into what it is today (for better or worse).

Depending on who you talk to, web3’s goals are just as lofty, and a similar time horizon doesn’t seem unreasonable.

With that said, the space still struggles to articulate the real problems it will solve, and time and time again it’s just a solution to those problems, and not necessarily the best one.

All of this to say - I’m a web3 skeptic, but we need a better measure of health than the passage of time, or we need a better definition of what an acceptable amount of time actually looks like.
What eventually separates them?
It wasn't at all clear to me that that was the attempt being made. But then, I do have diagnosed autism so hey.
It should be noted that they got rid of their cheapest Quest 2; the 64GB, which was initially at the $299 price point.
Poe's law strikes again :P
Whilst I agree with the importance of a guide, I think the reader first needs clarification of what this thing is and why it exists. It doesn't need to be much but it reassures you that the investment of time you are about to make is worthwhile.
It is a common view that the manager is inherently dishonest and the IC is inherently hardworking, capable and honest, which aligns with the historically common concept of "people = good" and "elite = bad."

I have been both an IC and a manager, and when I was an IC I saw managers as vampires who fed on the blood of ICs. When I was a manager, I saw ICs as a bunch of whiny, entitled cogs. I am exaggerating for illustrative purposes.

Perhaps the manager had not been informed before of the IC's financial demands; perhaps the manager could not offer a raise before the employee had received an outside offer because of company policies; perhaps the manager did not see the IC as particularly capable, but this offer from a solid company made them think they had made a mistake; or perhaps they thought it was a bluff, and now they are paying for the all-in.

It is good to be cynical and to have one's own self-interest in mind. But the caricature that sees management as incompetent, corrupt or vindictive is all too easy to present to an audience that is well receptive to these appeals. I have met many like those, sure, but I have also met many ICs for whom I could use the same adjectives.
From the twitter thread: "I try to help, but without completely disconnecting the car from Tesla, when I change it back to a 90 their "teleforce" bot reaches in remotely and flips it back to a 60 within moments. There's hacky ways around this, but none are ideal."
"Realistically the advanced world has been running on outsourced atrocity for decades"

And the most suave punters are very keen to embrace energy technology that promise no downsides today as they can be kicked onto future generations beyond their own lifespan. Make sure not to look behind these nuclear curtains.
Why would they invade and seriously occupy Armenia when they already have tremendous leverage with the military base there and the Russian peacekeeping force the only thing that holds off Azerbaijan?
One of the biggest benefits I find with journaling is that I will often solve problems for myself. I'll write about a problem and then find myself typing out "I should do..." and when I read that I know what I should do.

There is a story about an old man going to watch the ancient Olympics. The place is packed and he can't find a seat until he arrives at the Spartan's section where the Spartans all leap to their feet to offer the old man their seats. The crowd of Greeks all cheer and the story's narrator observes sadly "All the Greeks know what is right but only the Spartans do what is right."

I think there is a similar disconnect in my brain. Sometimes it is very easy to know what is right and harder to actually do what is right. When you're writing though you can easily leverage the "know what is right" part of your brain and when you see what you should do typed out in front of you, it's easier to engage the "do" part of the brain. You force yourself to confront the discrepancy between what you know you should do and what you are actually doing.

I have benefited from this in everything from arguing with my wife ("I should apologize") to debugging ("I should make sure function X does what I think it does"). I have a standing order to myself to do what I think I should be doing.
We got the leaf too. Its great for day trips, around town.

The charging situation for electric cars for road trips is still a thing... It seems to have found a standard in CSS. I expected there to be adapters, but apparently making adapters is slightly non trivial as there is a lot of chatting between the car and charger.
Shocked anyone would buy a second hand headset at all tbqh. Covid-era or not.
That's very fair. I've been in multiple cars that have caught on fire on the road. In my experience, ICE fires typically start in the engine bay. Hence why there's literally a firewall between you and the engine. A small handheld extinguisher can put them out easily, and I've done this myself as well.

I have no experience with EV fires, or how they start... but if it's under your ass in the battery pack, and no easy way to get an extinguisher in there... then by the time you notice, the fire may already be out of control.

I think that's what the big difference is going to be. EV fires will be less common, but will be way more crazy. That's why people will notice them much more.
That seems short-sighted. Having a healthy secondary market makes purchasing a new one more appealing since you can recover some of the purchase price later. It also allows the superfans to buy the latest and greatest model more often.
Roko's Basilisk and Technological Theology
They were building a custom OS for VR/AR, but development of it was slashed earlier this year.
ML is maybe a good example of a hot field that's sucking up the best as well as upper middle performing developers only to later spit them out when the meltdown comes. That in itself may not be a problem if you get your foot in the door of a company you're happy at. On the other hand, if you're just hanging on it might be sobering to have to switch from Google to a smaller company in a more affordable region.
Oh really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War
A dish tagged #vegan and #beef would imply vegan meat version
new games are starting to retail at $70 usd compared to $60 previously... that was the canary and this is the lightheaded feeling of carbon monoxide poisoning
I think it's valid to point out that this is part of a larger systemic issue as opposed to a singular localized one. Which doesn't necessarily preclude the comment from being whataboutistic.
If anyone is looking for a great VR multiplayer game with original mechanics, I highly recommend Hyper Dash: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/3070239359662935/
I googled "Kaz Shopify" and got https://www.linkedin.com/in/kasranejatian/
I bought an EV earlier this year. I ended up with a LR Model 3 because the dealership model really sucks still. I called Hyundai and VW dealerships in the tri-state area around me, and none of them could say when I'd be able to actually get a car. Instead I went to Tesla's website, placed an order, and got an ETA. Super simple; loved that experience.

If it weren't for the crappy dealership model I probably would have bought the Hyundai Ioniq instead.
One point is that Rotterdam is one the major ports in the world, also the wealth has always come from internal trade.
Great infrastructure, near to the bigger consumer countries and also not so densly populated rural areas where you can hide labs.
Was the space game Adr1ft? One of my favorite VR experiences, and the only one where I was willing to take motion sickness medication to finish the game.
Oh, so that's why Youtube doesn't show comments on my school account anymore. Makes sense I guess.
May I humbly recommend Phasmophobia - I haven't played it in VR (I don't have the gear) but it's primarily built for that setup, and even played without it is extremely compelling.
Awesome! Glad to see it.

I was very excited for the experimental support for live replication in Litestream, but as I understand that didn't pan out. This looks to be the successor, with fanout replication an explicit feature.

Using a FUSE layer that's detecting changes is sure to have some performance tradeoffs. What benchmarks are under way? Do you need any help?
Barring a JIT, either they do or they have thread unsafety.
This is well said and sums up my experience
Spanning Labs Launches Testnet
ATM, it doesn’t seem like mullvad is selling these in stores. If a scammer wants a quick payout with less chance to get found out, they will get the gift cards from a physical store.
It sounds like you agree that leap seconds themselves are a problem for people besides Meta?

They are a problem many people have already developed solutions to.
And you don't hijack your other senses? Listening to music, smelling perfumes, etc. are all kind of doing that. Obviously this is a novel and heavyweight way of messing with your vision and proprioception, but I'm sure you've watched a movie before.

Besides, it's really tiring after just a couple hours, I don't think there's any risk of getting "stuck in VR".
Made me think of Socrates and living by virtue.
The word you wanted was "infer" not "inherit"

For example "if the compiler can inherit the type" should read "if the compiler can infer the type".
> Bonus negative points for treatment of women.

They treat women with respect and dignity. What are you talking about? Women feel safe there. My mom likes to live there. I know because I've lived there for 18 years.
There's a huge difference here compared to binning: binning generally involves chips that are physically incapable of performing to the higher spec because of defects.
Just run your OS in a VM.
It's like you learned "whataboutism" and jumped at your first chance to use it. Still got it totally wrong. What part of this comment is deflecting? Seems to be just adding additional info.
Sadly I just don't want to deal with Linux desktop setup anymore, I only use it for development so dealing with drivers is not a good use of my time.
It is still a work in progress, but Dmitry Savransky of Cornell is working on an interactive astrodynamics textbook using Jupyter notebooks. Link here:
https://github.com/dsavransky/astrodynamicsbook
Does Shopify give out options? I would have thought RSUs considering they've been public a while.
Similar for me but on BBC-B Micro. Rose tinted memories perhaps. And replication of that experience now would be a very interesting exercise in patience and acceptance for me. Indeed simpler times.

Could I personally go back? As much as technology has given us super fast hardware, very complex and flexible operating systems, GUIs and complex software am I any better off for it? Outside of my professional work where I have to deliver my work within a defined technology stack, I wonder how much I could do without and go back in time.

And even then a lot of what I produce professionally resides in text files, so I could originate them on an older system - the key to this is, of course, interconnectivity or a bridging technology. SCSI to USB stick anyone!

As much as there is an alternative lifestyle to be had rooted in minimalism and contentment in simpler things (which I aspire to) I am tempted to stop the hyper-driven tech world and get off!

Reading the work and enthusiasm of retro-computing people is actually quite inspiring.
hey you can't make an omelette without cracking a few eggs
Rocky Linux 9 arrives with Peridot
And it's so slow. I miss Inbox.
Yes, Meta reports the AR/VR unit separately as Reality Labs. It lost $3 billion in Q1 this year, and about $10 billion in 2021.

The number of employees working in this pillar exceeds 10,000, I believe. For the past years Meta has been building the entire stack: chips, novel controllers like wrist neural interaction, a new operating system... But the ambition level has been somewhat reduced recently. The new OS project (XROS) was scrapped last winter, for example.
In 7 years and 7 months, my 2015 Nissan LEAF has been CHAdeMO charged exactly twice: once before delivery and once while I owned it. CHAdeMO has been practically useless since day 1.

Even with that and the limited range, I bought the right car for our usage pattern and have been overall extremely happy with the car. It's been relatively trouble-free (one visit to the dealer for some combined warranty work on the battery, Takata air bag recall, and some other recall or other, all of which were taken care of for $0 and included a free loaner car while it was being done), otherwise requiring two sets of wiper blades, some washer fluid, and one tire to have a nail hole plugged.

When I say we bought the right car for our usage pattern, we paid around $21K (net of government credits) for a car that will still do 75 miles on a charge. Before COVID, my commute was 16 miles round-trip and had chargers at work. After working remotely, I drive the car much less and our two-driver family has a traditional ICE car for any longer trips. We both prefer the LEAF for around-town errands and it gets more drives than the ICE car does. I think once in 7.5 years we had a conflict where we both had more than 100 miles to drive in a day and I worked it out by charging the LEAF during my day. It's been a non-issue and getting a car that's given us >7.5 years of drama-free service for $21K has been great.
It's called passthrough-AR, it's a feature on some VR devices, current limitations are that its sometimes monoscopic not stereoscopic or has fucky depth perception (and some devices have black and white passthrough), but as technology advances there is no reason all VR devices won't have near full fidelity passthrough. AR and VR devices eventually merge and become one device.
Why would I buy a new one if no one will want to buy it from me in 5 years? Sounds like Tesla wants me to buy a new Ford.
I went from a life insurance company in the Midwest to a pretty desirable tech company in the last few years. This tweet [0] from patio11 (linked from the posted tweet) basically sums up my path:

> If you’re early career, try to get into a high-status engineering employer or consider a status arbitrage like e.g. a stint at one of the many startups which are known to recruiters but can’t match Google offers and so feel perpetually understaffed.

I went to a YC-funded startup. It wasn't a well-known startup by any means, and there were fewer than 30 employees when I left. I don't think anyone there was ex-FAANG, and they didn't pay at anywhere near FAANG levels. But startup employees are in the talent pool for big tech companies in a way that insurance company employees generally are not.

Anyway, when I had been at the startup for a year, I cold applied for my current position on my current employer's website, and here I am. Zero chance I would have gotten a callback if I'd applied directly from the insurance company, even though I would still have been able to do my current job effectively if I'd never gone to the startup.

[0] https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1379852979868631041
I had the exact same experience with Mononoke Hime. It piqued my interest in the rest of the world as a kid. I started importing a lot of media globally after that, and made some life-long friends at various record and comic book stores around the world, who to this day still help me get my grubby little mitts on physical-only releases.

People may also forget that Netflix and similar offered DVD rentals and purchases via mail prior to streaming. That's not to be underestimated in how important it was to a significant demographic, being able to access culture they otherwise would not have been able to due to cost or scarcity.

It's a good time for cultural accessibility.
> The underlying problem is an excess of manual labor in Africa,

In what fucking world holy shit. Good lord, seriously. Labor IS PEOPLE. There is no such thing as an excess person.

The underlying problem is an economic system that allows/depends on the exploitation of vulnerable and precarious labor. If you're going to justify this then grow a spine and do it, don't deflect it back on the people being hurt the most saying they should cull themselves for our moral convenience.
It's gonna need to be a huge generator, or else they're gonna be sitting there all day. If you watch Long Way Up... take a look at the huge diesel trucks they need to have just to put the generator on the back to charge up the motorcycles.
>> (I'm assuming that Tesla only made the owner pay the cost of the 60 battery swap even though they replaced it with a 90)

It says right there that it was done under warranty.

If my RTX3080 breaks, and Nvidia sends me a 3080Ti as a replacement(because maybe they don't have any 3080 in stock) then no, they can't lock it down to 3080 level 3 years later with a software update. And yes, I'm allowed to sell it on as a 3080Ti, because....that's what it is.

>>The previous owner shouldn't have sold it as a 90 or at least disclosed that, "It's a 60 but Tesla swapped out the batter with a 90 and left it configured as a 90".

Maybe, but again, I don't see why that should be necessary. Tesla should not have been able to do this, period.
What?! You give Meta way too much credit
Basically the format was, "well what about X Y Z"

X = textile industry issues

Y = environmental issues

Z = industrial farms issues

How is that not whataboutism? Noone is saying those aren't problems, but that's not what the article is about.
Thanks! That sounds like a fun project. Did you run the WAL writes through Raft or did you just use Raft for leader election?
Seems like VP of Merchant Services? Not familiar with him.

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/kasranejatian
there’s a decent amount if you’re into sim-type games. vtol vr looks awesome, elite dangerous can get you that star trek-like experience, plus various racing games.
Why Tesla again? at least with an older car I own it and it's problems....Tesla seems to passed the problems off to me and keep the rest...
How should they know where they want to go if they're entry-level? They haven't seen what the future paths are really like. This leads to a mentality of "the only safe entry-level candidate is one with five years' experience doing exactly what we do," and I saw that in how one of the places I worked did their hiring. It led to much lower-quality entry-level candidates than if the company had accepted some risk and taken the plunge, recognizing that some of the time it wouldn't work out.